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This book “Aren’t I a Woman? Female Slaves in the Plantation South” by Deborah Gray White was a great book. Deborah Gray White talks about the struggles the African black slaves had to suffer. The great thing about this book is not only the excellency of Deborah Gray White report and vivid imagery as she for tell the struggle that these black women slaves had to face, but I firmly believe that she can do these women justice because she herself is a black women who will not be biases toward the…

Celia, A Slave By Melton A McLaurin Critiqued In the Introduction McLaurin uses court records, correspondences and newspaper accounts to share Celia’s story. His argument is “The lives of lesser historical figures better illustrate certain aspects of the major issue of a particular period” (such the morality of slavery) than to the lives of those who through significant achievements achieve national prominence.” Introduction xi In chapter one Beginning McLaurin uses the eighteenth federal…

For example, Aristotle is explicit in characterizing the natural slaves as a tool and not of production, while later on he advocates for slaves for agriculture, which is a productive enterprise. As one scholar suggests the reasoning behind Aristotle’s lack of clarification is that he was not interest in that topic and rather, Aristotle’s main focus for…

to a period of International Sanctions, economic exclusion from the rest of the World and a Guerrilla uprising from the rural black population. Initially, self-reliance strengthened the State and growth rates increased considerably (International Trade Forum, 2016). To deal with the uprisings and threats from neighbouring countries, the State became more authoritarian and military spending increased significantly. This, coupled with Sanctions affected the Economy and the tax base started to…

background. On the books Working Cures: Healing, Health, and Power on Southern Slave Plantations by Sharla M. Fett and Surviving HIV/AIDS in the Inner City: How Resourceful Latinas Beat the Odds by Sabrina Chase, the authors provide cases which reflect the failure of medical treatment provided by physicians due to the fact that it is not able to adjust to their patient’s needs. On the book Working cures, the slaves of plantations completely believed in “conjuration… also called ‘‘hoodoo’’ or…

the Dred Scott Case. He begins in the eighteenth century during the American period of continental expansion. During this time, there was constant debate over the admission of states; most notably, whether those states would be considered free or slave states. Fehrenbacher takes readers from the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 to the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 until the legislators finally decide the issue must be heard by the court. Though, he notes that this path to the court is not…

Prior to the authoring of professor Frank Tannenbaum’s book Slave and Citizen most scholars believed that slavery in North and South America was the same in Ancient Greece and Rome along with the Middle Ages in Europe. However, one important difference made slavery in the Americas stand out and it was the enslavement of Africans and indigenous populations. Professor Tannenbaum’s thesis argued that Iberian laws regarding slavery and the teachings and principles of the Catholic Church made slavery…

Andrews, W.L. (2004). North American Slave Narratives: An Introduction to the Slave Narrative. Documenting the American South. Retrieved from http://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/intro.html In the North American Slave Narratives by William L. Andrews, he explains the importance of former slave narratives and how they contribute to American history. He addresses the importance of slave narratives and how they relate to racism in the United States. He supports African American slave narratives and their…

his captor to “tremble lest thy luckless hand dislodge a kindred mind” (240). The scientist without thought has captured this mouse and plans to kill him without ever knowing anything about him; this is a direct comparison to the slaves that have been captured. Slaves were automatically thought to be not as smart as other ethnicities and of nothing of value, but Barbauld warns people to be weary of killing someone who may possibly be similar to them…

are lost when slaves lack defiance. With humanity intact, slaves desire and fight for what they deserve: a necessity to life, a universal, God-given right, freedom. The fighters, the risk-takers, and the persisters, become the survivors. Resistance is the path slaves choose in the slave narratives, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, by Harriet Jacobs’ and, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, by Frederick Douglass’. The rebellious spirit helps slaves survive by…