West Indian grower manufactured stately homes - some, absurdly unrestrained residences, for example, William Beckford's Font hill - and promoted the modernization of British farming by "enhancing" their bequests. ... Other essays are also having an importance for me that James chose the Haitian riot, 1791-1804, as the unfocused widget best suited to giving intellectual rationality and social reality to his argument. ... At the same time, contended James the Marxist dialectician, slavery resisting consciousness among enslaved blacks and disgruntled mixed race peoples, as well as their orga...

• Word Count: 1988
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

William Fowler on the Samuel Adams book let as see that the revolution was not something that just pops out in one day. ... The eight most influential leaders he focuses on are: George Washington, James Madison, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr, and Abigail and John Adams. ...

• Word Count: 1140
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

James in his book "The Black Jacobins" when he stated "in 1789 the French West Indian Colony of San Domingo supplied almost two-thirds of the overseas trade for the nation.... One early English explorer to visit Africa was William Hawkins who in the 1530's made voyages to Guinea to obtain ivory and gold, commodities the area was rich in, at this stage in history it did not appear that Britain had a great interest in the trade of human slaves. ...

• Word Count: 2679
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate