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"In moments of agony, I envied my fellow-slaves for their stupidity" (Douglass 279). These men were better equipped -- intellectu...

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...

This is a review consisting of twelve pages that compares and contrasts the institution of slavery in various times and societies ...

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 fight as presented in Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is examined as evidence of the freed slave's ...

In five pages this paper discusses that slavery was preferable to the slave and slave owner of the antebellum American South to fr...

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...

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

consider productive. II. Brutality Under Slavery It is hard to fathom the concept of accepting the ownership of people but du...

morning (Spartacus International). A slave at a different location reported being given a "peck of sifted cornmeal, a dozen and a ...

of early American history did not have a complex culture, a culture that encompassed a deep religiosity. Indeed, Nat Turner, lead...

white slave owners, the material culture that the slaves remembered in Africa, and the material culture of the Native American peo...

all the freedoms in the world. He even has the freedom to own another human being. The slave is made to live and work when and w...

there was only a small fireplace and we never had enough wood to keep the cabin warm. It was very cold in winter, but at least it ...

slaves from Africa were sold mostly in the Americas. Wolf first discusses who bought these slaves and why, and then answers the q...

ramifications (Jacobs). Consider all of the white women who would discover their husbands having affairs with slave wome...

Indians but most were brought forcibly from Africa (Bermuda History, 2003). Typically, they were used as domestic servants but we...

concomitant threat of corporal destruction to the slave workers in the South" (Newbury 159). Through one particular example, Stowe...

sub-human and not capable of sharing the same type of human fears and emotions as true human beings. The assurance of inferiority ...

This 3 page paper gives answers to questions about the works Song of Myself, slave narratives, Bartleby the Scrivener the subtitle...

This 3 page paper gives a summary of the speech given to Congress by Jefferson Davis over property owning in relation to slaves. T...

time on their own to form cultural groups (1988). Piersen contends that New Englands black population was the most assimilated out...

There were many small insurrections among slaves but they were mostly hushed up so that other slaves did not get the idea that the...

slaves played a role during the Civil War in eventually seeing freedom is as follows: "By running from masters to become contraban...

This book review is on Terry Alford's text Prince Among Slaves. which relates the biography of Ibrahima, an African prince who was...

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...

including at least some of the traditional African dance movements in their mocking. In fact, Ellison said that the slaves were "b...