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18th Century Virginia and Slavery

convicts to be shipped to the Colonies and the influx of Negroes into the States (1944). It did seem that while laws which allowed...

James Oakes, Slavery and Liberal Capitalism

the playing field level" (Zimmerman). This idea is still alive today, proposed by progressives who feel that everyone should get a...

Mexican American War/Lincoln's Slavery Position

soldiers attacked a US patrol, and Taylor sent a message to Polk that read "Hostilities may be considered commenced" (Zinn 151). M...

Thomas Jefferson and the Slavery Question

people smoke cigarettes and eat buttered popcorn today even though they know these things are bad for human health. Similarly, Jef...

No Justification for Slavery

that the Chesapeake was good for growing tobacco, which is a labor-intensive crop, and more labor was needed for the plantations (...

Colonial To 1877 Slavery Effects

traditional culture and faith as a means by which to survive. Clearly, black men and American culture have long existed as a syne...

The Honor Code of the Old South

relatively inconsequential. For those interested in the Old South, however, the book provides an insight that is not so easily ma...

The African American Dream of Equality

and essentially left the white population of the nation still ignoring the impact of history concerning the African American peopl...

Slavery as Impacted by Western Expansion

well, however. Some believed that the southern states were involved in a conspiracy to destroy northern liberty. By the ninetee...

Slavery and the Kansas-Nebraska Act

the concept of popular sovereignty issues such as slavery were viewed as being justly determined by the people of Kansas themselve...

Slavery in Beloved by Toni Morrison and Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs

and be taken care of. She does not look off longingly to a freedom without such realities, but she looks to the power of mothering...

Slavery and Reparation

such as in 1963 when Queen Mother Moore submitted to President Kennedy a petition with over a million signatures calling for repar...

Freedom Concepts of Frederick Douglass and Olaudah Equiano

with a family with a young child, she takes a liking to him and when "child cried so much after me that nothing could pacify her t...

Slavery and Thomas Jefferson

a slave owner. Regardless of his commitment to democracy, such commitment did not extend to include slaves in that process. Vali...

Should We Privatize Enforcement

The question this paper discusses has to do with privatizing prisons. There are at least 100 across the United States. One author ...

The US Constitution and Decision in Philadelphia

This 3 page paper gives an explanation about slavery and the US Constitution by way of the book Decision in Philadelphia. This pap...

Rectificatory Justice: Voluntary and Involuntary

This 4 page paper gives an overview of rectificatory justice according to Aristotle's Nichomachean Ethics. This paper includes dis...

Attitudes towards Slavery in the Old Testament

This paper offers an overview of Old Testament scripture that pertains to how the ancient Israelites regarded slavery and the fun...

Slavery Worse for Women, the Story of Harriet Jacobs

This essay is on Harriet Jacobs' autobiography, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. The writer describes the various ways in wh...

Securing Black Rights in Milwaukee

Abolitionists like Sherman Booth and Ezekiel Gillespie fought alongside other abolitionists to abolish slavery and secure the blac...

Latin America and Slavery

the early years slaves actually performed the elite work and were servants within the household (1998). They would do the cooking ...

Exploring the Civil War's Causes

determining the direction that this country would ultimately take (McPherson, 1988). There were many individuals in the yea...

Louisiana Slavery

the industry of holding an indentured servant as opposed to a slave. The other possibility is that Louisiana was a port state. T...

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...

Setting the Stage for Civil War, Disputes of the 1850s

This research paper describes the issues associated with slavery that prevailed through the disputes of the 1850s. The Compromise ...

Huckleberry Finn and Social Consciousness

This essay argues that Huck's moral maturation resulted from his relationship with Jim, a runaway slave, and it is this bond that ...

Slavery and Reform in West Africa by Trevor Getz

This book review is on Trevor Getz's Slavery and Reform in West Africa: Toward Emancipation in Nineteenth-century Senegal and the ...

Slave Narrative Comparison

In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at slave narratives. Differing experiences are highlighted with respect to different e...

Aspects of Slavery

This research paper includes four short essays, which are on how slaves retained their sense of identity and community, Enlightenm...

"Slaves and Society in Western Africa" by J.D. Fage

This research paper presents a comprehensive analysis of this scholarly article, which examines the controversy of precisely why t...