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Louisiana Slavery

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

Southern Colonists and Slaves

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

North and South Perspectives and the American Civil War

power in the federal government, the North did not directly address these issues. There were no talks. There were no debates. Ther...

Slavery and the Cherokee Society by Theda Perdue

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

Slavery in America

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

US Slavery and the Impact of the Revolutionary War

that they are endowed by the Creator with certain unalienable rights"1 Here, then, is the contradiction between perception...

'On Being Brought from Africa to America' by Phyllis Wheatley

arguing that Wheatley was not intelligent, for she was. We are merely arguing that her ignorance of the true realities of slavery ...

Views of Frederick Douglass on Slavery

them, the more the author desperately wanted to remove himself from such circumstances. "In moments of agony, I envied my fellow-...

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...

Moody's Portrait of Racism

by her own relatives. She seems to learn that hard times can come from black as well as white folk. Annes first taste of how thing...

Should We Privatize Enforcement

The question this paper discusses has to do with privatizing prisons. There are at least 100 across the United States. One author ...

The US Constitution and Decision in Philadelphia

This 3 page paper gives an explanation about slavery and the US Constitution by way of the book Decision in Philadelphia. This pap...

Rectificatory Justice: Voluntary and Involuntary

This 4 page paper gives an overview of rectificatory justice according to Aristotle's Nichomachean Ethics. This paper includes dis...

Attitudes towards Slavery in the Old Testament

This paper offers an overview of Old Testament scripture that pertains to how the ancient Israelites regarded slavery and the fun...

Views on South African Slavery

This research paper/essay addresses the view of historian Robert Shell on the nature of slavery in South Africa's Cape Colony and ...

Slavery Worse for Women, the Story of Harriet Jacobs

This essay is on Harriet Jacobs' autobiography, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. The writer describes the various ways in wh...

Effects of Colonization on South Africa

This research paper presents a short history of colonialism in South Africa. The writer focuses on slavery as a primary effect of ...

Securing Black Rights in Milwaukee

Abolitionists like Sherman Booth and Ezekiel Gillespie fought alongside other abolitionists to abolish slavery and secure the blac...

Prince Among Slaves by Terry Alford

This book review is on Terry Alford's text Prince Among Slaves. which relates the biography of Ibrahima, an African prince who was...

Slavery and Reform in West Africa by Trevor Getz

This book review is on Trevor Getz's Slavery and Reform in West Africa: Toward Emancipation in Nineteenth-century Senegal and the ...

Slave Narrative Comparison

In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at slave narratives. Differing experiences are highlighted with respect to different e...

Aspects of Slavery

This research paper includes four short essays, which are on how slaves retained their sense of identity and community, Enlightenm...

Slavery, Emancipation And Colonial Rule in South Africa

This book review is on Wayne Dooling's text Slavery, Emancipation And Colonial Rule in South Africa. The writer discusses the auth...

Setting the Stage for Civil War, Disputes of the 1850s

This research paper describes the issues associated with slavery that prevailed through the disputes of the 1850s. The Compromise ...

Huckleberry Finn and Social Consciousness

This essay argues that Huck's moral maturation resulted from his relationship with Jim, a runaway slave, and it is this bond that ...

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...

Slavery in Cape Colony, Before and After 1815

This research paper provides a comprehensive overview of slavery in Cape Colony, South Africa, both before and after 1815, which i...

American Westward Expansion

This research paper describes the way that the Haitian Revolution, the Louisiana Purchase, Manifest Destiny, the cotton gin and th...

The Controversy of Slavery

Slavery was a component of world history practically since the beginning of mankinds reign on earth....

The Sometimes Contradictory Ideology of Thomas Jefferson

This paper assesses Jefferson's contributions and how they corresponded with his views on slavery and indigenous rights. There ar...