Essays 481 - 510
This paper discusses the Georgia colony and the factors that led to it being the last colony to adopt the practice of slavery in e...
would have been changed forever. Still, Davis was a leader in his own right. He was the only president of the Confederate States o...
In six pages this report examines this 1968 text that examines slavery from the perspectives of the slaves and their various modes...
In seven pages this paper examines the crimes of slavery and racial discrimination within the context of this novel by Mark Twain....
In six pages this research paper discusses how slavery manifests itself in one form or another in Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Trav...
In one of the most significant slave narratives ever written, Jacobs -- born a slave to mulatto parents in 1813 North Carolina -- ...
trader exchanged his cargo of Africans for food in 1619. The Africans became indentured servants, similar in legal position to man...
time. Because of the need for manual laborers, the slave trade flourished in the south at that time. It was certainly not due to...
modern mind set, some of the facts may have been translated, or recorded incorrectly. The legend has been repeated endlessly tha...
In fifteen pages this paper contrasts and compares how slavery was practiced in these two areas with slave treatment by each count...
In four pages this research paper discusses African American resistance to slavery during America's antebellum period. One source...
In 4 pages this paper examines the portrayal of slavery in Morrison's novel and the enduring psychological damage that resulted. ...
In six pages an individual's rights and the concept of freedom are examined in a discussion of slavery and the Amistad incident. ...
In five pages such issues that are relevant to slavery such as 1950's Fugitive Slave Act, the Fourteenth Amendment, abolitionism, ...
this 5 page paper summarizes the main issues Toni Morrison discusses in her award-winning novel Beloved. In particular, the writer...
In five pages Olaudah Equiano's autobiography is the primary focus of this brief slavery historical overview. Five sources are ci...
A 5 page review of the book by Edward Countryman. This book includes five essays and, although it has received less than positive...
The important events that shaped America including slavery, the Reconstruction, political patronage, industrialization, the Progre...
In six pages this paper examines the amendment that abolished slavery in a background and case history. Five sources are cited in...
that they are endowed by the Creator with certain unalienable rights"1 Here, then, is the contradiction between perception...
power in the federal government, the North did not directly address these issues. There were no talks. There were no debates. Ther...
Although Reconstruction began during the war, the time period traditionally associated with it is 1862-1877. The political, socia...
of any profit motive. Perdue writes, "The plantation system, the institution of slavery, and the economic values of ...European pl...
them, the more the author desperately wanted to remove himself from such circumstances. "In moments of agony, I envied my fellow-...
charge of the environment and created numerous crops needed in the United States. At first they utilized the assistance of indentu...
those changes threatened to overturn the relationship which existed between the individual states and the nation as a whole. A si...
quickly. It is true that in some of the Northern settlements, plantation managers preferred to use white indentured servants rathe...
be a slave (Schaub 86). He explained in a mater-of-fact way that since he knew no other life, the term slavery meant nothing to h...
so evident in official circles before. Individuals adopted rules and standards of behavior designed to serve "appearances." Youn...
and be taken care of. She does not look off longingly to a freedom without such realities, but she looks to the power of mothering...