Essays 91 - 120
soldiers attacked a US patrol, and Taylor sent a message to Polk that read "Hostilities may be considered commenced" (Zinn 151). M...
people smoke cigarettes and eat buttered popcorn today even though they know these things are bad for human health. Similarly, Jef...
that the Chesapeake was good for growing tobacco, which is a labor-intensive crop, and more labor was needed for the plantations (...
that a police investigation into the distinctive practices of slave prostitution" that ultimately involved more than 200 women in ...
relatively inconsequential. For those interested in the Old South, however, the book provides an insight that is not so easily ma...
and essentially left the white population of the nation still ignoring the impact of history concerning the African American peopl...
well, however. Some believed that the southern states were involved in a conspiracy to destroy northern liberty. By the ninetee...
the concept of popular sovereignty issues such as slavery were viewed as being justly determined by the people of Kansas themselve...
our current system of redistributive taxation follows a set pattern that is characterized by an inherent inequality between those ...
instruct me further, telling her, among other things, that it was unlawful, as well as unsafe, to teach a slave to read. To use hi...
students of history shudder to read the horrible human rights abuses that were inflicted upon slaves in the antebellum South. Howe...
While it certainly wasnt the only reason, slavery...
slavery, a trend which leads towards the development of Sectionalism in the Southern states. 1830s: Southern states begin to seek ...
roots. Prison labor offers a way for prisoners to earn money while learning a trade, but with these prisons profiting on such chea...
the playing field level" (Zimmerman). This idea is still alive today, proposed by progressives who feel that everyone should get a...
of the Vietnam War and Malcolm spent considerable time in Africa during the last years of his life to observe the economic hardshi...
of his people, and growing into a man prior to his becoming a slave. In these respects the reader gets a very different look at sl...
This research paper presents a short history of colonialism in South Africa. The writer focuses on slavery as a primary effect of ...
This research paper/essay addresses the view of historian Robert Shell on the nature of slavery in South Africa's Cape Colony and ...
This essay is on Harriet Jacobs' autobiography, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. The writer describes the various ways in wh...
This paper offers an overview of Old Testament scripture that pertains to how the ancient Israelites regarded slavery and the fun...
Abolitionists like Sherman Booth and Ezekiel Gillespie fought alongside other abolitionists to abolish slavery and secure the blac...
was soon culturally established as a center for "moral guidance" in the lives of New England colonists. 2.) Why did slavery grow...
Slavery was a component of world history practically since the beginning of mankinds reign on earth....
On February 6, 1837 John C. Calhoun published an article titled "Slavery a Positive Good". The title of the article alone encapsu...
This paper assesses Jefferson's contributions and how they corresponded with his views on slavery and indigenous rights. There ar...
This research paper offers an overview of the fundamental causes that motivated the implementation of slavery in the American colo...
This research paper describes the issues associated with slavery that prevailed through the disputes of the 1850s. The Compromise ...
This book review is on Terry Alford's text Prince Among Slaves. which relates the biography of Ibrahima, an African prince who was...
This essay argues that Huck's moral maturation resulted from his relationship with Jim, a runaway slave, and it is this bond that ...