Many people’s lives were greatly affected after the civil war. Some of the changes were good and some were bad. The civil war era is one of the most serious and interesting war in our nation’s history. These two different events that changed many lives of the people in the United States are ...

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, by Harriett Jacobs (Linda Brent), is a compelling novel meant to evoke a feminist voice in its readers. Jacobs uses the power of her words and experiences as a slave to draw out the feminist in men and women, but specifically in the white, Northern woman. She...