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Slavery Ideology and Practice in Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

quickly. It is true that in some of the Northern settlements, plantation managers preferred to use white indentured servants rathe...

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...

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...

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...

American Trucking Industry and the Effects of the North American Free Trade Agreement

cost thousands of US jobs. None of those unions has been as successful as the Teamsters, however (No truck with free trade; NAFTA...

Antebellum Reform and Slavery

for historical purposes, psychological purposes, social purposes, and any other purposes one may desire to seek. One of the most p...

North and South Conflict and Slavery

rights alongside the emancipation that had already taken place; however, it actually proved to represent a time of significant dis...

Slavery Reactions of Black Women

white freedom and black slavery. The link between whites and blacks would change considerably between the arrival of those first ...

Slavery Development

protect their class interests" (Takaki, 1993, p. 62). The laws that they passed in their own favor "extended the time of indentur...

The Issue of the Extension of Slavery Reported in the American Whig

may be ill-timed or inhumane; it may be constitutional and yet smack of arbitrary power-of oppression: it may ... carry with it a ...

Racism & Adolescent Development

favor "cooperation, discussion, a focus tied to people, hands-on activities, and whole-to-part learning," while white students are...

How Revolutionary was the American Revolution?

enough to overcome racial discrimination or the claims of the south that it needed slave labor to work the plantations (Coombs, 19...

Colonization and 'King Leopold's Ghost'

gross exploitation of African slaves. That Leopold was wholly capable of stuffing his incoming ships with an abundance of ivory a...

America's Slavery Legacy

were unable to teach their children good values and morality, or how to be men and women. The removal of parents made families wi...

Slavery According to Sterling Stuckey and Ira Berlin

order to illustrate why each authors particular perception is more accurate than the others. Utilizing the principles of historic...

Increasing Significance of Long Distance Migration

In four pages this paper examines the increases in migrating long distances since the sixteenth century in a consideration of Amer...

Nineteenth Century American Identity Development

of those character traits became a part of what most Americans like to think of as an uniquely American point of view, as well as ...

Antebellum America and the Advantages of Slavery

In five pages this paper discusses that slavery was preferable to the slave and slave owner of the antebellum American South to fr...

American Colonies and Lives of Slaves

In nine pages this paper considers what slavery was like in the American colonies with North and South differences duly noted alo...

Comparing Americas' Slavery with Roman and Greek Slavery

This is a review consisting of twelve pages that compares and contrasts the institution of slavery in various times and societies ...

Racism in Colonial America

Racism has been part and parcel of American society since its inception, and the colonial period featured racism in its most virul...

Nineteenth Century South and Slavery

In five pages this paper examines narratives by Harriet Jacobs and Frederick Douglass in a consideration of nineteenth century sla...

Secession as a Harbinger of Conflict

Civil War historians believe that a majority of Americans felt that forcing the South to remain in the Union when it felt it was n...

Reflections on Five Hundred Years of American History

In five pages five centuries of American history are considered in an analysis of significant quotes with political movements, civ...

America and the Economic Effects of Slavery

purposes, the coerced and manipulated diversion of income and wealth from blacks to whites" (pp.40). Slavery produced benef...

A Consideration of American History from 1865 until 1945

The important events that shaped America including slavery, the Reconstruction, political patronage, industrialization, the Progre...

African American Slave Resistance

In four pages this research paper discusses African American resistance to slavery during America's antebellum period. One source...

U.S. Colonies and Slavery

modern mind set, some of the facts may have been translated, or recorded incorrectly. The legend has been repeated endlessly tha...

Sugar Production in Colonial Cuba and its Effects on Slavery and Business

This paper presents an overview of sugar production in Cuba during the country's colonial era. The author notes the various impac...

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain and Slavery

In five pages this paper discusses the author's perspectives on slavery as reflected in this great American novel. Five sources a...