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I felt that it was pretty common or many African Americans to feel this way when they tried to get their points across to the whites. They felt it'd be a pretty hard task due to lack of trust in the African American people.
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The whole while the man is trying to explain what was going on with the vineyard, he was saying that maybe it was cursed or had evil spirits lurking around it making it look as dreary and drought.
Thesitewasadmirablyadaptedtogrape-raising
It pretty much amazes me how driven and work-focused he is. In the beginning I see that he cares so much about his wife and his work, that he moves to another place more suitable for her health and his grape farming.
The Southern white man says that it is impossible for a voluntary alliance to exist between a white woman and a colored man,
To this day, many black men are threatened to be dealt with for their communications with white women. When caught with black men, some white women would go as far as to saying they were raped by them so that they wouldn't have to deal with being shamed by their family or friends.
"No Negro domination" became the new legend on the sanguinary banner of the sunny South, and under it rode the Ku Klux Klan
What made this a difficult time for African Americans was the senseless lynchings of their people. The whites were that afraid of becoming close to being minorities.
A few of these last, of special merit,* * The first seven spirituals in this collection, which were regularly sung at the church. soon became established favorites among the whites
Was it the key/tone the African American sung in what made it a favorite of the white people?
"Lizzie, I hear that you are going to New York to beg for money to buy your freedom. I have been thinking over the matter, and told Ma it would be a shame to allow you to go North to beg for what we should give you. You have many friends in St. Louis, and I am going to raise the twelve hundred dollars required among them. I have two hundred dollars put away for a present; am indebted to you one hundred dollars; Page 55 mother owes you fifty dollars, and will add another fifty to it; and as I do not want the present, I will make the money a present to you. Don't start for New York now until I see what I can do among your friends."
I found it really warming how someone of the opposite race would do something so kind for a young black woman. It was rare and looked down upon by many white people.
My mother, my poor aged mother, go among strangers to toil for a living! No, a thousand times no! I would rather work my fingers to the bone, bend over my sewing till the film of blindness gathered in my eyes; nay, even beg from street to street. I told Mr. Garland so, and he gave me permission to see what I could do. I was fortunate in obtaining work, and in a short time I had acquired something of a reputation as a seamstress and dress-maker.
A daughter's love to her mother was very strong especially in the African American community during this time. It was already enough that she had been separated from her mother for a period of time, only to find out that her mother would be sold from those she trusted to a family of strangers she knows nothing about.
Again I went home sore and bleeding, but with pride as Page 37 strong and defiant as ever. The following Thursday Mr. Bingham again tried to conquer me, but in vain. We struggled, and he struck me many savage blows. As I stood bleeding before him, nearly exhausted with his efforts, he burst into tears, and declared that it would be a sin to beat me any more. My suffering at last subdued his hard heart; he asked my forgiveness, and afterwards was an altered man. He was never known to strike one of his servants from that day forward.
It seemed as if Lizzie became too strong-willed for Mr. Bingham to handle. Her strength and defiance allowed her to be able to prove a point. basically saying, that the more you beat her, the stronger she will become and the more defiant.
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. Written by Herself:
Throughout the story, I felt that Linda was a pretty strong woman who expressed many emotions. She was timid, but at the same time I felt that she was very fierce and strong-willed. Despite the fact of her beatings and the cruelties that she endured, she made it through a really tough battle.
“I'll swong, stranger, yer mus' 'scuse me, as I did n' take notice on yez!
It is uncommon to see many whites speaking in this dialect. Society would expect a much more proper dialect from the during the time.
“Yes, yes, I thought I knew the name,” replied the clerk. “But the old fellowwasn't quite of your way of thinking concerning Negroes, I believe?”
With Eli being fair enough to be mistaken as a white man, I feel as if it were pretty smart of them to use him in their scheme of getting to one destination to another without seeking trouble much.
