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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...

Slave Live Stereotypes and Actual Realities

In five pages this paper considers the misconceptions associated with slavery as opposed to the actual slave life reality. Five s...

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...

Fires of Jubilee Nat Turner's Fierce Rebellion by Oates

and families. Turners Rebellion was squelched before he ever reached Jerusalem, and after six weeks of hiding from the authorities...

Historical Context of the Term Slave and Frederick Douglass

In two pages this paper examines Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass with the focus being the use of the term slave in an ...

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs and Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

In seven pages these 2 different slave narratives are contrasted and compared. Seven sources are cited in the bibliography....

Great American Frederick Douglass

In six pages this research paper celebrates Frederick Douglass's life and achievements as he transformed himself from illiterate s...

Antislavery Crusadeof Frederick Douglass

In five pages this paper examines Frederick Douglass' life and the incredible abolitionist crusade launched by this freed slave. ...

Alexis de Tocqueville's 'Black Slave' Contention and Frederick Douglass

In five pages de Tocqueville's notion that the black slave is unaware of his status is disproved with the Narrative of the Life of...

Frederick Douglass versus the Confederacy

In five pages the research paper considers the perspectives of the antebellum South as viewed by onetime slave Frederick Douglass ...

Frederick Douglass' and Frankenstein's Dehumanization

In six pages this paper contrasts and compares the creature's dehumanization in Frankenstein by Mary Shelley with the dehumanizati...

Comparative Analysis of Thomas Jefferson and Frederick Douglass

In about six pages President Thomas Jefferson is contrasted and compared with famed former slave and powerful orator Frederick Dou...

Philosophies of Anzia Yezierska and Frederick Douglass

In six pages the similar philosophies of Russian Jewish author Anzia Yezierska of New York's Lower East Side and freed slave Frede...

Modern 'Democratic Prejudice' in The Genealogy of Morals by Friedrich Nietzsche

In five pages this research paper examines this 1887 text by Friedrich Nietzsche in a conceptual analysis of democratic prejudice ...

Master and Slave in The Genealogy of Morals by Friedrich Nietzsche

In five pages this paper examines the paradigm of master and slave throughout history as determined by Friedrich Nietzsche. There...

Interpersonal Bonds in The Slave Community by John W. Blassingame

In a paper consisting of six pages the way in which the author reinterprets black history through slave narratives are examined in...

Contrasting and Comparing Russian Serfs and American Slaves

This paper contains nine pages and discusses the similarities and serious differences between the Russian serfs and the American s...

U.S. Civil War Reconstruction Era

who had succeeded (Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, ...

American Literature and Multiculturalism

In five pages this paper examines how multiculturalism is represented in such American literary works as The Souls of Black Folk b...

Voices of Black Authors in America

In fourteen pages the reasons why black authors of the 18th and 19th centuries had difficulty in discussing their experiences are ...

The Concepts of Slavery and Motherhood in Toni Morrison's Novel Beloved

This 8 page paper considers Sethe's sense of what it means to be a mother in Toni Morrison's novel Beloved. The writer argues that...

Middle Passage by Charles Johnson

In five pages this book is considered in terms of the slave trade and the African Americans' factual and historical accounts conta...

Historical Value of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs

In three pages this essay considers the historical value of this text in terms of its firsthand descriptions of slave oppression. ...

Toni Morrison's Beloved, Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God, and the Ghosts of Slavery

In seven pages this paper contrasts and compares these literary works regarding the lasting impressions of the slave experience up...

Naturalistic Realism as Defended by Aristotle

In four pages Book I of Aristotle's Politics is used as the philosopher's 'natural' realism defense especially pertaining to the n...

Democracy from an Athenian Perspective

In a paper consisting of three pages the definition of Athenian democracy is presented in the argument that it never espoused the ...

Slave Representation in Selected Political Speeches of Cicero and Mostellaria by Plautus Compared

time it happens" (DuCarme 95). It can be argued that this is precisely the fundamental basis behind the international end to slav...

William Shakespeare's The Tempest and Relationships Between Master and Slave

In three pages Shakespeare's final play is analyzed in terms of the relationships between master and slave it features. Five sour...

Ivan Ilych versus 'Slave Girl' Linda Brent

In one page this paper compares the characters Ivan Ilych from Leo Tolstoy's short story 'The Death of Ivan Ilych' and Linda Brent...

Legalized Slavery in Colonial Times

Slavery in America was held in place by a complicated network of legal precedents. This paper analyzes the history of the practice...