He encourages society to look at him and his countrymen as human being, no as animals. ... He recalls a practiced hygiene ritual during his youth to stress that cleanliness is the utter most importance among Africans, since slave were often look upon and treated as dirty animals. ... (Equiano, 205) He conjures images for the reader of his first encounter with the Iron Muzzle: "I had seen a black woman slave as I came through the house, who was cooking the dinner, and the poor creature was cruelly loaded with various kinds of iron machines; she had one particularly on her head, which locke...

• Word Count: 395
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Some say that the slaves basically were treated like animals. ... Michael's unacquainted with the fact, that, instead of spending the Sabbath in wrestling, boxing, and drinking whisky, we were trying to learn how to read the will of God; for they had much rather see us engaged in those degrading sports, than to see us behaving like intellectual, moral, and accountable beings." ... They felt a need to engage the slaves in activities that would either physically strengthen their bodies to handle their workload or mentally impair their thinking by drinking whiskey. ...

• Word Count: 1984
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Columbus introduced sugarcane to the islands and with the sugarcane the natives on the islands discovered that with the juices from the cane they could make rum with the fermented sugarcane juice and since that time rum has been the drink in the islands. ... The native Indians made a lot of stews out of goats which was the main animal on the islands before the exploration age started and vegetables like tomatoes which was one of the main vegetables on the land. ...

• Word Count: 1643
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The novel, Robinson Crusoe, written by Daniel Defoe and first published in 1719, is an important literary piece of the Enlightenment period, as it expresses the Enlightenment themes of individualism, exploration and the rejection of authority. The poet James Joyce has described the character of Robinson Crusoe as the "true prototype of the British colonist"1, and Robinson Crusoe certainly shares many of the characteristics associated with British colonists of the period in which the novel was written. Robinson Crusoe exerts his manly independence by being the lone survivor from the...

• Word Count: 2166
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate