Slavery By Lou Gossett Jr.

William and Ellen Craft created this source, which is called Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom. William and Ellen came up with a brilliant idea, which was to have Ellen pretend to be a White male because her skin was to fair. William would act her slave just to escape to freedom. The audience is for a large group of people especially salve to give them hope and inspiration to escape to freedom. Also as for the ex-slaves all things is possible when you see freedom knocking at your door; as soon as opportunity presents itself, take it and run with it. William thought himself how to write, with an adventure like this you would want to share this right? It took time (years) thinking this through because is nearing possible to escape deep in the South running thousands of miles. Craft waited 12 ears later he decided to share their story.

Though it is a very long nonfiction book, I found myself unable to put it down. I cried a lot and literally laughed out loud while reading this book, and found myself extremely emotionally connected to Kunte Kinte. This book did meet and exceed my expectations. It was vey painful for me to read, yet I am beyond grateful that I was recommended to read it. The story-telling was so descriptive, it put a weight on my heart and made me think and contemplate about the book even when I was not reading it. I think the author did everything perfectly, and I have no critiques. I would like to thank the author for such an amazing historical account and piece of literature.

Foster did not know that his new slave was indeed an African Prince. The Prince tried to tell Foster who he was to no avail. Thomas did not care and mockingly started to call him prince. On the plantation in Natchez, Mississippi, Rahman grieves the loss of his family back home, but comes to the realization that he will never return home.

One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the Negro is still languished in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land.

Many Americans had expected the practice of slavery to die. Americans were given this impression in relation to decreasing tobacco production due to lack of fertile soil (Foner, 317). However, Americans would be presented with factors that would lead to an expansion in slavery. The expansion of slavery deteriorated already terrible conditions for slaves; slave families would be separated and many female slaves faced imminent forced reproduction with studs or white males.

At a young age the free African-American slave faced difficult situations. He became an orphan before the age of 8. Two years later his uncle sent him off to work for a plantation owner named “Captain”. At the age of 18 he attempted to run away, but Captain found him. The author had voilated the contract by running away and was whipped. At age twenty-one he signed a contract with Captain under the circumstances that he would be treated better. He married Mandy, one of the maids. It was not until the death of Captain, five years later that things went downhill. Captain’s son, which was now a Senator that took control

In his ancestral village of Juffure, Haley listened to a tribal historian recount how Kunta Kinte, Haley's ancestor was captured and sold into slavery.

The film tells the life story of Olaudah Equiano, from 1746 of his birth to 1796 of his death. A documentary film less than hour on the life and struggle of a slave. It covers his life from age eleven, when Equiano and his sister was abducted by European slave traders at the age and sold into slavery. He later bought his freedom and became part of the abolition movement. From 1833, Slavery was abolished 10 years later after Equiano death.

Solomon Northup was a free black living in New York who was lured south, kidnapped, and sold into slavery. His memoir, written shortly after his escape, recounts the harrowing events of his kidnapping and his dehumanizing and violent treatment as a slave on plantations in the interior of Louisiana where he worked in the cotton and sugar cane fields. During all those years, Northup looked for a chance to escape and was finally helped by an abolitionist carpenter with whom he chanced to work. With legal documents from the state of New York, Northup was finally freed and was able to bring legal action against his captors.

His sense of pride made him want to escape and return to his village. Kunta befriends Fiddler who helps him escape. However, he was captured and tortured as punishment. Another example was when Kunta’s toes were chopped off. This shows the cruelty and evil slavery was back in early Virginia.

One of the greatest screen biographies, is celebrating an excursion of an American life, beginning in sorrow and bottoming out on the streets and imprisoned before its hero rejuvenated himself. After watching the film, I understood the power that we have to change our own lives, how fate doesn't deal all of the cards. Its hero was born Malcolm little a young African American boy.

Haley’s Roots is a pastoral, placed at the intersection of historiography, ethnography and genealogy. While narrating the history of the Afro-American, he plays with antinomies of fiction and facts with an eye of a mythologist. There is a vast catalogue of people, places and incidents in Roots and the time movements are non-linear. The story shifts from Africa to America and vice-a-versa repeatedly, foregrounding the relationship between the rural agricultural life patterns that mark the seasonal routines of both people of Mandinka origin and plantation slaves. For example Haley shifts abruptly from the story of Kunta to that of Kizzy of Chicken George, trying to become coherence in the present by being is coherent to the past. It combines

Justice is the process result of using law to fairly judge and punish a crime or a criminal. Injustice is the lack of fairness and justice. Martin Luther King Jr. led the civil rights movement. This movement was a mass popular movement to secure equal access and opportunities for the basic privileges and rights of U.S. citizenship to all the people living in America. The act was active between 1955 and 1968. King was famous for using nonviolent resistance to overcome injustice, and he never got tired of trying to end segregation laws. In 1963 Martin Luther King Jr. was arrested and sent to jail because he and others were protesting the treatment of blacks in Birmingham, Alabama. A court had ordered that King could not hold protests in Birmingham. While King was in jail, he wrote a letter, “Letter From Birmingham Jail”, to the newspaper explaining why he had broken the law. In the book, “Antigone” by Sophocles, similar events had happened to the main character, Antigone. Creon, the king of Thebes, had ordered for no one to mourn over the death of Polynices, son of Oedipus (the former king of Thebes who unwittingly killed his father and married his mother), there was to be no type of burial or prayers for him. If anyone was to try and touch the body of Polynices there was to be sentenced to death. Antigone played a bigger role than Creon in that she defied the law and started the whole play’s chain of events, eventually leading to nearly everyone’s death. Regardless Ismene’s, her sister, warning to listen to the king’s edict, Antigone gave her brother a burial, prayers and poured ritual wine on the corpse. Martin Luther King Jr. and Antigone both had fought for something they believed in, something that went against the law and both were punished for their ‘crime’.

The auctions occurred for slaves to work their labor. African Americans were separated from their families and taken from their homes. They were elated to an auction where they would be bought by white men to work their plantation. In the film, Solomon Northup was a free born African American who was captured from his family and was sold. The level of stress is expressed in the scene where Patsy was being taken away from her children

This film is an epic tale that spans over 50 years, from 1893 to 1948. It begins with Mohandas Gandhi’s (Ben Kingsley) nonviolent civil rights movement in South Africa. This period takes up the opening forty minutes or so of the film, then Gandhi goes to India, where local leaders persuade him to help India in its cause for independence. The rest of the film chronicles Gandhi’s