Margaret Walker, an African American writer, once said, "Handicapped as we have been by a racist system of dehumanizing slavery and segregation, our American history of nearly five hundred years reveals that our cultural and spiritual gifts brought from our African past are still intact. " In saying this, she exhibits a sense of pride for her culture. ... This produced copious perspirations, so that the air soon became unfit for respiration, from a variety of loathsome smells, and brought on a sickness among the slaves, of which many died." ... With the number of slaves dying of sickness and ...

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He was plagued with lifelong sicknesses, some may have been just in his mind, but he exercised regularly to keep the sickness from overpowering him (Comptons). ... He fought for God because he felt it was God's calling in life for him to be here and minister to the men not only spiritually, but as an example of a soldier. ...

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Chapter 1. In 1587 Eleanor Dare started a history of first New England's female settlers. In XVI-XVII century it was characterized more with dismal end then with a story of prosperous life and happy ending. Coming to New World mostly in search for a good partner, as "tobacco brides " or being sim...

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