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Abraham Lincoln, the former President of the United States, is famous for his creation of the Emancipation Proclamation that brought an end to slavery. Nevertheless, it should be mentioned that Lincoln’s stance on slavery was not always unwavering. Prior to and during the Civil War, he consistently expressed disapproval towards slavery. Yet, there were occasions…

Slavery involved the forcible relocation of African people to America, where they would be used as laborers on farms and in domestic settings. Throughout history, various civilizations, such as the Egyptians, employed slaves. Despite the fact that owning slaves is now prohibited, it is evident that prejudice against African Americans persists. From my perspective, this…

Book Review Capitalism and Slavery, (1944), written by Eric Williams, has been the most influential scholarly work from a Caribbean historian about the Caribbean and its contribution to world history. Due to his unconventional perspectives toward the conclusion of slavery in the British Empire, followed by his critiques on previous statements made by historians that…

            This article was written by Jared Diamond, a professor of physiology at UCLA Medical School. To summarize it briefly, this short work explores the possible theory that genetics may have played a role in why American blacks of modern times tend to be predisposed to hypertension. The author first establishes this fact by going…

The Industrial Revolution started in Britain. where population was sky rocketing and demand for goods was increasing. This higher demand forced pioneers and scientists to contrive machines that would do production much faster than their old ways. Before the push for new engineering. goods were being produced through the putting-out system: one where a maker…

Here are the simlilarities and differences of the lives of Harriet Tubman and Susan B. Anthony. Susan B. Anthony had a better life growing up than Harriet Tubman. Susan B. Anthony was born in 1820 in a small town in western Massechusets. Also was the daughter of a principled and plain Quaker father, and a…

Slave trade has been an important part of history since it defines different aspects of the world today.  Certain settlement patterns, such as the patterns in the southern US states can be linked to the slave trade.  It is therefore important to analyze this part of history in more detail.  The African slave trade involved…

Background An outstanding writing Breaking Chains of Psychological Slavery is a collection of essays created by Naim Akbar. Being a psychologist, the author analyzed the nature of slavery from the psychological point of view. His main idea is that the slavery came to the end only “legally”, however its social and psychological consequences remains alive…

I was born a slave on a plantation in Franklin County, Virginia. I am not quite sure of the exact place or exact date of my birth, but at any rate I suspect I must have been born somewhere and at some time. As nearly as I have been able to learn, I was born…

Frederick Douglass was a newspaper editor, lecturer, United States minister to Haiti, and a very successful writer despite living a childhood of slavery. In the essay by Frederick Douglass, Learning to Read and Write, Douglass describes his personal experiences as a young black slave during the 1800’s. Similarly, in another essay by Maya Angelou, Graduation,…