Dat's a fack,” added Andy, “an' little, scronny triflin' weak, white men atdat—any one uv us heah, ought to whip two or three uv 'em at once. DaresHugh's a little bit a feller, I could take 'im in one han' an' throw 'im oveh myhead, an' ole Pottah, for his pant, he so ole an' good foh nothin, I could whipwid one hand half a dozen like 'im.”
I feel as if this was a statement that every man of color had in the back of their mind at the time of slavery. I think this was a way that they could cope with the stress of oppression.
“No, sir, I don' threaten you, Colonel Franks, but I do say that I won't betreated like a dog. You sold my wife away from me, after always promisingthat she should be free. And more than that, you sold her because——! Andnow you talk about whipping me. Shoot me, sell me, or do anything else youplease, but don't lay your hands on me, as I will not suffer you to whip me!”
I would consider this brave for the simple fact that many slaves did not have the willpower to stand up to their masters in such a way.
Pah, pah! cousin Maria Franks, I'm really astonished at you to take on soabout a Negro girl! You really appear to have lost your reason. I would notbehave so for all the Negroes in Mississippi.”
Maria saw that her servants were human, and wished that they would be treated as such. Ballard sees this as a disgrace. Would this be part of a two-sided thought between most whites?
“Don't tell me about religion! What's religion to me? My wife is sold awayfrom me by a man who is one of the leading members of the very church towhich both she and I belong! Put my trust in the Lord! I have done so all mylife nearly, and of what use is it to me? My wife is sold from me just the sameas if I didn't.
Henry begins to lose faith in how God works. He expects everything to be done his time instead of God's and since it isn't, he begins to lose faith.
The next morning he gave me a note to carry to the jailer, and a dollar in money to give to him. I suspected that all was not right; so I went down near the landing, where I met with a sailor, and, walking up to him, asked him if he would be so kind as to read the note for me. He read it over, and then looked at me. I asked him to tell me what was in it. Said he, "They are going to give you hell." "Why?" said I. He said, "This is a note to have you whipped, and says that you have a dollar to pay for it."
Blacks had to seek help from others when it came to reading. Some were not taught to read or write, so prevent from getting fooled some would go out and find someone that could read the note to them or explain what it mean't.
The slaves are kept in the buildings during the night, and turned out into the yard during the day. After the best of the stock was sold at private sale at the pen, the balance were taken to the Exchange Coffee-House Auction Rooms, kept by Isaac L. McCoy, and sold at public auction. After the sale of this lot of slaves, we left New Orleans for St. Louis.
Slaves were kept like livestock. You would put your horses up in pens during the night, then let them roam in the fields during the day. Then you could also sale them off in auctions like prized possessions (not being so much of a prize though).
we lost one woman who had been taken from her husband and children, and having no desire to live without them, in the agony of her soul jumped overboard, and drowned herself. She was not chained.
A woman took her own life for the sake of her family. It was pretty sad that these families had to endure these separations knowing that they would probably never see each other again.
Added to the natural good qualities of Mr. Covey, he was a professor of religion--a pious soul--a member and a class-leader in the Methodist church. All of this added weight to his reputation as a "nigger-breaker."
I honestly thought nothing good of Covey. They described him to be such a religious man...if he was so religious, why did he not have mercy upon Frederick Douglass and his fellow slaves? I never understood how being a cruel person was something looked upon as a good thing to people. To be honest it shows how inhumane someone could be.
The influence of brandy upon him, and of slavery upon her, had effected a disastrous change in the characters of both
By being under influence of slavery and alcohol was basically like a plague. It could have sometimes good, but majority harsh affects on those involved or touched by these "illnesses".
There were horses and men, cattle and women, pigs and children, all holding the same rank in the scale of being, and were all subjected to the same narrow examination
It's kind of heart-breaking to know that your ancestors had little to no value to that of farm animals. It is degrading and a harsh thought.
