This is all because the Native Americans began to die out due to European disease. ... "My eyes have borne witness to scenes of depravity worse that I could ever imagined" (Document G). ... "But the ultimate reasons so many Africans met this fate lay elsewhere. ... If a slave were to die en route to the Americas, he would toss them over the side of the ship. ... This is why I know the Middle Passage and the slave trades were highly unfair....

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"One night, as we lay in bed after doing our two hours' sentry - we did two hours on and two hours off - my friend Jock said 'damn this, I cannot stand it any longer!' ... On looking at the chap next to me I felt sick, for green stuff was oozing from the side of his mouth as he died." ... They knew that many would not be alive tomorrow night, yet I never saw a sad face, nor heard a word of complaint- "Going along whistling I saw a group of men bending over a man lying in the bottom of a trench. ... At my feet lay his cap splashed with his brains. ... They loathed the old m...

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It was a great affliction to me to be ignorant of their natures, for I am very certain they are all valuable; specimens of them and of the plants I have preserved" (Columbus 108-109). ... So as there died some times two or three of a day in the foresaid time, that of 100 and odd persons, scarce fifty remained" (Bradford 317). ... In the Declaration of Independence Jefferson writes: "We hold these truths to be self evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inherent and inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit o...

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Those locks of hair usually ended up inside a broach or a locket attached to a necklace where the item could lay close to ones heart. ... The modern age has lost touch with the old practices of ritual afforded the dying and the dead. ... Children died of childhood diseases. Many women died in childbirth or soon after of a fever. ... Eighteenth-century sentiment was replaced by nineteenth-century sentimentality, as evoked in the following popular verse: "If I should from this world/Depart you'd have a bit of my/Hair my hand and heart if we/Could no more each other see/You could still r...

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Indeed, we shall see that towards the close of the Medieval period, as society became more peaceful, castle design began to lay more stress on the comforts of life and less on the needs of defense. ... "My son" said the Norman Baron, "I am dying and you will be heir To all the broad acres in England that William gave me for my share; When we conquered the Saxon at Hastings, and a nice little handful it is. But before you go over to rule it I want you to understand this; "The Saxon is not like us Normans. ...

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