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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...

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...

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,...

Early American History and Free African Americans

my opinion, yet I consider our condition but little better than that....After all, methinks there are no chains so galling as thos...

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...

Slavery and the Effects of the American Constitutional Convention

that after the war for independence the English goods that the nation had relied upon disappeared, making the goods that the South...

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...

Views of Frederick Douglass on Slavery

them, the more the author desperately wanted to remove himself from such circumstances. "In moments of agony, I envied my fellow-...

'On Being Brought from Africa to America' by Phyllis Wheatley

arguing that Wheatley was not intelligent, for she was. We are merely arguing that her ignorance of the true realities of slavery ...

Moody's Portrait of Racism

by her own relatives. She seems to learn that hard times can come from black as well as white folk. Annes first taste of how thing...

U.S. Capitalism and Slavery

presents the thesis that to understand African Americans and their importance in American society, we must first understand the ma...

US Slavery and the Impact of the Revolutionary War

that they are endowed by the Creator with certain unalienable rights"1 Here, then, is the contradiction between perception...

Slavery and the Cherokee Society by Theda Perdue

of any profit motive. Perdue writes, "The plantation system, the institution of slavery, and the economic values of ...European pl...

Slavery in America

Although Reconstruction began during the war, the time period traditionally associated with it is 1862-1877. The political, socia...

Southern Colonists and Slaves

charge of the environment and created numerous crops needed in the United States. At first they utilized the assistance of indentu...

North and South Perspectives and the American Civil War

power in the federal government, the North did not directly address these issues. There were no talks. There were no debates. Ther...

Investigating the Civil War Causes

those changes threatened to overturn the relationship which existed between the individual states and the nation as a whole. A si...

Slavery Ideology and Practice in Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

quickly. It is true that in some of the Northern settlements, plantation managers preferred to use white indentured servants rathe...

Abraham Lincoln's Anti Slavery Acts

section of our country believes slavery is right and ought to be extended, while the other believes it is wrong and ought not to b...

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Analyzed

be a slave (Schaub 86). He explained in a mater-of-fact way that since he knew no other life, the term slavery meant nothing to h...

Freedom and Culture

so evident in official circles before. Individuals adopted rules and standards of behavior designed to serve "appearances." Youn...

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...

U.S. Constitution's Thirteenth Amendment

In six pages this paper examines the amendment that abolished slavery in a background and case history. Five sources are cited in...

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...

A Consideration of American History from 1865 until 1945

The important events that shaped America including slavery, the Reconstruction, political patronage, industrialization, the Progre...

An Analysis of The Peculiar Institution

This 5 page paper analyzes the book by Kenneth M. Stampp. The author focuses on the institution of slavery as it existed in the ...

Literary and Cinematic Portrayal of Slavery

In seven pages this paper considers how slavery has been portrayed in cinema, stories, and books. Eleven sources are cited in the...

Sugar Production in Colonial Cuba and its Effects on Slavery and Business

This paper presents an overview of sugar production in Cuba during the country's colonial era. The author notes the various impac...