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The Boxed Slave Known as Aunt Jemima

fictitious biography for her, while a succession of real-life women portrayed Aunt Jemima at county fairs and various bake-off com...

America and Free Labor of the Nineteenth Century

slave and freeman who work for nothing has about the same amount (1840, 368). Interestingly, a bit later, Karl Marx would remark t...

Colonization and 'King Leopold's Ghost'

gross exploitation of African slaves. That Leopold was wholly capable of stuffing his incoming ships with an abundance of ivory a...

African Americans and Their Evolution in Fiction and Nonfiction

social consciousness. One of Douglass first discoveries, or one of the most important first discoveries, he made was that of the...

The Slave Trade in Liverpool, England

other Atlantic trades, particularly sugar and tobacco, and were therefore looking for more lucrative commodities. Others consider ...

Was the Relationship Between Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson Love or Rape?

Jefferson made his views on slavery (for the general populace) known. In his notes for the Virginia Constitution, Jefferson also n...

Jefferson's Relationship with Sally Hemmings

times of conception for the birth of all of those six children. There are no records that she was elsewhere during those times, or...

Thomas Jefferson's Life and Contributions

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

What it Was Like to Be a Slave Before the Civil War

know that he was a slave and until he was old enough to experience the suffering and see the suffering endured by others. This ...

True Life Stories, Literature, and Issues of Gender, Sex, and Race

end, giving us a young woman who was never able to come to terms with her race, her sexuality, or her gender. She is the character...

An Analysis of Lindstrom's Article, I Won't Be a Slave

addition to their different attitudes, many of the women devoted their entire lives to the caretaking of their employers and their...

'Slave Power,' the North, and the Civil War

of Yeoman Households" notes that in standard anti-bellum society, the white male plantation owner was the prime owner of everythin...

Freedom Concepts of Frederick Douglass and Olaudah Equiano

with a family with a young child, she takes a liking to him and when "child cried so much after me that nothing could pacify her t...

Jefferson and Hemmings, Fiction or Fact

conception for the birth of all of those six children. There are no records that she was elsewhere during those times, or records ...

Slave and Master Impacted by Slavery

inferior didnt hold up in the light of his personal story. Equianos work showed the American slave owners and traders how hypocrit...

Black Literature and Violence

eras and toward different genders. The slave narratives of Douglass and Jacobs Douglass Narrative is the best known first-hand a...

Slavery and the Revolutionary War

land become independent. But, with the slaves they truly had their own possessions which they desired to keep. This is perhaps one...

North American Colonial Period, Native Americans and African Slaves

It was also based on the Europeans ability to see Africans as a source for slave labor. Africans who were captured and shipped to ...

Lost Identity and Culture as a Result of the Slave Trade

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

Slavery and Phillis Wheatley's 'To the University of Cambridge, in New England' and Harriet Jacobs' Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

as, first of all knows her place, and, secondly was divinely inspired. In the antebellum era, it was illegal for slaves to be tau...

New Jersey Economics and Slavery

Though one representative from New Jersey was present and voted for the measure, the other representative, who was necessary to th...

Bahia, the Caribbean, and Ethnic Slave Rebellions

In seven pages colonial slavery in the regions of Bahia and the Caribbean is examined in a discussionof 2 journal articles that di...

Abolishing the Transatlantic Slave Trade

(Beary, 1997). The basic elements of the African slave system during the 18th and 19th centuries was based on three elemental s...

The 'Lost Glories' of African Civilizations

There is little evidence today that these civilizations even existed and many people still find it hard to believe the evidence th...

Matisse and Turner Art Compared

In eight pages Matisse's Impressionism and Turner's Romanticism are compared in terms of the artifice in The Slave Ship and Odalis...

19th Century American Slavery and Marriages

In five pages this paper examines 'jumping the broom' and other rituals that were part of the 19th century American slave marriage...

A Slavery Overview

In seven pages this issue is examined from the time of the American Revolution through the emancipation of the 19th century and in...

Slave Live Stereotypes and Actual Realities

In five pages this paper considers the misconceptions associated with slavery as opposed to the actual slave life reality. Five s...

Nat Turner's Slave Rebellion and its Cause

version is that his masters family taught him. However the education came about, when his owner, Benjamin Turner, found out Nat co...

Fires of Jubilee Nat Turner's Fierce Rebellion by Oates

and families. Turners Rebellion was squelched before he ever reached Jerusalem, and after six weeks of hiding from the authorities...