Douglass says, " The rule is, no matter how coarse the food, only let there be enough of it." ... They were not allowed to read and write because therefore, the slave might become smarter then the masters. ... Slaves were so Watkins 3 controlled that they were led to believe ones master was better then another. ... Slave owners were afraid of their slaves running away that they showed no determination. ... Even though there is no specific slavery in today's society, there is still an act of prejudice against another in this world. ...

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There were only a handful of major revolts and most of them ended in a massacre of the revolting black slaves. ... In addition, these early Jamestown codes also addressed the baptism of slaves, and how it would no longer allow for their freedom There were laws passed that prohibited slaves to travel from Jamestown without a license. ... Turner unlike Vessey or Prosser had no prearranged plans. ... There is more protection there for a horse or a donkey or anything rather then a colored man- This law made the oppression of the black slave complete and no major revolts occurred after this t...

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Slaves had no rights, no control over where they worked or how many hours they could work. ... There were certain protections to slaves. ... There were other jobs besides picking cotton. ... Slaves had no last names at all. ... There were slaves who were whipped to death. ...

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The selection of material used heightens the book; it is not literal but representational, it is no less real and has no less value. ... During the book Douglass makes comments saying that Slaves were treated like animals in the sense that they were less then human. He also makes in known that slaves had no idea of their birthday or even of time. ... Also that the plantation it self is like a government, there is the owner then there are his overseers then the slaves. ... He also showed us how there was competition between slaves on the same plantation. ...

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A tortoise then offered her his back, which represented land, and there she made her home. ... This was the legal concept of coverture, and there were few exceptions to it. ... Gender roles for women were very specific then. ... There was no security in their lives. ... Then, as today, if a woman refuses to undergo this horrific, torturous procedure that she would have no standing in her society, and would become an outcast. ...

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The colonists saw America as the land of opportunity, many of them had probably been told stories about how a man came with no money, and built an empire with farming. ... The areas were also split up by different groups, and religions, so if you weren't a Puritan you couldn't live in that area, or if you weren't Dutch you couldn't live there. ... Then he had to find some way to make money, and then some one to sell it to. ... They have no reason to stay in England, because they will not get anything from there father once he dies so they go to America to find there fortune...

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The newly slave have no right not to go, just to fellow directions into an unknown place. ... On the way there slaves were badly mistreated and the conditions were terrible, many died on the way. ... Their punishment on the trip there was just the beginning of a horrible life. ... In Roots, slaves were lined up and then auctioned to white colonist; the colonist checked their teeth, age, and physical appearance. Once they were sold the owners took them home and then they were shown what was in store for them a life of hard labor. ...

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Any questions were to be answered only with a, "No, Master" or "Yes, Mistress," Or vice versa. ... There were rows upon rows of shacks, with no heat, for the slaves to sleep in at night. ... There was one little boy, around the age of twelve, that was put in my care because he could no longer work. ... I knew that there were such medicines in the house that could cure his illness rather quickly, but she refused. ... I spent the next week in a shack with no clothes, no food, and received whippings every morning as a fresh awakening. ...

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No Southern State gave slaves the legal right to marry, own property, testify in court, or earn their freedom. ... Then the slave, upon returning, would be executed or severely whipped. ... Certainly she recognized that there were varying degrees of damage done, but she was not writing so much to teach people the overwhelming horrors of slavery but to reveal the small human tragedies. Stowe believed that if she could draw intimate portraits of individuals, then the people who were guilty of perpetuating slavery (those who allowed its continued existence even if they did not own slaves t...

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African slaves were brought in to fill there space. ... Thus there was no need to create segregation or apartheid because Afro Brazilians were easily integrated into society. ... There was no civil war or Boer war. These wars had already taken place and there was no reason for Brazil to repeat the mistakes of histories past. ... The Dutch were integrated with the native population at first but then began to fear that they would lose control of there power once diamonds and gold were found. ...

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There was a system in place to determine how much a person had. ... There were very few slaves in Spain and thus most work was done without slave labor. ... It appears that for the most part Indians were turned into slaves with no education, protection or Christianization. ... If it was not high rent then they would make anything they could to ensure that the Indians were in debt to them. ... They had no right to try and "Christianize" any of the native people. ...

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Being a slave was no easy task. ... Since there was not much machinery back then, these tasks were very brutal and hard on these poor people. ... When there was more then one slave trader on the bout of captives, the trader's marks of ownership were sometimes branded into their skin, like cattle are treated today. ... The fastest way to get around back then was by train. ... There were different kinds of routes. ...

