Some slaves were even whipped like animals, and hardly ever fed anything. ... Slaves also could be set free by their owners, if they saved enough money to buy them ownselves and become free. ... A sailor who sometimes worked on slave ships said that they were separated from their families and connections with as little concern as calves and pigs are selected out of a lot of domestic animals. ... There was also a Free Produce movement to boycott southern products- to refuse to buy anything made or grown by slave labor. ...

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• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

This economic disparity correlates to why some believe that the disease started by the consumption of a wild animal (Peeples, 2014). ... Economically, the European empires benefitted from the buying and selling of human beings because of the free labor that came with enslavement. ...

• Word Count: 1257
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Book Review Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas: An American Slave Written by Himself Introduction: Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey was born around 1818 into slavery in Talbot Country, Maryland. No one knows the exact date when Douglass' was born. Later in his life Douglass choos...

• Word Count: 2694
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: High School

African and Native groups also held similar ideas about animal spirits, the guiding presence of ancestors, oral traditions, a living world, and extended family relationships" (IndiVisible). ... Some of the tribes also began buying African American slaves during the Revolutionary War. ... Tribal members began buying or trading African American slaves for field work, domestic work, and various trades (Cox). ...

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

Imperialism occurs when a strong nation takes over a weaker nation or region and dominates its economic, political, or cultural life. European nations and Japan practiced this type of foreign policy throughout the 1800s and early 1900s. In every case, a nation would experience industrialization prio...

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"These included the planting, raising, and harvesting of virtually every type of crop, as well as animal husbandry, dairying, land improvement, use and maintenance of equipment and machinery, and the construction of buildings." ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Writers differ in the purpose for which they write. Some aim to entertain, but the more serious and skilled writers usually have the goal of expressing a serious idea. Writers such as Hariet Beecher Stowe and Alex Haley are writers who write for more than mere entertainment. Uncle Tom's Cabin, written by Harriet Beecher Stowe, had a political purpose. Stowe intended to help America realize the inhumanity of slavery and the pain it brought upon African-Americans by writing a melodramatic novel. ...

• Word Count: 4104
• Approx Pages: 16