Here is the synopsis of our sample research paper on A Divergent View of the Black Female Experience in the Latter Nineteenth Century: Charlotte Forten and the Slave Women of the Fields. Have the paper e-mailed to you 24/7/365.
Essay / Research Paper Abstract
A 5 page overview of life as it was for slave women in the late latter nineteenth century. This paper contrasts those experiences with those of Charlotte
Forten, a free black woman of relative privilege. The author contends that, although Forten was sympathetic to the black plight, her experiences
are hardly comparable to the day to day existence of the slave. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
Page Count:
5 pages (~225 words per page)
File: AM2_PPwmFght.rtf
Buy This Term Paper »
Unformatted sample text from the term paper:
The black experience in the Americas has varied both according to time and place and according to individual. This experience
is particularly interesting when we contrast the lives of Charlotte L. Forten, a black woman of relative privilege that taught at an island off the mainland of South Carolina during
the latter nineteenth century, and that of the slave women of South Carolina that toiled their lives away in rice plantations. Forten kept journals that detailed her life experiences.
These journals have been published in a variety of formats, one of which is that edited by Ray Allan Billington and titled "The Journal of Charlotte Forten: a Free
Negro in the Slave Era". They serve a particularly ready contrast to the accounts we have of the slave experience during this same time. For the most
part, the life experiences of the slave women in the Carolinas, however, must be ascertained from secondary sources. One of these sources is Leslie A. Schwalms "A Hard Fight for
We: Womens Transition from Slavery to Freedom in South Carolina". Each of these accounts, however, parallels the transition that was occurring in this era between slavery and freedom.
We learn from both Forten and Schwalm that many African American women were integral factors in this transition. These women were active rather than passive players in the
events that led up to Emancipation. The role they took in this era, however, varied considerably according to individual and circumstance. Forten
and Schwalm alike provide support for the contention that being a female slave was in many ways much worse than being a male slave in antebellum society. Female slaves
...