Essays on Slavery

In the article, “From slavery to mass incarceration, America has separated families for centuries”, Antonio Cediel discusses how many centuries the United States has been a country that separates people from their loved ones. One can see that this country doesn’t learn from their mistakes…

Khaled Hosseini’s novel “A Thousand Splendid Suns,” presents a heart-rending, powerful story told through the perspectives of two young women who were both, both, were raised in Afghanistan, and were brought together in the midst of war. Throughout the novel, the reader is taken through…

Crime is the act of going against rules and regulations instilled in a society. Globalization is the connection of people, organizations and governments across countries through advanced technology. It includes “the opening of international borders…and the changes in institutions and policies at national and international…

Skills and Strategies The skills and strategies which I applied to read this article were that I first read the article. By reading the article first time I got little idea what is it about. The words which were difficult for me to understand I…

In Kindred, a modern character is sent back in time. By doing this, Butler allows the character, Dana, and the readers a look into what slavery was like. This experience leads Dana to understand how human behavior is directly affected by your surroundings and the…

An innumerable amount of Africans was brought across the Atlantic Ocean from Africa to the Americas in the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade under harsh conditions by the Europeans, only to have them work nonstop. The European peoples were such a new concept to the Africans that…

In “Caloya” William Gilmore Simms writes and gives the reader a view of slaves, making them to be rebellious and disobedient toward their owners, whereas in Kindred by Octavia E. Butler, slaves are very timid and afraid to go against their masters’ wishes. The “Caloya”…

During the agrarian era, the color of one’s skin created a social superiority for America, which developed into a slave system organized by gender, class, and status. White slaveholders made exorbitant investments in the intensive labor of slaves, which provided the economic foundation in the…

Deep faith in white supremacy not only justified an economic and political system in which plantation own¬ers acquired land and great wealth through the brutality, torture, and ownership of other human beings, it also endured long after the institution of slavery was gone. Even when…

The Life of John Ames Thus far in Marilynne Robinson’s epistolary novel Gilead, John Ames appears to be liberal in his spiritual life. As a reverend and a pious man, John always maintains strong beliefs in Christianity, but also opens his vision to writings of…