Mr. Gore told him that he would give him three calls, and that, if he did not come out at the third call, he would shoot him. The first call was given. Demby made no response, but stood his ground. The second and third calls were given with the same result. Mr. Gore then, without consultation or deliberation with any one, not even giving Demby an additional call, raised his musket to his face, taking deadly aim at his standing victim, and in an instant poor Demby was no more. His mangled body sank out of sight, and blood and brains marked the water where he had stood.
I find it pretty sad how many slaves would rather die than be enslaved. That could be another reason why many men and women would try jumping overboard the ships that had brought them to the New World/United States. Depression, anger, and anxiety would be some things that could bring up such thoughts in a person. Honestly, I believe I would take the risk myself. I could not imagine being treated as an animal.
He was, of all the overseers, the most dreaded by the slaves. His presence was painful; his eye flashed confusion; and seldom was his sharp, shrill voice heard, without producing horror and trembling in their ranks.
A lot of slaves were intimidated by their overseers and masters due to the cruel and unusual punishments given to them. It's almost kind of like the feeling you get from your dad when you know that he knows that you have done something wrong, but in the slave perspective...most of these men and women did not have to do anything wrong to feel these emotions when they saw these people.
"It is better that a dozen slaves suffer under the lash, than that the overseer should be convicted, in the presence of the slaves, of having been at fault." No matter how innocent a slave might be--it availed him nothing, when accused by Mr. Gore of any misdemeanor. To be accused was to be convicted, and to be convicted was to be punished; the one always following the other with immutable certainty.
It is kind of cruel to think that you could not explain yourself when being accused. What if you didn't do what you were accused of (which happened a lot), and still be punished for someone else's wrongs?
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Could anyone do me the favor of explaining this to me please?
They ~ewr th?ught. when thus they shed Their hearts best blood. in freedo· , , Th h . ms cause. at t e1r O~\·n sons would live in dread, Under unJust. oppressi,·e laws
Slaves basically gave their lives just so that their future offspring and their future offspring could live free lives. Little did they know, their future generations would not live to be free, but under unjust oppressive laws.
America, it is to thee. Thou hoasted land of lihnty,-h is to thee I raise my song, Thou lund of blood, and crime, and wrong. It is to thee, my native land. From whence has issut·d nrnnv a band To tear the black man from his soil. And forn• him here to ddw and toil~ Chained on your blooJ-bemoistened sod, Cringing beneath a lyrant's ro
This entire stanza basically is his way of sarcasm. That is pretty much how I am interpreting it. You know how people would say "the land of the free, brave, and etc"? He basically turns it around by calling out the so called patriots for taking the African people away from their land and forcing them unto new land, and treating them like animals
Don't let her speak, Mrs. Gage, it will ruin us. Every newspaper in the land will have our cause mixed \ivith abolition and niggers, and we shall be utterly denounced.' My only answer was, 'We shall see when the time comes.'
Abolition was somewhat looked at as the worst thing anyone could protest. The negativity many received just for speaking on their rights as citizens did not go unnoticed
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Many African Americans were not awarded with much gratitude when it came to speaking upon a predominantly white crowd. Her virtue and her strength gave her the courage to speak life into these people about something they could all agree on.
But they came with broken hearts, from their beloved native land, and were doomed to unrequited toil and deep degradation. Nor did the evil of their bondage end at their emancipation by death. Succeeding generations inherited their chains, and millions have come from eternity into time, and have returned again to the world of spirits, cursed and ruined by American slavery.
He expressed the true meaning of slavery and its affect on the African people .
Think of your wretched sisters, loving virtue and purity, as they are driven into concubinage and are exposed to the unbridled lusts of incarnate devils.
Young African women were treated as items and they had no say in who took their virginity. Black women were and always have been seen as sexual objects.
And worse than all, you tamely submit while your lords tear your wives from your embraces and defile them before your eyes. In the name of God, we ask, are you men? Where is the blood of your fathers? Has it all run out of y
I take it as if he is implying that black men are born with natural strength, and for them to let these things happen, I feel as if he is saying that they are forgetting who they once were as a people. Also, I get this vibe that he is saying that the men have shamed themselves, and disappointed their ancestors.
