Gaines sets his book, A Gathering of Old Men, in the 70's on the sugarcane plantations of Louisiana. ... This story revolves around a young white woman, Candy, several older black men and the death of a Cajun, Beau, to whom they all confess to killing. ... The gathering of the men showed strength and determination to stand up finally after a lifetime of submission and suppression. ... They were able to bridge the gap between the ways of the old South to the ways of the new South. They do this by not backing down to Luke Will and his men and fighting for a voice and their freedom. ...

• Word Count: 649
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

But the Algonquian bands traveled light and used hunting and gathering as their main source of food and used gardening as part-time. ... Now that cultivation, processing, and storage where so important the woman where now working beside the men and not gathering the traditional way, times where changing. ... The men of the tribes would clear the fields while the women plowed the ground and seeded it. This was truly a time for expansion and communities, the old way of hunting and gathering was dying and the more efficient way of planting and harvesting was taking effect in what is now known ...

• Word Count: 1798
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

The kingdom of Dahomey ruled by King Agaja decided to attack Whydah, which caused the delay of gathering and boarding the slaves onto The Diligent. ... Durand and his men set up fourteen large tents from sailing cloth on a beach at Jakin and the slave trading process was initiated. ... Robert Durand carefully investigated these slaves and he believed the best slaves were between the ages of ten and fifteen years old. ... After thorough investigations of the slaves, Durand listed a total of 256 people "109 men, 71 women, 17 boys, and 4 girls (Harms 263). ... In addition, men were shackled ...

• Word Count: 1252
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Two men and a woman climbed over the walls of the house and captured the children. ... In Virginia he was giving the tasks were weeding grass, and gathering stones in the plantation. ... Vasa was nearly 12 years old when he arrived in England. ...

• Word Count: 944
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

During the years of slavery, education was an extremely controversial issue among these individuals. The entire nation's economy depended heavily upon the free labor of slaves, which made so many oppose the idea of abolition. The main fear in the education of slaves was that they would revolt; and t...

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

One supervisor went as far as to say it was common for men in his country to greet women by grabbing their buttocks (48 Hours). ... By 1997, Nike had become the target of protests by students against universities with ties to the company, and large gatherings were held outside store openings. ...

• Word Count: 4250
• Approx Pages: 17
• Grade Level: High School