Mary Fields: Stagecoach

One of the leading black female activists of the 20th century, during her life, Mary Church Terrell worked as a writer, lecturer and educator. She is remembered best for her contribution to the struggle for the rights of women of African descent. Mary Terrell was born in Memphis, Tennessee at the close of the Civil War. Her parents, former slaves who later became millionaires, tried to shelter her from the harsh reality of racism. However, as her awareness of the problem developed, she became an ardent supporter of civil rights. Her life was one of privilege but the wealth of her family did not prevent her from experiencing segregation and the humiliation of Jim Crow laws. While traveling on a train her family was

Mary I would say had a difficult childhood. She was born July 19th 1817 Mount Vernon, Ohio. Her Dad was a farmer, but her Mom died when Mary was 17 months old! So, because of her death her Dad sent her off to live with Mary’s grandparents. Well her grandparents died so she went to live with her Uncle, he was a farmer also. She was taught only the basics of school, yet she went to Oberlin College which

Madam C. J. Walker was born on December 23rd, 1867 as Sarah Breedlove, to Owen and Minerva Breedlove, who were former slaves enslaved to Robert W. Burney’s Madison Parish. She was the first of child born into freedom among her five siblings, after the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation. Her siblings included one older sister, Louvenia and four brethren: James, Solomon, Owen Jr. and Alexander. At six years of age, her mother passed away probably

Her brothers found work as carpenter apprentices. For a time Ida continued her education at Fisk University in Nashville. A moment in My 1884 will change Ida’s life and goals forever. Having bought a first class ticket for a train ride to Nashville Tennessee she was denied the right to her seat and was forced to ride a car that was specifically for African Americans. Rightfully so she refused to give up her seat and ticket and fought the train crew and even bit one of the crew members, she later took the train company to court and won getting a 500$ settlement however the Supreme Court overruled the hearing and took her money away. After that Ida decided to start her own newspaper company named Memphis Free Speech and Highlight and begin to write her displeasure with the american government and america's prejudice practices.

Sarah E. Goode was born into slavery by her mom and dad. Her father ,Oliver Jacobs, was a carpenter. Her mother was

“Levi Coffin Describes Margaret Garner’s Attempt to Escape Slavery” is a story about a slave named Margaret Garner, who attempted to escape slavery in the winter of 1856. The story took place in Boone County, Kentucky – a slave state and Cincinnati, Ohio - where slavery is illegal. The author, Levi Coffin, a prosperous Quaker and abolitionist, who was an active leader in the Underground Railroad network that helped thousands of fugitive slaves escape to freedom. He was a religious man and an opponent of African American slavery and felt it was his duty to feed the hungry and clothe the naked, no matter the color of the person. Several years after slavery was abolished in America, Coffin was encouraged by many of his friends to write his memoir of how Margaret Garner was driven to kill her child and attempt to kill her other three children and herself. It is the heartbreaking honesty in this act of brutality which displays what the lives of slaves were like; This shows how far an enslaved mother will go to protect her children from the pain they would endure if taken back to slavery.

Susie Baker was born under the slave law in Georgia, in 1848. She was raised by her grandmother in Savannah, Georgia. It was Susie’s grandmother that ensured she learned to read and write. Susie was sent discretely to study with a friend of the family, and tutors were sought out wherever they could be found. Discretion was necessary because some southern

She lived there for nearly a year and came to the reality of slavery. She kept a journal while on the farm indicating the living and working conditions of the slaves. After her divorce, she published the journal stating what she learned from slave women who visited her. In her diary, she highlighted how women were overworked and how their working condition was. In one particular time, she wrote how one woman had lost her family due to “ill luck” due to abuse. They came to her in the belief that she would be of great help in airing their grievance as her husband does what she asked though he forbid her from bringing him complaints from the slaves

Mary Pickford, a woman of many struggles and success, one of her biggest struggles was her childhood. Pickford born Gladys Smith on April 8 1892 in Toronto Canada into an alcoholic family that struggled with many things, one is her father. John Charles Smith who was an alcoholic that couldn't support his family, he then later left his family and died an alcoholic in 1898 when Mary was only six years old. Mary Pickford didn't have much of a childhood because of poverty and her father's alcoholism, on top of all that, by the age of six she decided to begin to support her family by acting. The whole Smith family then began to get jobs to support each other financially, which didn't leave Mary or her siblings with much of a childhood.

Sally Hemings was born in 1773 in Virginia to Elizabeth Hemmings and John Wayles, Jefferson’s father-in-law. In 1774, Sally was inherited, along with many other slaves, by Thomas Jefferson following the death of John Wayles, her previous owner. Two long years after the death of Mr. Wayles, Sally and her mother made their way to Monticello, where they would start their enslavement under Thomas Jefferson. Sally’s job at that point was the nurse maid for Jefferson’s daughter, Mary. Sally’s youth consisted of doing whatever she was asked to do, and not much else.

Eliza Harris was the slave of Thomas Davis, an owner of a plantation near Dover, Kentucky. This female slave had been enlightened to the fact that her master had an arrangement planned to sell her poor baby boy to another master. “I have lost two, one after another,--left 'em buried there when I came away; and I had only this one left. I never slept a night without him; he was all I had. He was my comfort and pride, day

In the non-fiction book “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl,” by Harriet A. Jacobs and published in Boston in 1861. The author Jacobs was born into slavery in 1813, in a town called Edenton, North Carolina. Jacob uses the pseudonym Linda Brent to narrate her first person account. The book opens with Jacobs stating her reasons for writing a biography of her life story. Her story is agonizing and she had rather have kept it confidential, although she felt that by making it public that perhaps it might help the antislavery movement. A preface by Linda Child, states in the beginning of the book, “READER, be assured this narrative is no fiction. I am aware that some of my adventures may seem incredible; but they are, nevertheless, strictly true” (Jacobs 5). I would like to explain the main themes in this story, they include family and community, dangers of slavery for women, motherhood, and altogether the corrupting power of slavery, religion, and last but not least perseverance.

William and Ellen Craft were slaves from Georgia. However, in 1848 the Crafts devise an escape. Since, Ellen was fair-complexed they war able to disuse her as a sick “ young white man” was being accompanied by his slave and they were traveling North to seek medical treatment. They traveled to Boston by railroad and ship, escaping slavery. However, when slave catcher came to Boston to retrieve them in 1850, they were protected by white and black abolitionist.

The stories of Mary Rowlandson and Olaudah Equiano are riveting tales of struggle and subjection to the dehumanizing trials of slavery. Accounts of slavery from the perspective of the captive bring to light the strife and everyday horrors that these people had to endure, sometimes throughout their entire lives. Both of the depictions give voice to the emotional peaks and troughs that the authors experienced during their ordeals. The events described took place almost one hundred years apart, and yet they are eerily similar in spirit. Although they bear a general resemblance, the narratives of Mary Rowlandson and Olaudah Equiano are dissimilar in the tone of their respective recounting, the descriptions of their captors and life before their

The book Celia A Slave Melton McLaurin is telling us what happened to a slave owner and a slave that he brought. This story goes into details on the day of June 23,1855 about how a female slave that murdered her master and how she tried to cover it up. This story took place not far from Jefferson City in Calloway Country here in Missouri when around this time there were still debates over what state is going to be free and what states is going to be a slave one. As you’re reading the book you will see how race relations of that period was very … McLaurin talks in great details about the trail, the political climate of the time of the trail, and the experiences of a slave told in Celia view, and the antebellum time period.