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"real" (insofar as theater can ever be said to be real) happenings, but a carefully selected group of scenes that illustrate the i...

fictitious biography for her, while a succession of real-life women portrayed Aunt Jemima at county fairs and various bake-off com...

his own discoveries, those that relate to his desire to aid the African American families that were so directly linked to his own....

in this stupefied condition they are carried aboard, stowed in a sitting posture, with the knees drawn up so closely that they can...

and sorrow" (Prince; 1). She was soon sold off to a master and then began to learn about being beaten and abused as a slave. Sh...

This was the condition of slavery for women. They were often seen as breeding machines that were good for little more than produci...

North was not quite as conducive to farming. Although it is true that perhaps the South might have become more prone to industrial...

know that he was a slave and until he was old enough to experience the suffering and see the suffering endured by others. This ...

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

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

Tom rescues his daughter (Little Eva) from a drowning death. St. Clare is one who believes in paying his debts and, in fact, promi...

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

German child sold as a mulatto" (Talty, 2000). There was even a case...

as the defining characteristic of an unmarried woman. In other words, according to the cultural definition of femininity a "good" ...

and a London that is perhaps anything but majestic and beautiful. Blake states that "I wander thro each charterd street,/ Near whe...

at home. He has to find some way to escape without destroying his family the way his father had sixteen years ago. It is for this ...

Ojebeta with charms to keep away tempting spirits from the land of the dead, and she was cherished and marked with special tattooe...

her sister to save her marriage. Yet throughout the brutal violence and stereotypes, "Streetcar" is also a long story of s...

knew it till six years of happy childhood had passed away. My father was a carpenter, and considered so intelligent and skilful in...

bequeathed to the United States by the Treaty of Paris in 1783 came much sooner" (Holt, 2002). In 1787, the Northwest Ordinance m...

for she "She breathes with motherly tenderness and love for all, for life itself. And Linda has a heart full and hands outstretche...

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

memory of past events. He explains that he will not be a narrator, "I am the opposite of a stage magician. He gives you illusion t...

them to finance imports" (Fogel and Engerman PG). South Slavery, because it was so economically viable in the South, would neve...

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

and makes his way to her dressing room. He knocks, but then quickly enters the room, knowing that she is expecting him. The dan...

unfortunate. The interesting thing about Rome was that political clout was everything. Who one knew could either get one killed, o...

involves slavery: "Here, too, there developed a slave society that more nearly resembled Caribbean than other mainland societies. ...

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

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