Olaudah Equiano, a native of the African province Eboe and author of The Interesting Narrative experienced the cruel and inhumane life of a slave. ... He faced slavery on several fronts, in his native Africa, the West Indies, Europe and America. ... It is no wonder so many of these African natives would prefer death to slavery. ... The inhumane treatment of the African natives was left unattended throughout the duration and a prejudice against them was all but expected, much of which remains today. ... Certainly, Gustavus" master would not have sold his own son for any amount, nor would he ...

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The major threat perceived by the Indian people was the threat to the native religions of India (The Indian Mutiny). ... This, along with the spread of western technology such as the telegraph and railways, had the people believing that the English were trying to convert them all to Christianity and get rid of their native religions (India Netzone). ... The British East India Company was able to annex a number of kingdoms, and princes were denied the right to adoption, so if they died with no biological son to take the throne of their kingdom, the company would annex it (India Netzone). ... T...

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A) Believing they had the right from God to expand their territories, the Puritans oftentimes used force to take over the Native American lands in New England. ... For instance, the portrait of the Mason family wearing all fine clothes as a symbol of wealth deeply contrasts the portrait of Payne's son who is wearing casual clothes in the background setting of a natural landscape. ...

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Portugal had been present in Western Africa for several years but in 1445 the King, Henry the Navigator instructed his sailors on their way to the continent to win over the natives so they could purchase human beings to be used as free labour rather than to kidnap them as they had done previously4. ... Africans were believed to have higher levels of strength and 'humour' than European workers or the Native Americans and, therefore, considered the more effective work force in this new industry. As the demand for sugar across Europe soared so did the demand for African slave labour, s...

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A whole subcontinent was picked up without half trying Images of the British raj in India are everywhere of late. On television reruns, the divided rulers of Paul Scott's Jewel in the Crown sip their tea in scented hill stations and swap idle gossip in the palaces of local princes. At movie houses, we can savor all the hot intensities that blast a decorous English visitor the moment she steps ashore after A Passage to India, to be engulfed in a whirlwind of mendicants, elephants, snake charmers and crowds. In New York, British director Peter Brook's nine-hour production of an ancien...

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Groups such as the Sons of Liberty did lead protests but they did not let any of their members carry weapons. ... The final social issue is that of Native Americans. ... To protest the Tea Act, colonists boycotted British tea, men that worked on docks would not let British East India Company ships touch the dock, and the Sons of Liberty threw the Boston Tea Party. ...

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During this period the Portuguese attempted to acclimatise the native population to Western customs in order to stem the flow of any potential resistance to their rule and gradually eradicate the local cultural and religious ways. ... "Sacred texts" (the Dhamma for Buddhists and the Sanskrit texts for Hindus) were also ordered to be destroyed whenever discovered. (2) Indeed, given the Portuguese colonist's eagerness to resort to violence in "converting" the native populations to Catholicism, it is perhaps no surprise that the aforementioned Prince Vijaya Pala was not ...

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The edict forbade private citizens and colonial governments to buy land or make agreements with natives compelling the empire to conduct all official relations. ... All this frustration and rebellion led to the formation of a club known as the Sons of Liberty who was a "well organised Patriot paramilitary political organisation shrouded in secrecy". 5 These members broke into the homes of tax collectors, beating them up and burning tax documents. ... About 50 colonists belonging to the Sons of Liberty boarded a tea ship in Boston Harbor. ...

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As a political protest opposing to the Townshend Act, which placed new duties on various imports, members of a Patriotic organization named "Sons of Liberty" disguised as American Indians and destroyed a total of 42,009.9 kilograms of tea on December 16, 1773.viii Patriots clearly demonstrated their dissatisfaction toward the British government. ...

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