Little is known about how Clocker found out about the settlement Maryland, but it is known that he arrived there in 1636, he got passage to this colony by signing a contract to become an indentured servant to his captain Thomas Cornwaleys. ... This really begs the question, were things really that bad over in England for people to risk their lives for something better? ... No one really knows what Clocker decided but we are pretty sure he went with his first option but lived with a "mate " who helped with the land and paid rent. ... The Middle Passage was between Africa and the Americas. ... W...

• Word Count: 1798
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• Grade Level: High School

I will demonstrate the treatment that the religious slaveholders put towards the slaves, the passages they used from the Bible while beating the slaves, and how they refused to educate slaves, fearing the power they would gain if they were on the same level mentally. ... In particular, he notes that his Master, Captain Auld, was one Christian who would vocally justify his abuse of slaves with a passage from the Bible that he misconstrued. ... I have seen him tie up a lame young woman, and whip her with a heavy cow-skin upon her naked shoulders, causing the warm red blood to drip; and, in justi...

• Word Count: 1984
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The most important thing to note about the shift in class structure can be seen by looking at the former behavior of Sutpen and Wash with how they behaved after the war. ... This passage goes on to note how black people laughed and tormented him. ... In fact the feelings after the question show that Vatch may have not really believed Weddel when he said "No... ... Not only did Faulkner examine the shift, but also should how the mentality was not carried over with the narrowing of financial boundaries. ... They would have to come to terms with their new freedoms. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

At age thirteen Douglass bought his first book, The Columbian Orator, consisting of various essays and speeches having to do with democracy and liberty. Douglass saw reading and knowledge as a path to freedom; it opened his mind and made him question the slave system. ... His intelligence and incredible speaking abilities led people to question his former reputation as a slave, "the Liberator wrote that many people in the audience refused to believe his stories: How a man, only six years out of bondage, and who had never gone to school could speak with suck eloquence- with such precision of la...

• Word Count: 1350
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

How did they live and what did it mean to be snatched from their homeland? ... By setting aside their forced leaving of their native Africa the slaves emerged with new identities with local roots but all based on their strong cultural belief and need for kinship. In Jamaica the word shipmate was used by a slave and meant "brother" or "sister" a word of affection used to demonstrate the strength of the bond forged on the passage between slaves. ... This can be evidenced by the change in how slaves lived within a "nuclear family", the changes in child-rearing practices, and with the intro...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

His eloquent words about his treatment as a slave were a powerful weapon against slavery; however, as his oratory grew more polished, audiences began to question whether he had ever been a slave, which gave Douglass another reason to write his book. ... Even among slaveholders, starving a slave "is regarded as the most aggravated development of meanness The rule is, no matter how coarse the food, only let there be enough of it" (58-59). ... Douglass gives an excellent example of such hypocritical actions: "I have seen [Captain Auld] tie up a lame young woman, and whip her with a heavy cow s...

• Word Count: 1650
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• Grade Level: High School

A huge part of what and how our economy was built back in the eighteenth century was due to the 'golden age' of slavery. ... This question 'is free labour more profitable that slave labour, is a question that is ethically difficult to answer but when we look in to the history of our economy I believe it was. ... Then there are the redemptioners; these people were mainly immigrants from Europe who would sell themselves to work on the ship to gain passage to American colonies. ... One of the consequences that came from slavery was racism, although this wasn't its intent thi...

• Word Count: 1533
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

You deserve it all, and more too."" (9) This quote is from a passage in which a young slave girl is dying soon after giving birth to a child that is nearly white. ... This is an especially bitter pill to swallow when the human in question suffering, is an unfortunate victim of circumstances that they had no power or choice to avoid. ... These lessons often led to an internal struggle within Jacob's on dealing with how to live up to these rigid standards, as well as, doing whatever it took to maintain her freedom in any way possible. ... This dichotomy Harriet Jacobs is faced with from rel...

• Word Count: 1272
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• Grade Level: High School

Couple the desperate tone of Dunmore's language, "as soon as may be," with that of General Gage's, "even to raise the Negroes," and one can conclude that the British army, at the end of 1775, was in a critical situation. ... From spring 1775 until the fall of 1776 the rights and status of the black slave in America were closely questioned. ... The slavery issue could not be allowed to divide revolutionary alliances or to take precedence over such critical questions as military defense and political reconstruction." ... Samuel Johnson quipped: "How is it that we hear the loudest yelp...

• Word Count: 1913
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Captivity narratives were popular with readers in both American and the European communities. ... Furthermore, Rowlandson's encounter with the new or "Other" religion of the Natives caused her to rethink, and question her past; her experiences do not however cause her to redirect her life or change her ideals in any way. ... This is a perfect example showing that Equiano's narrative is also descriptive, giving the reader vivid images to describe the ship during the middle passage voyage, whereas Rowlandson's narrative rarely has descriptive content. ... The statement refers to h...

• Word Count: 1490
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Lincoln and Douglas shows how they deal with race indicates two different directions regarding civil and political rights for blacks in Illinois, where Douglas will use race not only to affirm existing white supremacy but to reinforce it. ... The conflicts that arose between pro-slavery and anti-slavery in the aftermath of the act's passage led to the period of violence known as the Bleeding Kansas.6 Lincoln believed that Congress had the power to determine the slavery question, and that applying popular sovereignty to the slavery question would teach Americans that as long as people vote...

• Word Count: 2032
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Blacks saw emancipation as their opportunity to become involved with society without the worry of being owned by someone. ... "The idea of white supremacy in the South began with the planter's intention of keeping the idea of slavery. ... With these contracts, planters extended authority and presided over all aspects of the lives of blacks. ... Blacks would labor the entire season only to be left with the feeling of despair that was identical to slavery. ... "The main purpose of Freedman's Bureau was to settle questions between them and their employers, and take care of its patrons t...

• Word Count: 1876
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• Grade Level: High School

On farms where there was no central place for the children, women had to take their children to the fields with them and either work with them on their backs or put them down somewhere. ... Escaping with children only made an already hazardous undertaking all the more risky. ... There is no question that slave women worked as hard as men. ... She also had to consider how conspicuous a lone Black woman or group of Black women would be in the predominantly white-populated countryside. ... Women also attended at childbirth and helped with postpartum care. ...

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