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Eudora Welty's Timeless 'Path'

In a paper consisting of five pages the theme of former slaves after the passage of the thirteenth amendment is considered within ...

U.S. Slave Children's Leisure and Play

In five pages this paper discusses the play and leisure activities of slave children in the United States as represented in the ci...

'Interior Life' of Slaves and Toni Morrison

As the development of bound labor in the American south moved from the indentured servitude system of the colonial era to the grow...

West's Rise and Bulliet et al's The Earth and Its Peoples

In five pages this paper discusses the West's rise in a consideration of this 1997 text by Bulliet et al that includes the Atlanti...

An Examination of Pre Civil War Texas

In five pages the economic development of Texas and its resistance to slave freedom are considered within the context of Campbell'...

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Notes

In four pages this paper examines Douglass' narrative in terms of impressing upon white readers his situation as a slave in the So...

Frederick Douglass' Successful Speeches

In five pages this paper examines these successful speech methods employed by Frederick Douglass in terms of heightening emotions ...

Slave Narratives and Indian Captivity Narratives

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares slave narratives with Indian captivity narratives in a consideration of the simila...

Critically Reviewing the City State of Athens in Ancient Greece

In a paper consisting of seven pages the Athenian democracy represented by this Greek city state is considered along with an asses...

Views on Slavery and its Justification or Lack of

In 5 pages various perspectives of slavery are examined in this comparative analysis of Twenty Two Years a Slave and Forty Years a...

Comparison of Harriet Jacobs' Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl and Octavia Butler's Kindred

perspective. Furthermore, the perception of people as human chattel is examined, as is the role of a patriarchal American Souther...

Aphra Behn's 17th Century Literary Works

Indies, and lived an adventurous life of slave rebellions and observed Indian tribal rituals which would later appear in her works...

19th Century Race and Gender in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs

In five pages this essay examines 19th century race and gender as it is represented within this slave narrative. Two sources are ...

Relationship Between Mr. Covey and Frederick Douglass

In ten pages this paper considers the relationship between slave Douglass and slaveowner Mr. Covey from the perspectives of Freder...

Harriet Tubman's Life and Activism

In five pages this paper discusses the life of Harriet Tubman, her life as a slave and her activism such as her Underground Railro...

History of the Transatlantic Slave Trade

The transatlantic slave trade is examined in an historical overview of events and places in this paper consisting of five pages. ...

Reviewing Charles T. Davis's Black Is the Color of the Cosmos Essays on Afro-American Literature and Culture

In a five page review black literature during the 1960s and '70s is discussed and comparisons are made with slave narratives and t...

A Review of Freedom Road

A 5 page overview of the book Howard Fast. The focus is on the reconstruction era. Although the slaves had been freed, black whi...

Author's Intentions and Objectives in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs

as the defining characteristic of an unmarried woman. In other words, according to the cultural definition of femininity a "good" ...

Frederick Douglass and Harriet Ann Jacobs on Male and Female Slaves

knew it till six years of happy childhood had passed away. My father was a carpenter, and considered so intelligent and skilful in...

The Slave Drivers by William Van Deburg

the black slaves was indeed Gods will as retribution for some evil which they had committed (Slavery). Many of the slaves who c...

Comparison of Harriet Jacobs and Frederick Douglass

of the public social sphere, keeping themselves completely within the domestic sphere. The "good" or "true" woman was passive, dep...

Impact of Frederick Douglass

the slave system of the plantation (Thomas). He did, however, have an engaging charm, which helped him become companion of Daniel ...

Overview of the Story of Spartacus

this one man. It begins with the death of the gladiator and winds its way back into the meaning his life had to others and to Rom...

Reasons for Punishment According to Friedrich Nietzsche

core of humanitys lack of individualism and blind willingness to be part of what he referred to as "the herd." In Nietzsches opini...

Aphra Behn's Oroonoko

could also speculate that it was her involvement in the policy of intrigue that gave her a view of the underbelly of society that ...

Slave Descendants and Reparations

Whatever happened in the past is past, but that is not the truth. If one looks at demographics, they will find that the descendant...

Good Life According to Friedrich Nietzsche

or good enough. This individual does not say they have gone out of their way for another, nor have they claimed that they have sto...

18th and 19th Century Underground Railroad Network

The Railroad was not co-ordinated or organised by any one particular group, but operated basically on the cell principle....

Comparative Analysis of Flight to Canada and Uncle Tom's Cabin

many readers didnt realize, however, was that Stowes almost melodramatic story-telling style hid a biting, sarcastic tone -- the b...