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    Celia, a Slave

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    Celia‚ a Slave was a factual interpretation of one isolated incident that depicted common slave fear during the antebellum period of the United States. McLaurin used this account of a young slave woman’s struggle through the undeserved hardships of rape and injustice to explain to today’s naive society a better depiction of what slavery could have been like. The story of Celia illustrates the root of racial problems we still face in our society. Although not nearly as extreme‚ we continue to live

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    Slave Narratives

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    Tanjala Harris Dr. Albert Farr AML 1600 29 September 2014 Slave Narratives The Influence of Harriet Jacobs’ Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Harriet Jacobs‚ in the preface to the book‚ wrote: I do earnestly desire to arouse the women of the North to a realizing sense of the condition of two millions of women at the South‚ still in bondage‚ suffering what I suffered‚ and most of them far worse. I want to add my testimony to that of abler pens to convince the people of the Free States what Slavery

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    Female Infanticide

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    to control population and the low value associated with females in these societies historically and culturally‚ both China and India are now facing a serious gender imbalance. Female infanticide and sex-selective abortion are responsible for this gender imbalance. The two atrocious practices have led to problems such as elevated rates in female kidnapping and slave trade‚ as well as forced marriages. This paper will focus on the roots of female infanticide and sex-selective abortions as well as the

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    Slave Trade

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    Africans who have came to America were slaves who were purchased through the international slave trade. White colonists viewed Africans as uncivilized and ‘turned to the international slave trade to fill their labor needs.’ The white English settlers knew nothing of any other culture; people were thought to be white or Christian‚ anything else was ‘uncivilized’. Slavery served for two purposes; a labor system and racial control in a white country. The slave trade was important in building the colonial

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    No Female Circumcision

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    Cons Female Circumcision Student One Communication Essentials Hermann Tatchen Wednesday‚ March 27‚ 2013 Cons Female Circumcision Some people believe that female circumcision is a traumatic‚ awful thing to do to a human being. Some people may see circumcision as an adequate form of disease control or some believe it’s a way of making a female pure by having her clitoris cut. It is not right to make decisions on behalf of another human‚ especially when

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    A Slave Girl

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    The basic plot of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl as an anti-slavery text and the typical plot of the 19th century genre of sentimental fiction are alike in that just as the 19th century genre did‚ Harriet Jacobs made a plea to the Northern‚ white‚ female listeners during a time when "true womanhood" truly meant chastity and virtue. Harriet Jacobs pushes the message that slavery makes it totally impossible for a black woman to live as a virtuous or chaste person. As she supports some of

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    Celia, a Slave...

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    CELIA‚ A SLAVE. A MIRROR TO SLAVERY AND INJUSTICE? A critical overview Celia‚ a Slave was a factual interpretation of one isolated incident that depicted common slave fear during the antebellum period of the United States. Melton A. McLaurin‚ the author‚ used this account of a young slave woman’s struggle through the undeserved hardships of rape and injustice to explain to today’s naive society a better depiction of what slavery could have been like. The story of Celia illustrates the root of

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    Mistreatment of Slaves

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    everlasting slaughter of innocent slaves. Though there are occasions where one hears that there was a master that didn ’t mistreat and abuse his slaves. Those types of master-slave relationships were extremely rare. According to many text and history books slaves were often mistreated and abused on a daily basis. The question‚ now is‚ did the mistreatment and abuse of the slaves‚ in particular the women slaves‚ in the autobiography‚ Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl‚ written by Harriet Jacobs actually

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    Slavery was a harsh and terrible way of life for all slaves. However there were differences in class among slaves. Lower class slaves were “field slaves”. Upper class slaves were “house slaves”. The daily routines of these slaves differed greatly. Field slaves sole purpose was production. Their duties were raising‚ planting and cultivation of crops‚ clearing land‚ burning underbrush‚ rolling logs‚ splitting rails‚ carrying water‚ mending fences‚ spreading fertilizer‚ and breaking soil. Working from

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    Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. L. Maria Child‚ a prominent white abolitionist‚ agreed to edit Jacob’s book‚ although she apparently did little to alter the text except to rearrange some sections‚ suggest the removal of one chapter‚ and add material to another. In a letter

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