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17th Century America and Black Slavery

no sunlight and been fed only enough to keep them alive. This journey, however, was likely just the beginning of the trials and t...

Labor Issues in Canada

where they are paid per piece rather than by the hour (Hammadieh, 1998). The hourly wage typically ranges between $2.50 and $4.00 ...

Slave Experiences in the Middle Passage

in this stupefied condition they are carried aboard, stowed in a sitting posture, with the knees drawn up so closely that they can...

What it Was Like to Be a Slave Before the Civil War

know that he was a slave and until he was old enough to experience the suffering and see the suffering endured by others. This ...

African Americans and Their Evolution in Fiction and Nonfiction

social consciousness. One of Douglass first discoveries, or one of the most important first discoveries, he made was that of the...

America and Free Labor of the Nineteenth Century

slave and freeman who work for nothing has about the same amount (1840, 368). Interestingly, a bit later, Karl Marx would remark t...

'Slave Power,' the North, and the Civil War

of Yeoman Households" notes that in standard anti-bellum society, the white male plantation owner was the prime owner of everythin...

Slavery and Phillis Wheatley's 'To the University of Cambridge, in New England' and Harriet Jacobs' Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

as, first of all knows her place, and, secondly was divinely inspired. In the antebellum era, it was illegal for slaves to be tau...

Louisiana Slavery

the industry of holding an indentured servant as opposed to a slave. The other possibility is that Louisiana was a port state. T...

North American Colonial Period, Native Americans and African Slaves

It was also based on the Europeans ability to see Africans as a source for slave labor. Africans who were captured and shipped to ...

Slavery and the Revolutionary War

land become independent. But, with the slaves they truly had their own possessions which they desired to keep. This is perhaps one...

Was the Relationship Between Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson Love or Rape?

Jefferson made his views on slavery (for the general populace) known. In his notes for the Virginia Constitution, Jefferson also n...

Jefferson's Relationship with Sally Hemmings

times of conception for the birth of all of those six children. There are no records that she was elsewhere during those times, or...

Black Literature and Violence

eras and toward different genders. The slave narratives of Douglass and Jacobs Douglass Narrative is the best known first-hand a...

How Abraham Lincoln Overcame Social and Political Obstacles in the Elimination of Slavery and Preservation of the Union

great impact on the national notions and approach to freedom and civil equality. From as early as his Inaugural Address, Pr...

Jefferson and Hemmings, Fiction or Fact

conception for the birth of all of those six children. There are no records that she was elsewhere during those times, or records ...

Freedom Concepts of Frederick Douglass and Olaudah Equiano

with a family with a young child, she takes a liking to him and when "child cried so much after me that nothing could pacify her t...

Declaration of Independence Authors and Slaveholding

the text of the U.S. Constitution (DSouza, 1995). Perhaps the founding fathers did not regard African Americans as men or slaves....

Liberal and Republican Views on Slavery and Emancipation

Indeed, Douglass (1960) book portrays a man living within himself in order to escape the atrocities of a nonliberal life; if not a...

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...

The North South Divide of 1860 America

number this proportion is statistically insignificant. However, it appears that there are significantly fewer black people in the ...

No Civil War: a Retrospective

choice. There were very few people left who believed in the old slave system at that time. If the North had not brought the war to...

Judith Ortiz Cofer's Story of First Love

to her parents, her teachers, and her classmates that something was diverting her attentions from her studies and even from her fa...

The Narrative of Harriet Jacobs

1861). The influence of the Flints: Dr. Flint and his wife were Harriets master and mistress, and they deserve the name Flint for...

Unsable Personality in Orphan Pamuk’s the White Castle

retrospective, written as a memory of event that had occurred earlier, with the narrator ever revealing his own name or identity, ...

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

her story and by not putting in the names of locations either. Other than that her story is true. This is further documented in th...

Sojourner's 'Plain-Speaking' Truth

291). While still a slave of John Dumonts, Isabella married fellow slave Thomas and subsequently gave birth to five children. A ...

Comparing Jacobs and Wilson

of slavery, as she was not free by any definition of this term and she was treated as property, in a manner that is equivalent to ...

Slavery in the Employment Relationship

their owners. The power all rested with the slave owners and the slaves had to endure the whims of those owners. In todays world...

Huckleberry Finn and Social Consciousness

This essay argues that Huck's moral maturation resulted from his relationship with Jim, a runaway slave, and it is this bond that ...