In return for bringing Spain gold, Columbus was promised 10% of profits, governorship over newfound lands, and the fame that would go with new title: Admiral of the Ocean sea. Also, as the prototypical Western white male, Columbus carried across the Atlantic racist prejudices against the native people. ...
To illustrate the importance placed on women, of the nine law titles (i.e. ... A prime example of the cherish-oppress relationship exists in this law, "If any slave does violence to a native freewoman, and if the she complains and is clearly able to prove this, let the slave be killed for crime committed."" ... Yet the next line of the law proceeds to state, "If indeed a native free girl unites voluntarily with a slave, we order both to be killed."" ...
As the eighteenth century went on, it became more and more difficult, however, "to support a family on farming alone," and many had to resort to working in factories or shops as well as owning a small farm to earn enough to afford the family's basic needs.8 It was a well known fact that "relationships within native American families, clans, and tribes were far more supportive than were the frequently adversarial activities of landed families and nation-states in Europe."9 The native Americans of the North, also known as the Amerindians, held women much higher on the social ladder than d...
Prince Henry the Navigator Prince Henry the Navigator seldom left Portugal, but he helped make it possible for the first Europeans to explore Africa. In Henry's time, the ocean was very dangerous and Africa was a mysterious place that seemed to contain endless miles of sand. Today we know t...
He made a speech in the House of Commons in 1792 in which he said, "I know of no evil that has ever existed worse than the tearing of 70,000 or 80,000 people each year from their native land. " He frequently and strongly voiced his opinions to the rest of the MPs to try to persuade them to join the cause for although he was Prime Minister he still had to gain enough votes from his counterparts to pass the act. ... Clarkson attended Cambridge University and won an essay competition; the essay's title was "Is it right to make men slaves against their will " For this essay he had done consid...
