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

trader exchanged his cargo of Africans for food in 1619. The Africans became indentured servants, similar in legal position to man...

as, first of all knows her place, and, secondly was divinely inspired. In the antebellum era, it was illegal for slaves to be tau...

as we can see from works such as Toni Morrisons Beloved, slavery was a moral and psychological evil whose effects were felt -- and...

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

she does "light housekeeping," which is also not consistent with someone who needs assistance getting out of bed. However, the stu...

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....

track of who, precisely, in the American population is descended from slaves, and identification of race for government statistics...

on pious airs, she would present herself as she was and play off of the conventional slave stereotype. Then, when the social main...

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...

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

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...

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

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

In five pages Douglass's Narrative is assessed with examinations of slave culture and slavery's psychological effects included in ...

is the world of the domestic. That is domestic in the terms of one who serves, as well as domestic in the terms of limited to hou...

that that seen in the Americas and the different reactions and interactions that were seen....

composed of those two forms from which they distantly derive." While this is only one small part of Foucaults work, it is clearl...

inferior didnt hold up in the light of his personal story. Equianos work showed the American slave owners and traders how hypocrit...

a distinctly more female approach, as it openly deals with gender issues and missing womanhood. The author, herself, once remarke...

As this suggests, the novel abounds in paradoxes. Moses, the cruel overseer, did not murder his wife and child, but actually sent ...

This 3 page paper gives an answer to various questions concerning policy, sharecropping, and slavery. This paper includes explanat...

This research paper/essay pertains to the subject of sexual molestation and domestic violence in black literature. The writer disc...

wives of plantation owners, while the majority of them were well educated, rarely left their manicured grounds without their husba...

are many who claim that during this particular time he was a man who truly abused and used his workers, and did nothing but gain i...

This research paper presents a comprehensive analysis of this scholarly article, which examines the controversy of precisely why t...

This essay begins by describing the stance of Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Du Bois, Mary McLeod Bethune, and Marcus Garvey on the...

In a paper of four pages, the author reflects on some questions about slavery and the American Civil War. The author looks at the ...