V
This whole chapter is basically what summarizes what Antione was speaking of in the beginning of the story of how vengeance will soon rise. Georges comes back three years later to kill Alfred for having Zelia die an innocent death. Georges first makes Alfred watch as his wife dies from being poisoned, and then Alfred is then decapitated by his son, Georges.
young Senegalese4 woman, so beautiful that from every mouth leaps the exclama-tion: 'How pretty!' Everyone there wants her for his mistress, but not one of them dares dispute the prize with the young Alfred, now
Many black women were looked at as pieces of meat and sexual objects during this time, and even now. I am not surprised at all at this statement of how many of the men wished to have her as a mistress.
f he con-tinues to live, it can only be for vengeance; for soon· he shall rise ... and, from the day he shake~ off his servility, the master would do better to have a starving tiger raging beside him than to meet that man face to face."
I see it as Antoine was speaking in reference to the story he was about to tell about Georges. He states that vengeance (Georges) shall soon rise, and that the he'd (Alfred) better off have a hungry tiger standing next to him when he sees his slave face-to-face.
AME hymnals were published periodically thereafter. In the 1837 edition, for each hymn there is a relevant Scriptural verse, identification of its meter (that is, as short, long, common, etc.), and indication of a melody appropriate for use in singing the h
This answers my question to how the tuning and church sung the hymnals.
Now a word about the tunes used for singing the hymns in the Allen hymnal. Clearly it would have been necessary to invent tunes for singing the unorthodox items-that is, the hymns written by Allen and the camp-meeting hymns-since newly invented texts were involved. In addition there is ample evidence that the black Christians were not averse to drawing upon "merry airs, adapted from old songs" for their specially c
I do not know how most of the tunes were set up during this time. I do know that in today's black church you usually would have the deacon recite the hymnal line-by-line, and the congregation would follow through with like a bland high-low singing. I really do not know how to describe it, but this was the best I could do.
We know from contemporary sources that the black Methodists were noted for their singing and exuberance in w
African Americans usually used praise and worship to express their hurt during slavery. Even today most black churches are still the same. different times, yes, but there is always tradition. Most of the teachings and ways of worship have not changed.
Madame Paulina apprehended her own danger, but her greatest solicitude was for the safety of her daughters, who in the morning of life, were expanding, like the foilages of the rose into elegance and beauty. She had kept them long concealed from the knowledge of the enemy, whose will she knew was their law, and whose law was injustice-the mother's wretchedness, and the daughter's shame and ruin
Here is another one of those examples where mothers become super-human. She notices that what she is doing is dangerous, but she would do anything to make sure her children are safe and kept from harm.
To effect an escape from the horrors of this ominous night, was difficult in the extreme; for the passes leading out into the country were all occupied by the enemy's troops, who were not only vigilant, but relentless and cruel.
So were they trying to escape the French or were they trying to find new camping grounds to continue the war? Looking for rest? Or was she stating Madame Paulina's escape?
The sun was fast receding to the west, as if ashamed of man's transactions, boasting itself in the dark mantle of twilight,
In a sense, she was making a beautiful personification of the sun. I notice this in a lot of old literature. I find it beautiful.
Twas not long since I left my native shore The land of errors, and Egyptain gloom:
She is once again speaking of Africa with negativity. It makes me wonder about what she thought was so bad about Africa. I also wonder how many other African Americans feel/felt this way about Africa.
What matchless mercy in the Son of God! When the whole human race by sin had fall'n, He deign'd to die that they might rise again, And share with him in the sublimest skies, 20: Life without death, and glory without end.
This is where she discusses how Jesus Christ died on the cross for our sins.
Remember, Christians, Negroes, black as Cain, May be refin'd, and join th' angelic train.
