The Gender Construction of Women in Early America Life was difficult in the early colonization of North America by the Europeans. ... The African people were being captured and brought to the Americas for a life of slavery. ... In most of the Native American cultures, women were valued beings. ... Unfortunately, this way of thinking became the dominant paradigm in North America. ... This was the most stability a slave in North America could hope for. ...

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Would you agree that African culture survived more strongly in the Caribbean colonies than in North America? ... North American slaves lived together in buildings near to their place of work. ... Links via relations to other family members in other villages created the kinship ties and the same sense of identity similar to slaves in North America. ... However, in both the Caribbean and in North America it would appear that a certain amount of assimilation took place if the slaves were to survive in their new "homeland". ... Like America the Caribbean h...

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The cultivation of cash crops was very essential for the economy in the South during the American colonial times. ... There were many influential groups in the North that encouraged a more benevolent form of slavery, especially since the slaves in the North were engaged in less severe conditions than the South. ... There have been many debates about issue on slavery between the North and the South. The North still believe that slavery should be benevolent and fair, just as America promised. ... Racial-based slavery has demonstrated an everlasting effect on America and still does today....

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The South, which was known as the Confederate States of America, seceded from the North, which was also known as the Union, for many different reasons. ... Also the North wanted to develop a tariff. ... After the American Revolution slavery died in the North, as it became more popular in the South. ... On February 4 delegates from all these states met in Montgomery, Alabama where they drafted a constitution for the Confederate States of America. This outraged the North and what was led to the Civil War. ...

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African slaves were not necessary, because the Spanish Americans forced tens of thousands of Indians to work for them. ... Once more settlers migrated over to America different forms of slavery started to come around. ... These indentured servants were people who voluntarily surrendered their freedom in exchange for passage to America. ... In America the main need for slavery was on plantations. ... Compared to the plantation regions, slavery in the north was far less needed. ...

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Massachusetts was located in the north eastern most region called New England. ... Massachusetts is situated north east of most of the colonies and has ports right on the Atlantic Ocean. ... This begins to show the social development in these north eastern colonies. ... Middle colonies did not rely on trade like their north eastern neighbors. ... The south's interaction with both slaves and Native Americans helped shape their social development. ...

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Overtime African American lifestyle changed drastically, and African American men and women created new lives for themselves. ... Thus, gradual emancipation laws started to abolish slavery in the North. ... Therefore, the effects of the American Revolutionary War on African Americans depended on where they lived. ... If they were slaves north of the Mason Dixon Line, they were freed about 30 years after the adoption of the constitution. ... Blacks in the North were separated from their white counter parts but Blacks in the South were not free. ...

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The bearing of Spanish colonization is characterized mostly by the efforts of converting Native Americans into Christians and the impact, although not positive, of spreading disease to the people of the Americas. ... The impact of the English was enormous, from the settling of colonies in North America, to the development of North American slave trade, and the emergence of tobacco as a major crop, the achievements of the English are clear and distinct. ... Columbus and his men introduced horses to the Americas and in essence, Native American tribes began incorporating these animals to make t...

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America was growing at a massive rate and Calhoun showed his nationalism by providing a solution to keep the country undivided. ... Document E portrays the major division between the North and South. ... The South wanted slavery while the North didn't and because of this line, it would be as if America was two different countries. ... He stated that in his doctrine no Old World powers would be able to gain any settlements in America. ... This gave them more of a reason to hate the North while the North also hated the South for not abolishing slavery. ...

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As a result, this canal turned the North into a global economic power house. ... By 1830 America was producing half the world's cotton. ... Nevertheless, the North was profiting from cotton but turned a blind eye to slavery. ... Solomon Northrup, an educated free man from the North who was kidnapped into slavery. ... Now, no Africans Americans is safe anywhere. ...

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Literacy, in its turn, was denied from slaves because it would have given them access to perspectives on their condition and the ability to articulate and spread them among the reading public of the North. ... Jacobs's "knowledge" has to do with "premature knowledge" of sexual harassment because of sexual exploitation of enslaved African-American women, by their white masters. ... "The Cult of True Womanhood" was an organization that dictated the moral codes for women's virtues and proper conduct, and women both in the North and in the South were judged upon its rules. Jacobs sta...

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This poet was not alone though as Black art suffered greatly them in America and these people tried to fuse as little Black and as much American as possible into their craft in a bid to be given a chance to fit into the Caucasian standard of what was consider American. But what exactly would have made such a young African American man aspire to be as white as possible? ... He uses a lot of rhetoric to show that there is a different definition of the fourth of July to both the African American and the white American when he utilizes phrases like us and them, you and we. ... The last three decad...

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It is safe to say that British government in its North American colonies was more efficient to begin with than that of Saint Domingue. Wood points emphasize in The Radicalism of the American Revolution that these Americans were prosperous compared to the rest the world. ... Whereas the early acts of defiance on the part of Haitians tended to involve burning and killing, the North Americans dumped tea into Boston's harbor and refused to pay taxes. ... America required no Dessalines to force its citizens to work. ... No one denies the prosperity of America as a whole. ...

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The Irish took part in many events and significant happenings of America's history. ... For many years, the controversy of the enslavement of blacks was a dividing issue between the North and the South. ... Many Irish in the North were in support of slavery. ... They knew that if the slaves were freed, then they would be able to move to the North and compete with the Irish for their jobs. ... Irish soldiers lay buried throughout the North and the South (Beller, 90). ...

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Introduction The American Civi War was inevitable. ... The Civil War is surely one of America's darkest moments, lasting four long and arduous years (1961-1965). ... The war did not only touch the lives of Americans but whole world felt its effect. The war was purely American since no other country intervened in the war (James & Michael, 17). ... The North began by banning and completely abolishing slave trade. ...

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Free blacks, who had left their struggling conditions in some of Spain's poorer towns, explored North America alongside white conquistadors (Gomez 2005, 63). ... The opportunity to find slaves in the Americas was nixed when many of the Native Americans died from the foreign European pioneers' diseases. ... The slaves also worked on sugarcane plantations that had spread from the West African coastal islands to North America (Gomez 2005, 62). Slaves were transported from Africa to the Americas in a complicated process. The triangular trade route, called the transatlantic slave trade, c...

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In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, a few European nations ruled the Americas. ... Slavery caused major changes in America when it was legalized in 1661. ... He tries to run away to North America to meet up with Lydia and live a life with her. ... An excerpt from The Virginian shows the thoughts of the South about the North. ... P121 Lydia and Chapel make plans to run away and meet in North America where they can live a happy life together. ...

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Most slave traders were usually European or Arab, whom bought and sold people as a product, and some slave traders were even African American themselves. ... In the 1830's, steam-powered trains first appeared in North America- trains that could travel farther in an hour than a horse could go in one day. ... The American Constitution had declared in 1787 that any slave who escaped to a free state had to be returned to the owner. ... All these stories were passed to plantation from plantation where other slaves, being encouraged by this tried to make their own dangerous trip to the north....

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Today when Americans travel up and down the eastern seaboard, they can recognize differences among the people. ... They became known as the breadbasket of North America. ... And the Southern planters profited immensely off the service of the slaves. 90% of all North American exports to England came from the South. ... While the lower South was proving its worthiness and wealth, the upper South was responsible for tobacco producing one third of all exports to England from North America in 1770, while tobacco was 75% of all exports from the Chesapeake Bay area. ... Each region of the North ...

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However, gradually assumptions about The Tempest's relations with American colonization accumulated and "American school" of Tempest interpretation began to emerge. ... By doing so he declared that Caliban was the representation of "the aboriginal American". ... Caliban was no longer just an American Indian, he also became the reflections of the African slave and the European wild man; or the blend if several American Indian types. ... Prospero, they argued, urged his disciples to seek art, beauty, virtue and truth, warning them against materialism and utilitarianism: he identified those ...

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Many cultures, such as the Greeks and Native Americans, used mythology to explain the conditions in which they lived. ... Even so, teaching about slavery in the north is inherently different than teaching about slavery in the south. ... The southerners invented the way they taught about slavery while the north did the same. So even though both north and south have the same facts to teach from but they are able to teach them in any manner they see fit. ... When 90% of a school is African American or Hispanic, why should teachers present the upper class, white American version of American histor...

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Most blacks in America were slaves on plantation-sized units in the seven states of the South. ... By the American Revolution, 20 percent of the overall population in the thirteen colonies was of African descent. ... During the Revolutionary era, more than half of all African-Americans lived in Virginia and Maryland. ... The majority, but not all, of these African-Americans were slaves. ... Her husband refused to go with her, so she set out with her two brothers, and followed the North Star in the sky to guide her north to freedo...

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The Civil War, also known as the war Between the States, was fought on American soil and was the result of the disagreement between the South and the North on slave issues. ... Nearly 50,000 blacks chained side-by side were brought to America. ... After the Confederates took over Fort Sumter, four other states seceded and joined the Confederacy- Virginia, Arkansas, North Carolina, and Tennessee. ... African Americans finally received the rights that they deserved. African Americans started schools and churches, and began to take their place in American society. ...

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His achievements in government had cleared a path for other African Americans to follow. ... Immediately he was recruited as a speaker of the Anti-Slavery Society and would continue to distinguish himself as on orator throughout the North. ... In October of 1847, Douglass created a newspaper called The North Star. This newspaper finally gave the black people of America a voice. ... Frederick Douglass fought for the equality among all humanity and wrote, "The real question, the all commanding question, is whether American justice, American, Liberty, American civilization, American law and Ameri...

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Due to the American Civil War, the whole world perceived the American investment in arms industry and the Industrial Revolution's advances. The war also meant the end of slavery in the United States of America. ... Several slaves run away from the southern states to the north (the Union states and Canada). ... Thus, the American Civil War begun. ... Similarly, pirates from North Africa captured Americans and treated as slaves. ...

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