Chester Himes Cotton Comes to Harlem was a great work of art, a detective novel of the American blaxploitation era in which the characters would be considered flamboyantly “super black” individuals. In the days where everyone was a ‘soul brother’ and ‘jive turkey’, or ‘bad mamma jamma’. The case to be solved in the book […]

Sectionalism Essay During the 1850’s, slavery, a southern necessity both socially and economically, threatened the unity of our nation essay writer site. The tension’s were high between the North and South, and further increased as more and more factors contributed to the strain in the Union. As an outcome of these factors, small and big, […]

Though colonialism may have officially ended, the effects of colonialism are still very much present today. This is true in modern-day Africa.    Review the following resources for additional information on the slave trade in Africa:  Origins of African Slaves: Slave Trade Routes  Lasting Effects of Slavery on Africa  African Countries and Independence Dates Select […]

Mohammad Rabah Harriet Beecher Stowe and Other Influences on the Civil War Harriet Beecher Stowe’s book Uncle Tom’s Cabin is often seen as a primary influence of the Civil War. She showed just how terrible and difficult the life of a slave really was. By doing so she caused a lot of disturbances across the […]

Government: this word is used to define the system that maintains the state and her people. This system is run by officials who, hopefully, have the nation’s best interest at heart; but these best interests for a country often find themselves conflicting in their particular perspectives. In the novel Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, […]

The document, “Ex Post Facto Ethics” by Stanley Schmidt reveals many important points to our society. He stresses the fact that historians today are Judging and frowning upon what important historical figures thought and acted upon in their time. Although his article was very specific in examples his generalization of society being a uniform mass […]

Deonca Pierce ENG 350 American Literature I 2 September 2011 Response paper 3: “On Being Brought from Africa to America” To the literary world, Phillis Wheatley is recognized as the first black American poet (Archiving Early America, 2011). At the young age of seven, Phillis Wheatley was stolen from her homeland of Africa and sold […]

Slavery ended in 1838. One of the biggest negatives of such a system was racism which was found in every Caribbean society. British officials believed that people of Africans descent were inferior and what was worse perhaps these racist attitudes were after internalized by Black and Brown people that is some Africans themselves became convinced […]

Asset Shaker is a very strong and determined individual that refused to give up her beliefs and ideas to receive her freedom. When she was incarcerated, treated like an animal, beaten to a bloody pulp and lost all basic human rights, she only grew more stronger and determined. Shaker was a political prisoner and suffered […]

factors in the development of the law. Does the historical system of slavery have any correlation to the current situation of undocumented aliens? Did slaves actually have a form of social protection in the laws that governed them as opposed to the predation of some of the farming conglomerates with the undocumented Hispanic workers in […]