The Backward Aspects of Education

In “Chapter VI. Of the Training of Black Men”, of W.E.B Du Bois’ The Souls of Black Folk, he discusses what the education system was like and how the freed black people were trained in professions in the years after the Emancipation. Du Bois demonstrates how slavery’s legacy affected the roles of black and white…

Religion as Ethos in Henry Box Brown’s Narrative

Multiple times in the text Brown points out the hypocrisy of the idea of slaveholding Christians and that the Christian religion and slavery can not exist, or can only exist hypocritically and paradoxically. Brown’s uses examples of the cruel overseer Allen, teaching Sunday school and abusing slaves, and the master who begged and pleaded for…