I feel as if she was shedding light on how our skin is good. saying that African Americans should have pride in their color.
"Their colour is a diabolic die."
I never heard of it put like this before. Usually I would hear people calling our skin dirty.
That there's a God, that there's a Saviour too:
By coming to America she had learned about a new religion. The religion being Christianity she found out about Jesus the "Saviour" and God.
His face no more shalt we behold
When she said this, does this mean he died or had gotten captured? At the end she mentioned a "Young" Samuel Adams being captured and taken to Canada, so does that mean he had a son, was it another Samuel Adams, or was it the Samuel Adams in the beginning?
The awful creatures had not catched her
This makes me think that every one person had different views about people from different origins from them. Did most African Americans think of Indians as barbaric creature too?
Samuel Allen like a hero fout, And though he was so brave and bold
She felt a whole lot of sympathy for those victimized in the fights, thus she named each one, and told how they went out fighting.
Agriculture is our chief employment; and every one, even the children and women, are engaged in it. Thus we are all habituated to labour from our earliest years.
I find it that he is describing the ways they were taught to work growing up. As it was part of their early learning. Growing up African, you learn a lot about labor. hey seem to know that this is the only way they could have made a living.
hey then came to us in the reeds, and the very first salute I had from them was a violent blow on the head with the fore part of a gun, and at the same time a grasp round the neck. I then had a rope put about my neck, as had all the women in the thicket with me, and were immediately led to my father, who was likewise pinioned and haltered for leading.
Is this when the US invaded Africa? If so, this is stripping them from their pride and values that were very well worked for.
She took not the least sustenance along with her, to support either herself or children. I was able to Page 6 travel along by her side; the other two of her offspring she carried one on her back, and the other being a sucking child, in her arms. When we became hungry, my mother used to set us down on the ground, and gather some of the fruits which grew spontaneously in that climate. These served us for food on the way
This is where I feel like women are strong and independent. She knew hat she had children to take care of. Why not bring anything to help feed them and keep clothes on their backs? I believe that being/becoming a mother brings out that "super human" trait in a woman.
My father's name was Saungm Furro, Prince of the Tribe of Dukandarra. My father had three wives. Polygamy was not uncommon in that country, especially among the rich, as every man was allowed to keep as many wives as he could maintain.
Some do not realize that a lot of Africans, before being forced from their native countries, were born in wealth. People usually think that Africa is nothing but poverty, but at the time, before Africans were brought over seas, they were known as Kings and Queens of their own native land.
and while he was at Dinner at Mrs. Betty Howard's, she told the Captain of my deplorable Condition, and said she would be glad, if he could by some means or other relieve me; The Captain
It seemed as if most women were more concerned of the conditions of African Americans. I guess it's just that natural motherly instinct that's bestowed in each of us.
fter my discharge from Captain Martyn, I was taken sick in London of a Fever, and was confin'd about 6 Weeks,
it took him over the course of SIX weeks to recover from a fever. That makes me forever grateful that we have the technology, medicine, and doctors today. I wonder how many survived since their immune systems weren't so used to some of these diseases/fevers.
But the Providence of God order'd it otherways,
I like how the influence of religion was still so strong during this time, whereas, compared to now, you would rarely see or hear anyone going by the Providence of God. Maybe your pastor yes, but I myself rarely hear about it anymore.
AtsuppertheysatdowntoeatwithoutaskingtheLord'sblessing,whichcausedmetoburstoutintotears
It is pretty amazing how much the power of religion can change one's thoughts over time.
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Right about now, it's clear to me that religion seemed as if it was seen as some sort of witchcraft to some in the 18th century. I'm a little confused as to why the boy acts this way towards prayer, preaching, etc.
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I was surprised that during this time, African Americans were taught to read. I was always taught that they couldn't read or write to the late 1800's, in which I had enough sense to know that that was not true.I feel like it was a gateway for many to learn though.