Douglass recalled how slaves from different plantations would fight over whose master was richer or smarter thinking that the "greatness of their masters was transferable to themselves (Douglass 354)." ). ... Jacobs notes that because of her presence, the slave-mistress often quarreled with her husband and was very distraught about her husband's lewd actions. ... Jacobs notes that when a father gives his daughter in marriage to a slaveholder the girl is unaware of the stain that the institution of slavery will leave on her marriage. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

One thing to consider when talking about the evils of slavery is the fact that many politicians and genuinely smart people opposed abolition in the beginning. ... While it can easily be argued that the southern motives against slavery were solely based on embedded racism, it is important to note that most Americans felt the exact same way about the issue. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Moira Ferguson notes that, Mary Prince writes around the taboo against relating sexual experience (even abusive ones) by encoding her abusive sexual experiences in accounts of angry jealous mistresses and a master who forced her to wash him while he was naked.(4) Hence, there was more to Prince's narrative than a mere blind compliance with the Anti-Slavery Society's requirements. ... Rauwerda notes that the Woods' nickname for their former slave was a deliberate joke against her morality. ...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

CONTENTS Introduction . . . . .1 Chapter Part I. Racial Issues: From the Origins of Blacks to Slavery 1. What is Race . . . .3 2. Race and The Bible . . .6 3. Slavery . . . . 10 Part II. ...

• Word Count: 3801
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• Grade Level: High School