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Atlantic slave trade Negro- factual Nigger - derogatory 14th Amendment - African American; not native  Americans - N. A. only got citizenship in the 60s sharecropping a form of slavery -  indentured servitude -  must return to it for survival debt -> crop failure -> credit + INTEREST -> pestilence Free men's bureau, Affirmative action -> just a leg up Rich do not want to give to the poor meaningfully you can never advance Jim Crow - N.A. Latino, Black cannot walk on the same sidewalk 13th Amendment - Black man gets right to vote BUT Poll tax Literacy test this is known as micro aggression or death from a million paper cuts Frugality, thrift John Crow -> System of laws 1940 -> Segregation, Great depression

EMILY DICKINSON http://www.proseandhistory.com/i-years-had-been-from-home/ http://www.poetrysoup.com/famous/poem/1646/I_Years_had_been_from_Home http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/155 http://www.biography.com/people/emily-dickinson-9274190 Experience of death - wow I want to jump into the ocean Introspection No title - open to interpretation, audience left looking for themes Obscure entries or exits, readers intrigued <TRUTH IS BEAUTY IS TRUTH > like Keats <TIME - could not stop for death> <SELECT AND CHOOSE> writing back = working with an established center that we are bound to appropriation = when you analyze how another culture's artifacts work for them and see if they'll work for you                     = artistic survival strategies preservation vs conservation                       ^like a particular genre of music - look fo...

Implications of Title - going to challenge notions, ideas national self and individual self This seemingly "History of America" text fits into a Literature course because of how author approaches the subject presentation not necessarily manipulation power and obfuscation a celebration - the ability to say something in a nebulous manner - to break it up into many parts Franklin experimenting with the norm - breaking it down, playing with contradiction I will not build your empire for you - I will instead show you how to bring it down charter format carpet baggers (later becomes the basis of capitalism) - rejects - reckless, nothing to lose - recycled ministers, officials humor: - can be liberating, so usually kept out of administration ( imitation, Aristotle's theory but also parody, can't overdo it either) -  it is in this moment, then it is over - there is the choice of not taking it seriously- this is a literary piece not meant to mock charters bu...

1. Look at how slavery is portrayed 2. Analyze the characters' reactions - personal emotions vs social reactions (wrt racial discrimination) 3. Observe gender roles Reflect on how author had to write a work of fiction for her voice to be heard Mr Shelby does not consult his wife before he sold off Uncle Tom and Henry Bloodhound Law, Fugitive Slavery Acy 1850 (became legal to hunt for escaped slaves and bring them back) 1850 - before Civil War Uncle Tom's Cabin a major contributor The man that was a thing- objectified, treated and considered as property and sold and bought Written with the perspective that slavery is sin with a projection as a command from God, as a moral duty to address this Kentucky between North and South(not fully industrialised) You are kind to them but have not stopped enslaving them Uncle Tom: Dignified, Pious, tamed, Christian Ideas, mental condition, seperation anxiety about slavery George Harris- devices a machine and plans Languag...