Have you ever wondered why we compare and contrast stories? When you compare and contrast, you line up all the concepts the two texts have in common so you can clearly see the differences. Harriet Tubman: Conductor of the Underground Railroad is a historical account describing the brutality of slavery, where The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales is a fictional portrayal explaining the misery of slavery. You can see that both of this stories show the slave’s perspective on enslavement and how slavery had a humongous impact on slaves. Therefore, these two stories are similar in numerous ways but, still are very different. To begin with, Harriet Tubman and The People Could Fly are alike in several ways. For example, both stories mention …show more content…
For instance, Harriet Tubman was a true story explaining how the main character actually escapes the plantation. Whereas, The People Could Fly was a fictional story about how the main character figuratively escapes. Paragraph twenty in The People Could Fly states, “The Overseer rode after her, hollerin’. Sarah flew over the fences. She flew over the woods. Tall trees could not snag her. Nor could the Overseer. She flew like an eagle now, until she was gone from sight. No one dared speak about it. Couldn’t believe it. But it was, because they that was there saw that it was.” This shows that Sarah had to “shed” her wings when she was captured and enslaved. However, she was able to get her “wings” back by imagining that she“flew away” from the plantation. Obviously, none of this literally happened but, in Sarah’s imagination she escapes and gains her freedom back because her master can’t set a restriction on her imagination. In Harriet Tubman, paragraph nine states, “There was something free and wild in Harriet because of Ben. He talked about the arrival of the wild ducks, the thickness of the winter coat of muskrats and of rabbits. He was always talking about the woods, the berries that grew there, the strange haunting cries of some of the birds, the loud sound their wings made when they were disturbed and flew up suddenly. He spoke of the way the owls flew, their feathers so soft that they
The stories are similar because they both are women. Both wrote and authored their own books/narratives. Also, Harriet Jacobs was encouraged by Stowe's success so, that's why she thought when she could do the same.
The Civil War lasted for four years, three weeks, and six days. The Civil War caused a numerous amount of good and bad things. Along with the union coming out victorious, slavery was abolished, territorial integrity was gained, the reconstruction era began, and Abraham Lincoln was assassinated. Although, many people were involved in the process leading up to the civil war. Abolitionists played a huge role in the progression in civil rights. They fought for the freedom of slaves and the ceasing of slave trade from Africa. There were many activists involved in this movement, including Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth. These two women abolitionists are two of the most dynamic woman and well known abolitionists. Although Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth have many similarities, they have certain aspects that allow them to differ from each other. Despite their slight differences, Tubman and Truth were seemingly the most efficient and effective in their duties as abolitionists.
Harriet Beecher Stowe and Fredrick Douglass experienced completely different events in their lives that led them both to write in protest of the slave society that they experienced. Harriet Beecher Stowe was a white woman raised in a Puritan society. She was outwardly opposed to slavery. She told her story for the purpose of bringing attention to the issue of the cruelties of slavery. Ms. Stowe's story is fiction, although I believe that it is an accurate depiction of slave life. She had no experience being a slave, but she witnessed slavery through the eyes of slaveholders. Her story is more objective concerning slave life than Fredrick Douglass' narrative. Douglass was a slave himself and he suffered physical as well as mental anguish from his experiences. His story is told from a more subjective point of view. He shared more graphic and alarming details in his story. He shared every detail he could recall of the outrageous cruelties that he had both witnessed others go through and endured himself.
During the Antebellum Era in the United States, it was constitutionally protected to own slaves as property. Slavery also made up a large sum of the American economy, especially in the Southern states. However, the act of slavery in America was much more than economic stimulation and constitutional interpretations. Slavery was cognitively oppressive and immortal as it dehumanized the white population and enslaved people. In the slave narratives of Harriet Jacobs and Fredrick Douglass, both authors write how their lived experiences embodies the dehumanization of African Americans in both physical and mental acts of violence. In addition, their narratives render examples of how mistresses and masters did not acknowledge the problems of slavery
...er what escaped slaves followed through the Underground Railroad. As well with the famous fictional book of Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin. In Uncle Tom’s cabin Stowe talks about the life of slaves in the plantation. Douglass also publishes an autobiography talking about the horrid life of a slave and how honored he was to had been able to learn how to read and write. All this propaganda caused commotion within the union and the confederates leading up to the war.
