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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 ...

Feminist Message in A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf

"linear narrative and instead went to an interior monologue, or stream of consciousness, technique"(Virginia Woolf, 2003). Woolfs...

King Oedipus Was His Own Worst Enemy

birth was that he would kill his father and marry his mother, a pronouncement so shocking that Laius and Jocasta felt they needed ...

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...

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...

Louisiana Slavery

the industry of holding an indentured servant as opposed to a slave. The other possibility is that Louisiana was a port state. T...

Living on One's Own is Better

virtue of an extensive library and the contributions of fellow students. Not only is the type of school all-important to ones aca...

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...

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...

A Comparison of Pre-Colonial Slavery in East and West Africa

In addition to agricultural slaves, Africas administrative sectors were diverse and many slaves were actually employed in those se...

Handling Stress and Ted Pollock's 'Mind Your Own Business'

solution to time pressures, but much of this is because the article is written in an upbeat style, flows well for rapid absorption...

Androgyny and Isolation in A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf

An androgynous individual relies upon social acceptance just the same as other more gender-specific people; when he or she receive...

Emily Dickinson's 'The Soul Selects Hew Own Society' and Imagery

keeping out all of the world that she does not desire to experience or see or meet. This is further emphasized by the third and fo...

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 ...

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)....

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...

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 ...

A Woman Soldier's Own Story: The Autobiography of Xie Bingying A Critique

dominated every aspect of their lives. As a child Xie was not even supposed to play outside with members of the opposite sex, not...

Feminine Reading of Woolf's, A Room of One's Own

an intimate conversation among feminine equals. Men are excluded" (Marcus 79). She has, in essence, constructed an alternate fem...

Sojourner's 'Plain-Speaking' Truth

291). While still a slave of John Dumonts, Isabella married fellow slave Thomas and subsequently gave birth to five children. A ...

Comparing Jacobs and Wilson

of slavery, as she was not free by any definition of this term and she was treated as property, in a manner that is equivalent to ...

Gender and Narratives: Rowlandson and Jacobs

two they took and carried away alive" (Rowlandson). In this she is clearly just presenting the facts, as anyone would do, be they ...

I, Robot and Race/Slavery

involves also looking ahead to the necessity of rights for future robots such as the robot in I, Robot. In the film...

Stereotypes in Frederick Douglass’s Narrative

Chapter 1, Douglass reveals two facts that have come to be considered typical of slaves: he doesnt know how old he is, and his fat...

Socioeconomic Status of Women in A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf

In six pages this paper discusses how Woolf's education and high social status influenced her views regarding working class women ...

Making a Nation of the Hebrew Slaves

raise his staff and stretch out his arms and the Sea parted, allowing all the Israelites to get to the other side at which time th...

Unsable Personality in Orphan Pamuk’s the White Castle

retrospective, written as a memory of event that had occurred earlier, with the narrator ever revealing his own name or identity, ...