Within a few years after her alleged marriage, Behn became affiliated with King Charles II as a political spy in Antwerp, Belgium during the second Anglo-Dutch war. ... In the late sixteen hundreds, Britain found itself in much turmoil, divided between two opposing political parties. ... By composing a factual piece of such political intelligence and gruesome portrayals, Aphra Behn allowed people to believe in her words while simultaneously gaining respect from Restoration era audiences. ... In doing so, Behn motivated women to break the mold and explore outside of the boundaries that limited...

• Word Count: 2238
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Frederick Douglass began his life as a common slave but proved to be a phenomenon by breaking free of all boundaries placed upon him. ... Frederick Douglass believed it was possible to fight slavery using the American political system, he and other political abolitionists created an anti-slavery Liberty Party. ... Douglass also felt that woman did not gain full equality with regards to their rights in America and strongly supported the woman's rights movement, "In respect to political rights we hold a woman to be justly entitled to all we claim for man All the political rights which it i...

• Word Count: 1350
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Colonization of Africa by European countries has had an engrossing impact on the continent. From bringing in diseases to establishing key infrastructure, colonialism has created this everlasting effect that still has a significant influence on African societies today. The issue of race, however, can...

• Word Count: 2491
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

These narratives, as well as others helped create terms such as "personal as political" and "consciousness raising", which were coined during the 1960's Women's Movement. ... Harriet Jacobs" Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl brought into the public and political arena the sexual oppression of captive, black women. Jacobs" work found its place in history as a "slave narrative" protesting the abuses perpetrated against captive men and women, but it reaches far beyond the boundaries of this genre and stands as an important feminist document. ...

• Word Count: 1740
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

These following five articles will explain and discuss the importance of political figure from different perspective. ... 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. ... Proposed by Douglas and Lincoln's opponent in the influential of their debate, where the bill overturned the Missouri Compromise's use of latitude as the boundary between slave and free territory. ... Lincoln alludes to what ...

• Word Count: 2032
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Are humans socially, politically, and economically equal? ... The founding fathers were too assumed in their own political expediency to fight any more. ... He might even lose his own political party. ... They concluded that the federal regime had exceeded its constitutional powers resulting in the nullification of these acts preserving his freedoms and his political party. ... Jackson neglected his boundaries though taking force to two Spanish posts and killing two Indian chiefs without ceremony. ...

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

Most political leaders consciously choose to ignore the relationship between political slavery to Great Britain and the enslavement of blacks for own economic well being, so slavery lasted for several decades. ... If they were south of the Mason Dixon Line which is the boundary between the North and the South, most did not get their freedom. ...

• Word Count: 1901
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography

King Leopold's Ghost tells a story of the Belgian King Leopold II and his misrule of an African colony, named (at the time) the Congo Free State. It is a wild and unpleasant story of a man's capacity for evil and the peculiar manifestation of it. In telling this story, Hochschild does a wonderful jo...

• Word Count: 2087
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The majority of slaves did recognize that the ability to read and write was crucial to both religious practice and to the assertion of individual and political rights. ... Furthermore, whites believed that by educating them, slaves would discover that they should have certain rights; the slaves would become aware of their abilities to succeed in a life beyond the boundaries of their plantations. ...

• Word Count: 2340
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: Undergraduate