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Black Odyssey The African American Ordeal in Slavery by Nat Huggins

job of delving deeply into the historical and cultural foundation of racial discrimination during the slave trade. Black Odyssey ...

Foner and Berlin on Slavery's End

national level and then to the local level. In this publication, Foner avoids popular rhetoric and mawkish sentimentality and cho...

Massachusetts and Slavery's End

us unles it be lawfull captives taken in just warres, and such strangers as willingly selle themselves or are sold to us. And thes...

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...

Early American Slavery

In 5 pages this paper discusses how indentured servitude was replaced by slavery in early America. There are 4 sources cited in t...

American Slavery

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

West Africa, West Central Africa, and Slavery's Consequences

names which come up when talking about slavery. These coastal areas certainly seemed to suffer. A larger chunk of Africa suffered ...

Pre Slavery and Post Slavery America and Religion

would have been that of the native Americans, an earth based religion, centring on seeing the Earth as a whole and human kind only...

American Slavery Reparations

In six pages this paper argues in support of the government making reparations to the African Americans who descended from slaves....

The Institution of Slavery and its Impact on American Life

In five pages the ways in which the autobiographies of Benjamin Franklin and Frederick Douglass reflect slavery in America are exa...

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...

Cherokee Influences on Colonial Settlers

This paper addresses Native American Culture and its impact on colonial American society. The author discusses various ways in wh...

Capitalism Fuels Colonial Expansion

the scene may seem sublime, it can be interpreted as a depiction of contrast between cultures. In the foreground stands the Europ...

Paul Dunbar’s Use of Double Consciousness

all tears and sighs?" (Dunbar "We Wear"). In other words, the world is callous and pays no heed to the pain that it causes, but D...

Milton/Big Chief Elizabeth

Englands first efforts at colonization is also related to what may be considered to be the books principal flaw, which is an overl...

Reviewing Closing of the American Mind Closing of the American Mind / Book Review

In The Closing of the American Mind, Allan Bloom decries the lapse of teaching of traditional American values in American universi...

Modern Americans' and Native Americans' Rites of Passage

In seven pages this paper compares the contemporary American teenager with Tukuna, Okrika, and Okiek Native American counterparts ...

The History of California Native Americans Prior to 1900

of peoples in the area, as settlements were logically more concentrated around water. Members of all groups were particularly dev...

'King Leopold's Ghost' by Adam Hochschild

In this paper consisting of five pages the King's search for a Belgian colony is discussed along with the fear that overtaking Asi...

The People Under Colonialism

Colonialism has profound effects, both on the indigenous peoples and upon those who would create colonies. This paper defines term...

The Relations Between the British and Colonists Prior to Independence

This was in 1607. This colony was the first, and also demonstrated the way in which the problems due to problematic decision makin...

Virginia and Massachusetts Were Opposites in Colonial America

Indian can come near thereabouts but he is presently seen. ... here is belonging to the town six goats, about fifty hogs and pigs,...

Dispelling the Myth of the American 'Land of Opportunity'

once was very much part of the dwelling where the evidence was found. Would a white man have been given the benefit of the doubt t...

Life and Georgia Colonial Influence of James Oglethorpe

In six pages this paper discusses Georgia colony founder James Oglethorpe in a consideration of his life as a soldier and philanth...

Pilgrim Separatists and William Bradford

officials such as bishops and archbishops" (Carroll and Noble, 30). Nor was there just one group of dissenters. The Presbyterians...

Puritan Dilemma of John Winthrop

In six pages this essay discusses John Winthrop's story as presented by Edmund Morgan in a consideration of the Puritan dilemma an...

American History and the Place of Anne Hutchinson

to be worse than eccentric. The early Puritans, as they called themselves, believed that the church should purge itself of any ri...

U.S. Colonies of the North and South

In one page this paper examines the early U.S. northern and southern colonies in a comparison and contrasting of their similaritie...

Overview of the Spanish Armada

In five pages this paper examines the Spanish Armada in an overview that includes its defeat and the impact upon the English, Sp...

Massachusetts Bay Colony and Puritanism

In five pages this paper examines the Massachusetts Bay Colony of the 17th century and the religious influence exerted by Puritani...