The issues that the song "Buffalo Soldier" talks about are directly related to its title. This song refers to the Africans (who are the "Buffalo Soldiers") brought to America that where forced to fight against the Native American Indians. ... In the end, fourteen key black campaigners, whom the Indians had dubbed "buffalo soldiers," were awarded the Medal of Honor as part of a public relations move to justify and glorify the genocide of Native Americans, underlining the U.S. government's policy of manifest destiny." The purpose of this song is to honor and extol the life of many black Ra...

• Word Count: 891
• Approx Pages: 4
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• Grade Level: High School

Captivity narratives of Americans relate the experiences of whites enslaved by Native Americans and Africans enslaved by Americans. ... This compromise leaves him torn between his adopted Western beliefs and his native African values. ... After taken into captivity by the Native Americans, she conveys her strong Puritan values by criticizing and demeaning the Native's religion, or what Rowlandson illustrates them as heathens with complete lack of values, morals and religious conviction. Rowlandson portrays the Natives as "Ravenous beasts" (Rowlandson) considering them as evil an...

• Word Count: 1490
• Approx Pages: 6
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In return for bringing Spain gold, Columbus was promised 10% of profits, governorship over newfound lands, and the fame that would go with new title: Admiral of the Ocean sea. Also, as the prototypical Western white male, Columbus carried across the Atlantic racist prejudices against the native people. ...

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To illustrate the importance placed on women, of the nine law titles (i.e. ... A prime example of the cherish-oppress relationship exists in this law, "If any slave does violence to a native freewoman, and if the she complains and is clearly able to prove this, let the slave be killed for crime committed."" ... Yet the next line of the law proceeds to state, "If indeed a native free girl unites voluntarily with a slave, we order both to be killed."" ...

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(History of Althingi 1)The Althingi is still in use today in its native Iceland. ... (The Vikings 1) If the criminal was guilty, he would be fined or have to become and outlaw and live in the mountains, and if they had any sort of title, be stripped of it. ...

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During the years following the Berlin Conference the British and French governments sought to covert their grandiose territorial claims into valid title by effective occupation. ... To insure that British requirements were fulfilled, a resident was appointed to the court of each native ruler of the first rank. ... The British as well as the Germans used the idea of "Imperial monarchy" to govern their colonies, allowing little governmental rule from the natives opposing French colonial rule. ...

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As the eighteenth century went on, it became more and more difficult, however, "to support a family on farming alone," and many had to resort to working in factories or shops as well as owning a small farm to earn enough to afford the family's basic needs.8 It was a well known fact that "relationships within native American families, clans, and tribes were far more supportive than were the frequently adversarial activities of landed families and nation-states in Europe."9 The native Americans of the North, also known as the Amerindians, held women much higher on the social ladder than d...

• Word Count: 2981
• Approx Pages: 12
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Prince Henry the Navigator Prince Henry the Navigator seldom left Portugal, but he helped make it possible for the first Europeans to explore Africa. In Henry's time, the ocean was very dangerous and Africa was a mysterious place that seemed to contain endless miles of sand. Today we know t...

• Word Count: 2251
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• Grade Level: High School

He made a speech in the House of Commons in 1792 in which he said, "I know of no evil that has ever existed worse than the tearing of 70,000 or 80,000 people each year from their native land. " He frequently and strongly voiced his opinions to the rest of the MPs to try to persuade them to join the cause for although he was Prime Minister he still had to gain enough votes from his counterparts to pass the act. ... Clarkson attended Cambridge University and won an essay competition; the essay's title was "Is it right to make men slaves against their will " For this essay he had done consid...

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