The Republican Party's role in changing the south politically and societally, and how the definition of freedom changed over time through 1860 and 1877. ... In the 1850s the Whig Party submitted to the sectionalizing effects of the slavery issue while also forgoing to operate as a national political party. ... One of these different outlooks on slavery occurred in Kansas, where the question was whether the new territory would be slave owning or free which erupted into violent and political turmoil. ... They felt if confining slavery within its current boundaries that this institution a...

• Word Count: 1202
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Frederick Douglass began his life as a common slave but proved to be a phenomenon by breaking free of all boundaries placed upon him. ... Frederick Douglass believed it was possible to fight slavery using the American political system, he and other political abolitionists created an anti-slavery Liberty Party. ... Douglass also felt that woman did not gain full equality with regards to their rights in America and strongly supported the woman's rights movement, "In respect to political rights we hold a woman to be justly entitled to all we claim for man All the political rights which it i...

• Word Count: 1350
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Many slaves reacted very cautiously because they were testing their boundaries of this new law. ... This law gave blacks their rights as citizens and legal equality with everyone in the country, with the exceptions of political rights. ...

• Word Count: 746
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

These narratives, as well as others helped create terms such as "personal as political" and "consciousness raising", which were coined during the 1960's Women's Movement. ... Harriet Jacobs" Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl brought into the public and political arena the sexual oppression of captive, black women. Jacobs" work found its place in history as a "slave narrative" protesting the abuses perpetrated against captive men and women, but it reaches far beyond the boundaries of this genre and stands as an important feminist document. ...

• Word Count: 1740
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Are humans socially, politically, and economically equal? ... The founding fathers were too assumed in their own political expediency to fight any more. ... He might even lose his own political party. ... They concluded that the federal regime had exceeded its constitutional powers resulting in the nullification of these acts preserving his freedoms and his political party. ... Jackson neglected his boundaries though taking force to two Spanish posts and killing two Indian chiefs without ceremony. ...

• Word Count: 2477
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School

King Leopold's Ghost tells a story of the Belgian King Leopold II and his misrule of an African colony, named (at the time) the Congo Free State. It is a wild and unpleasant story of a man's capacity for evil and the peculiar manifestation of it. In telling this story, Hochschild does a wonderful jo...

• Word Count: 2087
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The majority of slaves did recognize that the ability to read and write was crucial to both religious practice and to the assertion of individual and political rights. ... Furthermore, whites believed that by educating them, slaves would discover that they should have certain rights; the slaves would become aware of their abilities to succeed in a life beyond the boundaries of their plantations. ...

• Word Count: 2340
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: Undergraduate