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Slave Trade Economics and History

them to finance imports" (Fogel and Engerman PG). South Slavery, because it was so economically viable in the South, would neve...

Charles Joyner's Down by the Riverside A South Carolina Slave Community

involves slavery: "Here, too, there developed a slave society that more nearly resembled Caribbean than other mainland societies. ...

Historians Phillips and Woodson and Slave History Recording

documents of black history and was considered to be a prolific author of scholarly works as well as popular books (2002). He woul...

Overview of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs

In six pages this novel's style and themes as well as literary criticism are examined in this overview. Three sources are cited i...

Harriet Jacobs' Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

In five pages this text is compared with Olaudah Equiano's novel and analyzed in terms of answering questions pertaining the audie...

Slaves in the Family by Edward Ball

In five pages Ball's text is the subject of a book review with the author's relevance also evaluated. Four sources are cited in t...

Katia M. de Queiros Mattoso's 'To Be A Slave In Brazil: 1550-1880'

This is a book report consisting of 5 pages. There are no additional sources listed in the bibliography....

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass and Slave System Logic Logic

In five pages this paper examines the construction of a logical system within the context of slavery as described in Frederick Dou...

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs and Family Ties

In five pages this paper considers the impact of slavery upon family ties. Three sources are cited in the bibliography....

African American Slave Resistance

In four pages this research paper discusses African American resistance to slavery during America's antebellum period. One source...

Southern Colonists and Slaves

charge of the environment and created numerous crops needed in the United States. At first they utilized the assistance of indentu...

Melton McLaurin's Celia, A Slave A True Story

issues raised in "Celia, a Slave: A True Story", however, were not confined to the South alone, nor were they limited to the rela...

Lessons From Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl and The Awakening

slave, she was not fortunate enough to belong to the middle class and to have the social connections that come along with that cla...

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs and History

This was the condition of slavery for women. They were often seen as breeding machines that were good for little more than produci...

Free States and Slave Development Between the American Revolution and the Civil War

North was not quite as conducive to farming. Although it is true that perhaps the South might have become more prone to industrial...

17th and 18th Century America and White Slaves

German child sold as a mulatto" (Talty, 2000). There was even a case...

Slave Owners in Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Tom rescues his daughter (Little Eva) from a drowning death. St. Clare is one who believes in paying his debts and, in fact, promi...

The Slave Abolition Movement Before the U.S. Civil War

of literature, and gave innumerable speeches for their cause" (African American Odyssey, 2005). There were some who argued and foc...

The Impact of the Transatlantic Slave Trade on the American Colonies

to develop a work force among Native Americans and white immigrants. Colonists, finding that Africans were cheap and relatively im...

Life of a Factory Worker Compared with Life of a Slave

students of history shudder to read the horrible human rights abuses that were inflicted upon slaves in the antebellum South. Howe...

Self Sufficiency Among Ex-Slaves

off the coast of South Carolina served as the location of the Port Royal Experiment. Although it was not planned to occur as it d...

Immigrants, Slaves, Tejanos and Power

lies almost exclusively in the hands of white men. The same thing can be seen throughout history. This paper considers ethnicity a...

Scripture and Owning Slaves

author explains, based on this belief, "slavery of Africans became religiously justifiable."iii Proslavery advocates based their c...

Who Freed The Slaves

that affirmation. McPherson uses Vincent Hardings book "There is a River..." as a source. Harding argued the slaves freed themselv...

Slaves of the Mastery (Book Report)

The character development is somewhat light as there is little attachment to many of them with the exception of Krestel and perhap...

"A Beautiful Mind" - Six Concepts

the disease from ultimately overtaking his very being; rather, in a quirk that even science cannot fully explain, he is able to se...

Adult Learning Styles, Temperaments And Theories In "Educating Rita"

a person and requires the individual to participate fully and completely in the experience. The first segment of the Kolb Model -...

A College in Central New York

The Finger Lakes region in New York is absolutely beautiful and this is the home of Syracuse University. The university is known f...

Thomas Jefferson: Aristocracy, Education, Elections And Government

enough of these will find their way into every branch of the legislation, to protect themselves...I think the best remedy is exact...

Gideon's Trumpet: Book Review

a lifetime of prison sentences], a flame still burned in Clarence Earl Gideon. He had not given up caring about life or freedom; ...