Soul And Soul By Walter Johnson

This world is filled with many troubles including racism. Society often depicts whites as superior to blacks. However, this is not precise, because every race has both good and bad within it. The world is trying to break away from racism to become a better place for everyone around the world. Racism is not only about the color of one’s skin, it can impact individuals around the world due to their race or religion. The title of this novel is “Black and White” by Paul Volponi. In this coming of age story, two friends, Marcus Brown and Eddie Russo, who are black and white (respectively), are senior basketball stars at their high school. Marcus lives in community housing which is fraught with crime with a single mother. On the other hand, Eddie lives in a private house nearby where Marcus lives. Both Marcus and Eddie are in financial hardships and need to find easy money to cover their school and basketball fees. The two agree to start pulling robberies when they unintentionally shoot a black man. They are left in anxiety trying to avoid getting caught while trying to lead a normal life after the incident. They both end up going through the justice system, and Marcus must serve jail time while Eddie gets to go free. While all of this transpires, Marcus and Eddie manage to keep their friendship strong and overcome any barriers together. Any true friendship can overcome racial stereotypes put in place by society including the racial barrier between Blacks and Whites. The novel

Walter Johnson examines the fluid nature of the domestic slave trade and its role in shaping a culture of slavery. Central to this culture was the fundamental reality that the slave person was a commodity to be bought and sold as the market demanded. Describe the effects of the practice of slave trading on the actors involved. How did the domestic slave trade help create the identities of slave, the slaveholder and the slave trader? How did the activities of the slave pen help “make” race (both white and black) in the antebellum period?

The perspectives of African slave merchants, the female slaves, and the plantation workers in the Americans which are missing in this collection might add other dimensions to our understanding of this commerce in people. Knowing the perspective of the African slave merchants who were present during the slave trade in Africa would have

The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, by Anne Fadiman, is the story of two very different cultures lacking understanding for one another leading to a tragedy due to cultural incompetence. Today in America there are very many different cultures. Health care providers need to be aware of cultural diversity and sensitivity when caring for patients. If a health care provider is not sensitive towards a patient’s culture it can cause a relationship of mistrust to form, lead to barriers in the plan of care, and increase health care cost. The current guidelines to promote cultural competence in the clinical setting include completing a cultural diversity self-assessment, identify the need of the population served, evaluate barriers in the community and practice, educate staff to cultural diversities, schedule longer appointments, clarify limitations, and identify alternatives offered (Cash & Glass, 2014).

There is no doubt that the United States was built upon the hard work of Black-American slaves, referred to at the time as bondpeople, who were the main labor force in producing important American exports, such as cotton or tobacco, which were, in fact, the backbone of the American economy during that time. Due to bondpeople’s overall importance in keeping the United States the powerhouse that it was, the domestic slave trade was a value market that “‘was roughly three times greater than the total amount of all capital, North and South combined, invested in manufacturing, almost three times the amount invested in railroads, and seven times the amount invested in banks’”(23). In “‘In Pressing Need of Cash,’” Daina Ramey Berry, a professor for the Departments of History and African Diaspora Studies at the University of Texas, looks at a fifteen year period, from 1850-1865, of the economic factors of the domestic slave trade. Berry uses Steven Deyle’s findings in his study, "Carry Me Back: The Domestic Slave Trade in American Life” which examined both the "long-distance interstate trade" and the extensive local or "intrastate" trade of enslaved males and females, who were priced differently depending on their perceived market value (23). With Deyle’s findings, Berry specifically discusses the relationships among gender, age, skill, or type of sale and how those factors, generally, determined the priced paid of enslaved workers.

Imagine if you couldn’t control your own fate? Ever since you were little, your fate has already been decided for you. Any dream that you had, consider it gone. Going to school, finding a job, creating a family, take those lifetime goals and throw them out the window. You are forced to work for the rest of your life as a slave. That’s what life was like as an African American prior to Civil War. If you were African American, or even “one-drop” black, you were qualified to be part of the slave trade. Slaves didn’t know when their next meal was going to be or if they were even going to get one. Slaves, especially those in the field, worked from the time the sun would rise until sunset. Hours were long; men, woman, and children were worked to the bone and were expected to perform hard but not be given the proper food or sleep needed to refuel themselves. That’s what made the slave trade so horrible, African Americans weren’t looked at as human beings in society, and they were looked at as property. Even small children and the elderly were not exempt from these long work hours; there were no excuses for anyone who was African American. In class we talked about the United States Constitution and it’s significant to our nations history. It talks about the proper rights given to the people and the rules set forth for everyone to

In the book titled The Slave Community: Plantation Life in the Antebellum South, author John Blassingame’s theme, focused on the history of African slave experience throughout the American South. After much research, the author said in the preface that most historians focused more on the planter instead of the slave. He also pointed out that most of the research on slaves by previous historians was based on stereotypes, and do not tell the real history of slave life and a slave’s inner self. Most of these historians, who focused on antebellum southern history, left out the African-American slave experience on purpose. Through much gathering of research, Blassingame hoped to correct this injustice to the history of African-American slaves, and show how slavery affected slaves, but also American life, culture, and thought.

