It would appear in this sense that Lincoln is not deserving of the title "Great Emancipator"." To be deserving of this title would imply Lincoln architected and initiated the policy of emancipation. ... Therefore in this sense he is not deserving of this title. ... The action taken by Lincoln here would suggest that he could be considered for the title "Great Emancipator " because of his ability to act decisively when the time was right to act. ... Nevertheless, his inability to openly denounce and act upon slavery stops him from being deserving of the title "Great Emancipator"."...

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

This act traded Maine as a free slave state so that Missouri would be allowed to own slaves which gave slaves in the selected northern states their freedom. ... In 1854, The Kansas-Nebraska Act began a rival between the anti- and pro- slavery states on border line territories. This act came into place when settlers wanted to move out into what is now known today as Nebraska, but would not able to legally hold land. This act also gave the power to each territory to decide the issue of slavery based on popular sovereignty. ...

• Word Count: 2508
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

(Act I, pg. 8) The formality expressed in Zoe's first line, is only expressed the play's white characters, with the other black characters addressing the white characters with titles of "Masr" or "Missey". ... The title given to Zoe elevates her position above that of the other black characters. ... " (Furnas, Goodbye Uncle Tom) This is evident as M'Closky eyes Zoe in Act I, " 'Dam that girl; she makes me quiver when I think of her; she's took me for all I'm worth.'... "(Act I, pg. 14) M'Closky acknowledges the limitations of Zoe race...

• Word Count: 1218
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The author has chosen a very good and entertaining title for the book because when you read it you think the story is about something else. But when you start reading you find the story is completely different from the title but when you look at the title you can actually see that the title actually makes sense. The picture he chose on his title is also very entertaining because it emphasizes the book perfectly. ... People should think before they act. ...

• Word Count: 1164
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

To pacify slave-state politicians, who would have objected to the imbalance created by adding another free state, the Fugitive Slave Act was passed. ... A vocal conflict took a bloody turn for the worse in 1854, when the Kansas-Nebraska Act repealed the Missouri Compromise, and put Cass" idea of popular sovereignty into practice. ... The events of the late 1850s gave the territory the unsavory title of "Bleeding Kansas". ...

• Word Count: 536
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

TITLE From Anti-slavery Sentiment to Eradication; Reasons for the Abolition of Enslavement From the Missouri Compromise to the Emancipation Declaration SUMMARY The drive to end slavery gradually became the dominant American reform movement from 1820-1863. ... Individual documents such as slave narratives and petitions: the Fugitive Slave Act. ... Brown, knowing that many of the families were finding life in this isolated area difficult, offered to establish his own farm there as well, in order to lead the blacks by his example and to act as a "kind father to them." ...

• Word Count: 748
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

In laymen's terms, discursive practices are the way we talk, act, and react according to who we are. ... As Clair's title implies, she aims at proving that in the case of sexual harassment, resistance and oppression are self-contained opposites. ...

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Douglass acted as an interpreter for the entire black community and necessitated black civil rights through his newspaper. ... Douglass held many prestigious titles in government and business, his social status helped break the barrier for other blacks to enter into the government and gain similar positions. ...

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

As we have seen the book cover contains some external cues that are quite important for the reader such as the book title and the author's name and then contains you have another key element which is the portrait or photograph of the subject of the narrative and then you have an authenticating testimonial which it is the preface. ... So you have the title, the signature, the photograph and the preface which all function as a confirmation of the author's existence. ...

• Word Count: 2277
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

King Leopold II of Belgium obtained personal title to the Congo in central Africa. ... The Population Registration act classified the people asBantu (black Africans), coloured (people of mixed race), white (the descendants of the Boers), and Asian (Indian and Pakistani immigrants). The Group Areas Act established separate sections for each race. ...

• Word Count: 2251
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School

"Nigger and Nigga is arguably the most consequential social insult in American history, at the same time, words that remind African Americans of tragic American experiences," said by Randall Kennedy in his book title, "nigger." ... Words do have power and words have the power to cause people to act in certain ways, and when a person uses the word that was designed to put black people down, used to enslave, rape, murder and brutalize black people, then it does not matter how you think or intend to use it. ...

• Word Count: 1650
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Previous to the civil war rose two characters, two heroes, in Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson. Both serve as compact symbols representing the ideology of their own generations. Jefferson exemplifies the aristocrat, the democratic politician, writer extraordinaire, and the pacifist. Jackson epit...

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

In 1807, the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act was passed; however it did not outlaw slavery completely - it only ensured that Britain did not partake in the slave trade. ... Nevertheless, a number of social groups: white middle-class campaigners, emancipated slaves and the white working-class, continued to fight for the abolition of slavery to eventually get the Slavery Abolition Act passed in 1834 which stopped all slavery. ... William Willberforce and Granville Sharp are both very important people in regards the abolition of the slave trade act as they brought the issues of slavery to the at...

• Word Count: 2600
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Jean Toomer's Cane was published in 1923, a miscellany composed of fifteen poems, seven stories, six prose vignettes and a play that all focus on Negro life during the 1920's. The book was focused on the primitive modern sense of what it meant to be an African-American during the Harlem Renaissance....

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Everyday Life In Colonial America The eighteenth century was a very interesting time in our nation's history because our nation was born through the hard work and the dedication of those who lived during those times. When one refers to the eighteenth century, however, he must realize that there were many major cultural, religious, and moral differences between colonial Americans of different regions of the newly discovered land we now call the United States of America. Our nation was once made up of many different kinds of people, from puritans to slaves, whose religious and cultural ...

• Word Count: 2981
• Approx Pages: 12
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Such situations as the Compromise of 1850 and the Kansas-Nebraska Act raised tensions between the North and the South. ... This act also required that the North return escaped slaves to their owners. The Kansas-Nebraska Act dealt with the problem of Slavery in new territories. This Act allowed slavery in Nebraska and Kansas. ...

• Word Count: 4026
• Approx Pages: 16
• Grade Level: High School

Africa's people and culture have been subject to many external changes that left a trace in the way they think and act nowadays. ... During the years following the Berlin Conference the British and French governments sought to covert their grandiose territorial claims into valid title by effective occupation. ...

• Word Count: 3051
• Approx Pages: 12
• Has Bibliography

The 1831 slave narrative The History of Mary Prince is indeed a multi-layered text. Transcribed from Mary Prince's own words, it was written as abolitionist propaganda for England's Anti-Slavery Society. Yet, the autobiography's complexities make it difficult to examine solely as a publicity piece....

• Word Count: 3051
• Approx Pages: 12
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School