YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Discovering the Women in Slavery Edited by Patricia Morton
Essays 61 - 90
This essay is on Harriet Jacobs' autobiography, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. The writer describes the various ways in wh...
This paper traces the importance of religion in the fight against slavery. Ironically, although the African Methodist Episcopal C...
slaves from Africa were sold mostly in the Americas. Wolf first discusses who bought these slaves and why, and then answers the q...
author explains, based on this belief, "slavery of Africans became religiously justifiable."iii Proslavery advocates based their c...
most commonly found form of modern slavery. In this form, individuals agree to use their capacity to perform work as a collateral ...
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...
inferior didnt hold up in the light of his personal story. Equianos work showed the American slave owners and traders how hypocrit...
of time: "navel gazing about roots while others are learning square roots, and contemplating chains...
power in the federal government, the North did not directly address these issues. There were no talks. There were no debates. Ther...
We see that part of the past is dead, with the death of Baby Suggs who was a constant reminder of slavery and the hope inherently ...
Louis Hughes in his autobiography, Thirty Years a Slave (Hughes, 2001). In his account, he discusses how he was separated from his...
"Slavery is terrible for men, but it is far more terrible for women" (Jacobs, 2001, 37)....
United States that awaited many of them was certainly devastating and destructive, it may well have offered some more opportunitie...
indentured servants; this in fact was much more common than slavery (Takaki, 1993). But over the decades of the mid-century, even...
As this suggests, the novel abounds in paradoxes. Moses, the cruel overseer, did not murder his wife and child, but actually sent ...
gin (Faragher et al, 2000). He invented the machine in 1793 and it proved so successful that by the mid-1830s cotton was "King" in...
was not really prepared to deal with this influx of people who needed to be paid for work. They were suddenly in a society that di...
them to this necessity. Wollstonecraft attacks each one of Rousseaus principles, showing them to be illogical, inconsistent and ul...
the new land. One group is illustrated wherein Gomez states that, "the way the Gullahs employed the use of high-low degrees was un...
to develop a work force among Native Americans and white immigrants. Colonists, finding that Africans were cheap and relatively im...
In five pages Douglass's Narrative is assessed with examinations of slave culture and slavery's psychological effects included in ...
that that seen in the Americas and the different reactions and interactions that were seen....
This paper examines such slave narratives as Annie L. Burton's The Narrative of Bethany Veney: A Slave Woman and Memories of Child...
In one of the most significant slave narratives ever written, Jacobs -- born a slave to mulatto parents in 1813 North Carolina -- ...
Three passages from these works are contrasted and compared in terms of how they thematically depict women, family, racism, and sl...
knew it till six years of happy childhood had passed away. My father was a carpenter, and considered so intelligent and skilful in...
In five pages various perspectives on slavery are considered in a comparative analysis of African Americans in the Colonial Era by...
In five pages this paper presents a fictitious 1859 NYC broadcast from a yet not invented radio demanding slavery's end with argum...
to make their own destinies -- to follow whatever dreams they may have kept harbored deep inside for fear they would never be able...
and subvert purpose in ways deemed dysfunctional. The nature of the slave is slavish and subservience the natural consequence. A...