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Beloved by Toni Morrison

this 5 page paper summarizes the main issues Toni Morrison discusses in her award-winning novel Beloved. In particular, the writer...

A Review of How Did American Slavery Begin?

A 5 page review of the book by Edward Countryman. This book includes five essays and, although it has received less than positive...

Sugar Production in Colonial Cuba and its Effects on Slavery and Business

This paper presents an overview of sugar production in Cuba during the country's colonial era. The author notes the various impac...

An Analysis of The Peculiar Institution

This 5 page paper analyzes the book by Kenneth M. Stampp. The author focuses on the institution of slavery as it existed in the ...

A Consideration of American History from 1865 until 1945

The important events that shaped America including slavery, the Reconstruction, political patronage, industrialization, the Progre...

Slavery and the Cherokee Society by Theda Perdue

of any profit motive. Perdue writes, "The plantation system, the institution of slavery, and the economic values of ...European pl...

Slavery in America

Although Reconstruction began during the war, the time period traditionally associated with it is 1862-1877. The political, socia...

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...

Alleged North and South Dichotomy and American Slavery

favor of slavery and the sentiment did grow as a result of Zachary Taylors presidencyi. Daniel Webster was a great northern advoca...

Views of Frederick Douglass on Slavery

them, the more the author desperately wanted to remove himself from such circumstances. "In moments of agony, I envied my fellow-...

'On Being Brought from Africa to America' by Phyllis Wheatley

arguing that Wheatley was not intelligent, for she was. We are merely arguing that her ignorance of the true realities of slavery ...

Moody's Portrait of Racism

by her own relatives. She seems to learn that hard times can come from black as well as white folk. Annes first taste of how thing...

Kansas and Slavery

because Congress couldnt really make up its mind, but rather, decided to leave it up to the people of Kansas. The "free-staters," ...

Free States and Slave Development Between the American Revolution and the Civil War

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

Racism and Puddn'head Wilson by Mark Twain

skinned and easily passes for white. This simple premise presents us with the curious question of whether or not this boy will e...

Colonization and 'King Leopold's Ghost'

gross exploitation of African slaves. That Leopold was wholly capable of stuffing his incoming ships with an abundance of ivory a...

17th and 18th Century America and White Slaves

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

Thomas Jefferson, Slavery, the Civil War, and 'the American Dilemma'

of effecting what is right" (The American Dilemma). There are many factors that can be cited as the cause for the Civil...

Frederick Douglass and Harriet Ann Jacobs on Male and Female Slaves

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

Slavery and American Independence

there for the use of the whites. The Revolution, however, would impact much more than just white Englishmen. The road to t...

Uncle Tom in “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”

their slaves to do so; they decide to sell Uncle Tom, who is middle-aged at the time, and a young boy named Harry, who is the son ...

Siebert: The Underground Railroad from Slavery to Freedom

the Railroad, which would probably have delighted him no end (Quarles, p. 145). Seibert also does something else that has largely ...

Wollstonecraft/Vindication of the Rights of Women

them to this necessity. Wollstonecraft attacks each one of Rousseaus principles, showing them to be illogical, inconsistent and ul...

North and South Conflict and Slavery

rights alongside the emancipation that had already taken place; however, it actually proved to represent a time of significant dis...

Ancient Greek Economics

in manipulating that world. It can also be contended, however, that each new technological development directly impacted the econ...

The Slave Mothers of Black Americans

slave Louis Hughes in his autobiography, Thirty Years a Slave (Hughes, 2001). In his account, he discusses how he was separated fr...

American Slavery

boil over, and no attempts to quell this surging rage would have proven effective at averting what was to inevitably follow. ...

Back to the Motherland

own lands(**). Reinsertion is accompanied, in most cases, with some form of aid which makes certain that the returning soldiers h...

Issues Featured in Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin

knows that it would put Mr. Shelby even further in debt and that he might be forced to sell off more of the slaves from his home....

Slavery Reactions of Black Women

white freedom and black slavery. The link between whites and blacks would change considerably between the arrival of those first ...