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Theme of Desire in 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Henry V

namely, the crown/ And all wide-stretched honours that pertain/ By custom and the ordinance of times/ Unto the crown of France" (S...

How the Civil War Shaped and Defined Abraham Lincoln

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...

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...

Slavery: Frederick Douglass

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

Slavery in Africa and Europe

then there was the arrival and influence of the Islamic people who further made an impact on slavery. This is also important to un...

Frederick Douglass: The Inherent Cruelty of Slavery

a slave and, once he had escaped, carefully honed that skill along with his oratorical and writing skills for use as a tool in the...

Slavery, Rebellion and the Memory of Freedom

of early American history did not have a complex culture, a culture that encompassed a deep religiosity. Indeed, Nat Turner, lead...

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...

Uncle Tom’s Cabin and Slavery

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...

James Oakes, Slavery and Liberal Capitalism

the playing field level" (Zimmerman). This idea is still alive today, proposed by progressives who feel that everyone should get a...

Colonial To 1877 Slavery Effects

traditional culture and faith as a means by which to survive. Clearly, black men and American culture have long existed as a syne...

Mexican American War/Lincoln's Slavery Position

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

The African American Dream of Equality

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

Slavery as Impacted by Western Expansion

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

Slavery and the Kansas-Nebraska Act

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

Kansas and Slavery

that "their Southern brethren" supply "material aid" (An appeal to the south, 1865). Their cause was bolstered by bloody acts like...

Frederick Douglass and Roots

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...

The Honor Code of the Old South

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

Slavery in Brazil

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

Thomas Jefferson and the Slavery Question

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

No Justification for Slavery

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

Slavery A Precipitating Factor in the Civil War

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

19th Century American History

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

Prison Labor in the United States: Capitalism or Slavery?

roots. Prison labor offers a way for prisoners to earn money while learning a trade, but with these prisons profiting on such chea...

Education and Frederick Douglass

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...

Would Black Reparations be Redistributive Justice?

our current system of redistributive taxation follows a set pattern that is characterized by an inherent inequality between those ...

Life of a Factory Worker Compared with Life of a Slave

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

Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, and What They Mean to the United States and the World

of the Vietnam War and Malcolm spent considerable time in Africa during the last years of his life to observe the economic hardshi...

17th and 18th Century America and White Slaves

German child sold as a mulatto" (Talty, 2000). There was even a case...

19th Century America's Economic Developments

majorities in terms of the Senate and the intermittent control of the White House, change was not significant (2000). The desire t...