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The Life and Political Career of Thomas Jefferson

This 8 page paper gives an overview of Thomas Jefferson's life, focusing on his political career. It also includes information abo...

Colonial America and Slavery

The decision rested on the assumption that non-whites were enslaveable while Europeans were not. Most historians agree that color...

Slave Narratives and Indian Captivity Narratives

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares slave narratives with Indian captivity narratives in a consideration of the simila...

Critically Reviewing the City State of Athens in Ancient Greece

In a paper consisting of seven pages the Athenian democracy represented by this Greek city state is considered along with an asses...

Concepts of Sexuality, Ethnicity, Race and Gender Altered by Slavery

In five pages this paper examines how these social perspectives are altered by slavery in a consideration of Harriet Ann Jacobs' I...

Beloved by Toni Morrison and Sixo

In five pages this character analysis of Sixo assesses how valid the Dysaesthesia Aethiopica was for wayward slaves in 1851. Two...

Slave Culture and Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

In five pages Douglass's Narrative is assessed with examinations of slave culture and slavery's psychological effects included in ...

Fugitive Slave Act and the Compromise of 1850

freedom was the Mason-Dixon; now it was moved all the way to Canada. Bounty hunters took full advantage of this operation by gene...

Slave Culture Euro American and African Style

This paper consisting of five pages discusses by way of Nathan Irvin Huggins' 'Black Odyssey' how the combination of African and E...

Beloved by Toni Morrison

this 5 page paper summarizes the main issues Toni Morrison discusses in her award-winning novel Beloved. In particular, the writer...

A Review of Freedom Road

A 5 page overview of the book Howard Fast. The focus is on the reconstruction era. Although the slaves had been freed, black whi...

Reviewing Charles T. Davis's Black Is the Color of the Cosmos Essays on Afro-American Literature and Culture

In a five page review black literature during the 1960s and '70s is discussed and comparisons are made with slave narratives and t...

Arna Bontemps' Black Thunder and the Richmond Slave Revolt of 1800

In eleven pages the differences between Bontemps' novel and other historical accounts of this slave revolt are examined. Six sour...

Virginia, Cuba, and the Practice of Slavery

In fifteen pages this paper contrasts and compares how slavery was practiced in these two areas with slave treatment by each count...

Slavery Aspects

In five pages such issues that are relevant to slavery such as 1950's Fugitive Slave Act, the Fourteenth Amendment, abolitionism, ...

American Society in Literature

This 16 page paper examines four books that are centered on American society. The books discussed are Joyce Maynard's To Die For; ...

19th Century Race and Gender in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs

In five pages this essay examines 19th century race and gender as it is represented within this slave narrative. Two sources are ...

Relationship Between Mr. Covey and Frederick Douglass

In ten pages this paper considers the relationship between slave Douglass and slaveowner Mr. Covey from the perspectives of Freder...

Comparative Analysis of Flight to Canada and Uncle Tom's Cabin

many readers didnt realize, however, was that Stowes almost melodramatic story-telling style hid a biting, sarcastic tone -- the b...

African Slaves and the Seasoning Acculturation Process

with the way in which the capture of those from neighbouring tribes would allocate bargaining power to the captors; it was not nec...

Comparison of Harriet Jacobs' Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl and Octavia Butler's Kindred

perspective. Furthermore, the perception of people as human chattel is examined, as is the role of a patriarchal American Souther...

Aphra Behn's 17th Century Literary Works

Indies, and lived an adventurous life of slave rebellions and observed Indian tribal rituals which would later appear in her works...

Harriet Tubman's Life and Activism

In five pages this paper discusses the life of Harriet Tubman, her life as a slave and her activism such as her Underground Railro...

Author's Intentions and Objectives in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs

as the defining characteristic of an unmarried woman. In other words, according to the cultural definition of femininity a "good" ...

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 ...

Comparison of Harriet Jacobs and Frederick Douglass

of the public social sphere, keeping themselves completely within the domestic sphere. The "good" or "true" woman was passive, dep...

U.S. Civil War Reconstruction and Freedmen

noble the goals of the Freedmens Bureau, however, the war-ravaged South was not in any shape to support its efforts. The e...

Frederick Douglass and Harriet Ann Jacobs on Male and Female Slaves

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

Slave Descendants and Reparations

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

Overview of the Story of Spartacus

this one man. It begins with the death of the gladiator and winds its way back into the meaning his life had to others and to Rom...