Slaves are seen in this novel as animalistic creatures ("He was a fairly human man towards slaves and other animals - (14), dependent on the good will of their "master-, and always in fear of being "sold down the river-. - Being "sold down the river- meant having to work under the worst circumstances imagined by a slave further South, down the river Mississippi. - At first we are introduced to the slave Roxana whom we get to know in the form of an all-black voice teasing another black voice, namely the slave Jasper. ...

• Word Count: 3258
• Approx Pages: 13
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

There are also the Eastern Woodlands who relied heavily on lakes and rivers. ... There were a number of trade routes along the rivers, which led to a heavy reliance on imports and exports. ... We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.... It cannot be the earth, for the land is our mother, nourishing all her children, beasts, birds, fish and all men. ... The Great Spirit gave it to his children to live uponnothing can be sold but such things as can be carried away....

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

" true or false, it is of but little consequence to my purpose whilst the fact remains, in all its glaring odiousness, that slaveholders have ordained, and by law established, that the children of slave women shall in all cases follow the condition of their mothers; and this is done too obviously to administer to their own lusts, and make a gratification of their wicked desires profitable as well as pleasurable; for by this cunning arrangement, the slaveholder, in cases not a few, sustains to his slaves the double relation of master and father. ... Another custom in slavery, probably also o...

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

This is just a small example of the doubt and hatred that was bestowed on the African American soldiers. However, during the war, they proved themselves to be brave and courageous men on and off the battlefield on many occasions. Despite deep prejudices and harsh criticisms from the white society, t...

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

Once established in the family he became almost an integral part of it; he was the loyal domestic, respected, feared, and consulted by the children. Due to the matriarchal and polygamous regime, we feel him closer to us, because he belongs to our mother, than the slave of the father, who is at an equal distance, socially speaking, from all the children of the same father and different mothers. ...

• Word Count: 5359
• Approx Pages: 21
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The young, naked children play throughout the day by having wrestling matches and eagerly listening to the moral stories told by the village grandmothers, who loved the children as if they were their own. Older children attend school and learn the history of their forefathers as well as verses from the Koran. ... The women in Juffure pass the day by cooking breakfast, working in the rice fields during the day, and finally cooking dinner for their husbands and children. ...

• Word Count: 4104
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A third of slaves on plantations were children and another fifth of adults were not involved in field tasks. ... These states were better suited for the production of cotton, and with the development of river steamers and railroads, the costs of moving was reduced and became more feasible. ...

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

Even though most Native American tribes held prisoners of war captive, there were some circumstances in which growth of a tribe was threatened, resulting in the capturing of mostly women and children as sort of an "adoption" strategy (Davis). ... Benjamin Hawkins, who was the Superintendent of the tribes south of the Ohio River at the time, strongly and forcefully encouraged several southeastern tribes to adopt chattel slavery in order to have enough labor for their plantations and agricultural production, as part of their adaptation of European ways. ...

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

The trans-Atlantic slave trade was the largest long-distance coerced movement of people in history and, prior to the mid-nineteenth century, formed the major demographic well-spring for the re-peopling of the Americas following the collapse of the Amerindian population. Cumulatively, as late as 1820, nearly four Africans had crossed the Atlantic for every European, and, given the differences in the sex ratios between European and African migrant streams, about four out of every five females that traversed the Atlantic were from Africa. From the late fifteenth century, the Atlantic O...

• Word Count: 4994
• Approx Pages: 20
• Grade Level: Undergraduate