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Late Eighteenth Century British North America
2,918 words... tes often greater than for all other overseas trades combined. Slave mortality usually increased during the last stages of a particularly long passage when there were shortages of food and water. The Atlantic crossing lasted three to five weeks from West African trading sites such as the Gambia, Senegal, and Sierra Leone Rivers. Near the equator, in regions such as the Bights of Benin and Biafra (near present-day Nigeria), the voyage to the Americas took several months. A few French ships tr...
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Slave Society American History
993 wordsThe Plantation Mistress is written by Catherine Clinton. Her purpose of writing is to inform readers the chaotic lives of the white female gender in the slave society before the Civil War. Clinton goes into specific detail describing the situations that southern women endured every day. She collected memoirs and diaries of actual planter wives and daughters. These confessions magnify the reality of trials and tribulations during a dark time in American History. Furthermore, there are many specif...
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York Houghton Mifflin Houghton Mifflin Company
1,805 wordsClintons presents the realities of lives of plantation mistresses their activities as wives, mothers and household managers. The most important contribution that Clinton makes, however, is in showing how the institution of slavery affected all aspects of southern womens lives. Southern attitudes towards marital fidelity, abortion, and birth control were all conditioned by plantation owners need for both heirs (white) and workers (blacks or mostly so). The author warns readers not to replace one ...
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Slave Row Slave Owners Slaves
502 wordsA Plantation was a World in Itself Its the dead of summer and sweat drips down the face of an Africa slave. His brittle bones are almost to weak for him to walk another line of the cotton fields, when he falls face first into the dirt, and he screams for his life while hes thrashed repeatedly by a whip. That is the picture that appears in my mind when I hear of slave plantations. The image of a plantation is a world full of crops, animals, slave huts, slaves, and the Big House. All of these elem...
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Sugar Cane Japanese Immigrants
1,651 wordsPicture Bride, released in 1995 and directed by Kayo Hatta, tells the story of many women living in Japan who were chosen to be brides by Japanese farm laborers living in Hawaii. The choice of the bride was based on their pictures. In this movie, Riyo wanted to leave Japan because her parents were killed by tuberculosis. She had heard great things about the paradise in Hawaii, and she agreed to be a picture bride. Riyo's new husband was Matsuji, and based on his picture he seemed to be young, ma...
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Girl Named George Told
1,818 words... o upset we he found George gone one night. But George explained to him that he had be out tom catting. After that Master Lea gave George a traveling pass so he could go out at night without getting into trouble. But he told George that if he found out George was doing other things then what he was suppose to be doing he would rip up the pass and teach him a lesson. George finally decided to settle down so he met a girl on a neighboring plantation named Matilda. Matilda was a good Christian w...
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Institution Of Slavery Indentured Servants
3,041 wordsGeorge Washingtons Impact on Black Relations During the Colonial Era there was much debate regarding slavery. The north was primarily against slavery while the south was economically dependent on slavery. When colonist started to settle North America they had come from England for religious and political freedom. Many were subsistence farmers (raising just enough food to survive on, with perhaps a little surplus to sell or trade). There was no need for slaves. Later, in Virginia indentured serva...
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Plantation Owners Independence Movement
1,528 wordsTo his majesty, Charles IV, King of Spain, On behalf of my fellow brothers and myself, I address to the crown a serious conflict that needs immediate attention and closure. The continuous enslavement of blacks must end. With all due respect this is not a threat of forthcoming forced slave independence but a promise. I know that I am not the first to bring to your attention this idea. The maroons, a band of runaway slaves in Saint-Domingue pushed for the independence of slaves in 1751. Francois M...
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Plantation Leiningen Fight
251 wordsIn the story Leiningen Versus the Ants, by Carl Stephenson, Leiningen is the owner of a plantation, in threat of being destroyed, by an enormous herd of ants. This story shows that one may not always win against nature, even when he is determined. Leiningen, representing mankind, he foolishly believed that he could defeat nature because he had modern technology and people. The ants, representing nature, prove themselves, by taking down Leiningen and his plantation. Leiningen may have survived th...
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