"Bury Me in a Free Land" Make me a grave where"er you will, In a lowly plain or a lofty hill; Make it among earth's humblest graves, But not in a land where men are slaves. ... I ask no monument, proud and high, To arrest the gaze of the passers by; All that my yearning spirit craves Is--Bury me not in a land of slaves! The poem Bury Me In a Free Land deals with the issue of having your final resting place in a place where there are slaves. ... We had told our little darling, Of the land of love and light, Of the saints all crowned with glory, And enrobed in spotless ...

• Word Count: 2134
• Approx Pages: 9
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• Grade Level: High School

This land was of no threat to us in Spain's hand but with Napoleon in charge, his plans for world domination would mean us fighting for our own land eventually. ... Eventually Napoleon lost use for this land though luckily and sold it to us pocketing the cash for his own future battles with England. ... This nationalism lended itself to our foreign policies as well as we agreed with Britain to stop fighting over land and to share Newfoundland fisheries and a ten year joint plan to share the Oregon country areas. ... He goes ahead and acquires new land from Spain with support from Hamilton...

• Word Count: 2477
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School

Crusoe, like many British Colonists, saw the 'Moor' people as inferior, and even savage like, so Crusoe would have felt little remorse about leaving the young boy for dead. ... After setting up his plantation in Brazil, Robinson Crusoe had three servants working on the land. ... Crusoe begins to consider the areas of the island which he believed would be the most wholesome, and is intelligent enough to realise that he should move further inland in order to find the more prosperous land for growing food16. ...

• Word Count: 2166
• Approx Pages: 9
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Ironically, the same story the white Christians connected with in motivating themselves for separation from England was used by the slaves in motivating them for their eventual release from their current oppressive ruler ship.7 While white Christians saw themselves as the New Israel they were at the same time enslaving people who considered themselves the current Old Israel, waiting to be delivered from their oppression through faith in God.8 For white America, similarities to convince them of their relation to the Israelites consisted of "the bondage in Egypt, the rescue at the Red Sea, the...

• Word Count: 1954
• Approx Pages: 8
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The story of the American slave is thus the story of the African's search for a home in a hateful land. In Toni Morrison's Beloved, each generation hopes to find a better home despite a malignant world: Sethe's mother traveled from the slave ship to the plantation, Sethe from the plantation to Cincinnati, Beloved from Cincinnati to death, and Denver from a strange, haunted land of ghosts and despair to her community at large. ...

• Word Count: 2092
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

Paul Revere showed only white individuals who have been wounded and among the dead. ... For the sake of justice and the rights of mankind, may the name of slave be heard no more in a land gloriously contended for the sweets of freedom. ...

• Word Count: 1494
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The Slave Dancer a novel by Paula Fox, a tale which took place in the 1840s in New Orleans, Louisiana to the coasts of Africa and to the Mississippi River, the colonial years of America, when slave trade and land exploration was everyday life. ... Jessie was unsure about what would happen next, would he go home and go back to the way he was, being gone for four months his mother worried about him thinking he is dead he did not know what he was going to do. ...

• Word Count: 1821
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

In addition the upper class land owners was in support of these (prostitutes) only because they serve low class solders and kept them away from they "respectable" woman of the island and prevented rape of those women (bailey 57). ... Pictures of women beginning rape mother and child lying dead in the enemies street. ...

• Word Count: 1906
• Approx Pages: 8
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• Grade Level: High School

More is the pity, in the same land under the same flag we have witnessed those a number of years that brought a reprehensible period when in the name of color, cast and creed the innumerable human beings were constrained to live like livestock even worse than them. ... After the storm, seamen often found dead Africans intertwined with others who were still alive.   ...

• Word Count: 2175
• Approx Pages: 9
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