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    Spartacus and the Slave Wars Slavery is a powerful word. To be a slave and to be owned by a person or household is something I’m very fortunate that I never had to experience. Unfortunately throughout civilization this was exactly how things were. The rich got richer and the poorer‚ poorer. The rich needed people to work for them so they purchased slaves to do all their daily chores and make their life a luxury. Once you were a slave‚ you were bound to your owner and had to do everything

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    The American Civil War and also known as the War Between the States was a war fought from 1861 up to 1865 between the Northern and Southern United States. The war has led to over 618‚000 casualties. There were several reasons to why the Civil War has occurred in the United States. Firstly‚ the Northern and the Southern have different economies. With the invention of Eli Whitney’s cotton gin in 1793‚ cotton became very profitable. This machine reduces the time taken to separate the seeds from the

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    “Add slavery to polygamy‚ and reduce a woman to the states of a slave‚ then you have the sum of human degradation‚ the lowest creature on God’s earth-a slave woman” . For women‚ slavery was a devastating experience‚ they had been taken away from their homeland‚ family‚ and subjected to physical humiliation‚ rape‚ and beaten without mercy‚ but still Women played an important part in playing a significant role in slave resistance in the antebellum period of the United States. Klein says‚” In Cameroon

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    “Spartacus and The Slave Wars”‚ prisoners of war enslaved at the end of the Second Punic War rebelled in 198 B.C. This slave uprising in central Italy is the first reliable report of one‚ although it was surely not the first actual slave uprising. There were other slave uprisings in the 180s. These were small; however‚ there were 3 major slave revolts in Italy between 140 and 70 B.C. These 3 uprisings are called the Servile Wars‚ since the Latin for ’slave’ is servus. However these 3 slave wars did not all

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    [Type the company name] Roles of Women and Slaves in the Civil War HIS/110 Brittney Lohss 7/21/2014 Northern women played many roles in the war effort on the Union side during the Civil War. There seemed to be specific roles of the women depending on whether they were older‚ or younger. The older women were more likely to support the war effort by participating in local organizations or groups. For example: churches‚ or local hospitals. They would donate items needed by soldiers or

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    The revived Ku Klux Klan was merely the most obvious and sinister symptom of general and widespread discrimination. The new Ku Klux Klan opposed many more groups than the blacks opposed by the first Ku Klux Klan. The first Ku Klux Klan group only discriminated against blacks and they weren’t known as the most discriminating group unlike the revived Ku Klux Klan. The revived group of the Ku Klux Klan not only discriminated African Americans‚ but Immigrants‚ Catholics‚ and Jews as well. Even though

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    7/14/13 English Civil War - Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia English Civil War From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia The English Civil War (1642–1651) was a series of armed conflicts and political problems between Parliamentarians (Roundheads) and Royalists (Cavaliers). The first (1642–46) and second (1648–49) civil wars pitted the supporters of King Charles I against the supporters of the Long Parliament‚ while the third war (1649–51) saw fighting between supporters of King Charles II

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    States History Since 1865 Saint Leo’s University Professor George Balogh March 15‚ 2013 The campaign for women’s rights started long before the Civil War. In the early days of the 19th century all kinds of organizations began to spring up to support the rights of women. Most of them were called temperance clubs‚ religious movements‚ moral-reform societies and anti-slavery organizations. These combined groups definitely contributed to the new way into thinking

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    Women during the civil war were a very crucial part of the lives of men and children. If it weren’t for women many people wouldn’t have been able to survive‚ let alone eat or enjoy life. Women helped to keep food on the table while husbands and sons were away. Women really enjoyed going to work while man were away because it allowed them to get out of their houses. Not only could they get out of their houses but they could gain new experiences in the workforce. Although‚ men did not like their wives

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    The Civil War began on April 12‚ 1861‚ and it lasted for almost 4 years. The Civil War divided the nation due to the differences of opinions on the abolishment of slavery. Slaves who lived in the south were treated differently in the north. The north began gaining sympathy for the slaves in the south. Slavery in the south was one of the main causes of the Civil War starting. The abolitionist movement wanted to end racial segregation and to free all slaves. There are several reasons why they wanted

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