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  1. Do You Hate Me?
    date 1802 to 1825map Norfolk, Massachusettstags Writing, literature, Civil Rights, Native American issues, Historiography

    A four-year-old boy cries aloud as his grandmother continuously beats him with a club, repeatedly demanding of him, “do you hate me?”  Young William Apess, ignorant of his grandmother’s meaning, knows only to answer in the affirmative, hoping to appease her every wish.  The life of this little boy would have ended at that very moment had his uncle not intervened to rescue him from the brutal...

  2. The Significance of Rhetoric in Antebellum America
    date 1839map PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvaniatags Rhetoric, Writing, African American Women, African American

    The Anti-Slavery Convention of American Women, held in Philadelphia May 1st through 3rd , 1839. This gathering was formed in such that African American women could come together and raise their voice for a cause that constantly rejected them. While slavery was still breaking the backs of black men and women in the South, Free Blacks in the North felt a duty and responsibility to promote and bring about...