Essays 601 - 630
This 4 page paper gives an overview of rectificatory justice according to Aristotle's Nichomachean Ethics. This paper includes dis...
This paper offers an overview of Old Testament scripture that pertains to how the ancient Israelites regarded slavery and the fun...
This book review is on Wayne Dooling's text Slavery, Emancipation And Colonial Rule in South Africa. The writer discusses the auth...
Abolitionists like Sherman Booth and Ezekiel Gillespie fought alongside other abolitionists to abolish slavery and secure the blac...
The question this paper discusses has to do with privatizing prisons. There are at least 100 across the United States. One author ...
This 3 page paper gives an explanation about slavery and the US Constitution by way of the book Decision in Philadelphia. This pap...
Pilot and the Passenger (1956), vernacular language carries democratic social value" (Review). As difficult as it has been for A...
culture to some extent. The culture is implicit in much of what goes on and is woven throughout the content of the book. Identity ...
unknown to him. He grew up in a time where the country was changing. The Civil War had ended and he and his family possessed freed...
white freedom and black slavery. The link between whites and blacks would change considerably between the arrival of those first ...
own lands(**). Reinsertion is accompanied, in most cases, with some form of aid which makes certain that the returning soldiers h...
knows that it would put Mr. Shelby even further in debt and that he might be forced to sell off more of the slaves from his home....
was overthrown by the election of Abraham Lincoln, aristocrats in the South refused to accept the public will (1999). Southerners...
him. Soon released, Bacon gathered his supporters, marched on Jamestown, and coerced Berkeley into granting him a commission to co...
knew it till six years of happy childhood had passed away. My father was a carpenter, and considered so intelligent and skilful in...
of effecting what is right" (The American Dilemma). There are many factors that can be cited as the cause for the Civil...
as her Gran, her brother and several aunt and uncles (Perez-Stable 24). When the Old Mistress in the house dies, Jacobs comes unde...
the buying and selling of human beings. How would a Kantian analyze the ethics of slavery? How might a utilitarian, a social con...
at the south. If a man goes to the communion table, and pays money into the treasury of the church, no matter if it be the price o...
born in Kenya, educated in Britain and currently teaching at Binghamton University, New York knows of what he studies (Binghamton,...
most masters tried to keep their slaves ignorant on this matter, as it was regarded as a sign of a "restless spirit" for slaves to...
that after the war for independence the English goods that the nation had relied upon disappeared, making the goods that the South...
Describing Columbus interactions with the Indians in Cuba, Zinn writes: He took more Indian prisoners and put them aboard his two...
them, the more the author desperately wanted to remove himself from such circumstances. "In moments of agony, I envied my fellow-...
arguing that Wheatley was not intelligent, for she was. We are merely arguing that her ignorance of the true realities of slavery ...
by her own relatives. She seems to learn that hard times can come from black as well as white folk. Annes first taste of how thing...
of any profit motive. Perdue writes, "The plantation system, the institution of slavery, and the economic values of ...European pl...
that they are endowed by the Creator with certain unalienable rights"1 Here, then, is the contradiction between perception...
presents the thesis that to understand African Americans and their importance in American society, we must first understand the ma...
In five pages this paper examines Black Yankees by Piersen in a discussion of New England and the impact of slavery as well as the...