In the 1800's there were radical changes to the slave trade and North American slave holdings. In the U.S. movements were forming to stop the holding and trade of slaves. ... But slavery was less profitable in the North, there economic activity centered on small farms and industries The southern plantation owners were not willing to follow in the north's footsteps because their income would decrease a considerable amount. ... Large numbers of abolitionists then joined the fight to win social and political equality for blacks. ... And increasingly in the 1840s, abolition...

• Word Count: 2903
• Approx Pages: 12
• Grade Level: High School

The Auld's in Baltimore were the most important. ... Now, if you teach that nigger how to read, there would be no keeping him. ... They were blind to so many of the evils of their masters. ... He then advised the newly married couple to travel further north to Massachusetts, for they would be much safer there. ... Douglass then began reading William Lloyd Garrison's "Liberator," an anti-slavery journal. ...

• Word Count: 5595
• Approx Pages: 22
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The states that remained loyal and did not declare secession were known as the Union or the North. ... Then began the Reconstruction and the processes of restoring national unity and guaranteeing civil rights to the freed slaves. ... The Confederates assumed that European countries were so dependent on "King Cotton" that they would intervene; none did, and none recognized the new Confederate States of America. ... The unresolved difference would cause failure- first in their political institutions, then in their civil life together. ... While practically all Northerners supported the Union, So...

• Word Count: 6922
• Approx Pages: 28

In this hemisphere, there were hundreds of Native nations, each with its own spirituality, language, system of government, and land base. ... However, there is a history of slavery long before white men stumbled upon the Americas. ... Although Native American tribes practiced some form of slavery before the introduction of African slavery in North America, none exploited slave labor on a large scale (Gilio-Whitaker). ... While not much is known for sure about specific details of these sacrifices, there is sufficient evidence to state that these slaves were considered racially inferior since th...

• Word Count: 2752
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

There was not one single kind of Native American, but many. ... There were a number of trade routes along the rivers, which led to a heavy reliance on imports and exports. ... There were nomadic people here as well. ... There were enough sea mammals, shellfish, and canoes for them to eat and use so that they could get their main food source and did not need to rely on agriculture. ... While the Americans (whites) looked down upon the Indians and did not think they were real people, there was a negative relationship between the two cultures. ...

• Word Count: 2660
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: High School

The states that remained loyal and did not declare secession were known as the Union or the North. ... Then began the Reconstruction and the processes of restoring national unity and guaranteeing civil rights to the freed slaves. ... The Confederates assumed that European countries were so dependent on "King Cotton" that they would intervene; none did, and none recognized the new Confederate States of America. ... The unresolved difference would cause failure- first in their political institutions, then in their civil life together. ... While practically all Northerners supported the Union, S...

• Word Count: 7511
• Approx Pages: 30
• Grade Level: High School

"By the onset of the Civil War, 2.4 million slaves were engaged in cotton production" (Long 16). ... However, industry and commerce were centered in the North. ... However, Lincoln received less than 40 per cent of the popular vote, almost none of which came from the South. ... "There is no more moving and telling an expression of the Black's view of the Civil War than this" (Long 26). ... It is ironic that only a few days before Fort Sumter was attacked, Douglass had agreed to make a trip to Haiti to investigate the possibility of emigration there by free Blacks at the invitation of t...

• Word Count: 4026
• Approx Pages: 16
• Grade Level: High School