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First Canadian Settlers

morning activities were done with the use of candles for the most part, though some likely had oil lanterns as well. Any candles t...

Jane Tomkin/"Indians"

Indians, but rather how scholarship can lead an historian to this answer. What is her conclusion to this overriding issue? Over...

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...

Colonial Culture

he is not Dutch. He is only really being given the education as an outward sign of respect and acceptance. Even though he proves t...

Family Life in the American Colonies

(Demos, 2000, p. But this common kitchen tool was also "used by conjurers magicians in obscure ceremonies of fortune-telling" in t...

John Demos, Joseph Plumb Martin and Wartime Experience

one stroke" (Demos 29). Williams and his five children make it to Montreal alive. Once they arrive in Montreal, the Indians begin ...

Early American Architecture: Colonial and Georgian

the bare necessities were sufficient in the beginning. In Morrisons text he shows examples of various forms of connecting logs tog...

Theme of Slavery in 3 Literary Eras

slaves are forcibly taken from their native lands, "Husbands from their Wives, Parents from their Children," which he argues goes ...

North American English Colonial Societies

became so dependent on the Indians that they took to raiding them; the Algonquin chief, Powhatan, decided to starve them out, and ...

Wales as the Model for British Colonialism in Ireland and America

of Wales is inextricably linked to the history of the Welsh language and many events were tied to the language; for example, in 14...

America (1600-1774): The Land of Opportunity?

hopes and expectations which constantly supported and carried them through all the hardships with patience and resignation. Let us...

Historical Anthropology Questions

A 9 page paper that answers three questions about historical anthropology. Topics include evolution of social cultural change, col...

Colonial Women’s Public Role and Legal Status

formal education or technical training, women would be hired. The obvious vocational choices were extensions of their housekeepin...

Native Americans/Preserving Independence

did improve British relations with Native Americans, the colonials were irate, as they saw the entire point of the French and Indi...

Catholic Church: Colonial Times to Present Day

Mississippi valleys and later in the Spanish regions of Florida, the Southwest and California, Catholics were a decided minority i...

American Nationalism

Germany, historically, Turkish families who have lived in Germany for generations are not regarded as German (Ignatieff, 1995). ...

Depiction of Indians and Puritans in Captivity and Restoration by Mrs. Mary Rowlandson

In seven pages this paper examines how Puritans and Indian captors are portrayed by Mary Rowlandson in her early colonial memoir o...

The Impact of Religion on Women in Post-Colonial Literature

minority writers are rife with issues of postcolonial interest. It is commonly held that the literature of colonial societies refl...

Kincaid's "On Seeing England for the First Time" - A Post-Colonial Analysis

she felt marginalized within her own home - her thesis is that the reality of England is a far cry from the symbolic value it take...

Post-Colonialism and the Poems of Bhatt and Das

of the least attractive aspects of a nations character. However, after a country has been a colony for a time, that state of being...

Cultural Changes in Early America

than it was in the former. Likewise, women actually had more rights in indigenous American cultures than they did in European cu...

Freedom and Liberty

When people think of America they often envision a powerful level of freedom and liberty. Benjamin Franklin once stated "Where lib...

"A Subaltern's Love Song" - Post-Colonial Symbolism

In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at "A Subaltern's Love Song" by Betjeman. Symbols of post-colonial significance are de...

Octavio Paz: Perspective of the Colonial Period

how the peasantry had a long history of such struggles and were not new to such fights whereas "the workers lacked not only the mo...

Colonization of America

This 3 page paper gives an overview of how geography, demographic, and the climates of the three colonial regions effects the deve...

African International Relations

International relations in Africa have been heavily influenced by their colonial history, a history that still impacts on internat...

African International Relations

International relations in Africa have been heavily influenced by their colonial history, a history that still impacts on internat...

Indentured Laborers in Colonial Times

This 4 page paper gives an overview of indentured servants in colonial Virginia. This paper includes comparisons of typical life o...

A View of Life in Colonial America

was soon culturally established as a center for "moral guidance" in the lives of New England colonists. 2.) Why did slavery grow...