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This book review is on Trevor Getz's Slavery and Reform in West Africa: Toward Emancipation in Nineteenth-century Senegal and the ...

In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at slave narratives. Differing experiences are highlighted with respect to different e...

This research paper includes four short essays, which are on how slaves retained their sense of identity and community, Enlightenm...

This research paper presents a comprehensive analysis of this scholarly article, which examines the controversy of precisely why t...

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

This research paper provides a comprehensive overview of slavery in Cape Colony, South Africa, both before and after 1815, which i...

This research paper describes the way that the Haitian Revolution, the Louisiana Purchase, Manifest Destiny, the cotton gin and th...

This book review is on Wayne Dooling's text Slavery, Emancipation And Colonial Rule in South Africa. The writer discusses the auth...

section of our country believes slavery is right and ought to be extended, while the other believes it is wrong and ought not to b...

charge of the environment and created numerous crops needed in the United States. At first they utilized the assistance of indentu...

quickly. It is true that in some of the Northern settlements, plantation managers preferred to use white indentured servants rathe...

be a slave (Schaub 86). He explained in a mater-of-fact way that since he knew no other life, the term slavery meant nothing to h...

convicts to be shipped to the Colonies and the influx of Negroes into the States (1944). It did seem that while laws which allowed...

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

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

such as in 1963 when Queen Mother Moore submitted to President Kennedy a petition with over a million signatures calling for repar...

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...

a slave owner. Regardless of his commitment to democracy, such commitment did not extend to include slaves in that process. Vali...

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...

as her Gran, her brother and several aunt and uncles (Perez-Stable 24). When the Old Mistress in the house dies, Jacobs comes unde...

born in Kenya, educated in Britain and currently teaching at Binghamton University, New York knows of what he studies (Binghamton,...

my opinion, yet I consider our condition but little better than that....After all, methinks there are no chains so galling as thos...

present, the convention achieved a consensus by avoiding certain controversial issues by reaching a compromise. There were differe...

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...

Although Reconstruction began during the war, the time period traditionally associated with it is 1862-1877. The political, socia...

of any profit motive. Perdue writes, "The plantation system, the institution of slavery, and the economic values of ...European pl...

them, the more the author desperately wanted to remove himself from such circumstances. "In moments of agony, I envied my fellow-...