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Ending Slavery with the Civil War

was overthrown by the election of Abraham Lincoln, aristocrats in the South refused to accept the public will (1999). Southerners...

Unnecessary for African Americans to Receive Slavery Reparations

during WWII. In part, the reason why one group should be compensated and the other not, is really due to timing. Some people who f...

Individual States and Construction Law

much smaller geographic region. Requirements in Washington In Washington, the states Department of Labor and Industries Construct...

Issues Featured in Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin

knows that it would put Mr. Shelby even further in debt and that he might be forced to sell off more of the slaves from his home....

Frederick Douglass and Harriet Ann Jacobs on Male and Female Slaves

knew it till six years of happy childhood had passed away. My father was a carpenter, and considered so intelligent and skilful in...

Back to the Motherland

own lands(**). Reinsertion is accompanied, in most cases, with some form of aid which makes certain that the returning soldiers h...

Cumberland County, New Jersey, and Crime

rather rural or suburban, the state has its share of problems. In fact, in addition to boasting beautiful suburban areas, and vaca...

US and a History of the Women's Suffrage Movement

movements, such as slavery and temperance3. Following the Civil War, womens rights leaders hoped to receive universal suffrage, an...

Gunpowder's Invention and Historical Impact

and explosives has ranked among the top three most important elements of modern civilization along with printing and the Protestan...

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs and its Themes

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...

Pennsylvania's Cigarette Taxes

They want this because of traffic congestion in cities in addition to the problem of pollution. Raising taxes on gas promotes car ...

Problems with the U.S. Articles of Confederation

been ineffectual at best, but, afterwards, the actions of Congress were actually hampering the viability of the new republic. One ...

Early American History and Free African Americans

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

A Privacy Issue

policy of individual rights. However, those rights, it would seem, are the very ones that are being used against the United States...

Aspects of the Multiple Heritage Seen in Africa

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

E-Commerce, Tax Revenues and Physical Stores

Internet sales would result in decreased sales at traditional brick-and-mortar stores (1999). That seems to make logical sense if ...

Thomas Jefferson, Slavery, the Civil War, and 'the American Dilemma'

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

Social Welfare and Poverty in Michigan

social welfare policy is as follows: "The Michigan Program on Poverty and Social Welfare Policy is jointly managed by the Schools...

Interrogation Rooms and the Mandatory Presence of Cameras

it mandatory for video and audio recorders to be in the interrogation rooms. This would aid in preventing excessive coercive pract...

Contemporary Slavery and Philosophical Concepts

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

Is There a Constitution in Great Britain?

the best definitions can be seen as "A body of laws, customs and conventions that define the composition and powers of the organs ...

Impartial Government and the U.S. Bill of Rights

establishing America as its own liberated and democratic country, "the privilege of the informed and the involved" (Muczyk PG). M...

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs

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

Michael Parenti's Views on the U.S. Government

down the road to create a society that embraces both people of color, and women. Although many contend that the Framers were inter...

Reconstruction Period and Social Welfare

total disregard toward the Southern people and their hardships as a result of the war"(Jennings, 2002). In such an atmosphere, it ...

Oregon’s Death With Dignity Act and Physician Assisted Suicide

that declared physician-assisted suicide not to be an individuals constitutional right (Zanskas and Coduti 27). It was also in th...

California's Emergency Services and its Relationship with the Federal Government

and Atmospheric Agency (NOAA), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and the South Pacific Division of the US Army Corps of E...

An Examination of Human Rights

academic degrees, but cannot find a job in a shaky economy, might feel that way about accepting a job that only pays a minimal amo...

U.S. Capitalism and Slavery

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

'On Being Brought from Africa to America' by Phyllis Wheatley

arguing that Wheatley was not intelligent, for she was. We are merely arguing that her ignorance of the true realities of slavery ...