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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...

The Material Culture of Slaves in Early America

white slave owners, the material culture that the slaves remembered in Africa, and the material culture of the Native American peo...

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 ...

Analysis of Race Matters by Cornel West

In eleven pages this 1993 text is examined in terms of individual chapters that deal with Malcolm X's black society influence mobi...

"Mother To Son" - Reader Response Criticism

Hughes mother who says "So, boy, dont you turn back. Dont you set down on the steps. Cause you finds its kinder hard," mine was ...

Chinese American Woman and the Conflict of Dual Roles

on the outside. Her only exposure to American lifeways, in fact is that she sees infiltrating her home through my daughter and in...

Cause And Effects Of Reconstruction Period Between 1865 And 1896

to the whites blatant disregard for such legal safeguards. Fear resided at the crux of this indifference toward the law, inasmuch...

Slavery and Women

This paper examines such slave narratives as Annie L. Burton's The Narrative of Bethany Veney: A Slave Woman and Memories of Child...

Antebellum South's Women Slaves

Being put into a position of having to sexually service their master was the ultimate blow to a female slaves psyche. This...

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...

The Health Care System in the United States and Access by Black Americans

have deleterious effects on the health outcomes of the residents in these areas. Many researchers have arrived at the same conclus...

Narrative of William Wells Brown

gory detail, down to the whippings, punishments and general mind control games that overseers regularly played with their slaves. ...

Analyzing the 1863 Poem 'My Life Had Stood - A Loaded Gun' by Emily Dickinson

In five pages the symbolism of master and slave is applied to the destructive marital relationship described in the poem....

African Slaves and the Their Subtle and Intellectual Approaches to Rebellion

In five pages this paper examines the intellectual and subtle approaches to rebellion espoused by some African slaves....

The History of Black America as a Component of American History

5 pages and 3 sources. This paper outlines the different elements of Black American history, with a focus on the significant role...

Terry Alford's Prince Among Slaves

as much narrative, as documentary, as historical or human horror. Horror not from the aspect of grade-B movies, but the reminder ...

Uncle Tom's Cabin, Eliza and Marie

This essay pertains to two women characters, Eliza Harris and Marie St. Clare, who are featured in "Uncle Tom's Cabin." The wrier ...

Comparative Analysis of Chinese American, Black American, and Native American Experiences

This paper consists of five pages and contrasts and compares the socioeconomic, historical, and ideological factors associated wit...

The Concepts of Slavery and Motherhood in Toni Morrison's Novel Beloved

This 8 page paper considers Sethe's sense of what it means to be a mother in Toni Morrison's novel Beloved. The writer argues that...

Black Films and Hip Hop Music Videos: Race Representation

is a mixed bag. In films that parody the past like Undercover Brother and in music videos, the most watched genre of film today by...

Evaluating The 'Criminal Justice is Not Racist' Assertion

While the statistics obviously support the contention that there is a disproportionate representation of blacks as compared to whi...

ADHD and a Male Black Teen

of ADHD. Another disorder that is frequently associated with school failure is Conduct Disorder (CD), which is characterized in ...

The Vision of Black Elk

In five pages John Neihardt's Black Elk Speaks is discussed in terms of the ways in which Black Elk succeed in increasing public a...

Insight into the Black Panthers

businesses can operate on Sundays.4 The two types of rights have become so intertwined with each other that they often appear...

Black American Artists

13 pages and 12 sources. This paper considers the impacts of Black heritage on the artistic process of Black American artists. T...

The Depression of the 1930s and Black American Artists

noted that in historic cultures that functional objects, often had a decorative component. The works of these artists f...

Is Black English Vernacular a “Real Language?”

This idea, she says, is not hypothetical; the grammar and syntax peculiar to Black English Vernacular have been known for several ...

Ursula Hegi's Floating in My Mother's Palm, Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye, and Mothers and Daughters

not acknowledge Pecola as her daughter, and Pecola does not avow Pauline as her mother. Distance is quite evident in this so-calle...

Beloved by Toni Morrison, Psyche of American Slaves, Ghosts, and Myths

are somewhat consistent with superstitions followed by the slave culture of the time and a segment of the African heritage of the ...

Middle Passage by Charles Johnson

In five pages this book is considered in terms of the slave trade and the African Americans' factual and historical accounts conta...