When talking about the pro slavery argument, analysts at Boundless.com said, "Southern pro-slavery theorists felt that this class of landless poor was inherently transient and easily manipulated, and as such often destabilized society as a whole. Thus, the greatest threat to democracy was seen as coming from class warfare that destabilized a nation's economy, society and government, and threatened the peaceful and harmonious implementation of laws....

• Word Count: 1706
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

As time progressed, in the fall of 1731, the slaves being sold in Jakin derived from two sources. The first source derived from King Agaja's wars. ... As professor Ghanbarpour mentioned in class, the form of resistance however, depended on the slaves' circumstances and location. ...

• Word Count: 1252
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• Grade Level: High School

The author is a student of a speech class, which apparently discusses the issues of black slavery and the interactions between "blacks" and "Europeans" to create a culture: that of Reggae music and of its manifestation in society. ... Moreover, to my advice, is very closely related, in content, to the documents we have red in class, which are also quoted throughout the text. On the other side of the pure economical reason stated above in the "McLean" article, though, we must see the cultural hardships that derived from the slavery system. ...

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In their minds, the North served as their Canaan and is recognizable in certain spirituals, "a distinctive musical genre derived from the fusion of the Anglo-American style of hymnody with the distinctive rhythms and concerns of the slave community".12 Slaves saw that the story of Exodus contradicted the White-American notion that blacks were meant to be kept in enslavement and seemed to prove that the fundamental ideas that slavery was built upon were against the will of God and would come to an end.13 Some scholars believed that much of the African heritage that slaves had prior to thei...

• Word Count: 1954
• Approx Pages: 8
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

According to Varro, a prolific Roman author and an elite land owner, "They are made to take more interest in their work by being treated more liberally in respect either of food, or of more clothing, or punishment inflicted on them in some way, their loyalty and kindly feeling to the master may be restored by the consolation derived from such measures" (Bailkey, Lim p 437). ...

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