Frederick Douglass, well known for his autobiography Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass and his actions he took to fight for slavery to end. Harriet Jacobs who wrote Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. Frederick Douglass and Harriet Jacobs both escaped from slavery. Both former slaves also wrote their own narratives and autobiographies and made an impact on ending slavery and provoked understanding that they and other slaves down South were people in dire need to be free physically and legally. Their books displayed to the North and abroad an empathetic tone reflecting what they and others around them suffered from day to day. However, both Douglass and Harriet are different people with different experiences while in bondage and
She also feels that Harriet Tubman is a prime example of a strong African American woman. In this biography, author, Catherine Clinton gives an accurate take regarding the conditions for slaves in Eastern Shore, Maryland. Her description of the conditions empower readers to construe how Harriet Tubman more than likely lived in her early years. This is a fascinating, elegantly composed early account that will equip readers with a realistic insight around the life of an African American saint. There are many good points throughout this biography. The authors’ point about Harriet Tubman being brave is confirmed by evidence in which she detailed. Case in point, voyaging on numerous occasions from the South toward the North by way of the Underground Railroad was considered exceptionally strong evidence of bravery. This biography furthered confirmed my positive view of Harriet Tubman. It also provided me with new insight of the struggles that Harriet Tubman encountered. For instance, I was able to learn that her original name was Arminata Ross and she was forced to change her name to Harriet in order to maintain a false
Frederick Douglass said in a letter that he wrote to Harriet: “Excepting John Brown – of sacred memory -- I know of no one who has willingly encountered more perils and hardships to serve our enslaved people than you have .” Harriet faced many perils and challenges when working as a ‘conductor’ on the Underground Railroad. The job she was doing was made more dangerous and perilous by the implementation of the Fugitive Slave Law in 1850. Escaped slaves could now be recaptured in the North and returned to slavery, leading to the abduction of many former slaves and some free blacks living in the Free States. Law enforcement officials were compelled to capture and return slaves to the plantations, regardless of their own beliefs. Upon her escape,
Many different people got abused and exploited to do hard labor in all periods of time,
The story Underground Railroad by Ann Petry highlights the complexity of one of Harriet Tubman’s missions during the time of slavery. In the story, Tubman is leading a group of slaves down the Underground Railroad and towards the freedom of Canada. During her journey she faces many obstacles such as fear, uncertainty and exhaustion. Despite that, she forces herself to continue the mission and bring her slaves to freedom no matter what. In the text Dangerous Passage to New Life a Mexican man is attempting to cross over to the United States in search of new opportunities . He also faces multiple difficulties throughout his trek but he must overcome them if he wishes to achieve his purpose. While the two passages may seem unrelated at first,
“If I could have convinced more slaves that they were slaves, I could have freed thousands more.” People always wonder why Harriet went back for the other slaves. There are many perspectives about Harriet Tubman. For example, white people from the south may see her as a villain for breaking laws. On the other hand African Americans see her as being a hero, for rescuing them from slavery. Although most historians consider Harriet Tubman as being a villain in the South, in reality she was one of the best heroes for the North during that time period.
...African-Americans faced. Both stories used the main characters to help the reader see from new eyes as to how blacks were mistreated and underestimated. In The Bouquet, African-Americans were discriminated and were stereotypically uneducated and worthless. Ms. Myrover teaches the children basic skills and in the end of the book, blacks turn out to be capable of learning and are capable of being kind human beings. Uncle Tom’s Cabin descriptively explains the mistreatment and ill-fortune of African-Americans during the pre-civil war era. The book depicts how one slave saved the life of a young girl and he is punished. Slaves were simply treated cruelly and had no means of defending themselves or changing the minds of slave owners. Both stories portray the harsh treatment of blacks and assisted the start of movements important to correct treatment of African-Americans.
Mark Twain is known as a genius for his writing, comedy, and his genius as a satirist. He effectively demonstrates this with his excellent use of the satirical technique of reversal in “The War Prayer” and the satirical technique incongruous juxtaposition in “The Political Candidate”. Twain also effectively uses imagery and satirizes the naivety of the audience to convey his thoughts and feelings about church in “The War Prayer” and his tone on politics in “The Presidential Candidate.”
“I can’t read,but I can hear”-Sojourner Truth,the fight and the struggle to have rights and to become a free African American.White people were unjust and racist American.In the texts “Ain’t I a Woman and “Frederick Douglass” was about the fight for freedom.Both of them want to be treated equally,they both want the freedom of speech;to be able to speak their minds.Slaves were the African Americans.The fight for freedom and against black and white people was what the Civil War was about.The Civil War was a period in which American history resolved slavery and framed a new idea about freedom.
Comparing Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave and Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl