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Slavery and the Influences of Class, Gender, and Race

indentured servants; this in fact was much more common than slavery (Takaki, 1993). But over the decades of the mid-century, even...

Maxine Hong Kingston/Warrior Woman

property rather than fellow human beings. Tourist information on St. Thomas indicates that St. Thomas Market Square is today a "...

Autonomy and Slavery

This essay begins by presenting the position of historian Ira Berlin that there was a modicum of autonomy within the institution o...

The Economic Impact of Slavery

"Slavery is terrible for men, but it is far more terrible for women" (Jacobs, 2001, 37)....

The Impact of the Transatlantic Slave Trade on the American Colonies

to develop a work force among Native Americans and white immigrants. Colonists, finding that Africans were cheap and relatively im...

Slave and Master Impacted by Slavery

inferior didnt hold up in the light of his personal story. Equianos work showed the American slave owners and traders how hypocrit...

Thomas Sowell's Washington Times' Article 'Afrocentric Escapism'

of time: "navel gazing about roots while others are learning square roots, and contemplating chains...

Slavery: Institution and Experience

the new land. One group is illustrated wherein Gomez states that, "the way the Gullahs employed the use of high-low degrees was un...

Scripture and Owning Slaves

author explains, based on this belief, "slavery of Africans became religiously justifiable."iii Proslavery advocates based their c...

Slave Culture and Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

In five pages Douglass's Narrative is assessed with examinations of slave culture and slavery's psychological effects included in ...

African Slave Trade and its Impact

that that seen in the Americas and the different reactions and interactions that were seen....

Virginia and Cuba Slavery

In three pages this essay refers to Slavery in the Americas by Herbert Klein in a comparative analysis of how slavery was institut...

Edward Jones/The Known World

As this suggests, the novel abounds in paradoxes. Moses, the cruel overseer, did not murder his wife and child, but actually sent ...

Slavery as Viewed by Aristotle

and subvert purpose in ways deemed dysfunctional. The nature of the slave is slavish and subservience the natural consequence. A...

Slavery in Two Worlds

slaves from Africa were sold mostly in the Americas. Wolf first discusses who bought these slaves and why, and then answers the q...

Beloved by Toni Morrison and Slavery Issues

We see that part of the past is dead, with the death of Baby Suggs who was a constant reminder of slavery and the hope inherently ...

Ending Slavery in a Fictional 1859 Radio Broadcast

In five pages this paper presents a fictitious 1859 NYC broadcast from a yet not invented radio demanding slavery's end with argum...

Slavery A Precipitating Factor in the Civil War

While it certainly wasnt the only reason, slavery...

19th Century American History

slavery, a trend which leads towards the development of Sectionalism in the Southern states. 1830s: Southern states begin to seek ...

Blood Passion by Scott Martelle

This book review focuses on Scott Martell's "Blood Passion: The Ludlow Massacre and Class War in the American West," which descri...

Colonization and 'King Leopold's Ghost'

gross exploitation of African slaves. That Leopold was wholly capable of stuffing his incoming ships with an abundance of ivory a...

How Revolutionary was the American Revolution?

enough to overcome racial discrimination or the claims of the south that it needed slave labor to work the plantations (Coombs, 19...

Slavery Development

protect their class interests" (Takaki, 1993, p. 62). The laws that they passed in their own favor "extended the time of indentur...

Women and Slavery

United States that awaited many of them was certainly devastating and destructive, it may well have offered some more opportunitie...

A Consideration of American History from 1865 until 1945

The important events that shaped America including slavery, the Reconstruction, political patronage, industrialization, the Progre...

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain and Slavery

In five pages this paper discusses the author's perspectives on slavery as reflected in this great American novel. Five sources a...

Frederick Douglass's Narrative, Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin and Struggle

In five pages this report discusses the importance of struggle in these nineteenth century American literary masterworks that feat...

African American Slave Resistance

In four pages this research paper discusses African American resistance to slavery during America's antebellum period. One source...

U.S. Colonies and Slavery

modern mind set, some of the facts may have been translated, or recorded incorrectly. The legend has been repeated endlessly tha...

The History and Influence of African Canadians in the Nova Scotia Region

In ten pages the similarity of experiences between the African Americans in Nova Scotia and those in the United States are conside...