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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...

19th Century American Slavery and Marriages

In five pages this paper examines 'jumping the broom' and other rituals that were part of the 19th century American slave marriage...

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. ...

The Attic in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs

In five pages this paper examines the attic or tiny crawl space in which the author was forced to hide for 7 years to escape abuse...

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...

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...

Brazil and African Slaves

This paper considers how slaves in Brazil suffered different in some cases than did their North American counterparts. There are ...

Identity Formation for Girls

A 3 page essay on 3 narratives. There is a bond between mothers and daughters that is typically more intense throughout the lifesp...

Did Slavery and Slave Expansion Dominate the U.S. Presidency from 1830 to 1865?

slavery expand westward, which began to challenge "the territorial limits of slavery, the limits of federal power, and the limits ...

Art of Slavery

Their purpose was to have Parliament abolish slave trade, rather than declare slavery to be illegal. As an incremental play, this ...

Improving American Life with the North American Free Trade Agreement

In five pages this paper examines the economic and labor improvements promised by NAFTA. Six sources are cited in the bibliograph...

Slave Resistance to Enslavement in To Be a Slave by Julius Lester

In six pages this report examines this 1968 text that examines slavery from the perspectives of the slaves and their various modes...

1960s and 1980s Social Life in America

the Vietnam War is that which involves technology. Never before had people possessed televisions that brought a war into living ro...

1775 to 1840 Legal Status of Native Americans and African Slaves

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

The Slave Drivers by William Van Deburg

the black slaves was indeed Gods will as retribution for some evil which they had committed (Slavery). Many of the slaves who c...

William Faulkner Biography

Murry Falkner was interested in railroads, hunting and drinking, not necessarily in that order. Alcoholism was the Falkner family...

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...

A Book Review of Dan Rather's 'The American Dream'

dedication, and vision. Rather bases his story on over thirty key interviews that he held over the years, interviews that...

Odysseus' Journey Mirrored in a Student's Life Narrative

though they were in a war. Their life is perhaps not threatened, but they must struggle to become more honorable and noble as they...

The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano and Identity

or excited by his account because overall he states that "I believe there are few events in my life, which have not happened to ma...

African Americans and the Civil War's Effects

Lincoln, and Northerners in general, are popularly seen as advocates for the black race. However, what is less well-known is that ...

Views on Slavery and its Justification or Lack of

In 5 pages various perspectives of slavery are examined in this comparative analysis of Twenty Two Years a Slave and Forty Years a...

Beloved by Toni Morrison and Sixo

In five pages this character analysis of Sixo assesses how valid the Dysaesthesia Aethiopica was for wayward slaves in 1851. Two...

Narrative on the Life of 'Uncle Bill'

ever seen. When I was younger, Uncle Bill used to come over our house for a barbecue bringing along whichever little tramp he hap...

African American Slave Resistance

In four pages this research paper discusses African American resistance to slavery during America's antebellum period. One source...

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 ...

Poems That Reveal Joy Harjo's Life and Art

Reservation in Oklahoma. Harjo has retained the storytelling brilliance of her ancestors in her spiritually moving works, and t...

The Nonprofit Sector and American Society

means that while these organizations serve a public purpose of some sort, they also "meet the interests, needs and desires of the ...

My Life: A Narrative Essay

it. I particularly enjoyed soccer, which I played in Beaver Creek, Ohio, where I averaged three goals per game and was the center/...

W.W. Brown/Clotel

into the pen during the day. After the best of the gang were sold off, the balance was taken to the Exchange coffee-house auction ...