Over the course of four centuries, America's transformation to what it is today is due mainly to culture, politics, working people and the nation's economy. ... On a different perspective, in the early nineteenth century, Henry David Thoreau, an inspirational writer in search of spiritual truth writes about the negative view of the dominant values of America. ... His writings, such as Walden (1854), became one of the nineteenth century's most influential books. ...

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Frederick Douglass, originally known as Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, was one of the most influential African Americans of the nineteenth century Fueled by the brutal mistreatment as a slave, he could no longer take the abuse and fought back against the cruel mistreatment (Notable Black American Men 327). ...

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In addition, the recorded mortality rate was high -- this was still significant even as late as the nineteenth century and was remarked upon by western travelers in North Africa and Egypt. ... By the ninth century slave armies were in use across the whole of the Islamic Empire. ... By the fifteenth century black military slaves were being favored with the use in battle of firearms. Slave troops in Tunisia in the seventeenth century even included cavalry, and the Sultan of Morocco is recorded as having an army of 250,000 black slaves. ...

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According to Jefferson's writings Africans must have loved slavery until the nineteenth century and they must have enjoyed unequal rights until the mid 1900's. ... Because of his writing, Blacks would not find liberty for centuries to come. ... Jefferson would have been a true hero if he had stood strong and did not change his declaration, but instead he faltered and caused slavery to continue for another century. ...

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Document Analysis #2 Jabez Lamar Monroe Curry was a white man born in Georgia. After moving to Alabama, he practiced law and served in the state legislature. By 1856 he was elected to congress, and soon became the commissioner to Maryland. Curry was not reelected in 1863 so he joined the ...

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Response to Kindred Dana Franklin, living in 1976 Los Angeles, unexpectedly gets whisked through time back into the nineteenth century. As soon as she realizes what has happened, she notices a young boy, face down in the water drowning. Dana hops into the water and saves this young stranger fr...

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Truly one of the nineteenth century's Renaissance women, Francis Ellen Watkins Harper was a poet, novelist, essayist, journalist, abolitionist, feminist, Christian writer, and temperance and women's rights organizer. ... Robert Hayden was one of the best twentieth century poets and was the first black poet to be chosen as a consultant in poetry to the Library of Congress a position commonly referred to as the American equivalent of the British poet laureate designation. ...

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During the era of the Atlantic trade, slave importation had become an extremely popular commodity among colonists. Some may argue that slavery was completely debauched and unnecessary. On the contrary, slave trade was still a significant stimulus to the development of the colonies. The middle an...

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During the eighteenth and nineteenth century there were two main different types of racist people. ... In the words of Martin Luther King "If you allow me to live just a few years in the second half of the twentieth century, I will be happy" (King 1968: 280) during his last sermon. ...

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Such reasoning failed to notice that Englishmen, in the early seventeenth century, used the work servant when they meant slave in our sense, and, indeed, white Southerners invariably used servant until 1865 and beyond. ... During the seventeenth century, the slaves had had very few and slim opportunities to establish stable family relationships. ... By the early nineteenth century, slaveholders increasingly adopted an ideal that Christianity would make the slaves more submissive, orderly, conscientious so in turn the plantation owners encouraged missionary activities among slaves. ... Even ...

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The beginning of 19-century southeast had grown most of the cotton in the U.S due to their rich soil and cotton kingdom. ... After Independence The Industrial Revolution in England, the invention of the cotton gin, the extension of slavery into the new territories, and the persistence of the slave trade into the nineteenth century all had the effect of establishing slavery in the United States on a more permanent basis than ever before. As the nine-teeth century opened, there seemed little prospect that slavery would ever cease to exist in the United States. ...

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Some of the first settlers in seventeenth century America were British revolutionaries escaping religious prejudices back home. ... During the first half of the 19th century, the country migrated west. ... America in the eighteenth and nineteenth century was so dynamic and corrupt that money replaced everything and people thrived on its economic vitality. ...

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DOUGLAS AND STOWE During the nineteenth century slavery was at the heart of a divided nation. The North and South had two completely different views on the concept of slavery. The ownership of one man by another did not seem humane to the North and therefore it was banned, whereas the South felt...

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Some historian believe, that even since colonial times, America was working its way to a civil war. Many issues arose since that time which would help divide the nation on subjects, eventually leading up to the events of 1861. Some of these issues include economic development, sectionalism, slave...

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Critique on "Dispossessing Massa: Fugitive Slaves and the Politics of Slavery After 1850 R.J.M. Blackett begins the article discussing eights slaves who collaborated an escape to leave their masters of Ste Genevieve. The author states that the fugitives of Ste Genevieve were miners that made a consc...

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This study discusses the varied cultural reactions in the United States and Sierra Leone created by the slave ship revolt in 1839. The author, Iyunolu Osagie, is from Sierra Leone where the slave ship "Amistad" took slaves. She said in most of the time that she's been in Sierra Leone she has not hea...

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Imagine that you, yourself, are a slave. Your body, your time, your life- belongs to a slave owning farmer. You have nothing. You spend at least six days a week tending to the fields of a farm. You have never even had a glimpse of freedom. You never expect to. You can't even imagine being free to do...

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For escaping slaves, the journey to freedom was the hardest time in their lives. The Underground Railroad extended throughout 14 northern states from Maine to Nebraska. However, the heaviest activities were concentrated in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, New York and the New England states (Com...

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Book Review on the life of Fredrick Douglass Frederick Douglass is often seen as the most prominent African- American orator, journalist, and anti-slavery leader of the nineteenth century. Born in Tuckahoe, Maryland (1819?), Frederick Douglass began his journey into a life of slavery. He w...

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Moral Dilemmas of Celia, A Slave Melton McLaurin's book Celia, A Slave is the account of the trial, conviction, and execution of a female slave for the murder of her master in 1855. The author uses evidence compiled through studying documents from Callaway County, Missouri and the surrounding area...

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