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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs and Family Ties

In five pages this paper considers the impact of slavery upon family ties. Three sources are cited in the bibliography....

Virginia, Cuba, and the Practice of Slavery

In fifteen pages this paper contrasts and compares how slavery was practiced in these two areas with slave treatment by each count...

Frederick Douglass's Narrative, Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin and Struggle

In five pages this report discusses the importance of struggle in these nineteenth century American literary masterworks that feat...

Amistad Incident and Freedom

In six pages an individual's rights and the concept of freedom are examined in a discussion of slavery and the Amistad incident. ...

Slavery Aspects

In five pages such issues that are relevant to slavery such as 1950's Fugitive Slave Act, the Fourteenth Amendment, abolitionism, ...

US Slavery History

time. Because of the need for manual laborers, the slave trade flourished in the south at that time. It was certainly not due to...

Violence and Frederick Douglass's Narrative

In six pages this paper examines how the Narrative depicts violence as being sexually and slavery gendered. There are no other so...

Violence in the Narrative of Frederick Douglass

he had no real knowledge of his actual age ? "Having never seen any authentic record containing it" (Douglass, 2001). According to...

Slavery Commentary on Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn

In seven pages the novel's slavery commentary is examined. There are five other sources cited in the bibliography....

3 Passages from The Color of Water, Their Eyes Were Watching God, and A Raisin in the Sun

Three passages from these works are contrasted and compared in terms of how they thematically depict women, family, racism, and sl...

West Africa History

In eleven pages Islam and slavery are among the issues discussed in this West Africa historical consideration that focuses upon th...

Slavery Reflected in the Works of Henrik Ibsen, Frederick Douglass, and Jonathan Swift

In six pages this research paper discusses how slavery manifests itself in one form or another in Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Trav...

Slavery According to Octavia E. Butler's Kindred and Harriet Jacobs' Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

In one of the most significant slave narratives ever written, Jacobs -- born a slave to mulatto parents in 1813 North Carolina -- ...

Slavery and the U.S. Civil War

would have been changed forever. Still, Davis was a leader in his own right. He was the only president of the Confederate States o...

Georgia Slaver

This paper discusses the Georgia colony and the factors that led to it being the last colony to adopt the practice of slavery in e...

Pudd'nhead Wilson by Mark Twain and Its Racial Implications

In seven pages this paper examines the crimes of slavery and racial discrimination within the context of this novel by Mark Twain....

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass and Slave System Logic Logic

In five pages this paper examines the construction of a logical system within the context of slavery as described in Frederick Dou...

The Slavery Journey of Africans in America

In this paper consisting of five pages a book review of Charles Johnson and Patricia Smith's Africans in America America's Journe...

South Africa, Brazil, the U.S., and Slavery

questions loom large. In the United States for examples, things have changed immensely since the days of slavery. At the same time...

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...

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...

'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 ...

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...

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...

Back to the Motherland

own lands(**). Reinsertion is accompanied, in most cases, with some form of aid which makes certain that the returning soldiers h...

Frederick Douglass and Harriet Ann Jacobs on Male and Female Slaves

knew it till six years of happy childhood had passed away. My father was a carpenter, and considered so intelligent and skilful in...

Thomas Jefferson, Slavery, the Civil War, and 'the American Dilemma'

of effecting what is right" (The American Dilemma). There are many factors that can be cited as the cause for the Civil...