History of slavery

History is always being created, but never changed or altered. Although something may have happened yesterday, today, it is now considered historic. The irony here is that whether it happened a few hours ago, yesterday, last week, or many years ago, it is still considered historic because it is now in the past. As stated by Dr. Drake in many lectures, “history does not necessarily repeat itself, but it does rhyme.” From 1865 to the 2000s, different areas of history have a stronger rhyming scheme…

Social history is the thorough analysis of the past and usually has to do with sociology, ethnology or fiscal matters that are mainly based on experiences typically focused on major issues, making it a topic of public interest. There are many ideas that concern social history and it may be difficult to recognize them. Social history is an exceedingly broad term as there are so many situations and examples that can fall into the group. It is popularly considered as an insight on cultural history,…

After attending class for the first time on Wednesday, August 24th, I can honestly say that the topic of historical memory had never crossed my mind. In previous thoughts I had always imagined history and memory as synonymous. In order to better understand my thought process, I have broken down memory and history and what they meant to me before and after our first class. Before class started my definition of memory by itself was simply remembering thoughts or actions from the past. In class we…

The Significance of Women The role of women in society has changed a great deal in western society throughout the history of the modern age. However, has it changed for the better? Are there countries in which women are not free to make their own decisions and be independent? What is the state of the modern woman today and how has this position changed throughout the twentieth and now into the twenty first century? First all, Western women do have the advantages of modernization and independent…

What is the purpose of a museum or a historic site? On the surface, many would indicate that it is education. Through his monograph, Upon the Ruins of Slavery: Slavery, the President’s House at Independence National Historical Park, and Public Memory, Roger C. Aden argues that the purpose of a museum is much more complex than that, and it varies from person to person. He examined the various processes and problems that occur in the creation of a historical site. Specifically, Aden examines…

The assigned book for this course is entitled “We the People: A Brief American History,” by Peter N. Carroll. In his book, Carroll gives a voice to women, minorities, and ordinary people, while allowing place for comparisons among different groups by unfolding problems and subject matter that affected each of them relative to U.S. history (Carroll XXI). The assignment for this week was to read chapters 1and 2. This paper will summarize some of what the author discussed in great detail in…

American History: Our Hope for the Future “Those who don’t know history are doomed to repeat it” this is a famous quote by Edmund Burke that is still very relevant today. America is a relatively new country but we still can learn from it’s past in order to create a better future. I once heard that you will never make the same mistake twice, because you learn from your past .This is why we have to learn history, because if we don’t we cannot improve our future. America’s hope for the future is…

all written descriptions of events or narratives employ figurative language constructed in a prose form. He creates this theory to suggest that the written form of the novelist or the poet is shared with that of the historian. In the retelling of history the historian must make sense of writing which has been designed with its own designated beginning, middle, and end and is enforced with a political point of view or author agenda, a process similar to what a novelist or poet might do. White…

Slavery at the Cape The Cape as we know it today would not be as it is if it weren’t for our past, if it weren’t for slavery. Slavery played a significantly important role in the history of the Cape as many of its inhabitants today have ancestry dating back to when slaves were first brought here. This makes the Cape a particularly interesting place to have come from, but we are looking at the very origins of slavery and how it has impacted the people of the Cape in today’s society. When Dutch…

of them were middle-class people who had no stake in the conservation or destruction of slavery. Since slavery was a moral offense and not an economic wrong to these people, they came to look upon economics in slavery as a break of the laws of God. Just as the pro-slavery group wrote its arguments for fellow southerners, northern abolitionists took their campaign to their fellow regional citizens. African slavery began in North America in 1619 at Jamestown, Virginia. The first American-built…