... brought to the new world. Published in 1972, "Reflections on the Black Woman's Role in the Community of Slaves", by Angela Davis, discusses ideological origins of the black slave woman's characterization as aggressive and matriarchal by white scholars. Davis claims that although the black woman performed jobs that "expressed the socially conditioned inferiority of women" ... book to be written about enslaved African American women is titled Ar'n't I a Woman by Deborah White. In it White discusses the dual prejudice of racism and sexism that black women of the antebellum period were burd...

• Word Count: 1150
• Approx Pages: 5
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• Grade Level: Graduate

... to blacks and was opposed to them holding office, the right to vote, and the right to serve on a jury in the years before the Civil War. This is true because Lincoln himself supported a law in Illinois that forbade intermarriage relations between blacks and whites, stating in one ... Right makes might). It was not that Lincoln wanted slavery preserved, he said he is naturally anti-slavery, however as president, he was bound by the Constitution, which protected the institution of slavery in the states. As a result Lincoln opposed any further extension of slavery in new federal territories...

• Word Count: 2007
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: Graduate

... the South and was urbanizing at a faster rate." In 1820, 10 percent of the free-state residents lived in urban areas compared with 5 percent in the slave states; by 1860 the figures were 26 percent and 10 percent, respectively. In 1800, 82 percent of the Southern labor force worked in agriculture compared with the 68 percent in the Free ... states. By 1860 the Northern share had dropped to 40 percent while the Southern proportion had actually increased slightly to 84 percent. Southern agriculture remained traditionally labor intensive while Northern agriculture became ... moving toward ...

• Word Count: 721
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• Grade Level: Graduate

... American politics must recognize not only their involvement in traditional political acts such as registering, voting, and holding office, but also those nontraditional activities in which they engaged long before gaining a ballot. Because African American women are simultaneously members of two groups that have suffered the nation's most blatant exclusion from the normal channels of access to civic life ... , African Americans and women, their political behavior has been largely overlooked by political scientists, who have tended to focus primarily on those actions that conform to the ...

• Word Count: 486
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: Graduate