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Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights, T.S. Eliot's 'The Mill on the Floss' and Narrative Perspective

had a daughter who loved him"; however, Maggie received no such indications either from her father" or from Tom--the two idols of ...

Narratives, Folktales, and Myths from a Psychoanalytic Perspective

In ten pages this report analyzes how Sigmund Freud's theory of psychoanalysis would explain ancient narratives, folktales, and my...

Bloodiest Slave Rebellion

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

Summry of Jefferson Davis' Speech on Property Rights

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

The Slave Mothers of Black Americans

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

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...

The Unforgotten African Slave Trade

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

Slave Resistance to Enslavement in To Be a Slave by Julius Lester

In six pages this report examines this 1968 text that examines slavery from the perspectives of the slaves and their various modes...

Slavery in Two Worlds

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

Slavery, Rebellion and the Memory of Freedom

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

The Material Culture of Slaves in Early America

white slave owners, the material culture that the slaves remembered in Africa, and the material culture of the Native American peo...

A Look at Civil War Black Soldiers and Sailors

slaves played a role during the Civil War in eventually seeing freedom is as follows: "By running from masters to become contraban...

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...

Living in Misery

there was only a small fireplace and we never had enough wood to keep the cabin warm. It was very cold in winter, but at least it ...

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...

Edward Jones/The Known World

As this suggests, the novel abounds in paradoxes. Moses, the cruel overseer, did not murder his wife and child, but actually sent ...

Views on Slavery and its Justification or Lack of

In 5 pages various perspectives of slavery are examined in this comparative analysis of Twenty Two Years a Slave and Forty Years a...

U.S. Civil War and Escaped Slaves' Maroon Societies

consider productive. II. Brutality Under Slavery It is hard to fathom the concept of accepting the ownership of people but du...

Antebellum America and the Advantages of Slavery

In five pages this paper discusses that slavery was preferable to the slave and slave owner of the antebellum American South to fr...

Southern Slaves and Freedom Songs

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

Frederick Douglass versus the Confederacy

In five pages the research paper considers the perspectives of the antebellum South as viewed by onetime slave Frederick Douglass ...

Perspectives of Maria W. Stewart and Frederick Douglass

In six pages northern lecturer Maria W. Stewart's social perspectives are contrasted and compared with those of Southern freed sla...

Cultural Assumptions and Historical Sources

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

Comparing Americas' Slavery with Roman and Greek Slavery

This is a review consisting of twelve pages that compares and contrasts the institution of slavery in various times and societies ...

A Story by a Slave Trader

book appears to be a candid recollection by someone who was not troubled enough by what he was doing to stop it. Theodore Conneau...

Diverse Views of the Latter Nineteenth Century Black Woman's Experience in Slave Women of the Fields and Charlotte Forten

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

Victims in Robert Harms' The Diligent A Voyage Through the Worlds of the Slave Trade

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

French Influence Upon the Slave Trade in the Transatlantic

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...

The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass and Slavery as an 'Injurious' Institution

human being was not only wrong, but dangerously so. Slavery proved as injurious to her as it did to me. When I went there, she wa...

Slave Trade and Owners' Attitudes are Analyzed in Benito Cereno by Herman Melville and Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

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