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

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

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....

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

Pilot and the Passenger (1956), vernacular language carries democratic social value" (Review). As difficult as it has been for A...

culture to some extent. The culture is implicit in much of what goes on and is woven throughout the content of the book. Identity ...

him. Soon released, Bacon gathered his supporters, marched on Jamestown, and coerced Berkeley into granting him a commission to co...

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

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...

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

can be termed neither solely positive or solely negative in regard to its influence on culture and people. There would be tremend...

the early years slaves actually performed the elite work and were servants within the household (1998). They would do the cooking ...

Darwinism. Old ways were questioned but there was a caveat. Suddenly the mainstream had an excuse for their past and present bruta...

own people: he points out that the rape of girls "not ten years old" resulted in the perpetrators being disciplined, but it is cle...

into the White House (Brooks, 2003). The Brown raid took place in South Carolina, a state where the slave population was higher th...

and be taken care of. She does not look off longingly to a freedom without such realities, but she looks to the power of mothering...

convicts to be shipped to the Colonies and the influx of Negroes into the States (1944). It did seem that while laws which allowed...

Indeed, Douglass (1960) book portrays a man living within himself in order to escape the atrocities of a nonliberal life; if not a...

determining the direction that this country would ultimately take (McPherson, 1988). There were many individuals in the yea...

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

a slave owner. Regardless of his commitment to democracy, such commitment did not extend to include slaves in that process. Vali...

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...

charge of the environment and created numerous crops needed in the United States. At first they utilized the assistance of indentu...

power in the federal government, the North did not directly address these issues. There were no talks. There were no debates. Ther...

of any profit motive. Perdue writes, "The plantation system, the institution of slavery, and the economic values of ...European pl...

be a slave (Schaub 86). He explained in a mater-of-fact way that since he knew no other life, the term slavery meant nothing to h...

so evident in official circles before. Individuals adopted rules and standards of behavior designed to serve "appearances." Youn...

those changes threatened to overturn the relationship which existed between the individual states and the nation as a whole. A si...

section of our country believes slavery is right and ought to be extended, while the other believes it is wrong and ought not to b...

them, the more the author desperately wanted to remove himself from such circumstances. "In moments of agony, I envied my fellow-...