America was not always a land of opportunity, but a land where thousands were forever entrapped by their race, gender and education level. ... To add injury to insult, if theses conditions were not bad enough, instead of raises, wages were often slashed. ... America was not always a land of "opportunity," but more a land of "ignorance" we were forcing our own people into slavery and poverty. ...

• Word Count: 1689
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

In the North West the pressure for free land was greatest, especially during the downswing of cycles when pressure on the farming community was acute. The South was generally opposed to free land, fearing that it would upset the balance between the number of free and slave states. ... At the top of this southern social ladder perched a small but powerful covey of great planters owning gangs of slaves and vast domains of land, the planters ruled the region's economy and virtually monopolized political power. ... Shelby, all bad masters do not unite the personal ugliness, the coarseness ...

• Word Count: 2149
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School

Our knowledge has changed and our land has changed, but our way of thinking in some areas remains pretty much the same. ... They achieved some confidence to start some protests like the Stono Rebellion in 1739, where one hundred slaves attempted to escape to Florida as a result of the bad treatment and the conditions they lived in. ... Their trip to the land of freedom is not so different that it was 400 years ago. ...

• Word Count: 1523
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

While he could never change the fact that he was indeed African American, what he wanted basically was what all the other African Americans who trudged the land like him desired and that was a sense of belonging and respect in their person. ... It usually has to take something really great for the Anglo-Saxons to show any form of interest in the lives of these people who share the same land. ... As Jacobs said, "slavery is bad for men, but it is far more terrible for women" (Jacobs, 1861). ...

• Word Count: 1560
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Finally seeing that his state was in bad shape John C. ... The third and Fourth parts were tied into each other, the third part was that Land in dispute between New Mexico and Texas would go to New Mexico and for giving up this land Texas would receive 10 million dollars. ...

• Word Count: 1554
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

This observation is especially important to Douglass because it further enabled him for the opportunity to manipulate his way out of the oppressions of the slaveholding religion of the land. ... Douglass writes: "What I have said respecting and against religion, I mean strictly to apply to the slaveholding religion of this land, and with no possible reference to Christianity proper; for, between the Christianity of this land and the Christianity of Christ, I recognize the widest possible difference- so wide, that to receive the one as good, pure, and holy, is of necessity to reject the other...

• Word Count: 1984
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

If this were to be you in this situation wouldn't you like a way out of this cruel treatment into a land where you can be free and live like normal people. ... As ancient empires like those of Greece and Rome expanded, seizing control of one land after another, many of the conquered people were sold in slave markets. ... If a person would send another into bondage, he would, it appears to me, be bad enough to send him into hell, if he could." She led so many people from that hell and into the "Promise Land." ...

• Word Count: 1826
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

As a die-hard abolitionist, He wanted to show the world how bad slavery really was. ... "I remember thinking that God was angry with the white people because of their slave holding wickedness, and therefore his judgments were abroad in the land" (Douglass, 89) Douglass became educated through his own means. ...

• Word Count: 1277
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The conditions were found to be so bad that they couldn't, due to disease, malnourishment, And mal treatment. ... They were also very subseptable to disease from Europeans killing off most of the population, they also knew the terrain of the land to well and could escape their captors easily. ...

• Word Count: 2418
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School

Huck Finn: A Change of Beliefs Throughout The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Huck undergoes several significant changes and matures consequently. As a child, Huck is taught that blacks are meant to be slaves, they don't mind being abused and that they are inferior to whites, even animals. ...

• Word Count: 1554
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• Grade Level: High School

More is the pity, in the same land under the same flag we have witnessed those a number of years that brought a reprehensible period when in the name of color, cast and creed the innumerable human beings were constrained to live like livestock even worse than them. ... Things were worse when bad weather was encountered.   ...

• Word Count: 2175
• Approx Pages: 9
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Slavery was first of all a labor system, and the primary concern of the owner was getting work out of his slaves. As the work was basically agricultural, the vast majority of slaves worked on cotton plantations. Free labor was scarce and wages were high. Neither white indentured servants nor Indi...

• Word Count: 2162
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School