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of reference, then one will never know, in any given case, what really happened" (Tompkins, Indians, 60; Cochran 69). In this case...

pictured offering ironic commentaries on sculpture and art, with his conversation peppered with "allusions to Samuel Johnson, Sain...

In twelve pages this paper examines the policies and views of such individuals as Frederick W. Turner, Captain John Smith, and And...

In four pages the 18th century English King Frederick II is the focus of this biographical profile of his life, politics, and reig...

out of the hands of Vlad the III. (Vlad 1996) Vlad III eventually did manage to regain the thrown of Walachia by conspiring with...

Art often imitates life, particularly in American media. This paper compares the media frenzy over the Clinton-Lewinsky affair wit...

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares the definitions of the frontier and what an 'American' means according to Frederic...

track of who, precisely, in the American population is descended from slaves, and identification of race for government statistics...

morning (Spartacus International). A slave at a different location reported being given a "peck of sifted cornmeal, a dozen and a ...

concomitant threat of corporal destruction to the slave workers in the South" (Newbury 159). Through one particular example, Stowe...

of early American history did not have a complex culture, a culture that encompassed a deep religiosity. Indeed, Nat Turner, lead...

slave Louis Hughes in his autobiography, Thirty Years a Slave (Hughes, 2001). In his account, he discusses how he was separated fr...

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

followed the North Star in the Big Dipper to get oriented on which direction to travel (Curtis 34). Hidden within the lyrics of ...

In five pages this research paper examines cultural assumptions and how they influence historical sources pertaining to slave trad...

slaves from Africa were sold mostly in the Americas. Wolf first discusses who bought these slaves and why, and then answers the q...

including at least some of the traditional African dance movements in their mocking. In fact, Ellison said that the slaves were "b...

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

occurring in this era between slavery and freedom. We learn from both Forten and Schwalm that many African American women were in...

sold to Africans and only rarely to Europeans" (Harms, 2003; 246). These particular slaves were often kept by the Africans if it w...

Indians but most were brought forcibly from Africa (Bermuda History, 2003). Typically, they were used as domestic servants but we...

number of slave workers needed to supply this demand. By way of a history lesson, it should be noted that it was the Portuguese w...

There were many small insurrections among slaves but they were mostly hushed up so that other slaves did not get the idea that the...

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

This 3 page paper gives a summary of the speech given to Congress by Jefferson Davis over property owning in relation to slaves. T...

slave, she was not fortunate enough to belong to the middle class and to have the social connections that come along with that cla...

became something other than a free society. The slaves true story, then, lies in his humane triumph over tyranny" (Huggins lxxi)....

no sunlight and been fed only enough to keep them alive. This journey, however, was likely just the beginning of the trials and t...

still the most important piece of history that the U.S. embraces. Jefferson married in 1772 and owned both land and slaves ("Jef...

This was the condition of slavery for women. They were often seen as breeding machines that were good for little more than produci...