Struggle_Against_Slavery

Struggle Against Slavery Plowing Liberation “In every human Breast, God has implanted a Principle which we call love of freedom; it is impatient of Oppression and pants for Deliverance; and by the leave of our modern Egyptians I will assert, that the same principle lives in us.” - Phylis Wheatley For centuries, America blossomed from the labors of a povished race. Through beatings, mental abuse, trickery and all-out cruelty, White Americans worked to control African Americans in every aspect. An economical control of free labor diminished any ideas of liberation for African Americans. Peter Wood, author of “The Dream Deferred,” Peter Sterns, author of “Culture, Conflict, and Community,” and Olaudah Equiano, author of The Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano describes the life of slaves before freedom ever imagined a toll; two of which addresses the slaves docility or lack there of. From narratives to historical journals, each author uses their own technique to represent Blacks’ resistance and struggle against slavery. In “The Dream Deferred,” Peter Wood takes a more modern tone analyzing slaves resistance since the 18th century. Wood fights to diminish common stereotypes past historians misrepresented with the slaves. One the most important topics addressed is the idea of slaves, author, slavery, wood, slave, equiano, tells, sterne, against, through, struggle, owners, own, freedom, americans, america, story, slaves’, resistance, peter, olaudah, hammond, fact, every, each, docility, between, work, white, while, uprisings, uprising, two, technique, stereotypes