In 1989 my life changed forever. My family and I heard a loud sound of a bomb and gun shots. My family and I ran inside and sought cover. Just like that, the Civil War in Liberia began. Although it was a Civil War and the Rebels were killing innocent people, they were also looking for Specific tribes. Unfortunately for us, my husband was the tribe group the Rebels were seeking. My husband a Muslim, and his tribe was sought. My family was very afraid that my husband was going to get caught and killed
have lost everything. Out of fear for their prosperity, I decided to fight for my owners and others like them. As a slave who will most likely remain enslaved, I felt that it was important to make a difference where I felt that I could. Now that the war has ended, I expect my life to return back to normal. I wish to soon be butchering pigs and chickens with the promise of a succulent ham slice at dinner that night. Ultimately, I expect
I came to America when I was seven, but that trip didn’t include my mother. There was a civil war going on in my home country, Liberia, so we fled. I remember seeing her one day, and then the next she was gone. Growing up, I was always too scared to ask my dad what happened, even today I have never really had that conversation with him, and I don’t know when I will. Now, at the age of eighteen, it’s not fear of the truth that keeps me from asking, but rather pity for my dad; the fear of his coming
literature changed as quickly as America. It helped open up the eyes of the people, helped bring the people closer together, and helped solve the one problem that destroyed a nation. The Civil War and slavery helped shape literature in a way that was necessary for the reassembling of a country. Slavery and the Civil War made literature all about telling the truth whether it was beautiful or not, ignore the propaganda published by the newspapers, and focusing on the common people and the problems they
slaves who were living in the late 1930’s in his volume, Homeless, Friendless, and Penniless. Based on a substantial collection of interviews, this volume conveys the treatment of slaves, life on the plantation, and experiences living through the Civil War and Reconstruction. Included in the volume are interviews from slaves not only in Indiana but in eleven different states in the south, the majority being from Kentucky. The volume is comprised with an extensive introduction which
Education Leads to Freedom During the Pre-Civil War Era, African Americans had many struggles, namely lack of freedom in the south. Thought of as less than human, slaves had no rights, privileges, or opportunities. Born in 1818, Frederick Douglass lived through this hard time in American history. Not only did he live, but also against all odds, he became a free man. How did he escape slavery when there were so many others kept in bondage? Was it pure luck; did he have better resources, or maybe
an important figure in the world of effective writing; he has left behind several legendary pieces including On the Duty of Civil Disobedience.
with 10,000 copies sold in the United States in its first week only, and it is believed to have influenced the American Civil War. According to popular legend, when Abraham Lincoln and Harriet Beecher Stowe met in 1862 he greeted her by saying “So you're the little woman who wrote the book that started this Great War." (Impact of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Slavery, and the Civil War, n.d), revealing the great impact her writing had in American
their origins, failures, and consequences times by times. The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was an uprising created by the peasant in the late Qing Dynasty, and it is also the largest peasant war in the history of the Qing Dynasty. After the First Anglo-Chinese War, the Qing government kept extorting people to pay war reparations, and the serious corruption of the tyrannical government and heavy exploitation to the civilians resulted in the intensification of class contradictions. Unbearable from the suffering
post-World War II urban and suburban life of American cities, then look no further than American Babylon by Robert O. Self. Blending political, urban, and social histories of California, specifically Oakland and East Bay, Self attempts to demonstrate how “black power” and “white flight” are two generalized, yet overused, terms used to describe the “centrality of metropolitan history” in postwar America. (2) Rather than relying on the same, retold stories of the South’s historic Civil Rights Movement