Many articles, papers, or books have been written on the issue of slavery, but nobody is able to really give "the right view"; each person attempts to interpret the scarce documents coming from the African continent (for the major part written by Europeans) and from the various databases, but all we can do as critical readers is to analyze a few of them and gather some sort of conclusion. ...
In Herman Melville's novella, "Benito Cereno," an American ship captain has a surprising encounter with slavery when he boards a vessel largely occupied by blacks. The captain of the Bachelor's Delight, Amasa Delano, automatically assumes that this ship's captain is Benito Cereno and the black man a...
Captivity, bondage, restraint, subjugation, and slavery. These words all mean one thing, enslaving someone against their will. Slavery was an episode in history, which scarred many African men, women, and children. Slavery has appeared almost universally throughout history among peoples of every lev...
Slavery was first of all a labor system, and the primary concern of the owner was getting work out of his slaves. As the work was basically agricultural, the vast majority of slaves worked on cotton plantations. Free labor was scarce and wages were high. Neither white indentured servants nor Indi...
Douglas Argues Against Slavery and For Black Equality Have you ever thought about what it would be like to be a slave, back in the late seventeen and early eighteen hundreds? Have you thought about the hard times that slaves had to bear? In the nineteenth century, white men needed slaves to do...
