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The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

all the freedoms in the world. He even has the freedom to own another human being. The slave is made to live and work when and w...

Slavery, Rebellion and the Memory of Freedom

of early American history did not have a complex culture, a culture that encompassed a deep religiosity. Indeed, Nat Turner, lead...

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...

Slave Food

morning (Spartacus International). A slave at a different location reported being given a "peck of sifted cornmeal, a dozen and a ...

The Cakewalk Dance

including at least some of the traditional African dance movements in their mocking. In fact, Ellison said that the slaves were "b...

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...

Bloodiest Slave Rebellion

There were many small insurrections among slaves but they were mostly hushed up so that other slaves did not get the idea that the...

Summry of Jefferson Davis' Speech on Property Rights

This 3 page paper gives a summary of the speech given to Congress by Jefferson Davis over property owning in relation to slaves. T...

Questions Concerning Five Works of Literature

This 3 page paper gives answers to questions about the works Song of Myself, slave narratives, Bartleby the Scrivener the subtitle...

The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass and Slavery as an 'Injurious' Institution

human being was not only wrong, but dangerously so. Slavery proved as injurious to her as it did to me. When I went there, she wa...

French Influence Upon the Slave Trade in the Transatlantic

number of slave workers needed to supply this demand. By way of a history lesson, it should be noted that it was the Portuguese w...

Article Review on Reasons Why the US is Not Liked by Many Parts of the World

the 1890s, but both accomplishments represented the results of a century of growing economic might" (Development of the United Sta...

Victims in Robert Harms' The Diligent A Voyage Through the Worlds of the Slave Trade

sold to Africans and only rarely to Europeans" (Harms, 2003; 246). These particular slaves were often kept by the Africans if it w...

Slave Narratives Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs and Arn't I a Woman? by Sojourner Truth Compared

on pious airs, she would present herself as she was and play off of the conventional slave stereotype. Then, when the social main...

Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup

positive influences for the slaves and one can say that Solomon Northups account is truly dismal. Northup was however not owned by...

Diverse Views of the Latter Nineteenth Century Black Woman's Experience in Slave Women of the Fields and Charlotte Forten

occurring in this era between slavery and freedom. We learn from both Forten and Schwalm that many African American women were in...

Fight Between Mr. Covey and Frederick Douglass

In five pages this fight as presented in Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is examined as evidence of the freed slave's ...

Comparing Americas' Slavery with Roman and Greek Slavery

This is a review consisting of twelve pages that compares and contrasts the institution of slavery in various times and societies ...

A Story by a Slave Trader

book appears to be a candid recollection by someone who was not troubled enough by what he was doing to stop it. Theodore Conneau...

Cultural Assumptions and Historical Sources

In five pages this research paper examines cultural assumptions and how they influence historical sources pertaining to slave trad...

Southern Slaves and Freedom Songs

followed the North Star in the Big Dipper to get oriented on which direction to travel (Curtis 34). Hidden within the lyrics of ...

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...

Slave Narratives and Virtue in the Works of Harriet Ann Jacobs and Harriet Wilson

In 10 pages this paper discusses how virtue is depicted in the slave narratives Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet A...

Political Aspects of Slavery

"In moments of agony, I envied my fellow-slaves for their stupidity" (Douglass 279). These men were better equipped -- intellectu...

Reality and Slave Narratives

when those realities overlap, but that hardly seems the case in the discussion of these two works. The Narrative of Bethany Veney,...

The Unforgotten African Slave Trade

difficult to estimate how many Africans they took across the Indian Ocean as slaves. However, it is very likely that the number w...

The Slave Mothers of Black Americans

slave Louis Hughes in his autobiography, Thirty Years a Slave (Hughes, 2001). In his account, he discusses how he was separated fr...

Black Spiritual's Significance

time on their own to form cultural groups (1988). Piersen contends that New Englands black population was the most assimilated out...

Slave Trade and Owners' Attitudes are Analyzed in Benito Cereno by Herman Melville and Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

concomitant threat of corporal destruction to the slave workers in the South" (Newbury 159). Through one particular example, Stowe...

Plantation Economic Impacts of Slave Women's Work

ramifications (Jacobs). Consider all of the white women who would discover their husbands having affairs with slave wome...