Harriet Tubman was born Into slavery in Dorchester County, Maryland at around 1820. Her real name was Araminta Ross. She was one of eight children. Her parents were Benjamin and Harriet Ross, both of whom were slaves. When Tubman was around five years old she became a house servant. She joined the rest of the […]
Araminta Ross, formerly known as Harriet Tubman was a significant African American woman. She freed slaves, worked as a nurse during the civil war, and was a spy. She was born into slavery in 1820, and later then escaped to Pennsylvania. Harriet Tubman was mostly known as an activist in history, who freed slaves and […]
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Get startedHarriet Tubman is an immensely interesting and brave person. No one knows exactly knows when she was born, but they think she was born in about 1820. She was born in Dorchester County in Maryland. She was born into slavery with her 8 brothers and sister. Although her family was separated and they were all […]
Dorchester County, Maryland, a small county where big things happened. An event so big that it lasted and impacted the states almost 200 hundred years later. Here lies the birthplace of Araminta Ross, better know as Harriet Tubman. Around 1825 Araminta Ross was born to her mother Harriet Green and Father, Ben Ross. Known to […]
In 1853, Solomon Northup in his memoir 12 Years a Slave, illustrates the story of his life from his perspective as a free man who was kidnapped and sold in to slavery. The editor, David Wilson statement states that this book is a true story without biases that explains the horrendous situations that many people […]
In the 1850s, the country was divided over the issue of slavery, between slave states and free states. Although some states had seen the cruel and inhumane horrors of slavery and chose to reform, others in the deep south had not and the horror of slavery still hung over many African Americans heads. Many slaves […]
In 1853 Solomon Northup, an African-American born a free man, wrote his biography about how at the age of 33 he got kidnapped and separated from his wife and 3 children by two men he met who offered him lucrative work with a circus. Believing both men’s words Northup followed them to Washington D.C. where […]
Racism is the belief that a particular is a superior or inferior to another , that person’s social and moral traits are predetermined by his or her inborn biological characteristics. In the novella , Heart Of Darkness , by Joseph Conrad. Marlow dehumanizes africans , he uses racial slurs , and wants everyone in their […]
Conrad’s heart of darkness has sparked all types of reactions and opinions from people. For example, Chinua Achebe believes the book is racist and shouldn’t be studied. But there are people, like Edward Said, who argue that who that Conrad wasn’t trying to be racist but was trying to dig deeper on the topics of […]
Written in 1985 by Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale is a novel that presents a totalitarian theocracy that has replaced the United States and forces the few fertile women left to bear children for elite couples that have trouble conceiving. The main protagonist in the novel is referred to as Offred and she is a […]
Many events have shaped the United States. They carved our society, laws, and beliefs. For starters, before Europeans and other peoples set foot on American soil, it was inhabited only by Native Americans, or Indians. These indigenous people built towns, hunted, and some even farmed. However, when the Spanish, Europeans, and others broadened their horizons […]
“The massive effort to desegregate public schools across the United States was a major goal of the Civil Rights Movement (Library of Congress).”Remember the Titans is historically accurate. After the peak of the Civil Rights Movement in the early 1970, laws were passed to prevent segregation and discrimination based on race. However, discrimination in everyday […]
Over the years, the number of hate groups in the United States rose significantly. Of the many racial, ethnic, and religious groups targeted by hate organizations, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the third most targeted group in the country, behind immigrants and Blacks, is Muslims. Since the attack on the World Trade Center […]
The First Amendment of the United States Constitution grants U.S. citizens five main freedoms. Citizens have the right to have freedom of speech, freedom to practice any religion, freedom of the press, freedom to petition the government for a redress of grievances, and the freedom to assemble in a peaceful manner. Of these five freedoms, […]
The body of a black transgender woman was burned beyond recognition and was found inside an abandoned car in Florida. Dental records were used to identify the victim. The victim, Bee Love Slater was the 18th transgender person known to have been killed in the United States in the year of 2019, accoring to The […]
Imagine the U.S. capitol’s austere statuary that holds monuments of the great men that built this nation. However, some of them are no longer considered “great men.” Statues of Confederate Soldiers, Congressmen who supported slavery and segregation, and downright white supremacists litter the south. But can we say litter? Can the work of these men […]
Domestic violence is something that can happen to anyone regardless of race, age, sexual orientation, religion or gender. In our week 13 and 14 discussions, we focused on the U.S’s take on domestic violence, however, it is critical to also talk about how domestic violence is viewed in other countries as well. There have been […]
Although Mark Twain wrote the novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn after the abolition of slavery in the United States, the story itself takes place before the Civil War, also known as the antebellum, when slavery was still legal and the economic foundation of the American South. This slavery and racism poses a frequent thematic […]
