Political unrest and instability in many third world countries not only impact the everyday lives of adults. Sadly, it has an extreme effect on innocent children. Two examples of this horrific occurrence are evidenced in the drug cartel wars of Mexico and the civil unrest in Sierra Leone. Factors th...
The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass shows several instances in which his personal accounts of slavery are highlighted. These instances illustrate important realizations that Douglass makes concerning slavery, and/or about his own condition. The very first chapter of the novel produc...
Without question, one of the major driving forces behind the rapid expansion of the British Empire was colonization. The British developed colonies throughout the world with the primary purpose of acquiring wealth not for the colonialized territory, but for Britain itself. These colonies provided th...
Many articles, papers, or books have been written on the issue of slavery, but nobody is able to really give "the right view"; each person attempts to interpret the scarce documents coming from the African continent (for the major part written by Europeans) and from the various databases, but all we can do as critical readers is to analyze a few of them and gather some sort of conclusion. ...
Captivity, bondage, restraint, subjugation, and slavery. These words all mean one thing, enslaving someone against their will. Slavery was an episode in history, which scarred many African men, women, and children. Slavery has appeared almost universally throughout history among peoples of every lev...
Slavery was first of all a labor system, and the primary concern of the owner was getting work out of his slaves. As the work was basically agricultural, the vast majority of slaves worked on cotton plantations. Free labor was scarce and wages were high. Neither white indentured servants nor Indi...
Douglas Argues Against Slavery and For Black Equality Have you ever thought about what it would be like to be a slave, back in the late seventeen and early eighteen hundreds? Have you thought about the hard times that slaves had to bear? In the nineteenth century, white men needed slaves to do...
