Slavery

How did the word slavery, the origin of which is the word "slav", meaning someone from a Slavic nation, come to be wholly associated with people on an entirely different hemisphere? Transatlantic sla…

In Wendell Berry's "The Agrarian Essays," it states "In a society in which nearly everybody is dominated by somebody else's mind or by a disembodied mind, it becomes increasingly difficult to learn th…

Kindred by Octavia Butler is a story which details the experiences of slavery through the eyes of a modern black woman named Edana(Dana) Franklin who is transported to the antebellum south. Butler use…

The books Up from slavery and Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an enslaved American, are great books that detail Booker T. Washingtons' life and Frederick Douglass's life. In Up from Slave…

"Slavery".The state of being enslaved or owned by a person. Slavery is a system of oppression that was established in the United States in the 1700s. Slavery has been practiced for over 200 years and …

Slavery can be a difficult subject to talk about, especially in today's society, as slavery is seen as a thing of the past. While this is true, racial injustice and discrimination still conitnue to ex…

A focal point of Greek society was its reliance on slaves and the effect the institution of slavery had on Greek thought and actions. By relying so heavily on the work of slaves, Greece was inevitably…

In 1619 brutality would start and devastate many. Over the next 300 years more than 11 million enslaved people were transported across the Atlantic from Africa to America and the West Indies, (nationa…

During the 17th century, the English came to America seeking religious freedom that they didn't have the right to in Britain. Because the profitability of the Virginia colony relied on tobacco and Car…

Fredrick Douglass was an abolitionist that had escaped slavery and was known for his antislavery writing and speeches. In this particular piece, What to the slave is the Fourth of July? By Fredrick Do…