I will demonstrate the treatment that the religious slaveholders put towards the slaves, the passages they used from the Bible while beating the slaves, and how they refused to educate slaves, fearing the power they would gain if they were on the same level mentally. ... Although there are many types of religions in the world that people believe in, the religion that is mentioned in Narrative of the Life is of the Christian faith that believes in the word of the Bible and that there is some kind of God. ... In particular, he notes that his Master, Captain Auld, was one Christian who would voca...

• Word Count: 1984
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Bible extracts, used alongside a primary source, give important understanding of the ideological pressures operating in the period. ... This casts shadows upon the sources agenda and reliability, compounded by the application of the Biblical system of slavery being anachronistic and limited, but reveals the power of literal application of the Bible as ideological justification for slavery in its ideas of superiority and inferiority. ... Document two is out of historian's comfort zones but extracts from the Bible are persuasive additions to any ideological explanation for slavery, when use...

• Word Count: 1094
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

After looking at the Pew Survey one of the most interesting religious trends that I came to really think about is the trend of people incorporating bible study into their lives. Basically the action that people are doing is attending bible study on a weekly basis due to the belief that it will create a stronger connection with their god. ...

• Word Count: 827
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

He then went on to place men like Covey who used the bible as a shield (while practicing none of it) on the hypocritical or false end of the Christian scale, he was showing his position on what true Christianity is-word from the bible and an natural sense of right and wrong....

• Word Count: 733
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

As Jomo Kenyatta illustrates: "When Europeans came to Africa, they had the bible and the Africans had the land. They gave the Bible to the African and told him to hold it in his hand, close his eyes and pray. When the African opened his eyes, he had the Bible and the European had his land....

• Word Count: 2491
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The whites got their ideology of Africans from the Holy Bible as the most Europeans were Christian Catholics and they believed that the blacks were cursed by God, so the whites thought they were meant for hard labour. ... Slavery in America was introduced by the pilgrims, who believed in phrenology and the Holy Bible, and used those as a reference as to why blacks were meant for slavery and why they were inferior to the whites. ...

• Word Count: 1001
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

This theory has stirred controversial discussions between scholars and literary figures, debating the basis for Oroonoko's character and the similarities he has with the Jesus of the Bible. ... (King James Bible, Luke 23:3) Another similarity is observed in the manner of Oroonoko and Jesus Christ's death (Chibka, p. 523). ...

• Word Count: 1045
• Approx Pages: 4
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

He makes references to the Bible to admonish Christians to follow the Golden Rule and abolish slavery (Equiano, 361). ... Consequently, Rowlandson makes numerous allusions to the Bible comparing her situation to that of Biblical characters and interprets her treatment by her captors as punishment or reward from God. ...

• Word Count: 1490
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

She mocks them by stressing that they are "Christians," even though we can see that they do not act in a kind or christianly manner, and then as a further snub tells them that Cain in the bible was black so, therefore, they are not far removed in relations to the very "Negros" that they scorn. ...

• Word Count: 846
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

He signals to the readers his own faith in god continually throughout the narrative, while finding slaveholders such as Covey that think they are Christians but are merely using the bible as a shield repulsive and at times refuses to pray with them. ...

• Word Count: 1456
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The damages African Americans have sustained from White America because of slavery have been agonizing and inhumane. Therefore I am in favor of reparations for African Americans. The effects of slavery have been an enduring issue within the Black community. Many of us are cognizant of the harm ra...

• Word Count: 1165
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Betty Wood introduces her book, The Origins of American Slavery: Freedom and Bondage in the English Colonies, by raising two conceptually-related questions: 1) What made English colonists believe they had the right to enslave West Africans and; 2) What prompted them to do so? She points out th...

• Word Count: 982
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Benjamin Banneker was an African American that invented many products and practices that we still employ today. He walked and worked among our Founding Fathers, and paved the way for many African Americans that have contributed to the adaptation of the political, social, and economic structures wit...

• Word Count: 1655
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Langston Hughes was one of the most prominent poets of his era and his works are still read and studied today. He once recounted how a young Negro poet came to him claiming that the hoped he could write like a poet and not just as a Negro poet. It might seem baffling and inconsequential today but in...

• Word Count: 1560
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

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
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The experience of the trans-Atlantic slave trade took the enslaved away from their roots. There was an effort by the slave owners to remove the identity of the slaves. The Africans were captured in West Africa and forced to board ships, stripped naked with no belongings from their previous life. All they had of their lives prior to slavery had become a memory. Confined in their minds were their customs, beliefs, songs, stories and language. ...

• Word Count: 2280
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: Undergraduate