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    “Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade” The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade was one of the most horrific things to happen to any group of people closely relating to the Jewish Holocaust. The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade was actually often referred to as the “Holocaust of Enslavement” which was basically the incarceration and imprisonment of people not for committing criminal offenses but to be put to work for others. The “Areas that were involved in the European slave trade eventually prospered.” (Aca Demon) These

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    He does‚ however‚ believe that there are two different sets of morals that are directly controversy to the other. He titles these two morals as the “slave morality” and the “noble morality.” In On the Genealogy of Morals‚ Nietzsche claims that when you have noble morality‚ slave morality quickly follows as a form of “ressentiment‚” his spelling of the word resentment. Therefore‚ according to Nietzsche‚ when there is a noble morality‚ which he describes as “The

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    Celia‚ A Slave: A True Story Celia‚ A Slave by Melton A. McLaurin is the story of Celia a fourteen year old slave that is purchased and abused by her master‚ until one day she kills him. The relationship that Celia and Robert Newsome had was very interesting and the book touches on race and gender hierarchies‚ power in the relationship‚ and the involvement of others who supported or contested the power structure. Was Celia forced by society to commit this crime‚ did gender‚ race and power struggle

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    Harriet Tubman -Born a slave A lifeline for slaves!Harriet Tubman was born a slave on a plantation in Maryland in 1820 or 1821.Her birth name was was Araminta Ross. Harriet Tubman was a very important person in the history of slavery.Born a slave herself‚She became a “conductor”of the Underground Railroad and succeeded in leading other slaves to freedom. Life as a slave was difficult.Harriet worked a number of jobs on the plantation. Jobs such as plowing fields and leading produce into wagons

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    The “Reading from the Slave Narratives” video I thought it was really interesting and sad at the same time. It had shown me that slaves are the most strong human being that has very lived. They had been treated like an animals‚ but they managed to survive and live to tell their story. The white master did everything they can to to make slaves lives a living hell. Due to the fact that they are slaves‚ they cannot fight back or they will be punished more. The only thing slaves can do during the time

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    There was a trade route called triangular trade. Slaves would get captured and brought to the new world by force. Europeans were immune to diseases that slaves weren’t therefor slaves were introduced to these diseases on the ships that brought them to the Americas. These diseases were called smallpox and yellow fever due to tight packing. Dysentery was also a poor result of newtrition. Another disease is malaria brought to America by African slaves. There were no bathrooms on these ships so they would

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    In "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl"‚ Harriet Jacobs writes‚ "Slavery is terrible for men; but it is far more terrible for women" (64). Jacobs’ work presents the evils of slavery as being worse in a woman’s case due to the tenets of gender identity. Jacobs elucidates the disparity between societal dictates of what the proper roles were for Nineteenth century women and the manner that slavery prevented a woman from fulfilling these roles. The book illustrates the double standard of for white

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    Which Aspects of Slave Culture has the Greatest Impact on Western Culture? The slave culture has gradually influenced the Western culture in many different aspects of life such as music‚ art‚ food‚ language…etc. However‚ in my opinion‚ the western music has been affected the most by the slave culture because most music in western countries have been developed from slavery whereas our language has been affected the least because the slave culture has hardly affected or changed English in any way

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    The Lives of Two Indentured Slaves Often‚ people became indentured slaves due to hardships that were inevitable during their time. Two examples of such people are John Harrower and Richard Frethorne. While John Harrower lived a somewhat respectable and comfortable life as and indentured servant‚ Richard Frethorne had a much more difficult time. One reason for this may be because of their time differences; Jon Harrower is from the late 1700s‚ while Richard Frethorne is from the mid 1600s

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    trade between Europe and the Caribbean. In order to feed this addiction‚ slave labor in the Caribbean emerged‚ taking advantage of the islands which proved to be perfect for the growth of Europe’s newest drug. The population of Europe strongly desired sugar for sweetening imports‚ especially coffee‚ tea and chocolate. The citizens craved the sweet taste and demanded to be supplied with more of the drug. The price of slaves‚ the driving force behind the production of sugar‚ reflected this love of

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