Sojourner Truth Life was very hard in the days of slavery for all African Americans. The Civil war would not come to pass for another sixty years and there were few whites who opposed slavery. Isabella Bomefree was born around 1797 on the estate of a Dutch patroon ("a landholder in New Netherla...
Book summary - Up From Slavery The book, Up From Slavery, written by Booker Taliaferro Washington, profoundly touched me when I read it. Washington accomplished many amazing obstacles throughout his life. He became perhaps the most prominent black leader of his time. Blacks could gain equality by im...
John Calvin, who was a major Protestant reformer said, "Let woman be satisfied with her state of subjection, and not take it amiss that she is made inferior to the more distinguished sex." ... This Act from 1667 describes those terms: Be it enacted...that no bill of divorce shall be granted to any man or woman, lawfully married, but in case of adultery, or fraudulent contract, or wilful desertion for three years with total neglect of duty; or in case of seven years absence of one party not heard of: after due enquiry is made, and the matter certifi...
Would you agree that African culture survived more strongly in the Caribbean colonies than in North America? In 1562 John Hawkins, the first English slave-trader arrived in Africa with a fleet of three ships. Into these ships he put the three hundred black Africans he had abducted from Sierra Leo...
Previous to the civil war rose two characters, two heroes, in Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson. Both serve as compact symbols representing the ideology of their own generations. Jefferson exemplifies the aristocrat, the democratic politician, writer extraordinaire, and the pacifist. Jackson epit...
