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

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

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

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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...

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

occurring in this era between slavery and freedom. We learn from both Forten and Schwalm that many African American women were in...

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...

number of slave workers needed to supply this demand. By way of a history lesson, it should be noted that it was the Portuguese w...

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...

followed the North Star in the Big Dipper to get oriented on which direction to travel (Curtis 34). Hidden within the lyrics of ...

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...

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...

or good enough. This individual does not say they have gone out of their way for another, nor have they claimed that they have sto...

This 16 page paper examines four books that are centered on American society. The books discussed are Joyce Maynard's To Die For; ...

Indies, and lived an adventurous life of slave rebellions and observed Indian tribal rituals which would later appear in her works...

In five pages such issues that are relevant to slavery such as 1950's Fugitive Slave Act, the Fourteenth Amendment, abolitionism, ...

conditions as they relate to the white man instilling religion into the slaves of the South. "In the 1780s, Methodists--who repr...

at the south. If a man goes to the communion table, and pays money into the treasury of the church, no matter if it be the price o...

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

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

In one page this paper compares the characters Ivan Ilych from Leo Tolstoy's short story 'The Death of Ivan Ilych' and Linda Brent...

In three pages this paper examines Solomon Northrup's description of Washington DC's slave pens and also as they were captured in ...