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Slavery According to Sterling Stuckey and Ira Berlin

order to illustrate why each authors particular perception is more accurate than the others. Utilizing the principles of historic...

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...

Antebellum Reform and Slavery

for historical purposes, psychological purposes, social purposes, and any other purposes one may desire to seek. One of the most p...

North and South Conflict and Slavery

rights alongside the emancipation that had already taken place; however, it actually proved to represent a time of significant dis...

U.S. Capitalism and Slavery

presents the thesis that to understand African Americans and their importance in American society, we must first understand the ma...

Slavery in America

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

African American Subjugation and Slavery

This research paper offers an overview of the fundamental causes that motivated the implementation of slavery in the American colo...

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...

Reflections on Five Hundred Years of American History

In five pages five centuries of American history are considered in an analysis of significant quotes with political movements, civ...

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 ...

Nineteenth Century American Identity Development

of those character traits became a part of what most Americans like to think of as an uniquely American point of view, as well as ...

Antebellum America and the Advantages of Slavery

In five pages this paper discusses that slavery was preferable to the slave and slave owner of the antebellum American South to fr...

Slavery Ideology and Practice in Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

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

Thomas Jefferson, Slavery, the Civil War, and 'the American Dilemma'

of effecting what is right" (The American Dilemma). There are many factors that can be cited as the cause for the Civil...

Unnecessary for African Americans to Receive Slavery Reparations

during WWII. In part, the reason why one group should be compensated and the other not, is really due to timing. Some people who f...

Slavery Reactions of Black Women

white freedom and black slavery. The link between whites and blacks would change considerably between the arrival of those first ...

Nineteenth Century South and Slavery

In five pages this paper examines narratives by Harriet Jacobs and Frederick Douglass in a consideration of nineteenth century sla...

American Colonies and Lives of Slaves

In nine pages this paper considers what slavery was like in the American colonies with North and South differences duly noted alo...

Comparing Americas' Slavery with Roman and Greek Slavery

This is a review consisting of twelve pages that compares and contrasts the institution of slavery in various times and societies ...

Secession as a Harbinger of Conflict

Civil War historians believe that a majority of Americans felt that forcing the South to remain in the Union when it felt it was n...

Racism in Colonial America

Racism has been part and parcel of American society since its inception, and the colonial period featured racism in its most virul...

The Issue of the Extension of Slavery Reported in the American Whig

may be ill-timed or inhumane; it may be constitutional and yet smack of arbitrary power-of oppression: it may ... carry with it a ...

Making Laws

should actually be handled (Johnson, 2003). After the subcommittee has sent the bill back with full recommendations to the full c...

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 ...

The African American Dream of Equality

and essentially left the white population of the nation still ignoring the impact of history concerning the African American peopl...

Slavery Writings

In five pages this paper examines slavery in the American South as it was described in various writings. Five sources are cited i...

1820s and 1840s Age of the Common Man

to make their own destinies -- to follow whatever dreams they may have kept harbored deep inside for fear they would never be able...

Spanish and English Approaches to Colonial Slavery

Spain and Portugal were the first nations to reach the shores of the "New World". Their arrival preceded that of other major colo...

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs and the American Patriarchy

In five pages this paper discusses how gender slavery is the byproduct of the American patriarchy with references made to this 186...