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Harriet Tubman was an American abolitionist and political activist. She was born in slavery but escaped and subsequently made 13 missions to rescue seventy enslaved people including her family and friends. Tubman’s Early Years and Escape from Slavery. Harriet Tubman’s name at birth was Armenta Ross. She was one of 11 children of Harriet and…

Kate Clifford Larson is an author of three historical biographies. These biographies are: Bound for the Promised Land: Harriet Tubman, Portrait of an American Hero; Rosemary, The Hidden Kennedy Daughter; and The Assassin’s Accomplice: Mary Surratt and the Plot to Kill Abraham Lincoln . She has a doctorate in History at the University of New…

Dealing with the problem – slavery in the chocolate industry A case study from the view of Nestlé’s CEO In September 2000, a documentary filmed by British television station Channel 4 was aired. Nestlé group along with other companies in the chocolate industry was alleged to have purchased cocoa beans from farms of the Ivory…

The life of a slave is terrible. Being put in the shoes of an African slave, coming to a new country to perform tasks for the white man, would be horrific to say the least. The slaves were split up from their parents, siblings, lovers, and in some cases even their kids. The abuse that…

Why did the expansion of slavery become the most divisive political issue in the 1840s and 1850s? After the depression of 1837 in the South and the Indian removal, Americans had expanded their territory further in the West by the 1840s. The expansion in the land inspired the expansion of slavery. In the 1840s and…

I believe that we see some of the early seeds of the anti-slavery movement in the Pennsylvania Colony. William Penn founded this colony with the belief of religious freedom and liberal land policy. William Penn was a Quaker and they were “Protestants who believed that God’s will was directly transmitted to people through “the inner…

Following the American Revolution, the colonists achieved independence from Great Britain and escaped King George III’s oppressive rule. They were apprehensive about tyranny and opposed a government structure that centralized authority in one leader. Consequently, in an effort to address this concern, the Framers drafted the Articles of Confederation as their first constitution. Regrettably, these…

Slavery in the Chesapeake, low country of South Carolina and Georgia, and in the northern colonies differed in plenty ways but also had their differences. In Chesapeake from the 1620s to the 1670s, white and black people worked together in the tobacco fields together, lived together, and slept together. They were all unfree indentured servants….

Introduction “American Slavery, 1619-1877” by Peter Kolchin gives an overview of the practice of slavery in America between 1619 and 1877. From the origins of slavery in the colonial period to the road to its abolition, the book explores the characteristics of slave culture as well as the racial mind-sets and development of the old…

 The causes of the American Civil War have been debated for over a century.  Most historians agree that a common theme that remains in those debates is that slavery in the South was the primary cause of the war.  President Lincoln and his Republican Party were opposed to the expansion of slavery, but following the…