The Crossing of the Ocean The crossing of the Atlantic Ocean is a very important phase of the Middle Passage. ... Naipaul that: "nothing was created in the West Indies" (taken from The Middle Passage, 1963, p.28). ... They shrieked and struggled and fought with one another for a drop of this precious liquid, as if they grew rabid at the sight of it. ... Indeed, such were the horrors of my views and fears at the moment, that if ten thousand worlds had been my own, I would have freely parted with them all to have exchanged my condition with that of the meanest slave of my o...

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Little is known about how Clocker found out about the settlement Maryland, but it is known that he arrived there in 1636, he got passage to this colony by signing a contract to become an indentured servant to his captain Thomas Cornwaleys. ... This really begs the question, were things really that bad over in England for people to risk their lives for something better? ... No one really knows what Clocker decided but we are pretty sure he went with his first option but lived with a "mate " who helped with the land and paid rent. ... The Middle Passage was between Africa and the Americas. ... W...

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At age thirteen Douglass bought his first book, The Columbian Orator, consisting of various essays and speeches having to do with democracy and liberty. Douglass saw reading and knowledge as a path to freedom; it opened his mind and made him question the slave system. ... His intelligence and incredible speaking abilities led people to question his former reputation as a slave, "the Liberator wrote that many people in the audience refused to believe his stories: How a man, only six years out of bondage, and who had never gone to school could speak with suck eloquence- with such precision of la...

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How did they live and what did it mean to be snatched from their homeland? ... By setting aside their forced leaving of their native Africa the slaves emerged with new identities with local roots but all based on their strong cultural belief and need for kinship. In Jamaica the word shipmate was used by a slave and meant "brother" or "sister" a word of affection used to demonstrate the strength of the bond forged on the passage between slaves. ... This can be evidenced by the change in how slaves lived within a "nuclear family", the changes in child-rearing practices, and with the intro...

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His eloquent words about his treatment as a slave were a powerful weapon against slavery; however, as his oratory grew more polished, audiences began to question whether he had ever been a slave, which gave Douglass another reason to write his book. ... Even among slaveholders, starving a slave "is regarded as the most aggravated development of meanness The rule is, no matter how coarse the food, only let there be enough of it" (58-59). ... Douglass gives an excellent example of such hypocritical actions: "I have seen [Captain Auld] tie up a lame young woman, and whip her with a heavy cow s...

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These people were labeled "indentured servants" which meant that they were to serve anywhere between 4 to 7 years as free labor, and in exchange would have free passage from Europe to America. The problem with this was that once they were free, they became competition. ... So we ask, why and how did the change occur? Well in order to answer this question we have to look at some crucial events and changes that happened within the colonies. ... They would relay messages as to how they were being treated in America. ...

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These people were labeled "indentured servants" which meant that they were to serve anywhere between 4 to 7 years as free labor, and in exchange would have free passage from Europe to America. The problem with this was that once they were free, they became competition. ... So we ask, why and how did the change occur? Well in order to answer this question we have to look at some crucial events and changes that happened within the colonies. ... They would relay messages as to how they were being treated in America. ...

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To pose the question differently, why slavery, and why were the slaves carried across the Atlantic exclusively African? The short answer to the first of these two questions is that European expansion to the Americas was to mainly tropical and semi-tropical areas. ... One possible answer draws on the different values of societies around the Atlantic and, more particularly, the way groups of people involved in creating a trans-Atlantic community saw themselves in relation to others in short, how they defined their identity. Ocean-going technology brought Europeans into large-scale face-to-face ...

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You deserve it all, and more too."" (9) This quote is from a passage in which a young slave girl is dying soon after giving birth to a child that is nearly white. ... This is an especially bitter pill to swallow when the human in question suffering, is an unfortunate victim of circumstances that they had no power or choice to avoid. ... These lessons often led to an internal struggle within Jacob's on dealing with how to live up to these rigid standards, as well as, doing whatever it took to maintain her freedom in any way possible. ... This dichotomy Harriet Jacobs is faced with from rel...

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Without question, one of the major driving forces behind the rapid expansion of the British Empire was colonization. ... Even though Columbus' control of territory in America had nothing to do with Britain, his methods and justifications for this colonization provided an insight about how the British Empire dealt with these same situations. ... The British believed that only with their help could savage societies eventually become civilized. ... The passage about making nests from brush tufts evokes monkey and ape behaviors (Fausto-Sterling, p. 36).... One quintessential example of this ...

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Blacks saw emancipation as their opportunity to become involved with society without the worry of being owned by someone. ... "The idea of white supremacy in the South began with the planter's intention of keeping the idea of slavery. ... With these contracts, planters extended authority and presided over all aspects of the lives of blacks. ... Blacks would labor the entire season only to be left with the feeling of despair that was identical to slavery. ... "The main purpose of Freedman's Bureau was to settle questions between them and their employers, and take care of its patrons t...

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The delegates had to decide; how big the government should be, what type of government, what powers it should be given, and what powers it should not have. ... The Northern shipping industry could still make a lot of money with the continuing slave trade. ... The south did a lot of business with England and France. After the invention of the cotton gin the south increased their production to keep up with the demands from overseas. The high demand for cotton and how easy it was to produce discouraged the growth of southern industry. ...

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On farms where there was no central place for the children, women had to take their children to the fields with them and either work with them on their backs or put them down somewhere. ... Escaping with children only made an already hazardous undertaking all the more risky. ... There is no question that slave women worked as hard as men. ... She also had to consider how conspicuous a lone Black woman or group of Black women would be in the predominantly white-populated countryside. ... Women also attended at childbirth and helped with postpartum care. ...

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Aunt Chloe's cooking of various tasty dishes adds to the serene environment of the cabin and as we see Uncle Tom learning how to read and write from his young "Mas'r George,"" it seems as though there are no worries, hardships are unknown, and an utopia exists within the walls of the cabin. ... His name is Kunta Kinte and with the progress of time, we learn that he is bright, tenacious, bold, confident, and honest. ... In fact, Haley shows that these people showed great respect to their elders and to their ancestors with strongly established morals. ... One begins to question how Unc...

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