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Black Spiritual's Significance

time on their own to form cultural groups (1988). Piersen contends that New Englands black population was the most assimilated out...

Slavery, Rebellion and the Memory of Freedom

of early American history did not have a complex culture, a culture that encompassed a deep religiosity. Indeed, Nat Turner, lead...

The Material Culture of Slaves in Early America

white slave owners, the material culture that the slaves remembered in Africa, and the material culture of the Native American peo...

The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

all the freedoms in the world. He even has the freedom to own another human being. The slave is made to live and work when and w...

Slave Trade and Owners' Attitudes are Analyzed in Benito Cereno by Herman Melville and Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

concomitant threat of corporal destruction to the slave workers in the South" (Newbury 159). Through one particular example, Stowe...

Plantation Economic Impacts of Slave Women's Work

ramifications (Jacobs). Consider all of the white women who would discover their husbands having affairs with slave wome...

1834 Bermuda

Indians but most were brought forcibly from Africa (Bermuda History, 2003). Typically, they were used as domestic servants but we...

Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup

positive influences for the slaves and one can say that Solomon Northups account is truly dismal. Northup was however not owned by...

Slave Narratives Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs and Arn't I a Woman? by Sojourner Truth Compared

on pious airs, she would present herself as she was and play off of the conventional slave stereotype. Then, when the social main...

Victims in Robert Harms' The Diligent A Voyage Through the Worlds of the Slave Trade

sold to Africans and only rarely to Europeans" (Harms, 2003; 246). These particular slaves were often kept by the Africans if it w...

Diverse Views of the Latter Nineteenth Century Black Woman's Experience in Slave Women of the Fields and Charlotte Forten

occurring in this era between slavery and freedom. We learn from both Forten and Schwalm that many African American women were in...

French Influence Upon the Slave Trade in the Transatlantic

number of slave workers needed to supply this demand. By way of a history lesson, it should be noted that it was the Portuguese w...

U.S. Civil War and Escaped Slaves' Maroon Societies

consider productive. II. Brutality Under Slavery It is hard to fathom the concept of accepting the ownership of people but du...

Reality and Slave Narratives

when those realities overlap, but that hardly seems the case in the discussion of these two works. The Narrative of Bethany Veney,...

Southern Slaves and Freedom Songs

followed the North Star in the Big Dipper to get oriented on which direction to travel (Curtis 34). Hidden within the lyrics of ...

Slave Narratives and Virtue in the Works of Harriet Ann Jacobs and Harriet Wilson

In 10 pages this paper discusses how virtue is depicted in the slave narratives Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet A...

Political Aspects of Slavery

"In moments of agony, I envied my fellow-slaves for their stupidity" (Douglass 279). These men were better equipped -- intellectu...

Cultural Assumptions and Historical Sources

In five pages this research paper examines cultural assumptions and how they influence historical sources pertaining to slave trad...

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...

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 ...

A Story by a Slave Trader

book appears to be a candid recollection by someone who was not troubled enough by what he was doing to stop it. Theodore Conneau...

Fight Between Mr. Covey and Frederick Douglass

In five pages this fight as presented in Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is examined as evidence of the freed slave's ...

Living in Misery

there was only a small fireplace and we never had enough wood to keep the cabin warm. It was very cold in winter, but at least it ...

A Look at Civil War Black Soldiers and Sailors

slaves played a role during the Civil War in eventually seeing freedom is as follows: "By running from masters to become contraban...

The Cakewalk Dance

including at least some of the traditional African dance movements in their mocking. In fact, Ellison said that the slaves were "b...

The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass and Slavery as an 'Injurious' Institution

human being was not only wrong, but dangerously so. Slavery proved as injurious to her as it did to me. When I went there, she wa...

Book Report Therapeutic Communities

One of the substance abuse treatment interventions that has been shown to be effective is the Therapeutic Community. Although this...

The Forensic Casebook by N.E. Genge

This book review is on "The Forensic Casebook" by N.E. Genge. The writer first summarizes the book's contents and then discusses i...

Let's Do Theology by Laurie Green

This book review pertains to Laurie Green's "Let's Do Theology." The author's main argument is described, and a summation of the b...

Explanation Each of the Ten Commandments

This essay reports the explanations of each of the Ten Commandments are interpreted by one scholar in a book. Other topics include...