A woman's job is in the house, taking care of the children, preparing the meals and growing easy crops. ... In comparison, Achebe rebuts Conrad's claim that Africa is the place of darkness by showing Umuofians' fear of night, because it holds evil "spirits" and "dangerous animals become even more sinister and uncanny in the dark." ...

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Bill Fisher History 20: American civilization before 1877 With the arrival of twenty Africans at Jamestown, Virginia in 1619, the history of African-Americans in this country began. At first, they were indentured servants as were many white colonists. Ignorance and prejudice soon chan...

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