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How Abraham Lincoln Overcame Social and Political Obstacles in the Elimination of Slavery and Preservation of the Union

great impact on the national notions and approach to freedom and civil equality. From as early as his Inaugural Address, Pr...

Jefferson and Hemmings, Fiction or Fact

conception for the birth of all of those six children. There are no records that she was elsewhere during those times, or records ...

Second World War, the Holocaust, and Slave Labor

of land, and on top of it all, they were asked to sign a war guilt clause which stated that the Germans accepted all the guilt and...

Colonial Missions in Sierra Leone

Sierra Leone, at the current site of the city of Freetown. The newly-freed slaves did not fare well in Freetown; they suffered fr...

Tools and 'King Leopold's Ghost' by Adam Hochschild

and far-reaching. Defined as a breakthrough for human rights, the significance of his account speaks to the notion of struggle am...

Evil Temptation in 'Young Goodman Brown' by Nathaniel Hawthorne, the Film Version of Arthur Miller's The Crucible, and I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem by Maryse Conde

were full of all the fire and brimstone of a religious fanatic. Whenever evil would cross his path, such as in the form of an omi...

Historical Significance of Interesting Narrative and Other Writings by Olaudah Equiano

its measure, of showing the enormous cruelties practiced on my sable brethren, and strengthening the generous emulation now prevai...

Views on Slave Documents

by one of his masters, Gustavus Vassa (Equiano, 1969). On first being consigned to a slave ship, Equiano wrote that his first reac...

Queiros Mattoso's To Be a Slave in Brazil

and were forced to work on plantations and large land holdings owned by the Spanish. Unfortunately, the Spanish had not the foresi...

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain and the Fugitive Slave Act

examine the realities of the time and thus see the attitudes of Twain. First we see that Huck is very disturbed by the fact that J...

U.S. South Before the Civil War, Slaves, and the Role Played by Religion

conditions as they relate to the white man instilling religion into the slaves of the South. "In the 1780s, Methodists--who repr...

African American Slaves and Their Cultural Dislocation

the initial feeling which overcame the slaves which was that "at some moment, all ones imprecations, all ones pleas to ancestors, ...

A Review of Time on the Cross

is true despite the fact that it is somewhat well known that economics were important in the context of this issue. Of course, the...

The Problem of Race and Freedom

in any special, or equal, manner when they were slaves. They were simply not regarded as human beings in the same way whites were ...

Edward Jones/The Known World

As this suggests, the novel abounds in paradoxes. Moses, the cruel overseer, did not murder his wife and child, but actually sent ...

Issues In Religion And Social Inequality

who pray to her (Burdick, 2001). Most are women but they are from all races, not just Black (Burdick, 2001). Women look to Anastac...

To Be A Slave In Brazil, 1550-1888 by Katia M. De Queiros Mattoso

In five pages the slave trade and the foundation of cultural and historical racial prejudice it cemented are examined within the c...

Impact of Frederick Douglass

the slave system of the plantation (Thomas). He did, however, have an engaging charm, which helped him become companion of Daniel ...

Overview of the Story of Spartacus

this one man. It begins with the death of the gladiator and winds its way back into the meaning his life had to others and to Rom...

Good Life According to Friedrich Nietzsche

or good enough. This individual does not say they have gone out of their way for another, nor have they claimed that they have sto...

Comparative Analysis of Flight to Canada and Uncle Tom's Cabin

many readers didnt realize, however, was that Stowes almost melodramatic story-telling style hid a biting, sarcastic tone -- the b...

18th and 19th Century Underground Railroad Network

The Railroad was not co-ordinated or organised by any one particular group, but operated basically on the cell principle....

Slave Descendants and Reparations

Whatever happened in the past is past, but that is not the truth. If one looks at demographics, they will find that the descendant...

Relationship Between Mr. Covey and Frederick Douglass

In ten pages this paper considers the relationship between slave Douglass and slaveowner Mr. Covey from the perspectives of Freder...

Aphra Behn's 17th Century Literary Works

Indies, and lived an adventurous life of slave rebellions and observed Indian tribal rituals which would later appear in her works...

American Society in Literature

This 16 page paper examines four books that are centered on American society. The books discussed are Joyce Maynard's To Die For; ...

African Slaves and the Seasoning Acculturation Process

with the way in which the capture of those from neighbouring tribes would allocate bargaining power to the captors; it was not nec...

A Comparison of Pre-Colonial Slavery in East and West Africa

In addition to agricultural slaves, Africas administrative sectors were diverse and many slaves were actually employed in those se...

I, Robot and Race/Slavery

involves also looking ahead to the necessity of rights for future robots such as the robot in I, Robot. In the film...

Did Slavery and Slave Expansion Dominate the U.S. Presidency from 1830 to 1865?

slavery expand westward, which began to challenge "the territorial limits of slavery, the limits of federal power, and the limits ...