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This primary source is about reports giving about families and harsh living conditions that took place in Boston. Most of these families where middle class or just poor. The population had went from 193,318 to 44, 477, it had risen 133.20 in 25…

In the novel, Shug, Celie, and Squeak move to Tennessee where they start a business tailoring, designing, and sewing clothing. This picture shows a secondhand clothing a pawn shop and a motel in Memphis, which are other jobs related to what Celie did…

Even though this house is from a different time period than the house in The Color Purple, the style and area reflect how Mister's house must have looked like. It's not fancy at all, but not to run down either. This house is an hour outside of Macon,…

It is a sign to a room for rent as was common during the time period. Shug's house however was a large estate which was far less common. This difference helps to illustrate how much Celie's life has changed. She goes from a small abusive home to a…

Summary of Shakespeare’s play The Tempest

It is set on a remote island, where Prospero, the rightful Duke of Milan, plots to restore his daughter Miranda to her rightful place using illusion and skillful manipulation. He conjures up a storm, the…

The map shows a lot of space in which the novel explains also that there are many open spaces. The map shows many details from the outlines where buildings/shops/homes could be, along with wooded areas, and bodies of water.

The image depicts three women tending to the fields, and a lone man . It is counter-intuitive to think that the women would be doing the harder, manual labor, but this was common during this era for African Americans. We saw this frequently during…

At the time in which Gerty and her mother are separated from Mr. Phillips by the malaria epidemic, the rampant disease was thought to be spread by ‘bad air’. The author of this dissertation, published in 1832, was one of the first to notice that the…

It describes the successes of many predominantly black schools in Atlanta. It talked about the history of Spelman, founded in 1881 by Packard and Giles and their development of the college. It describes Packard and GIles struggle to raise funds and…

This article explains the story of a man who is wounded and is taken to a hovel to be taken care of. His wounds are taken care of and he ends up falling in love with the widow who takes care of him.

In Charlotte Temple, when Charlotte becomes ill;…