SEARCH RESULTS

YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Historians Phillips and Woodson and Slave History Recording

Essays 91 - 120

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...

Slave Narratives Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs and Arn't I a Woman? by Sojourner Truth Compared

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

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...

Evolution Of Gospel Music In America

anthem music spread more rapidly in the South (Tanner, 2006). It was the minstrel shows that were most responsible for this musics...

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...

Bloodiest Slave Rebellion

There were many small insurrections among slaves but they were mostly hushed up so that other slaves did not get the idea that the...

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...

17th Century World History

Ghana, Dahomey on the Ivory Coast, and Shama on the Ghana coast, were locked into a complex cultural and economic exchange which g...

A Look at Civil War Black Soldiers and Sailors

slaves played a role during the Civil War in eventually seeing freedom is as follows: "By running from masters to become contraban...

Living in Misery

there was only a small fireplace and we never had enough wood to keep the cabin warm. It was very cold in winter, but at least it ...

Slavery in Two Worlds

slaves from Africa were sold mostly in the Americas. Wolf first discusses who bought these slaves and why, and then answers the q...

The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

all the freedoms in the world. He even has the freedom to own another human being. The slave is made to live and work when and w...

Slavery, Rebellion and the Memory of Freedom

of early American history did not have a complex culture, a culture that encompassed a deep religiosity. Indeed, Nat Turner, lead...

Early American History

In three pages US history from 1776 until the end of the Civil War in 1865 is examined in a consideration of events including the ...

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...

American History and the Price of Freedom

In four pages this paper discusses the high price tag attached to freedom for slaves, women, and soldiers throughout American hist...

Legalized Slavery in Colonial Times

Slavery in America was held in place by a complicated network of legal precedents. This paper analyzes the history of the practice...

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 ...

Slave Narratives and Virtue in the Works of Harriet Ann Jacobs and Harriet Wilson

In 10 pages this paper discusses how virtue is depicted in the slave narratives Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet A...

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...

Master and Slave in The Genealogy of Morals by Friedrich Nietzsche

In five pages this paper examines the paradigm of master and slave throughout history as determined by Friedrich Nietzsche. There...

Cultural Assumptions and Historical Sources

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

Interpersonal Bonds in The Slave Community by John W. Blassingame

In a paper consisting of six pages the way in which the author reinterprets black history through slave narratives are examined in...

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 ...

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...

Fight Between Mr. Covey and Frederick Douglass

In five pages this fight as presented in Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is examined as evidence of the freed slave's ...

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...

Mexican Broadcast History

ever built one man, Guillermo Gonzalez Camarena, invented a kind of camera that was monochromatic which means it was a camera that...

1834 Bermuda

Indians but most were brought forcibly from Africa (Bermuda History, 2003). Typically, they were used as domestic servants but we...