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Travels of Equiano

His merchant seaman master took it upon himself to educate Equiano, and later Miss Guerins actually sent Equiano to school in Lond...

African American Slaves and Their Cultural Dislocation

the initial feeling which overcame the slaves which was that "at some moment, all ones imprecations, all ones pleas to ancestors, ...

Queiros Mattoso's To Be a Slave in Brazil

and were forced to work on plantations and large land holdings owned by the Spanish. Unfortunately, the Spanish had not the foresi...

Tools and 'King Leopold's Ghost' by Adam Hochschild

and far-reaching. Defined as a breakthrough for human rights, the significance of his account speaks to the notion of struggle am...

Views on Slave Documents

by one of his masters, Gustavus Vassa (Equiano, 1969). On first being consigned to a slave ship, Equiano wrote that his first reac...

Colonial Missions in Sierra Leone

Sierra Leone, at the current site of the city of Freetown. The newly-freed slaves did not fare well in Freetown; they suffered fr...

Second World War, the Holocaust, and Slave Labor

of land, and on top of it all, they were asked to sign a war guilt clause which stated that the Germans accepted all the guilt and...

Artists Horace Pippin, Edward Hicks, Thomas Cole, and American Romanticism

(Thomas Cole). In these works there is undeniable evidence of the pristine nature of his subjects (Thomas Cole). Cole renders hi...

Female Slaves and Double Prejudices

and foreign individuals felt that such conditions were powerful realities, it comes as no surprise to see some of the opposite in ...

Chapter 13 of Exodus and an Exegesis of Lines 1 through 22

sanctified, that is set apart for Gods service (Griffiths, 1993). They are delivered for Gods use, by blood to the Lord. This ver...

Controversy of I, Rigoberta Menchu

benefits which had been gained from the experience, since this would be counter-productive in terms of the effect on the reader....

Significance of Slave Narratives

control of countries worldwide. Naturally, showing dark natives the benefits of Western culture did not come without a price, as E...

Discovering the Women in Slavery Edited by Patricia Morton

1817. While a master could lawfully punish a slave, using his own discretion and judgment, state law established a limit and that ...

Female Plantation Slaves and Deborah Gray's, Aren't I a Woman

the world. Their identities were constantly negated and they were devalued for nearly everything which they were. Contra...

Beloved by Toni Morrison, Psyche of American Slaves, Ghosts, and Myths

are somewhat consistent with superstitions followed by the slave culture of the time and a segment of the African heritage of the ...

The Slave Drivers by William Van Deburg

the black slaves was indeed Gods will as retribution for some evil which they had committed (Slavery). Many of the slaves who c...

Southern Slavery and its Social Status

Carolina, Tennessee, Florida, Georgia, Tennessee, Louisiana, Texas and Virginia decided that they would succeed from the union and...

Influential Literary Work The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano

experience of slavery (Anonymous The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano (1789) By Olaudah Equiano bvbooks.asp?Bo...

African Slaves and the Seasoning Acculturation Process

with the way in which the capture of those from neighbouring tribes would allocate bargaining power to the captors; it was not nec...

They Wrote on Clay by Edward Chiera

In five pages a brief book summary is provided as well as a criticism regarding the archaeologist's approaches. There are no othe...

Aphra Behn's 17th Century Literary Works

Indies, and lived an adventurous life of slave rebellions and observed Indian tribal rituals which would later appear in her works...

19th Century Race and Gender in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs

In five pages this essay examines 19th century race and gender as it is represented within this slave narrative. Two sources are ...

American Society in Literature

This 16 page paper examines four books that are centered on American society. The books discussed are Joyce Maynard's To Die For; ...

Slave Descendants and Reparations

Whatever happened in the past is past, but that is not the truth. If one looks at demographics, they will find that the descendant...

Edward Albee's Play Tiny Alice and Its Critical Reception

plot, he said that he could not possibly relate what went on during the three-hour production (Kolin and Davis 19). Author Philip ...

Pilgrim Era Writers William Bradford, John Winthrop, Edward Taylor, and Anne Bradstreet

as they pleased. They decided that America, in all the world, was the one place that offered them such opportunities" (Marck, 2001...

Chapters 15 and 16 of Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon

that even hostile nations "embraced, or at least respected, each others superstition" (p. 94). However, the Jews were the only peo...

Comparative Analysis of Flight to Canada and Uncle Tom's Cabin

many readers didnt realize, however, was that Stowes almost melodramatic story-telling style hid a biting, sarcastic tone -- the b...

Chapters Fifteen and Sixteen of Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon

to the primitive church; 4) the pure and austere morals of the Christians; and 5) the union and discipline of the Christian republ...

18th and 19th Century Underground Railroad Network

The Railroad was not co-ordinated or organised by any one particular group, but operated basically on the cell principle....