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

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

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...

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...

knew it till six years of happy childhood had passed away. My father was a carpenter, and considered so intelligent and skilful in...

own lands(**). Reinsertion is accompanied, in most cases, with some form of aid which makes certain that the returning soldiers h...

difficult to estimate how many Africans they took across the Indian Ocean as slaves. However, it is very likely that the number w...

culture to some extent. The culture is implicit in much of what goes on and is woven throughout the content of the book. Identity ...

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...

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...

boil over, and no attempts to quell this surging rage would have proven effective at averting what was to inevitably follow. ...

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

unknown to him. He grew up in a time where the country was changing. The Civil War had ended and he and his family possessed freed...

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...

was overthrown by the election of Abraham Lincoln, aristocrats in the South refused to accept the public will (1999). Southerners...

knows that it would put Mr. Shelby even further in debt and that he might be forced to sell off more of the slaves from his home....

Master provided a slaves entire living, giving him food, shelter, and in effect, his life, then the slave owed his entire life to ...

farmer or artisan, the master and the mistress shared it, and when it was finished, the white and the black, like the feudal chief...

only tolerated and accepted, but also embraced as part of daily life (Anonymous, 2001). In most early societies, slavery seems to...

Davis clearly outlines the many ways in which slavery was a truly ancient institution in which the "Arabs and their Muslim allies ...

"The Senate concurred with this decision and voted ratification on Oct. 20, 1803. The Spanish, who had never given up physical po...

Whatever happened in the past is past, but that is not the truth. If one looks at demographics, they will find that the descendant...

him. Soon released, Bacon gathered his supporters, marched on Jamestown, and coerced Berkeley into granting him a commission to co...

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

including women, but while things would eventually be repaired to the point of some closure on the subject-intermarriage, black ca...