Essays 631 - 660
A 5 page review of the book by Edward Countryman. This book includes five essays and, although it has received less than positive...
This paper presents an overview of sugar production in Cuba during the country's colonial era. The author notes the various impac...
In seven pages this paper considers how slavery has been portrayed in cinema, stories, and books. Eleven sources are cited in the...
This 5 page paper analyzes the book by Kenneth M. Stampp. The author focuses on the institution of slavery as it existed in the ...
In six pages this paper examines how the Narrative depicts violence as being sexually and slavery gendered. There are no other so...
he had no real knowledge of his actual age ? "Having never seen any authentic record containing it" (Douglass, 2001). According to...
In seven pages the novel's slavery commentary is examined. There are five other sources cited in the bibliography....
Three passages from these works are contrasted and compared in terms of how they thematically depict women, family, racism, and sl...
In five pages this paper discusses the author's perspectives on slavery as reflected in this great American novel. Five sources a...
than "anywhere else" (Henriques 414). However, the "bad news" is that amidst Wienceks narrative there are numerous errors, as well...
first chapter, Goodell describes slavery as defined by the laws of various southern states; here we read things like this: "LOUISI...
the 16th century, tobacco was already considered something of great worth. One author, Thomas Hariot, back in 1590, wrote A Briefe...
powerful and great civilizations of the past, the Greeks and the Egyptians and the Romans, all possessed slaves (Castillo, 2006). ...
by his people, and reveals that the slaves were not forced to work any harder than anyone else in the community "even their master...
level of success in society, they were few and far between and blacks were generally considered less than whites. They were brough...
the West, but White suggests it should be examined closely, not automatically given credence (White, 2001). He also suggests that...
10). The fact is that we do indeed lock away two million American citizens and in so doing have come to be the...
moral conviction, and, especially. on the part of African American activists, a fierce visceral passion for freedom" (Bordewich 4)...
no uncertain terms gave all people unalienable rights including life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness? The American Di...
nations had slaves. The laws of Moses acknowledge these slaves and dictate that Hebrew slaves must be kept in slavery only for a ...
may be ill-timed or inhumane; it may be constitutional and yet smack of arbitrary power-of oppression: it may ... carry with it a ...
In five pages Olaudah Equiano's autobiography is the primary focus of this brief slavery historical overview. Five sources are ci...
In 8 pages this paper discusses Long Island slavery and the adverse impact of changes from Dutch to English leadership. Six sourc...
In five pages this report discusses the importance of struggle in these nineteenth century American literary masterworks that feat...
In five pages this paper examines how these social perspectives are altered by slavery in a consideration of Harriet Ann Jacobs' I...
In 4 pages this paper examines the portrayal of slavery in Morrison's novel and the enduring psychological damage that resulted. ...
In fifteen pages this paper contrasts and compares how slavery was practiced in these two areas with slave treatment by each count...
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, ...
In five pages this paper discusses the author's acknowledgment of the profit motive associated with slavery. One source is cited ...