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2002, p. 125). As this suggests, philosophically, Thoreau carried little for the present and his aspiration was for his writing ...

were unable to teach their children good values and morality, or how to be men and women. The removal of parents made families wi...

family would become highly educated as well as become involved civically. Following with that, then, he took a position as a...

is estimated that Europeans shipped about 10 million black slaves from Africa and transported them to the Western Hemisphere;13 ab...

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

dispute. By 1860, slavery was in full force but shortly after that, the slaves would be freed. Both the 1790 and 1860 periods were...

dominate the picture, and that the figure of the miner with hundreds of slaves is a myth.4 The scholarly confusion may have arise...

positive influences for the slaves and one can say that Solomon Northups account is truly dismal. Northup was however not owned by...

a moderate scheme of emancipation with compensation for the former owners" (Moore, 1993, 118)....

of historians to consistently underestimate the "depth, the persistence, the pervasiveness, the centrality of race in American soc...

reveal that there are others involved in slavery at the time. Hoffman explores the concept of white slavery. The notion that there...

can be termed neither solely positive or solely negative in regard to its influence on culture and people. There would be tremend...

Darwinism. Old ways were questioned but there was a caveat. Suddenly the mainstream had an excuse for their past and present bruta...

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

the early years slaves actually performed the elite work and were servants within the household (1998). They would do the cooking ...

life following WWI and it essentially ends after the stock market crash of 1929. His book truly begins when he discusses the year ...

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

determining the direction that this country would ultimately take (McPherson, 1988). There were many individuals in the yea...

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

and be taken care of. She does not look off longingly to a freedom without such realities, but she looks to the power of mothering...

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

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...

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...

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

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

the buying and selling of human beings. How would a Kantian analyze the ethics of slavery? How might a utilitarian, a social con...

the creation of a contrapuntal web. Schulenberg (1992) states that the term "ricercar" can also refer to a type of improvised pre...

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...