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

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

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

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

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

This Machiavellian concept is examines in ten pages with Moses being among the prophets discussed. Four sources are cited in the ...

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

"Since a boy is not armed by nature, society must provide him with man-made weapons" (Hibberd, 1986, p. 143). Furthermore, accordi...

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....

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...

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

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

story revolves around an American news correspondent, Jake Barnes, who lives and works in Europe, as well as his assorted friends"...

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...

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...

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

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

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

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...