This applied theory paper will analyze both the macro and micro analysis of the Novel, The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, by Anne Fadiman (Fadiman, 1997). In the book “The Spirit Catches You and Falls Down”, the character Lia illness resulted in a cultural divide between the Hmong culture and the American culture. Throughout this paper both the conflict theory and the family systems theory will be used to examine themes of behaviors among the characters in the text. The family and medical team use the applications of a number of different social work theories to navigate through her illness implementing a number of different strategies to nurse her to health. The author Fadiman explores the Lee’s family

Although Douglass and Jacobs' experiences support the "personal as political', their narratives further explore the residual effects of slavery: 1) to prohibit the identity of male and female slave, and 2) to marginalize the slave's presence in society.

In the book Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market by Walter Johnson, one is given the opportunity to look at slavery from beyond the plantations which many are have been accustomed to read about in school, going to the main root and essence of this whole entire system which is the actual slave market, particularly the New Orleans slave market. In the 19th century the New Orleans slave market was the largest and leading institution to trade in the whole entire country, to the extent of being “compared to New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Charleston.” Johnson looked to try to present perspectives of what it what the “average” day looked like at these slave trades, not only of those whom were under oppression but also those whom are causing it so that the reader may receive a mutual idea of what was going on in each other’s heads to ultimately “to investigate what each had at stake and how each tried to shape the outcome.”

Johnson shows, for example, that whites looked to the slave market to buy enslaved bodies out of which to construct themselves. Some whites bought slaves to fulfill their fantasies of "prerogatives of whiteness and mastery"; others imagined their purchases as rescues of slaves from the slave market and the realization of a "paternalist fantasy]," and still others sought slaves to project through them the appearance of gentility and reputation. In short, Southern whites ventured to the slave market, not merely to buy enslaved bodies to labor in their fields and homes, but to fulfill fantasies rooted in the ideals of antebellum Southern

In his story called Flesh and Blood So Cheap, Albert Marrin uses different elements of language that are associated more with fiction and poetry because it creates drama and suspense. It also helps the reader realize how serious the situation was and how important it was in changing factory regulations today. Throughout the entire story, Marrin replaces some ordinary verbs with stronger and more heavy, words. His creative writing elements impact this non-fiction text by giving the reader an idea of what the incident actually did to change America forever. Some examples of that are in paragraph 2, where Marrin uses the word, ignite, instead of flaring up.

Think of what a soul is, "A spiritual principle embodied in human beings, all rational and spiritual beings…" (Merriam). A soul is embodied in all human beings; however, throughout Soul By Soul this principle was taken away from slaves one by one. Slaves were robbed of the opportunity to find their spiritual values and also stripped of their human rights. Throughout Walter Johnson's book Soul By Soul slavery is put behind a magnifying glass showing the reader every horrifying fact about slavery. By looking at the many different angles of slavery Walter Jonson approaches few different main points, he looks at different perspectives, the slave market and, human rights.

My Place of Solitude Van Morrison in his song " Into the Mystic" quotes "Hark, now hear the sailors cry, smell the sea, and feel the sky let your soul and spirit fly, into the mystic. " These lyrics are strong for people who love the beach or sea. I love the beach, and everything about it. My place of solitude is the beach because of the sand, water, and the surroundings.

The slave trade and beliefs surrounding slavery, defined African American’s in pluralistic conditions of property, commodities, breeders, concubines, servants and labourers (Littlefield, 2008). Prior to Victorian advertisements racializing certain bodies, the advertisements of Black slaves in print media influenced racism and how others perceived those of different skin colours. Black slaves became the property of slave owners and were marked in order to keep track of their bodies. Browne (2015) describes how, “…the tracking of blackness, rooted in the violence of slavery, was instituted through printed text.” The runaway advertisements of slaves marked Black people as different, less than and out of place. Additionally, these advertisements