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

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...

so evident in official circles before. Individuals adopted rules and standards of behavior designed to serve "appearances." Youn...

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

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

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...

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...

those changes threatened to overturn the relationship which existed between the individual states and the nation as a whole. A si...

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...

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

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 ...

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

Recent news has focused attention on the abduction into sexual slavery of great numbers of women from various Asian countries duri...

hatamoto-yakko cannot truly be seen as the forebears of that yakuza. Instead, the yakuza see the machi-yokko ("Servants of the tow...

In seven pages colonial slavery in the regions of Bahia and the Caribbean is examined in a discussionof 2 journal articles that di...

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...

because Congress couldnt really make up its mind, but rather, decided to leave it up to the people of Kansas. The "free-staters," ...