This point is proven further when they go on to state that over 2 million Africans lost their lives in the Atlantic crossing and that maybe another 4 million died as a direct result of capture and enslavement within Africa. ... (Note: the mentioned diseases were quoted from Liberties Lost written by Hilary Beckles and Verene Shepherd) Another prime example of cruelty towards the enslaved Africans was that the Europeans had no tolerance for sick or disease ridden Africans and they threw any to almost all Africans over-board who they thought were not fit to remain on the ship Europeans, to a...

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Going along with this quote paraphrasing what Foner said is that even though winning the war this does not necessarily give the victors the right to enforce any circumstances upon the ones whom are defeated, they did (Foner, 254). ... The previous slaves resented the brutal mistreatment directed towards them but also the fact of having been slaves at all. ...

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This quote showed how the master of this slave was showing an example for the other slaves not to disobey his orders or order would be dwelt with. ... Very little could the slaves do to fight back, but they did they did it very intelligently as well as direct. ...

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Margaret Fuller was quoted as saying that,It does not follow because many books are written by persons born in America that there exists an American literature?... Even when his writing style came up wanting, Fennimore's vision never wavered,The literature of the United States is a subject of the highest interest to the civilized world, for when it does begin to be felt, it will be felt with a force, a directness, and a common sense in its application, that has never yet been known (462).? ...

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