Allowed by their owners to bring up their children and organize their domestic lives, they carried out their chores, cooking, making clothes, and their leisure activities all within distance of their masters house enabled the slave community to flourish. ... The white man viewed the slaves as pagans; seen as an unhealthy mix of superstitious beliefs in spirits, powers of curing and casting spells the slaves religious beliefs made it easier to justify condemning them to a life of servitude. ... Believing that the spirits had the power to make good or bad things happen West Africans used pr...

• Word Count: 2095
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

A woman's job is in the house, taking care of the children, preparing the meals and growing easy crops. ... In comparison, Achebe rebuts Conrad's claim that Africa is the place of darkness by showing Umuofians' fear of night, because it holds evil "spirits" and "dangerous animals become even more sinister and uncanny in the dark." ...

• Word Count: 1344
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Slaves used these mediums, among other things to, lift their spirits, let out their sorrows, pass down tradition, and give them hope for the future. ... They made friends, fell in love, played and prayed, sang, told stories, and engaged in the necessary chores of day-to-day living, from cleaning house, cooking, and sewing to working on garden plots. ...

• Word Count: 2002
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate