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Describing Columbus interactions with the Indians in Cuba, Zinn writes: He took more Indian prisoners and put them aboard his two...

present, the convention achieved a consensus by avoiding certain controversial issues by reaching a compromise. There were differe...

most masters tried to keep their slaves ignorant on this matter, as it was regarded as a sign of a "restless spirit" for slaves to...

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

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

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

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...

including women, but while things would eventually be repaired to the point of some closure on the subject-intermarriage, black ca...

(Dukes 24). Some have said that the meeting, and the book, had influenced Lincoln in his making his Gettysburg address (24). Indee...

Master provided a slaves entire living, giving him food, shelter, and in effect, his life, then the slave owed his entire life to ...

Whatever happened in the past is past, but that is not the truth. If one looks at demographics, they will find that the descendant...

farmer or artisan, the master and the mistress shared it, and when it was finished, the white and the black, like the feudal chief...

only tolerated and accepted, but also embraced as part of daily life (Anonymous, 2001). In most early societies, slavery seems to...

Davis clearly outlines the many ways in which slavery was a truly ancient institution in which the "Arabs and their Muslim allies ...

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

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....

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

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

unknown to him. He grew up in a time where the country was changing. The Civil War had ended and he and his family possessed freed...

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

slave Louis Hughes in his autobiography, Thirty Years a Slave (Hughes, 2001). In his account, he discusses how he was separated fr...

in manipulating that world. It can also be contended, however, that each new technological development directly impacted the econ...

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

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...

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

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...

such as in 1963 when Queen Mother Moore submitted to President Kennedy a petition with over a million signatures calling for repar...

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

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