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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...

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...

Prophet Jacob's Life

mission of Abraham (2000). It is always Jacob who is seen as the smart one, but it is more than intelligence that many believe Jac...

Cultural Assumptions and Historical Sources

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

Historical Context of the Term Slave and Frederick Douglass

In two pages this paper examines Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass with the focus being the use of the term slave in an ...

David Hamilton's Photography

In six pages three of David Hamilton's photographs of young girls as featured in Dreams of a Young Girl are analyzed in terms of e...

Southern Slavery and its Social Status

Carolina, Tennessee, Florida, Georgia, Tennessee, Louisiana, Texas and Virginia decided that they would succeed from the union and...

Fugitive Slave Act and the Compromise of 1850

freedom was the Mason-Dixon; now it was moved all the way to Canada. Bounty hunters took full advantage of this operation by gene...

The Elementary School Classroom

in one corner of the playground there was a collapsible table covered with pots of paste, construction paper, crayons, chalk, scis...

Uncle Tom’s Cabin and the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Depictions of Slaves

the institution of slavery and as such the focus is on slaves, slavery and race relations. That is the theme of the work overall. ...

Frances Anne Kemble's "Journal Of A Residence On A Georgian Plantation" - What Influence Does The Institution Of Slavery Have On The Slaves?

smallest nuance of kindness or understanding Kemble (1984) displayed was embellished into a lifesaving gesture speaks to the extra...

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...

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 ...

Jasmine by Bharati Mukherjee 20 Years Later

In five pages Jyoti/Jasmine/Jane's letter to her daughter who is now an adult is presented in terms of explanation as to why she l...

Reality and Slave Narratives

when those realities overlap, but that hardly seems the case in the discussion of these two works. The Narrative of Bethany Veney,...

The Works of Amy Tan

In a paper that contains eight pages the inspiration writing has provided Amy Tan throughout her life is examined in essay 'Young ...

Slave's Life

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

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...

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 ...

Frederick Douglass' Narrative and an African American Slave's Life

In 6 pages this paper examines the problems confronting enslaved African Americans within the context of Narrative of the Life of ...

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 ...

Slavery as Described by Frederick Douglass and Harriet Jacobs

he raped her and forced her into acts, there is enough information to assume that this is what occurred. And, if it didnt it was s...

Comparison Between Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Harriet Jacobs

Southern slave law and of the law itself" (Accomando 229, 1998). By writing her narrative, Jacobs was vocalizing for all others w...

Harriet Jacobs, Maya Angelou, and Their Memoirs

a very large life. In the end, both of these women have shown by example, that the struggles which life presents can...

Joseph Character Sketch in Genesis

injury, Joseph is a tattletale who brings to his father a "bad report" on his brothers activities. Considering this, it is reall...

Bearing Witness by George Lankford

to explore, authenticate and publish this documentation so that the society will become more aware of what happened during those d...

Kline and Picasso

obvious indication of what the subject matter is without prior knowledge. Of course, it should be noted that this is simply the op...

A Discussion of Three Concepts

IQ and has long been a widely used method, particularly with regard to gifted or educationally-challenged children. The results o...

Judith Ortiz Cofer's Story of First Love

to her parents, her teachers, and her classmates that something was diverting her attentions from her studies and even from her fa...

It’s Not Just Whites that are Responsible for Slavery

Slavery is one of the more abhorrent reflections of world societies. Contrary to common belief, the institution was not limited t...