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Essays 61 - 90
This essay begins by presenting the position of historian Ira Berlin that there was a modicum of autonomy within the institution o...
slaves from Africa were sold mostly in the Americas. Wolf first discusses who bought these slaves and why, and then answers the q...
most commonly found form of modern slavery. In this form, individuals agree to use their capacity to perform work as a collateral ...
In a paper of four pages, the author reflects on some questions about slavery and the American Civil War. The author looks at the ...
author explains, based on this belief, "slavery of Africans became religiously justifiable."iii Proslavery advocates based their c...
As this suggests, the novel abounds in paradoxes. Moses, the cruel overseer, did not murder his wife and child, but actually sent ...
gin (Faragher et al, 2000). He invented the machine in 1793 and it proved so successful that by the mid-1830s cotton was "King" in...
to develop a work force among Native Americans and white immigrants. Colonists, finding that Africans were cheap and relatively im...
the new land. One group is illustrated wherein Gomez states that, "the way the Gullahs employed the use of high-low degrees was un...
"Slavery is terrible for men, but it is far more terrible for women" (Jacobs, 2001, 37)....
indentured servants; this in fact was much more common than slavery (Takaki, 1993). But over the decades of the mid-century, even...
property rather than fellow human beings. Tourist information on St. Thomas indicates that St. Thomas Market Square is today a "...
order to fully understand the structure of Jacobs narrative, it is first necessary to see it within the cultural framework provide...
was not really prepared to deal with this influx of people who needed to be paid for work. They were suddenly in a society that di...
This 3 page paper gives an answer to various questions concerning policy, sharecropping, and slavery. This paper includes explanat...
This paper traces the importance of religion in the fight against slavery. Ironically, although the African Methodist Episcopal C...
the companys business."8 Plans included: a major redesign for the existing toy stores; buying the companys largest competitor in...
This is a review consisting of twelve pages that compares and contrasts the institution of slavery in various times and societies ...
In six pages the enslavement of African American females as depicted in Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God, Toni Mo...
would have been that of the native Americans, an earth based religion, centring on seeing the Earth as a whole and human kind only...
names which come up when talking about slavery. These coastal areas certainly seemed to suffer. A larger chunk of Africa suffered ...
national level and then to the local level. In this publication, Foner avoids popular rhetoric and mawkish sentimentality and cho...
us unles it be lawfull captives taken in just warres, and such strangers as willingly selle themselves or are sold to us. And thes...
of servitude that slaves adopted as indicative of their true feelings, rather than as a behavior adopted for self-protection. He s...
Englands first efforts at colonization is also related to what may be considered to be the books principal flaw, which is an overl...
describes the motivation of the landed-gentry, that is, the wealthiest 10 percent of the population, he also addresses why small f...
became so dependent on the Indians that they took to raiding them; the Algonquin chief, Powhatan, decided to starve them out, and ...
et al, 2000). And the settlers brought diseases with them against which the Indians had no defense, wiping them out in large numbe...
the pressure put on them by the Puritans were generally members of the larger, autonomous tribes, such as the Narragansett, the Wa...
labor. Rather than being totally dependent on custom, these societies are held together primarily through mutual obligation betwee...