Similarly, to Nanny of the Windward maroons, Mary prince of Bermuda also participated in a 'passive' form of resistance and succeeded in the efforts to eliminate slavery. Correspondingly to Nanny, Mary Prince too was a free woman but was born into slavery on the island of Bermuda. ... However, because Prince's book relied on personal experience that depicted the brutality, inequality and suffering of the slaves, it altered the mines of many individuals. ... This means that they felt that Prince's book played a crucial role in the elimination of slavery as it was published ...

• Word Count: 1917
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Whilst some in high places and positions of authority such as the Kandyan prince Vijaya Pala may have accepted Portuguese customs and traditions by adopting them as their own (3), the majority of the civilian population resisted Western religion and culture. ... "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...

• Word Count: 1990
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The British policy of expansion made the princes of India very upset. 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). ... New technology and the British East India Company's economic policy threatened to destroy the economy of India, and the company used its political power in a way the made the princes and citizens of India very unhappy. ...

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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. ... As assets and responsibilities mounted, the merchants, who had come out as supplicants bearing gifts to local princes for an inside track on trade, gradually became soldiers, and then became local rulers themselves. ... The India that these British traders came to do business in was a thoroughly bewildering place, a vast expanse of land filled with millions of peasants ruled by a small number of princes--mostly Musl...

• Word Count: 5127
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Otis does not agree with the current British government because monarchists like princes and kings are blinded by the flattery from peers or aristocrats who worship these rulers like they are chosen by the divine and have the right for full power and control to "legislate" and "execute". ...

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During the late seventeen hundreds, many tumultuous events resulted in Colonial opposition to Great Britain. The conditions of rights of the colonists will slowly be changed as the constriction of the parliament becomes more and more intolerable. During the Revolutionary War, England was not only ...

• Word Count: 1249
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The princes sustained in power by the British since 1858, were determined to keep their states walled off from nationalism, railways and newspapers rarely penetrated the jungle-clad districts of the interior," (Metcalf 176). ...

• Word Count: 1462
• Approx Pages: 6
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