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West Africa History

In eleven pages Islam and slavery are among the issues discussed in this West Africa historical consideration that focuses upon th...

Georgia Slaver

This paper discusses the Georgia colony and the factors that led to it being the last colony to adopt the practice of slavery in e...

Slavery and the U.S. Civil War

would have been changed forever. Still, Davis was a leader in his own right. He was the only president of the Confederate States o...

An Examination of Bacon's Rebellion

him. Soon released, Bacon gathered his supporters, marched on Jamestown, and coerced Berkeley into granting him a commission to co...

Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn, Slavery, and Freedom

Pilot and the Passenger (1956), vernacular language carries democratic social value" (Review). As difficult as it has been for A...

Ending Slavery with the Civil War

was overthrown by the election of Abraham Lincoln, aristocrats in the South refused to accept the public will (1999). Southerners...

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....

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...

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...

A Consideration of 'Three Negro Classics' in African American Literature

unknown to him. He grew up in a time where the country was changing. The Civil War had ended and he and his family possessed freed...

Antebellum Southern Culture and The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson by Mark Twain

culture to some extent. The culture is implicit in much of what goes on and is woven throughout the content of the book. Identity ...

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs

as her Gran, her brother and several aunt and uncles (Perez-Stable 24). When the Old Mistress in the house dies, Jacobs comes unde...

Contemporary Slavery and Philosophical Concepts

the buying and selling of human beings. How would a Kantian analyze the ethics of slavery? How might a utilitarian, a social con...

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs and its Themes

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...

Aspects of the Multiple Heritage Seen in Africa

born in Kenya, educated in Britain and currently teaching at Binghamton University, New York knows of what he studies (Binghamton,...

Slavery Compromises and the Constitution of the United States

present, the convention achieved a consensus by avoiding certain controversial issues by reaching a compromise. There were differe...

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass and Paternalism

most masters tried to keep their slaves ignorant on this matter, as it was regarded as a sign of a "restless spirit" for slaves to...

20th Century Race History

Describing Columbus interactions with the Indians in Cuba, Zinn writes: He took more Indian prisoners and put them aboard his two...

18th Century Virginia and Slavery

convicts to be shipped to the Colonies and the influx of Negroes into the States (1944). It did seem that while laws which allowed...

Slavery According to Octavia E. Butler's Kindred and Harriet Jacobs' Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

In one of the most significant slave narratives ever written, Jacobs -- born a slave to mulatto parents in 1813 North Carolina -- ...

Pudd'nhead Wilson by Mark Twain and Its Racial Implications

In seven pages this paper examines the crimes of slavery and racial discrimination within the context of this novel by Mark Twain....

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...

Slavery, Emancipation And Colonial Rule in South Africa

This book review is on Wayne Dooling's text Slavery, Emancipation And Colonial Rule in South Africa. The writer discusses the auth...

Effects of Colonization on South Africa

This research paper presents a short history of colonialism in South Africa. The writer focuses on slavery as a primary effect of ...

Views on South African Slavery

This research paper/essay addresses the view of historian Robert Shell on the nature of slavery in South Africa's Cape Colony and ...

Slavery Reflected in the Works of Henrik Ibsen, Frederick Douglass, and Jonathan Swift

In six pages this research paper discusses how slavery manifests itself in one form or another in Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Trav...

Prince Among Slaves by Terry Alford

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

Huckleberry Finn and Social Consciousness

This essay argues that Huck's moral maturation resulted from his relationship with Jim, a runaway slave, and it is this bond that ...

The Sometimes Contradictory Ideology of Thomas Jefferson

This paper assesses Jefferson's contributions and how they corresponded with his views on slavery and indigenous rights. There ar...

Setting the Stage for Civil War, Disputes of the 1850s

This research paper describes the issues associated with slavery that prevailed through the disputes of the 1850s. The Compromise ...