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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...

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

that they are endowed by the Creator with certain unalienable rights"1 Here, then, is the contradiction between perception...

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

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...

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...

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

by her own relatives. She seems to learn that hard times can come from black as well as white folk. Annes first taste of how thing...

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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...

the tables and resulted in the institution known as slavery (49). That is a rather important claim. It just might be the case th...

skinned and easily passes for white. This simple premise presents us with the curious question of whether or not this boy will e...

North was not quite as conducive to farming. Although it is true that perhaps the South might have become more prone to industrial...

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