SEARCH RESULTS

When the Reconstruction Period arrived, it looked as though blacks were going to regain their inherent rights as free citizens alo...

most important and fascinating of them were fashioned by black and white revolutionists who saw race as the great American dilemma...

will explore the ramifications of these paradoxes, focusing primarily on the experience of Puerto Rican immigrants. Silvia Pedra...

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

to agriculture and of course slavery. One author notes, in relationship to their essentially power due to slavery, "Slavery formed...

of one of the most powerful nations in the world. It was only through slavery that the United States was able to grow huge crops i...

his Preface, indicating his regard for him as a "seminal thinker" (Nash ix). Also, he acknowledges that he adopted his stance rega...

B.C. when it was a sparsely population area (Pearson Education 2008). The Nok culture is known to have resided there between 800 B...

Hawkins, a former slave, slaves constantly spoke of the possibility of escape among themselves. Hawkins writes that the yearning f...

slavery expand westward, which began to challenge "the territorial limits of slavery, the limits of federal power, and the limits ...

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

was soon culturally established as a center for "moral guidance" in the lives of New England colonists. 2.) Why did slavery grow...

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

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

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

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

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

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...