According to the slaves, it was their problem what to put on their children when it was cold outside (Feldstein 45). ... Except cold, rain, and wind, many slaves suffered from a great amount of mosquitoes. ... Sleeping on the planks, being cold, wet during the rains, and in the smoke; that was the way slaves lived in their huts. ... He remembers that "...women and children picked cotton till the blood runs from the tips of their fingers..."...

• Word Count: 3121
• Approx Pages: 12
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

According to the slaves, it was their problem what to put on their children when it was cold outside (Feldstein 45). ... Except cold, rain, and wind, many slaves suffered from a great amount of mosquitoes. ... Sleeping on the planks, being cold, wet during the rains, and in the smoke; that was the way slaves lived in their huts. ... He remembers that "...women and children picked cotton till the blood runs from the tips of their fingers..."...

• Word Count: 3121
• Approx Pages: 12
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Africa's people and culture have been subject to many external changes that left a trace in the way they think and act nowadays. Conquests, colonization, the slave trade, Arabic and European cultural elements, Islam and Christianity and recently the spread of consumerist society have all transformed Africa for more than 500 years. However, colonization obstructed the internal process of state formation and the development in Africa and left scars of corruption and political instability in its government. Colonial leaders and countries obstructed policies and laws to further deprive certai...

• Word Count: 3051
• Approx Pages: 12
• Has Bibliography

Before the Civil War, America was plagued with a complicated social quandary that incorporated individual, societal, political, economic, and religious principles. This taboo of a topic found itself well-versed throughout the country in many publications. Its authorship included Frederick Douglass...

• Word Count: 2701
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Writers differ in the purpose for which they write. Some aim to entertain, but the more serious and skilled writers usually have the goal of expressing a serious idea. Writers such as Hariet Beecher Stowe and Alex Haley are writers who write for more than mere entertainment. Uncle Tom's Cabin, written by Harriet Beecher Stowe, had a political purpose. Stowe intended to help America realize the inhumanity of slavery and the pain it brought upon African-Americans by writing a melodramatic novel. ...

• Word Count: 4104
• Approx Pages: 16