John Coleman And The Rock House Essay

At the age of 100 , a former slave , Richard Toler, was interviewed about his life . Richard Toler was born a slave in Campbell County which is located in Lynchburg, Virginia. Both of his parents, named George Washington Toler and Lucy Toler, were slaves for a man by the name of Henry Toler. Including Richard, his parents had three children and they were all boys. Richard Toler , along side with his family, grew up in a cabin that was in the back of what he described as “the big house”.

In 1832, Dr. John Emerson purchased a thirty year old male slave, Dred Scott, from the Blow family; Emerson moved from the southern territory of Alabama into the Northern territory of Illinois with Dred Scott in tow (VanderVelde 4). “Slavery did exist in Illinois, yet Emerson had brought his

The year is 1845 and in the heart of alabama there is a plantation with an abusive owner named Jamison, and Jamison owns many slaves all of which work in the fields of his plantation. One of these slaves is a 15 year old boy named Kali. Kali was separated from his mother when he was just 3 years old and has almost no memory of who she was, as this was with most slaves at the time. Kali goes out at the crack of dawn and immediately starts collecting cotton which would be sold in a market later that day, he would not get a break until dusk which then he was given his only food for the day, mashed corn with a small piece of bread. Everyday in the field he was forced to deal with one of his overseers constantly breathing on his neck so that if

A “camp” where laws were left standing at the vast wooden gate, a “camp” where the instinct to survive was the only proposal in the minds of the P.O.W’s; Georgia’s very own Andersonville was the most horrible Confederate Prisoner

The novel “Slavery by Another Name” by Douglas A. Blackmon tells of the hardships the newly freed slaves faced, as well as following the life of a young African American man by the name of Green Cottenham. Born in the 1880s to two former slaves, was then arrested for “vagrancy” in 1908, was leased out by the state of Alabama to work in a U.S. Steel coal mine, where he is

Pop Art is defined as art based on modern popular culture and the mass media, especially as a critical or ironic comment on traditional fine art values. “To Americans, Pop Art was an artistic manifestation which reflected their own culture.” (Elmaleh 1) Many artists or writers will take normal, everyday things in nature, and will turn them into brighter things. This was considered to be a new movement because it was right after the war, so it was a darker time period. Throughout the text, Joe Hill tried to convey many things with his short story about Art using his own culture and what he knew, but I think the most obvious message that he tried to convey is emotion.

In the summer of 1969, a music festival known as “Woodstock” took place for three straight days in Upstate, New York with thirty-two musical acts playing, and over 400,000 people from around the world coming to join this musical and peaceful movement. Woodstock started out being a small concert, created to promote peace in the world. Now, Woodstock is still being celebrated over 40 years later. This three day music festival represented the perfect concert for the “baby boomers” during a messy political time. Woodstock significantly impacted the counterculture era of the 1960’s in a number of ways; how it began, the ideas of the concert, the sense of union and love it represented and it

The Second Seminole War ended in 1842. Shortly thereafter, Fitzpatrick’s nephew, William English, acquired the former’s Miami River possessions and reconstituted the slave plantation, adding new buildings to the complex. A man of large ambitions and vision, English platted the “Village of Miami” on the south bank of the river. He sold several lots in that development before leaving the area, at the beginning of the 1850s, for California and the gold rush.

Hughes lost his father during the Civil War, he had become a soldier and was killed in battle. The young Mr. Hughes found himself along with his siblings and mother trying their best to get along during the war. Their owner “B.” had fled the war as he could not find a substitute to fight for him. When he returned after the war he fell ill and passed away, according to Mr. Hughes is was all for the best as there was little food to go around by this time. When the soldiers came to town they had broken the flour mill, dumped the flour into the river, broken inot the stores and threw all the meats and sugar into the streets. Slave children lime himself would go to these sites and recover as much as they could, all to see those who were once of privilege eating everything they could get their hands on, leaving nothing for the slaves to eat. At the time of emancipation, they hardly knew what to do at first. They slept under the stars at night, which they were used to already, Mr. Hughes stated; “Why then we'd just go and stay anywheres we could. Lay out a night in underwear. We had no home, you know. We was just turned out like a lot of cattle.” His mother with no money to afford to care for the children did what was called bounding, she found someone to take her two oldest children as servants for the wages of one dollar per month. Not unlike Abraham Lincolns father did to him back in the

Johnson loved he company of friends such as Robert McCary and other free blacks. His journal is filled with hunting and fishing trips as well as his love of going to the local horse track and betting on the races. In 1851 a boundary argument with his neighbor Baylor Winn found the two men in court. However, the judge ruled in Johnson's favor, Winn was not satisfied. Winn, besides a free black attacked Johnson returning from his farm and shot him.johnson lived long enough to name Winn as the man who attacked him. Through strange circumstances, Winn was never found guilty of killing Johnson. Winn And his defense argued that he was really white and not a free man of color because of his Indian ancestry in Virginia. Therefore, the “ mulatto” boy who accompanied Johnson on that fatal day could not testify against Winn. Two hung could not rule if he was white or black, so Johnson's killer walked free. Although a black man, at the time of his death, Johnson had sixteen slaves. He wrote openly in his diary about his slaves and frail and tribulations of being a slave owner. William Johnson's diary enclose sixteen years of his life. Johnson's house on state street in downtown Natchez continued to be closely –held by the family until they sold it to the Ellicott Hill Preservation Society in

Coleman was born on a dirt floor of a one bedroom cabin in Atlanta, Texas. She was one of thirteen children and when Bessie was two, her father moved her and her family to Waxahachie, Texas. He then built a three room house on a quarter acre of land he bought where he and Mrs. Coleman proceeded to have two more children. In 1901 Coleman’s father left the

This was J.D. Tant’s first taste of what the world offered. The years following the War, his parents did what they could to provide for their children. When William Tant returned home, he attempted to retrieve the deeds to some of his property, but it was promptly stolen by a man named Babe Forsythe (20). William proceeded to move his family to South Georgia where he tried his hand at farming, trading, carpentry, and various other odd jobs, but none of these occupations yielded any sustainable income (21). By 1876, however, William Tant had set his sights on a new horizon: Texas. In the fall of that same year, the family packed up the few belongings they possessed and made the journey westward

Born February 16, 1868 in Whitewater Wisconsin Edward Curtis was the second of 4 children to the parents of Ellen and Johnson Curtis. His older brother Ray, younger sister Eva, and younger brother Asahel made up the rest of the family.

One of the most remarkable stories is the one of John Norman. He was a deputy chief of the New York City fire department. He was asleep whenever the first tower of the World Trade Center was hit. He had turned off the ringer on his phone because he was on vacation from work. His plan that day was to sleep in. He was completely unaware of what was going on outside. Then his answering machine got an "all call" message from the department. Still he didn't know what fully was going on so he turned on the television. He said, “As I’m just about to turn off the TV and head for the door, the south tower collapses. I thought it was a bomb." It took him and hour and a half just to get to the city and where he needed to be. He was put in shock whenever

Thomas Hart Benton was born in on April 15, 1889 in Neosho, Missouri. He was named after his great-great-uncle. He was the oldest child of four children. His parents’ names were Elizabeth Wise Benton and Maecenas Eason Benton. Maecenas Benton gained fame as a painter of the American Scene. His father was a very successful lawyer and congressmen. Maecenas Eason Benton was born on January 29, 1848 in Dyersburg, Tennessee. He was a U.S. representative from Missouri. Elizabeth Wise Benton was born on July 1866 in Texas. They were very supportive of their son. Although his mother encouraged his artistic endeavors, but his father did not.