YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :The Slave Drivers by William Van Deburg
Essays 61 - 90
ramifications (Jacobs). Consider all of the white women who would discover their husbands having affairs with slave wome...
time on their own to form cultural groups (1988). Piersen contends that New Englands black population was the most assimilated out...
slave Louis Hughes in his autobiography, Thirty Years a Slave (Hughes, 2001). In his account, he discusses how he was separated fr...
sub-human and not capable of sharing the same type of human fears and emotions as true human beings. The assurance of inferiority ...
morning (Spartacus International). A slave at a different location reported being given a "peck of sifted cornmeal, a dozen and a ...
including at least some of the traditional African dance movements in their mocking. In fact, Ellison said that the slaves were "b...
occurring in this era between slavery and freedom. We learn from both Forten and Schwalm that many African American women were in...
on pious airs, she would present herself as she was and play off of the conventional slave stereotype. Then, when the social main...
sold to Africans and only rarely to Europeans" (Harms, 2003; 246). These particular slaves were often kept by the Africans if it w...
positive influences for the slaves and one can say that Solomon Northups account is truly dismal. Northup was however not owned by...
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...
"In moments of agony, I envied my fellow-slaves for their stupidity" (Douglass 279). These men were better equipped -- intellectu...
when those realities overlap, but that hardly seems the case in the discussion of these two works. The Narrative of Bethany Veney,...
difficult to estimate how many Africans they took across the Indian Ocean as slaves. However, it is very likely that the number w...
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...
followed the North Star in the Big Dipper to get oriented on which direction to travel (Curtis 34). Hidden within the lyrics of ...
In five pages this fight as presented in Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is examined as evidence of the freed slave's ...
book appears to be a candid recollection by someone who was not troubled enough by what he was doing to stop it. Theodore Conneau...
In five pages this research paper examines cultural assumptions and how they influence historical sources pertaining to slave trad...
In five pages this paper discusses that slavery was preferable to the slave and slave owner of the antebellum American South to fr...
This is a review consisting of twelve pages that compares and contrasts the institution of slavery in various times and societies ...
has to "face the men of the time" and "think about war," in order to "construct a new stage" (Of Modern Poetry...Stevens). What St...
American women's social roles are considered in William Carlos Williams' poems 'Portrait of a Lady' and 'The Young Housewife' in a...
This paper presents an analysis of William J. Williams' When Work Disappears The World of the New Urban Poor in five pages. Ther...
he believed they "were too attached to European culture and traditions" (The Academy of American Poets, 2006). His work, on the ot...
is generally understood that when a child dies a strain sets in upon marriages, often leading to divorce. In essence, men and wome...
of those in relation to us..." (The Religious Affiliation of Playwright Tennessee Williams). In looking at this particular...
Young Prince Hamlet of Denmark has been dealt two blows in rapid succession. First, while away at college, he learns his father h...
that may speak of a lack of hope or direction. The reader does not really need to know what the poem is...
his poem and essentially relying on words that are descriptive and are simply part of his experience with nature. In this it is pe...