Although these contributions were recorded, his name was not mentioned in the American History Books until later in life. ... Eventually she freed her slaves and married one of them named Bannaky. They had several children, one of whom, Mary who also grew up and bought a farm, and bought a slave, Robert, whom she later freed and married. ... Supposedly Banneker penned a twelve page letter to Jefferson regarding his own, many, accomplishments but also requesting aid for the improvement of the lives of the freed blacks in the country. ... There are so many things that have happened in the past ...

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

The entire nation's economy depended heavily upon the free labor of slaves, which made so many oppose the idea of abolition. ... Few slaves rose from their original status to the ranks of the slave elite or even the free-black. ... Some slaves, such as Frederick Douglass, learned to read with the help of old newspapers and books that he would carry with him each day. In his free time, Douglass and his friends would learn to write with the use of a Webster's Spelling Book . ... Through becoming friendly with several white boys in the streets and practicing in his master's son...

• Word Count: 2340
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Through the study of nearly 500 manuscript collections that housed the contents of family letters, household inventories, the papers of female academies, commonplace books and physicians" records Clinton attempts to shed light upon the hidden lives of southern plantation mistresses, who she states, have been prisoners of myth, legend, and folklore. ... "These women were merely prisoners in disguise" (p. 109) Overall, women in the antebellum South were generally overworked, often unhealthy, and little freer than their slaves. ...

• Word Count: 582
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

However, Lincoln portrayed as a man who, from early childhood, had but one goal, and that was to advocate on freeing the African-American slaves. ... Lincoln saw this idea of human equality or race-based as the greatest threat to preserving America's free institutions and allowing slavery to dominate the union. ... Proposed by Douglas and Lincoln's opponent in the influential of their debate, where the bill overturned the Missouri Compromise's use of latitude as the boundary between slave and free territory. ... Since the Founders could not free themselves and free their slav...

• Word Count: 2032
• Approx Pages: 8
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

This can institute some inaccuracies during the timeline of slavery such as the involvement and participation of free and enslaved women during resistance in The Caribbean. ... Therefore, this paper will argue that female slaves and free black women played massive roles in the resistance of slavery that can be seen through prominent female slave resisters such as Nanny of The Windward Maroons, Mary Prince of Bermuda and Matilda and March of The Bahamas. ... Originally, historians often viewed enslaved women as well as free black women resistance as ineffective as their methods were 'non ...

• Word Count: 1917
• Approx Pages: 8
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

King Leopold's Ghost tells a story of the Belgian King Leopold II and his misrule of an African colony, named (at the time) the Congo Free State. It is a wild and unpleasant story of a man's capacity for evil and the peculiar manifestation of it. In telling this story, Hochschild does a wonderful jo...

• Word Count: 2087
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: Undergraduate