Josiah Henson Research Paper

On Friday, September 23, 2016, Justin Pratt was sentenced to 10 years in a federal prison. Plus on top of the time remaining on, his murder sentence, which is expiring in May 2017 after pleading guilty to armed robbery. Pratt and his wife entered a man’s home and stole his medication at gunpoint. Justin Pratt felt horrible and embarrassed by his action and said “I’m sorry for what I’ve done, and want to change things”.

As a young child, one of Lane’s idols was Donnie Gay. When Lane got a chance to meet his idol, he called him a fake cowboy. Lane’s idea of a cowboy was a gentlemen that tipped their hats, true friend, and was an encouragement to other young riders. Donnie wore tennis shoes, smoked and had no time for others, especially young fans. Due to his interaction with his “idol,” Lane Frost vowed to always make time for his young fans. Monty Henson was also one of these idols. Henson had won thirteen consecutive years for the National Finals Rodeo. He had always had a feather in his hat, and Lane had thought it was “neat”. Lane then decided that this would be his trademark. Lane would choose from random feathers he had found and put them in his hat.

Very few Henry County High School athletes go to a big-athletic Division 1 college. An even smaller list went to play pro. There has only been one that has won a championship in the pro leagues. That man is John Lewis Hudson. John was born in Memphis, Tennessee but he grew up in Henry County, where he played football. He was recruited by many colleges. He ended up choosing Auburn, where he would start for 3 years. John said, “I liked Coach Dye and it was a small town. I liked that it was a small town.” He was then drafted by the Philadelphia Eagles and also played for the New York Jets and Baltimore Ravens.

The slaves did not have basic human rights. The slaves had to be sold to the white people. Frederick Douglass once said, “ I was about twelve or fourteen years old when I was sold, I was a boy then big enough to work. I had a brother named John and a cousin by the name of Brutus. Both of them were sold and about three weeks later, it came my turn. On the day I left home, everything was sad among the slaves. My mother and father sung and prayed over me and told me how to get along in the world (Doc. 1).” What Frederick Douglass was saying is that once you were sold, it is a big tragedy for your friends and family. You pretty much don't ever see them again(X1). Once the slave was bought that person was the property of

Father and I instead went to Bud Murphy's bar and restaurant, located in Connellsville PA. Like Parkwood, Bud Murphy's is famous for their pizza. We had a nice a nice appetizer platter that featured onion rings, hot wings, baked potato slices topped with cheese & bacon bits, fried zucchini and provolone sticks. The pizza was genuinely delicious. I had Diet Pepsi to start and then ordered a draft Miller Light. After dinner, we went to the PNA club in Arnold City and drank with Lisa & Pam Hill. Pam said I looked "skinnier and older," a compliment I much appreciated. The bartender at the Polish club is a sexy twenty-something; she is the reason it is tolerable there. On this day in 1804, Meriwether Lewis and Willaim Clark left on their

"I wanted to be the first to view a country on which the eyes of a white man had never gazed and to follow the course of rivers that run through a new land."

In the late nineteenth century after the civil war the U.S. was over, there were about 4 million people that were once slaves that were now set free. The big question for President Lincoln and the presidents that followed was what to do with them? Even though the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments were passed to free and aid the freed slaves it actually did very little to help them at all because many other events that took place, which prevented them from working.

In this paper I will discuss one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, Josiah Bartlett. I will cover the main information of Josiah Bartlett’s life and family, explain why I think he was an interesting person in history and then will finish the paper with my opinion of if the film accurately portrayed him.

leader. Freedom became a symbol for the nation, but not everyone in the nation was “free”. In the 1760s, the American Revolution changed the views of many living in the States. With much talk of freedom, people began to question the concept of slavery. As the States kept growing, the North and South started to gain different views of slavery. Because the North was industrialized and believed in factories while the South had huge cotton plantations that needed many workers, slavery was controversial. But one-by-one, Northern states began to outlaw slavery. Black slaves became free men, but because of the contrasting views, were often not treated as such. The question remains: how free were free Blacks in the North? Free Blacks in the North were not truly free and very restricted because of political, social, and economical limits.

So that made it possible for Freedman to have a job and make money to provide for their family. According to Document D a slave's life was changing because of sharecropping. Sharecropping gave the African American a job which in return they got more money so they could provide more for their families. And before they were forced to work on the farm with no pay at all and now they could do what they knew best and could make

Slaves were an economic positive but a social negative in history. They helped the economics of the country thrive and grow, but it was also a insult of a race. Africans also had a history that they should have been proud to have. Instead, they were denied their heritage and were made to be ashamed of the people that they were. The development of slavery was the white slave owners ' way to maintain control of the growing population of Africans, socially and industrially. If the slaves were confined to the fields of the plantations for supervision, the whites would remain dominant race and maintain their theory of "white supremacy." It also freed the slave owners from the worries of labor

Everybody has something they feel that makes their lives easier, something a person becomes so accustomed to they could not live without it. This is what African slaves were to the Southern colonists. Slavery was a huge factor in the Southerner’s lives. Originally the colonists used indentured servants to work in their homes and on their plantations. This situation was not ideal because the Southern farmers wanted more control over their workers (orange). Virginian farmers heard about the success of slavery in the Caribbean and thought it would be a good solution to their problems (blue). The southern colonists had a very different way of earning a living than in the north. They needed people to work through “the harsh realities of a

During the colonial era, was it better to be an indentured servant, or a slave? In current day, one could argue that both are preposterous notions, however for the time, was either beneficial for anyone? Looking back on how to country developed following this time, through the years of slavery in the civil war, it may look like the only people to benefit from slavery or having an indentured servant, is the owner. Despite how either has looked throughout many of the eras of this country, being an indentured servant had very good potential for benefiting the servant.

Hammond, in The Mudsill Theory, argued, when comparing slaves in the south to those in the north, that the southern slaves were well compensated without starvation, begging, or “want of employment.” He was trying to express the argument that were not unhappy and that there was no emancipation needed because slaves were prosperous. The sentiment of slaves as happy and free was a very common one in the 18th and 19th centuries. “The negro slaves of the south are the happiest and in some sense the freest people of the world. The children, the aged, and the infirm work not at all and yet have all the comfort and necessaries of life provided for them. They enjoy liberty because they are oppressed neither by care nor labor” (Fitzhugh paragraph 4). Finally, because black slaves were considered lower class citizens, they filled an important role in early American society. Slaves were relied upon to do menial tasks and because they were low on intellect and skill, they naturally occupied this low position in society. “Such a class you must have, or you would not have that other class which leads progress, civilization, and refinement” (Hammond paragraph 1). With this established role, it is easy to see that abolition would be difficult. In summary, the common perception that blacks were happy and well suited for their role as

The slave’s life depended on their owners. Most owners treated their slaves well by making sure they had decent food, clean houses, and warm clothes to wear. Other planters spent little time caring about these things. They were determining to get the most work possible from their slaves. Slaves worked from sunup to sundown, at least sixteen hours a day. They sometimes suffered whippings and other cruel punishments. Owners thought of them as valuable property, that way the owners wanted to keep their human property healthy and as productive as they can. Keeping slaves families together was very difficult to do because slaves were considered as