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soldiers attacked a US patrol, and Taylor sent a message to Polk that read "Hostilities may be considered commenced" (Zinn 151). M...

people smoke cigarettes and eat buttered popcorn today even though they know these things are bad for human health. Similarly, Jef...

that the Chesapeake was good for growing tobacco, which is a labor-intensive crop, and more labor was needed for the plantations (...

that a police investigation into the distinctive practices of slave prostitution" that ultimately involved more than 200 women in ...

relatively inconsequential. For those interested in the Old South, however, the book provides an insight that is not so easily ma...

and essentially left the white population of the nation still ignoring the impact of history concerning the African American peopl...

well, however. Some believed that the southern states were involved in a conspiracy to destroy northern liberty. By the ninetee...

the concept of popular sovereignty issues such as slavery were viewed as being justly determined by the people of Kansas themselve...

of his people, and growing into a man prior to his becoming a slave. In these respects the reader gets a very different look at sl...

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...

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

necessary institution but also as a just one. They took the stance that white slave owners were entitled to own slaves as a part o...

the physical oppression of the slaves. Douglass work illustrates many ways in which slaves were imprisoned and oppressed, and also...

simply a novel that came from her imagination, but rather one based in a great deal of fact in how slaves were treated and the con...

presents the thesis that to understand African Americans and their importance in American society, we must first understand the ma...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

This research paper presents a comprehensive analysis of this scholarly article, which examines the controversy of precisely why t...

This book review focuses on Scott Martell's "Blood Passion: The Ludlow Massacre and Class War in the American West," which descri...

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

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