Slavery, Home And Forgiveness

A similarity noticed was the main topic of each story. Each express their view and their experience living in America. Both being girls living in an American society. Both talking about their American identity while being a mix of different ethnicities.

The main reason that these stories are alike, are that they relate to women. Whether you are a daughter, or a wife, changes are you can relate to

The first aspect both stories have in common is the fact that both of the women are oppressed by a man in their life.“The

The similarities between the stories may not appear very apparent at first over closer analyzation the appear more apparent .Both stories are focused around a brother and a sister whom

In a time period when women were considered inferior, as were blacks, it was unimaginable the horrors a black woman in the south had to endure during this period. African women were slaves and subject to the many horrors that come along with being in bondage, but because they were also women, they were subject to the cruelties of men who look down on women as inferior simply because of their sex. The sexual exploitation of these females often lead to the women fathering children of their white masters. Black women were also prohibited from defending themselves against any type of abuse, including sexual, at the hands of white men. If a slave attempted to defend herself she was often subjected to further beatings from the master. The black female was forced into sexual relationships for the slave master’s pleasure and profit. By doing this it was the slave owner ways of helping his slave population grow.

Ophelia Settle Egypt, informally known as Ophie, was an African American woman ahead of her time. She attained the educational status of less than one percent of the American population, was liberal and accepting of others despite the criticism around her, fought to end racism, worked independently of her husband, and believed in limiting family growth. All of Egypt’s beliefs and lifetime achievements represent a new type of woman: a woman who refuses to assimilate to her gender stereotype of weak, inferior, and domestic. Egypt dedicated her life to social work through various activities. She worked as a sociologist, researcher, teacher, director of organizations, and social worker at different times in her life. Egypt’s book, The Unwritten History of Slavery (1968), and the Planned Parenthood Clinic in Southeast Washington D.C. named after her represent Egypt’s legacy and how one person is capable of social change.

James Oakes ' book, Slavery and Freedom: An Interpretation of the Old South, is a reflection of slavery and freedom that was closely associated with the ordinary life in the South. The book also hits on points of liberal capitalism that the slave-owner 's had. This book goes into immense detail on liberal capitalism as well as the lack of freedom that the slaves had in the Deep South. "...And this could only mean that southern slavery was defined as the denial of the assumptions of liberal capitalism" (xiii). That in essence makes the slave 's South connection to liberal capitalism closer and way more problematic.

There are similarities and differences in the short stories “A Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner and “Desiree’s Baby” by Kate Chopin. In the two short stories “A Rose for Emily” and “Desiree’s Baby” the reoccurring theme is love and tradition.

A very important similarity between the stories, is that they both are in the view point of a Union soldier in the nineteenth century, during the civil war. The similarities between these two books combine the ideals of battle and war, also the resemblances show how alike the two protagonists of the stories are.

Similarities between these stories are that there are two young boys having a conflict with their family, and they both were caused by a misunderstanding. Another example is that both of these misunderstandings happened in the author's childhood. They both

The movement to eliminate slavery in the United States during the antebellum years was difficult and did not go unchallenged as there were many people who were pro-slavery while others were anti-slavery. Before the Civil War there was debate over the issue of slavery. Slaves were considered property, and were property because they were black. Many people in the South were strong advocates of slavery, while people in the North were opposed to it. In the South, slavery was a social and powerful economic institution. During this period in the south Pro-Slavery activists did not empathize with the system and conditions the

This made it easier to debase women as human beings by denying them the natural desire to mother their children.  Not only did the physical separation of mother and child prevent females slaves from identifying themselves as mothers, but the concept of motherhood alone, 'due to the economic realities of racism, [was] usually limited to white women' (Williams 164).  Lisa Williams suggests that Sethe feels grief as a black mother due to the isolation she experiences as a slave.  Many African slaves were influenced by West African motherhood practices in which the individual mother is valued, but the act of mothering was

On Monday Maryland was the second state to say sorry . state's House of Delegates approved a measure, already passed by the senate and not requiring the governor's signature, expressing black people were so appalled when Frank Hargrove, a Virginia legislator who is white, said last month "black citizens should get over" slavery It essentially says."We must publicly and candidly acknowledge the lasting damage of past sins - damage that continues to reverberate more than 150 years after the abolition of slavery," Markell told worshippers at Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Wilmington, Delaware. It not fair to make everybody to do that.

The most significant similarity between the three stories is the role their female protagonists plays. In the stories, the actions and words of the main characters reveal how society consider men the dominant figure and how women’s job was to take care of the children and the household tasks. The three stories shares a patriarchal society in which people believed in the idea that women gain self-worth, productivity and respectability from domesticity. Elisa Allen from the story The

Sethe had always been owned by other people, so her claiming her children by developing a loving relationship with them was uncommon at the time because many slave owners separated slave women from their children. This instilled a deep fear of abandonment in enslaved children in order to prevent slaves from gaining a sense of humanity or desire to escape to protect their families. Even though Sethe experienced abandonment from her