The two groups that this essay mainly focused on are the Algonquians and Iroquoians. Both groups in this essay practiced swidden, or slash-and-burn, horticulture. ... Everybody wins because the master got the years of service and the servant can start a new life in a new world. ... In Ira Berlin's essay "Human Cargo: From Africa to America " we are introduced to the plantation. ... In Africa the demand for slaves have had whole countries form on the coast to help support the trade. ...

• Word Count: 1798
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

In the following essay I am determined to leave my reader with not just the material I've been asked to cover, but with the excitement of Equiano's love for god and life it self that has overwhelmed me when reading his accumulated journal entries. ... In using ideas and information from what I have read I intend to communicate to the reader in successfully manner as to help them understand my thoughts about the following four questions. ... Earlier in the book one could start to believe threw Equiano's observations that he disliked the trade although found some happiness in the ...

• Word Count: 2057
• Approx Pages: 8

This essay will explore the roles played by these three factors and then deduce whether Lincoln is deserving of this title. ... The fact that the African-Americans had helped the Union war effort at a critical time not only bolstered black confidence and pride, but convinced many in the North to equate emancipation with the defence of the Union. ... Although this essay has already explored significant reasons why Lincoln is not deserving of this title, he cannot be completely disregarded. ... However, from start to finish the most important aim of Lincoln was the preservation of the Union, n...

• Word Count: 1565
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

"I went because Uncle Willy was the finest man I ever knew, because even women couldn't beat him, because in spite of them he wound up his life getting fun out of being alive, and he dies doing the thing that was most fun because I was there to help him," is how the boy describes his admiration for Uncle Willy. At the time when a boy is this age he doesn't understand the aspects of addiction like the people in the story who were trying to help him, such as his own father. ... Faulkner seems to capture the moment in a boy's life when he is just starting to understand the ev...

• Word Count: 1764
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

By evaluating comparative efficiency, this essay will argue that the American Revolution is more radical than the Haitian revolution, despite appearances to the contrary. ... The Haitian revolution started out bloodthirsty, but was tamed, to some extent, by the wisdom of L'Ouverture. His well thought out plans for Haiti did not include the gratuitous bloodshed that helped make Haiti an international pariah after the Revolution, which James justifies on the dubious grounds of fairness. ...

• Word Count: 1619
• Approx Pages: 6

Unexpected "help" from white man a. ... With a little money he had earned doing errands, he bought a copy of The Columbian Orator, a collection of speeches and essays dealing with liberty, democracy, and courage (Douglass 1846). ... This was dangerous and could imperil the slave trying to flee and his "Negro" benefactor - already free - trying to help him (Douglass 1881). ... He arranged with a railroad baggage handler to bring him his luggage to the Philadelphia train at the moment it started rolling. ...

• Word Count: 1950
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School