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Most people only know about the African Americans, and they have no clue that the Irish people were the first ones to be slaves. ... She was the first to order her knights to execute the Irish, and there were no loss of profit of having a killing spree of Irish people. ... Furthermore, James II enforced a policy in 1625 called the Proclamation: where the Irish political prisoners were sent overseas, then sold to English settlers. ... This era had no organization only chaos. ... In conclusion, the Irish were the first to become slaves, then the African Americans. ...

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The second and third call but as the same as the first there was no result. ... Gore then, without consultation or deliberation with any one, not even giving him an additional call, raised his musket to his face, and taking deadly aim at his victim, and then in a poor instant Demby was no more (Douglas 14) ". ... Having no food left the slaves physically unable to do the work they were assigned, killing them in the process. ... This was a smart thing on there behalf... There some theories on how they were treated based on the fact that they weren't treated badly at all, but in all consi...

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(Douglass 2) He then sees Mr. ... Slaves were considered property in society and if the government didn't appeal or reform then they had no chance of winning this conflict. ... There wasn't much for him to do there but once in a while he was whipped. ... There were no ties binding him to that place. ... He had no home, no friends and was risking getting captured again. ...

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There were some people who were trying to make a successful bid of me. ... Then, I was taken to his farm. ... #2 There was no successful slave revolts, because the society was based on Euro-Americans. ... #3 There were more rich land, and business in southeast. ... There were few slaves in the northwestern states and territories, because slavery was not permitted; however, there were some number of runaway slaves and ex-slaves...

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Then they were forced to work in the harsh conditions of plantations. ... The Africans were chained together by their hands and feet with almost no room to move. ... The Africans were then treated more poorly than when they were indentured servants. ... Back in that time there were no public schools that allowed black children in. ... If there were any teaches that were caught educating black children they were kicked out of town. ...

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When Christopher Columbus set out on his voyage(August 3rd, 1492) to find a new route to the Indies there was no way that he could know that it would turn out the way it did. When he landed at the Caribbean Islands(October 12th, 1492), the people there were scared, but still friendly toward him. ... If they escaped, then he would hunt them down with dogs. ... Columbus tried to use the natives as slaves but they were too frail. ... There is an old saying that says,"Might makes right", and the explorers back then, would go sailing around with this idea in their heads, that as soon as they came t...

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Africans in America Many people believe that the first inhabitants of America were the pilgrims, but they are wrong. Indians and Africans were here long before pilgrims. ... I think stories like this were told to keep the idea of becoming free in the slaves minds, to keep hope alive so no one would give up. ... Slaves had none of this, they were often split from there families, there was no learning except for learning how to do work for their masters, and they were a long way from what they considered home which was Africa. ... For example, in How Buck Won His Freedom, Buck outsma...

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Yet, it was still slavery no matter how they spell it. ... With no regard to the condition of his slave's health or well being. ... There were many ways to become a slave in the time of the Pharaohs. ... Then four as restitution. ... Then last self sale. ...

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There is no way that I am free. ... Laws just make sure that everything is kept in order and that there is no chaos. If there were no laws then everyone could do anything and not be reprimanded for it. If there were no laws then you could kill someone and then you have taken someone's right to live away. ... The person is then tricked or trapped into working for very little or no pay, often for seven days a week. ...

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There is no way that I am free. ... Laws just make sure that everything is kept in order and that there is no chaos. If there were no laws then everyone could do anything and not be reprimanded for it. If there were no laws then you could kill someone and then you have taken someone's right to live away. ... The person is then tricked or trapped into working for very little or no pay, often for seven days a week. ...

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The answer is no. ... While the reasons and means by which Utopia fought it wars were moral and just the fact remains that they were fighting wars. In an ideal society, such as Utopia claims to be, there would be no bloodshed over any matter. ... And again by John Olin when he said, No one goes hungry there; no one is homeless. ... The Utopians have learned everything that the ancient philosophers can teach us, and even in their religion there is nothing for which there was no precedent in classical antiquity. ...

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No, but believe them because they are true. ... But we need your help other wise there is no point. ... re natural impulse be if you were to work in those conditions. ... Great numbers of the girls were walking lamely or awkwardly. ... ll say once again, I would rather be damned then leave this retched situation alone. ...

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However, some slaves say there were some masters who gave some extra material for the children, but it was not sufficient any way. ... However, there were a lot of slave owners who saw the situation quite differently. ... Considering how much they had to work, there is no wonder why many of them had faints caused by their hunger. ... Charles Ball, a former slave, wrote that there were a lot of "...raids on the smokehouse..." ... One of the former slaves wrote that they were given a row in the field and they had to remove all the weeds from there. ...

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