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Standard Oil of California negotiated a contract with the King of Saudi Arabia that granted the company the exclusive concession t...

Southern Slave Codes

first chapter, Goodell describes slavery as defined by the laws of various southern states; here we read things like this: "LOUISI...

Freed Slaves Staying in the South in Edward Jones' The Known World

slaves of his own. It was the world he knew, the world he understood, and the business he was good in. To leave, to go north, to c...

Sex Slave Trade

into the business. After all, at least many of these venues are deemed legal. These sex workers just have to play by the rules and...

Miles Gloriosus Play by Plautus

"heavy father ... [who] is often led into the vices and follies which he has reproved in his son" (Bates, 1906, vol. 1). These com...

Was the Relationship Between Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson Love or Rape?

Jefferson made his views on slavery (for the general populace) known. In his notes for the Virginia Constitution, Jefferson also n...

Jefferson's Relationship with Sally Hemmings

times of conception for the birth of all of those six children. There are no records that she was elsewhere during those times, or...

Comparing Bell I. Wiley's The Life of Billy Yank with The Life of Johnny Reb

Southern young men, war was an opportunity to travel to other parts of the country that they had never seen. War seemed glorious a...

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...

The Slave Trade in Liverpool, England

other Atlantic trades, particularly sugar and tobacco, and were therefore looking for more lucrative commodities. Others consider ...

America and Free Labor of the Nineteenth Century

slave and freeman who work for nothing has about the same amount (1840, 368). Interestingly, a bit later, Karl Marx would remark t...

'Slave Power,' the North, and the Civil War

of Yeoman Households" notes that in standard anti-bellum society, the white male plantation owner was the prime owner of everythin...

Life's Service and Disservice According to Friedrich Nietzsche

lessons. There is an old saying that claims that those who do not learn from history are bound to repeat it. And although most ag...

An Analysis of Lindstrom's Article, I Won't Be a Slave

addition to their different attitudes, many of the women devoted their entire lives to the caretaking of their employers and their...

Female Slave Condition in 'Ar'n't I a Woman?' by Deborah Gray White

the beginning African American women were more than physical workers in relationship to slavery. They were the sexual receptacles...

Life's Meaning in Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

the ears of company officials. Marlow accepts this mission, travels upriver, and confronts the horror that Kurtz has become. In ot...

Characters of Simon Legree, St. Clare, and Shelby in Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

that matter. At one point a little boy, named Jim Crow, comes in and he tosses raisins at him and tells him to pick them up. The b...

Louisiana Slavery

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

Slavery and Phillis Wheatley's 'To the University of Cambridge, in New England' and Harriet Jacobs' Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

as, first of all knows her place, and, secondly was divinely inspired. In the antebellum era, it was illegal for slaves to be tau...

Slavery and the Revolutionary War

land become independent. But, with the slaves they truly had their own possessions which they desired to keep. This is perhaps one...

Lost Identity and Culture as a Result of the Slave Trade

became something other than a free society. The slaves true story, then, lies in his humane triumph over tyranny" (Huggins lxxi)....

The 'Lost Glories' of African Civilizations

There is little evidence today that these civilizations even existed and many people still find it hard to believe the evidence th...

Bahia, the Caribbean, and Ethnic Slave Rebellions

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

Abolishing the Transatlantic Slave Trade

(Beary, 1997). The basic elements of the African slave system during the 18th and 19th centuries was based on three elemental s...

Human Life's Economic Value

In seventeen pages this report examines human life in terms of its economic value with value determinants assessed along with comp...

New Jersey Economics and Slavery

Though one representative from New Jersey was present and voted for the measure, the other representative, who was necessary to th...

Matisse and Turner Art Compared

In eight pages Matisse's Impressionism and Turner's Romanticism are compared in terms of the artifice in The Slave Ship and Odalis...

African Slave Trade and the Wait That Continues for Racial Equality

In six pages this paper discusses the impact of the African slave trade upon the African people who still continue to wait for rac...

A Slavery Overview

In seven pages this issue is examined from the time of the American Revolution through the emancipation of the 19th century and in...

Nat Turner's Slave Rebellion and its Cause

version is that his masters family taught him. However the education came about, when his owner, Benjamin Turner, found out Nat co...