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Russian History's Inconsistencies and Dichotomies

Great," 2003). Peter the Great was somewhat obsessed with creating a Russia that was separate and apart from Asia as well. His St....

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...

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...

17th Century America and Black Slavery

no sunlight and been fed only enough to keep them alive. This journey, however, was likely just the beginning of the trials and t...

Ancient History's Contemporary Social Influence

writing was the mainstay of civilised life. A seated scribe holding a papyrus roll was one of the most popular subjects in their e...

Slave Experiences in the Middle Passage

in this stupefied condition they are carried aboard, stowed in a sitting posture, with the knees drawn up so closely that they can...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Critically Analyzed

black man with little formal education could have written such an impressive text. In order to dispel any notion that his narrati...

Differing Views of Tragedy by Assorted Philosophers

of the tragedy is that it is connected with the heros activities and it emphasizes human vulnerability (2005). To Aristotle, trage...

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...

Edward Ball's Slaves in the Family

his own discoveries, those that relate to his desire to aid the African American families that were so directly linked to his own....

Labor Issues in Canada

where they are paid per piece rather than by the hour (Hammadieh, 1998). The hourly wage typically ranges between $2.50 and $4.00 ...

History's 'Longest War'

to shift his ground until he agreed with the allies (McCollum, 2003). Germany would be made to pay. "Unfortunately, rather than ...

Social Conflict Theory, Politics, and Economics

workmen to gather. There were no acts of parliament forbidding collusion among employers to "lower the price of work: but many ag...

The Holocaust and U.S. Reluctance to Take Action

as the mentally and physically challenged; African Germans and others considered inferior were included under the law as well (Bai...

Airlines and Economics

expense of lower returns on investment in the future; in other words, a company might cut prices now to boost short-term demand....

Community Stability, Global Warming and East Washington State

to use certain lands for planting or harvesting crops (Anonymous, 2004). Furthermore, about one-sixth of the total cost would come...

Economics and Health Care

can add to scarcity, such as time and income (Schenk, 2004). Furthermore, resources are limited, such as manpower, machinery and n...

Reaganomics, Keynesian Theory, and Supply Side Economics

as the way to economic health, rather than moving through macroeconomic methods (Answers.com, 2005). During the 1980s, such measur...

U.S. Economic Development from 1790 until 1840

He appealed to logic and strove to demonstrate that a central government guided by the Constitution as it existed would bring grea...

Big Money and Big Sports

teachers? Teachers are certainly more important to society than baseball players?" To this perfectly legitimate question, Chass re...

Websites on Black History and Information Verification

Europe" (also by Rashidi) also identifies Moors as synonymous with black Africans and describes how Moorish soldiers cross over fr...

Cultural and Economic Overview of Colombia

The population of the country is 42.9 million, and the median age of the population is about 26 years (CIA Factbook, 2005). The gr...