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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...

students of history shudder to read the horrible human rights abuses that were inflicted upon slaves in the antebellum South. Howe...

While it certainly wasnt the only reason, slavery...

slavery, a trend which leads towards the development of Sectionalism in the Southern states. 1830s: Southern states begin to seek ...

instruct me further, telling her, among other things, that it was unlawful, as well as unsafe, to teach a slave to read. To use hi...

Describing Columbus interactions with the Indians in Cuba, Zinn writes: He took more Indian prisoners and put them aboard his two...

most masters tried to keep their slaves ignorant on this matter, as it was regarded as a sign of a "restless spirit" for slaves to...

that after the war for independence the English goods that the nation had relied upon disappeared, making the goods that the South...

present, the convention achieved a consensus by avoiding certain controversial issues by reaching a compromise. There were differe...

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

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

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...

the West, but White suggests it should be examined closely, not automatically given credence (White, 2001). He also suggests that...

moral conviction, and, especially. on the part of African American activists, a fierce visceral passion for freedom" (Bordewich 4)...

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

of effecting what is right" (The American Dilemma). There are many factors that can be cited as the cause for the Civil...

as her Gran, her brother and several aunt and uncles (Perez-Stable 24). When the Old Mistress in the house dies, Jacobs comes unde...

the buying and selling of human beings. How would a Kantian analyze the ethics of slavery? How might a utilitarian, a social con...

at the south. If a man goes to the communion table, and pays money into the treasury of the church, no matter if it be the price o...

born in Kenya, educated in Britain and currently teaching at Binghamton University, New York knows of what he studies (Binghamton,...

my opinion, yet I consider our condition but little better than that....After all, methinks there are no chains so galling as thos...

Pilot and the Passenger (1956), vernacular language carries democratic social value" (Review). As difficult as it has been for A...

unknown to him. He grew up in a time where the country was changing. The Civil War had ended and he and his family possessed freed...

him. Soon released, Bacon gathered his supporters, marched on Jamestown, and coerced Berkeley into granting him a commission to co...

culture to some extent. The culture is implicit in much of what goes on and is woven throughout the content of the book. Identity ...