The Confessions of Nat Turner

With the advancement in irrigation technology by French engineers and the increase in the popularity of sugar, the French colony of Saint Domingue became one of the worlds largest sugar producers. With sugar came problems for the many enslaved Africans that were forced to provide manual labor for the colony's sugar harvesting efforts. Oppression, violence, inequality (of a caste-like system), and many other hardships led to hard feelings between the Africans and their white masters, the French. (Talk

Michael Shaara was born in 1928 in Jersey City, New Jersey and graduated from Rutgers University. Shaara’s first novel, The Broken Place, was published in 1968. Shaara, for his second novel The Killer Angels, got most of his inspiration from a visit to Gettysburg. Shaara saw the battlefield and learned about the battle and its significance. In 1974, The Killer Angels was published. But to the surprise of many, it won the 1975 Pulitzer Prize for Literature. Aside from writing, Shaara served as a paratrooper

“A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading”, said William Styron, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning book, The Confessions of Nat Turner. I absolutely agree with Styron’s expressive view of what reading is like. Reading has shaped me into the person I am today and yet unendingly persists to keep changing me. The root of my passion for reading came from the reading I was forced to do when I was a child. Once I embraced

Two girls born into the same era of American history: despite their vast similarities, what makes these two independent and value-driven young women so different? Since they were living in the same country, many would think that their upbringings would be parallel. On the surface, the only differences between the two girls were their geographic location and their skin color, but during the nineteenth century these actually made a drastic difference in the every day lives of young women. The juxtaposition

Chapter 7 40. Petition of the Inhabitants West of the Ohio River. Ohioans that petitioned to Congress about the monopolizing of acreage by private companies on the frontier after the War of Independence, the farmers also asked for “vacant lands” 41. James Madison, The Federalist, No. 51 To generate support for the Constitution, Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay composed 85 essays under Publius in The Federalist. The security of liberty and power balanced power lies in the nation’s

Chapter 9 The Market Revolution 51. Complaint of a Lowell Factory Worker 1. The female factory worker compared her conditions with those of slaves because she felt like they were being treated like slaves by not being allowed to speak for themselves. She felt that they were awed into silence by wealth and power and was under tyranny and cruel oppression 2. She doubt the sincerity of the Christian beliefs of the factory owners because they talk benevolence in the parlor, compel their

"Reflections on The Tempest" A few summers ago we hosted two Japanese students for 11 days. One afternoon a violent storm came up; we unplugged appliances and from our living room watched the lightning and listened to the loud, almost instantaneous thunder. One of the students, unaccustomed to thunder storms, was terrified; he clapped his hands against his head and appeared ready to dive under the table in spite of our attempts to reassure him. The proud members of a wedding party on their

Guilt is an inevitable effect of slavery. For no matter how much rhetoric and racism is poured into such a system, the simple fact remains that men are enslaving men. Regardless of how much inferior a slaveholder may perceive his slaves, it is obvious that his "property" looks similar, has similar needs, and has similar feelings. There is thus the necessary comparison of situations; the slaveholder is free, the slaves in bondage - certainly a position that the slaveholder would find most disagreeable

BLACK THUNDER SUMMARY The Work Black Thunder, Arna Bontemps’ defining novel, is a fictionalized account of the early nineteenth century Gabriel Insurrection, in Virginia. The novel, which chronicles the Gabriel Prosser-led rebellion against the slave owners of Henrico County, was generally lauded by critics as one of the most significant black American works of fiction. Richard Wright praised the work for dealing forthrightly with the historical and revolutionary traditions of African Americans