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Victims in Robert Harms' The Diligent A Voyage Through the Worlds of the Slave Trade

sold to Africans and only rarely to Europeans" (Harms, 2003; 246). These particular slaves were often kept by the Africans if it w...

French Influence Upon the Slave Trade in the Transatlantic

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...

The Unforgotten African Slave Trade

difficult to estimate how many Africans they took across the Indian Ocean as slaves. However, it is very likely that the number w...

The Slave Mothers of Black Americans

slave Louis Hughes in his autobiography, Thirty Years a Slave (Hughes, 2001). In his account, he discusses how he was separated fr...

Deborah Gray White's Aren't I a Woman?

sub-human and not capable of sharing the same type of human fears and emotions as true human beings. The assurance of inferiority ...

Black Spiritual's Significance

time on their own to form cultural groups (1988). Piersen contends that New Englands black population was the most assimilated out...

Slave Food

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

Political Aspects of Slavery

"In moments of agony, I envied my fellow-slaves for their stupidity" (Douglass 279). These men were better equipped -- intellectu...

U.S. Civil War and Escaped Slaves' Maroon Societies

consider productive. II. Brutality Under Slavery It is hard to fathom the concept of accepting the ownership of people but du...

The Cakewalk Dance

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

Southern Slaves and Freedom Songs

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

Diverse Views of the Latter Nineteenth Century Black Woman's Experience in Slave Women of the Fields and Charlotte Forten

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

Cultural Assumptions and Historical Sources

In five pages this research paper examines cultural assumptions and how they influence historical sources pertaining to slave trad...

Antebellum America and the Advantages of Slavery

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

A Story by a Slave Trader

book appears to be a candid recollection by someone who was not troubled enough by what he was doing to stop it. Theodore Conneau...

Comparing Americas' Slavery with Roman and Greek Slavery

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

The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass and Slavery as an 'Injurious' Institution

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...

Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup

positive influences for the slaves and one can say that Solomon Northups account is truly dismal. Northup was however not owned by...

Slave's Life

In seven pages this research paper examines how various texts depict colonial and antebellum South's slave life. Five sources are...

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...

Douglass, Narrative and Thematic Meaning

completely justified, as Douglasss Narrative makes it clear that keeping slaves as ignorant as possible was a key factor in mainta...

Demise of the 'Grand Narratives' like The Communist Manifesto

to exist because we cannot fathom them? This is the postmodernist reality. We have come to believe that we have no story to tell...

"Slaves and Society in Western Africa" by J.D. Fage

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

Beloved by Toni Morrison and Sixo

In five pages this character analysis of Sixo assesses how valid the Dysaesthesia Aethiopica was for wayward slaves in 1851. Two...

The Slave Drivers by William Van Deburg

the black slaves was indeed Gods will as retribution for some evil which they had committed (Slavery). Many of the slaves who c...

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...

Wiencek/On George Washington

than "anywhere else" (Henriques 414). However, the "bad news" is that amidst Wienceks narrative there are numerous errors, as well...

Modern 'Democratic Prejudice' in The Genealogy of Morals by Friedrich Nietzsche

In five pages this research paper examines this 1887 text by Friedrich Nietzsche in a conceptual analysis of democratic prejudice ...

Zhang, Lahiri/Memoir and Short Story

was arrested by the cultural revolutionary forces and tortured for several months (Zhang 14). Otherwise, there was "usually enough...

An Analysis of Lindstrom's Article, I Won't Be a Slave

addition to their different attitudes, many of the women devoted their entire lives to the caretaking of their employers and their...