"9 "Article 2" T he second article "Technology, Free Labor, and Slavery: Lincoln on Discovery and Invention", by John D. ... Discoveries and Inventions made labor improvements possible, such as transportation, which allowed people to increase the amount they could carry and do it to lessen the labor time. ... Lincoln also charged that Young America, who acted arrogantly over knowledge, thinking they knew everything and even disregarding the past. He challenged Young America to compare themselves to Adam, who had to knowledge and no one to teach and provide him anythin...

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In addition, the narrative is also considered as a typical American autobiography in that it: 1/ stands as a life of an individual who also 2/embodies guide to life for others and 3/ reports discovery of the self (we shall comeback to this last point later I mean the making of the self) but first one may wonder why Frederic Douglas felt compelled to tell his life story in the Narrative. ... I have no accurate knowledge of my age, never having seen any authentic record containing it. By far the larger part of the slaves know as little of their age as horses know theirs, and it is the wish o...

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On the first page he states, "By far the larger part of the slaves know as little of their age as horses know of theirs, and it is the wish of most masters within my knowledge to keep their slaves thus ignorant," acknowledging that the white masters were aware that acquiring an education would create problems (41). ... He becomes both drawn and disgusted by education as he begins to despise slave-owners with the discovery of abolition. He now recognizes that the importance of education lies in the knowledge that in order for slaves to become physically free of slavery, they must first become m...

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He also was a tobacco farmer and as a result of his discovery, many tobacco farmers in the United States benefited, politically, socially and economically. ... This was a monumental discovery that was never attributed to Banneker at the time. ... Allegedly Banneker's knowledge and astrological calculations were implemented when he was asked to be a part of the first presidentially appointed survey team, who was challenged with the establishment of the nation's capital (Washington Interdependence Council). ...

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Other important factors made Africa the hot spot for British and European expansion including the discovery of gold in the Transvaal and diamonds in the Orange Free State, the palm oil industry in Nigeria, scientific discoveries such as the way to treat malaria, and the mapping and exploration of the previously mysterious African interior early in the 19th century. ... African expansion hadn't particularly been considered by because it wasn't viable do to high mortality rates caused by malaria and other tropical diseases and the lack of geographic knowledge of the African hinterla...

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She is described by Rochester as a 'savage, beautiful creature' and, as she attempts to assert control after the discovery of his previous marriage, feels 'as the Indian, perhaps, feels when he slips the rapid in his canoe'. ...

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