The first chapter of the book discusses the history of the slave trade in the western hemisphere. ... Slaves actually represented quite well in the skilled crafts. ... They found that the rates of return on a slave were quite high and that holding slaves was quite profitable. ... This was a blow to all the theories that slavery was unprofitable and that slaves had low rates of return. ... They found that slave diets were quite good and that it was highly nutritious. ...

• Word Count: 3223
• Approx Pages: 13
• Grade Level: High School

Transcribed from Mary Prince's own words, it was written as abolitionist propaganda for England's Anti-Slavery Society. ... A crucial point omitted by Gates is that slave narratives written by women were quite unique in their treatment of sexuality. ... It is believed that she was molested by at least one, if not all three, of the masters she served as an adult (4). ... Torn from her family at age twelve, she details her daily duties and terrors without exaggeration. ... The accounts of unusually heinous treatment by her mistresses - from Mrs. ...

• Word Count: 3051
• Approx Pages: 12
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Reflections from the Past A young and nave child is convinced by an older sibling to commit a rude and senseless act in the presence of his parents. After witnessing the act, the parents then become quite irritated, and they seek out to find the one responsible for informing the child of the wrongdoing. ... "Thus we find Hippocrates in the fifth century B.C.E. in Greece seeking to explain the (supposed) superiority of his own people to the peoples of western Asia by arguing that the barren soils of Greece had forced the Greeks to become tougher and more independent- (Appiah 275). ... from t...

• Word Count: 2726
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: High School

Much of this profit came from exports, most of which was cotton. ... Much of this population growth came from immigration. In addition, immigrants and Easterners moved west and built farms in the new states formed from the Northwest Territory. ... Serious tensions between the free and salve states evolved from different developing economic systems in The United States. ... " 5 It reads: "All powers not delegated to the U.S. by the Constitution, not prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states or to the people....

• Word Count: 3046
• Approx Pages: 12
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

His view was that, "Lincoln adopted emancipation only after all other policies failed, that he resorted to it in an unhappy frame of mind, and that the Emancipation Proclamation "had all the moral grandeur of a bill of lading."" There are others who believe that this is not quite accurate. ... Paludan clearly believes that Lincoln opposed slavery for all of it evils not simply as a moral wrong but also as an unconstitutional situation and impractical political position. ... Another interesting thing I came across was a small fragment from presumably a letter. ... Perhaps the best way to think...

• Word Count: 5422
• Approx Pages: 22
• Has Bibliography