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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...

Analysis of "Are Prisons Obsolete?"

10). The fact is that we do indeed lock away two million American citizens and in so doing have come to be the...

Should Remunerations be Paid to Africa?

the West, but White suggests it should be examined closely, not automatically given credence (White, 2001). He also suggests that...

Early American History and Free African Americans

my opinion, yet I consider our condition but little better than that....After all, methinks there are no chains so galling as thos...

Aspects of the Multiple Heritage Seen in Africa

born in Kenya, educated in Britain and currently teaching at Binghamton University, New York knows of what he studies (Binghamton,...

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs and its Themes

at the south. If a man goes to the communion table, and pays money into the treasury of the church, no matter if it be the price o...

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...

Views on South African Slavery

This research paper/essay addresses the view of historian Robert Shell on the nature of slavery in South Africa's Cape Colony and ...

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...

Contemporary Slavery and Philosophical Concepts

the buying and selling of human beings. How would a Kantian analyze the ethics of slavery? How might a utilitarian, a social con...

Sexuality, Society and Slavery

move if her husband is transferred; that she will even be willing to give up her career entirely if doing so is better for him. Th...

Horton & Horton/In Hope of Liberty

on history that shows how blacks of the Revolutionary War era perceived the issues pertaining to liberty that served to captivate ...

Uncle Tom in “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”

their slaves to do so; they decide to sell Uncle Tom, who is middle-aged at the time, and a young boy named Harry, who is the son ...

Siebert: The Underground Railroad from Slavery to Freedom

the Railroad, which would probably have delighted him no end (Quarles, p. 145). Seibert also does something else that has largely ...

Slavery and American Independence

there for the use of the whites. The Revolution, however, would impact much more than just white Englishmen. The road to t...

Slavery: Demeaning for All Involved.

God onto the person of the intercessor, almost literally coming to worship him. It takes a very strong individual to resist this u...

Uncle Tom’s Cabin and the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Depictions of Slaves

the institution of slavery and as such the focus is on slaves, slavery and race relations. That is the theme of the work overall. ...

Narrative of Equiano & Douglass/A Comparison

resisted the imposition of another name, Gustavus Vassa, by his master. Nevertheless, despite being treated as an animal, Douglass...

Wollstonecraft/Vindication of the Rights of Women

them to this necessity. Wollstonecraft attacks each one of Rousseaus principles, showing them to be illogical, inconsistent and ul...

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...

Exploring the Civil War's Causes

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

Making Laws

should actually be handled (Johnson, 2003). After the subcommittee has sent the bill back with full recommendations to the full c...

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 ...

Liberal and Republican Views on Slavery and Emancipation

Indeed, Douglass (1960) book portrays a man living within himself in order to escape the atrocities of a nonliberal life; if not a...

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...

Views on Slavery and its Justification or Lack of

In 5 pages various perspectives of slavery are examined in this comparative analysis of Twenty Two Years a Slave and Forty Years a...

Accomplishments of US Grant

The accomplishments of Ulysses S. Grant are celebrated in five pages with the Civil War and slavery among the issues discussed. F...