White slavery

The Contributions that Native Americans made on American history are well documented. But as James Axtell points out, a lot of times it’s more of the looking negatively on the history of the Indians, such as “obstacles to white settlement” or “victims of oppression.” (Axtell 981) To understand the true contributions made by the Indians, one would have to look at both the good and the bad, as in the help they provided to the settlers and the way they fought the conquerors. The Native Americans…

How far was the American empire similar to the British one? The United States of America in many ways aimed to distance themselves from their former colonial masters. The American Enlightenment had set forth the notion that the American colonists should form an entirely new nation built on the ideals of liberty, the rights of man, republicanism, and so forth. But America exhibited symptoms of imperialism - both hard imperialism and soft imperialism - in their growth and expansion west. Whilst…

fifteen out of the twenty months allotted for the act, then parental rights will be challenged and terminated. The MEPA removes predominantly children of color in the foster care who are now in the foster care system, from their kin, and placed with white families. Incarcerated Black mothers and their children are heavily attacked on the basis of these acts, because even though they make up thirteen percent of the United States population, twenty percent of Black women, are imprisoned with long…

After the Nebraska and Kansas act of 1854, the problems between the North and the South grew. Lincoln’s confessed that his true goal was to stop the expansion of slavery from spreading into other territories within the nation. As war broke out, he was compelled by the Northern states and abolitionists to stress that the Union army’s main war focus was on freedom. The only problem was, Lincoln want to focus on the save the Union and reinstate the national authority over the South once more.…

slave trade was inspired by the awareness of local tribes of the external institutions of slavery that Europeans were operating in Sub-Saharan Africa throughout the 16th and 17th centuries. In this economic environment, tribal leaders and local slaves traders kidnapped an sold prisoners of war to Europeans as a way to trade for European luxury items and goods. The factors of European institutions of slavery, localized tribal trade agreements, and tribal cooperation made the slave trade possible…

The slaves used, were an integral part of building new lands in new countries to further capitalistic civilizations. In fact, almost all of the developed countries today have had slavery at…

In 1940, (during the Colonial era) a rapid growth in the cultivation of sugar led to the development of the plantation economy in St Kitts. The conditions of the climate in the area was very hot and humid and the men from that geography were not interested in working under those extreme conditions. European planters decided that Africans from West Africa were accustomed to living and working in similar climate conditions therefore they sought African slaves to cultivate their sugar for them. In…

The American writers in the second half of the nineteenth century often focus on situations when individuals are called upon to face many challenges. Post-Civil War brought many trials and tribulations for Americans. Whether it was Native Americans trying to stand ground for their land, freed slaves trying to navigate their new freedom, or women in traditional subservient roles trying to take a stand, American writers drew upon these new challenges for Americans and wove it into their…

the institution of slavery than is often examined. This work begins to question our previous knowledge of the slave trade and forces us to look at the story from a perspective that as a society we may not want to acknowledge. Her work demands a deeper understanding of the institution of slavery be known and no longer allows society to perpetuate the misunderstandings of slavery and Africa that we have been perpetuating since the trade started. Often we are taught slavery from a Western…

Slavery by Another Name This video starts soon after the 13th amendment is ratified and slavery is abolished (at least on paper). The cotton economy was severely hurt from the new need of payed labor. The farm owners had about half of their investments in slave labor. With an overall poor economy at the time as well, some white people saw all the new free black people as competition for work. There was white resistance against a bi-racial government. New laws were being made to target black…