Alexander Falconbridge served as a surgeon on the ships that transported slaves through the middle passage. He managed to only make four voyages between 1780 and 1787 due to the harsh circumstances he was witnessing, which ultimately led him to write An Account of the Middle Passage. The Middle Passage was the hardest and most dangerous part of the voyage for any slave transported out of Africa. The article carefully describes the strenuous conditions the slaves were in while being in the ships. An analysis of Alexander Falconbridge’s An Account of the Middle Passage reveals how this surgeon’s perspective aided the progression of the abolition movement by showcasing a new perspective of the Middle Passage, and how his purpose was to inform the general public on how dreadful these
David Cordingly is a maritime historian and the author of many historical pirate books. Cordingly’s book Under the Black Flag shows how the pirates of fictional works have changed from the reality of pirates’ lifestyles. The book succeeds in describing the life of pirate crews along with documented evidence as proof to make the book fascinating and full of interesting information. Under the Black Flag explains how the pirates in fictional works may have evolved based on events that actually happened in the pirates’ world.
Subsequently, after collecting enough money, Douglass buys the Columbian Orator at the age of thirteen. Reading the Columbian Orator transforms Douglass from “light-hearted” (Douglass 526) to “wretched and gloomy” (Douglass 526) by opening his eyes to the true horror of slavery. The author creates a sense of realism and appeals to the ethos of the audience by creating a link of the inevitability of Douglass’ circumstances and what today’s society knows about slavery and its history.
17.1 Captivity and Enslavement, Olaudah Equiano, the interesting Narrative of the life of Olaudah Equiano written by himself 1. What are Equiano’s impressions of the white men on the ship and their treatment of the slaves? How does this treatment reflect the slave traders’ primary concerns? Equiano’s first impression of these white men is a feeling of uncertainty and sorrow for the future. As his story goes on Equiano is afraid of these white men, but also he is wishing to end it all because of the conditions and treatment of the slaves.
The book, Black Hands, White Sails, by Patricia C. McKissack and Fredrick L. McKissack, is the story of African American whalers. This book focuses on African Americans in the East Coast whaling industry from the 1400s to the early 1900s. Black Hands, White Sails, tells the reader in great detail about the voyages of whaling ships. It all started when the Pilgrims arrived in North America in 1620 and they recorded that there were “hordes of whales in the coastal waters.”
David Cordingly's “Under the Black Flag: The Romance and the Reality of Life Among the Pirates” is an extraordinary book, although sometimes confusing. Yet it is of no surprise that Cordingly writes his book with enthusiasm and great interest, Cordingly is clearly a sophisticated expert in pirate stories and legends. What makes Cordingly’s book so interesting and original is that he explores the facts and details about pirate history while at the same time exposing the myths and romanticized lies. The book itself investigates the reality of piracy versus the fictional images of pirates and their unimaginable portrayal in books and movies. Therefore the purpose of this assignment will be for me to give a detailed evaluation of David Cordingly's
The Heroes Journey, identified by American scholar Joseph Campbell, is a pattern of narrative that describes the typical adventure of the main hero, whether that be a fiction or nonfiction hero. The first step is the call to adventure, where something shakes up the hero’s current situation and the hero starts experiencing change. Consequently, this theory is also applied to the fictional hero Odysseus in The Odyssey and the real-life hero Martin Luther King Jr., a civil rights activist. In The Odyssey, Odysseus embarks on a 10-year voyage from Troy to Ithaca and encounters many monsters along the way including a gigantic Cyclops described as “…a brute so huge, he seemed no man at all…” (9 89-90).
The boatswain is incessant in his patrol of purification, and disinfecting substances are plenteously distributed. The upper deck is washed and swabbed daily; the slave deck is scraped and holy-stoned; and, at nine o’clock each morning, the captain inspects every part of his craft; so that no vessel, except a man-of-war, can compare with a slaver in systematic order, purity, and neatness.” However, Fredrick Douglass would strongly disagree with that statement. In the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, much of Fredrick Douglass’ evidence and information on the immorality of slavery come from his own life experiences of being born a slave. Douglass goes into immensely deep, gruesome, and gut-wrenching detail on the injustice that slaves endured.
Many of the sailors were accurately portrayed by their actions, by throwing slaves into the ocean, flogging, beaten, tortured, and other forms of cruel punishment. “Alexander Falconbridge was a surgeon on slave ships in the 18th century. An abolitionist and governor himself is guilty of all the violent attacks towards slaves. A disgraces to human nature, and profound language were brutal examples sailors often used towards slaves.” ( First Hand; Accounts Study).
An American Slave,” Douglass discusses the horrors of being enslaved and a fugitive slave. Through Douglass’s use of figurative language, diction and repetition he emphasizes the cruelty he experiences thus allowing readers to under-stand his feelings of happiness, fear and isolation upon escaping slavery. Figurative language allocates emotions such as excitement, dread and seclusion. As a slave you have no rights, identity or home. Escaping slavery is the only hope of establishing a sense of self and humanity.
Reading Response for Week 3: Chapters 5, 7, 9, 14, and 15 The view of afterlife according to the ancient Greeks could be mainly found in three readings. The first one is Homer’s Odyssey, which was the first book to talk about the afterlife. In the book, Odysseus tells people about his journey to the underworld.
I decided to go with the legend of the iliad and the odyssey. It sounds so fake right? Wrong! Well somewhat wrong. Archaeologists in Greece have claimed to have found odysseus's home in modern day Ithaki.
I am so sorry to hear of your accident. The messenger just came this morning with the news from Paros, (Pomeroy cover) where you live, that you fell off your chariot earlier this month and hurt your head. It is awful to hear that you cannot remember anything, but it will come back to you soon enough. Until then Mother and Father thought it wise for me to fill you in on what has happened in these past few years, to make sure I retain the information from my studies. A lot has happened in the past one hundred years in Athens, and Greece for that matter.
Throughout Homer’s The Odyssey, characters develop opinions on others based on how they perceive them. As well as viewing others in certain ways, these characters perceive themselves in certain ways. Based on how characters view themselves and are viewed by others, the characters make certain decisions to drive the story of The Odyssey forward.
Sweet soft serenades seem so warm and inviting, but once evil gets ahold of it darkness is always in the shadows. Odysseus experienced this first hand, and survived. Its very easy to deduce the exact character of Odysseus. The way you can tell is through the role he plays in the story along with how he behaves and lastly the conflicts he faces and prevails. Odysseus plays the protagonist in the story.
