Bondly's property and in outrage Mr. ... Bondly murdered the slave fishing due to the only reason that he was fishing on his property. ... In "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass," Douglass passes out from exhaustion of being worked treacherously and his master, Mr.Covey, attempts to whip him for not working (Douglass 86). If Douglass had not passed out, If Douglass did not stop work, he would have not been punished despite the fact that he was being punished for a horrendous reason. ...

• Word Count: 675
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Ultimately, it is the nation-state that guarantees the ownership of private property and the means of production and provides support for disciplining the work force. ... While it had been normal in other forms of slavery for the slave to be legally defined as a thing, a piece of property, in America it also has become a form of capital. ... Besides being a piece of property, the American slave was transformed into part of the plantation machine, a part of the ever-growing investment in the master' mushrooming wealth. ... To counter this, a series of acts were passed which legally estab...

• Word Count: 864
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Black slaves were not seen as humans but merely as property who served as servants. They could not accumulate property or belongings or authority because they too were property often compared to "chattel". ... With all of the master's promiscuous acts, the mistress would eventually discover that her husband has been sharing himself with property. ... When a master bred with a slave girl, the child became property of the master, therefore adding profit to his pockets because he could later sell him or her. ... He said "you are my child, and when I call you, you should come immediately,...

• Word Count: 1416
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

In the United States, American Slavery consisted of African Americans who were brought into America for property and violently forced to work in large or small plantations. ... Slaves are considered property because they were black and labeled as subhuman. To enforce the status of blacks being property, white owners would use inhumane violence as a form of punishment. ... She knew Rufus would try to physically abuse her but made a stop to it, she said, "I would never be to him what Tess had been to his father- a thing passed around like the whiskey jug at a husking" (260). Dana would...

• Word Count: 1077
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The Mao Years In China, the years from 1949-1976 are known as the Mao years. There was growth and change taking place in China during this time. New policies were passes as well as new Mao government campaigns. Some policies were successful while others failed to properly achieve the desired affec...

• Word Count: 377
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

In this case blacks could not own property they were someone's property. Blacks could not accumulate assets that could be passed on from generation to generation as years went by. ... Reparations often include the payments of money or the return of property to individuals or groups. ...

• Word Count: 1296
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The author uses the theme of slave resistance to personalize the historical experiences of slaves in the South and their courageous attempts to retain human qualities within a system that considered them chattel property. ... Taking the vow to claim not only her life as a human but the profits of her labor gave her inner strength and she gradually developed plans to live a productive life and obtain property. ... As she conversed with the Indians who passed through, Always found out ways to make the land more productive. ... California Coleman's use of slavery resistance as a theme pro...

• Word Count: 1020
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They were treated like a piece of property and not human beings. ... In 1866 Congress passed two bills over President Johnson's veto. ... Congress also passed the Civil Rights Bill, which gave full citizenship to blacks, along with the rights enjoyed by other Americans, including the right to equal treatment in theaters, inns, and other public places. ... If a gentleman shall say the rich man has property and the poor man has not then the question is only changed for another what is his right to property." (The Rights of a Man to Property, Making Connections, p.188) All individuals ar...

• Word Count: 1886
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

He claimed to be "anti-slavery" in the hope that the expansion of slavery would be stopped, but would also adhere to the Constitution as the people have the right to property and opponents would argue that slaves are property. From 1837, when Lincoln first attacked slavery as bad politics, his thoughts evolved from thinking that slavery would eventually die out by compromising that southern states could have its slaves without expanding, to 1854, when the Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed, as it stated Congress had no right to prohibit the expansion of slavery to federal territories, a...

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

The second bill was meant to nullify the "Black Codes", codes that state legislatures passed to subject former slaves to certain restrictions and regulations on their freedom. The bill would guarantee the freedmen "full and equal benefit of all laws and proceedings for the security of person and property as is enjoyed by white citizens". ... After Johnson made it clear that he was going to abandon the Republicans, they passed the Fourteenth Amendment. ...

• Word Count: 730
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In 1670 he passed an act so that only land-owners could vote. ... Like a slave, you were considered someone's property until you paid off your debts, and even then, there was no guarantee that you'd be set free. ...

• Word Count: 478
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

The government could pass laws that only both sides agreed on which meant that slavery was not an issue in Congress before the 19th Century. In 1787 the Northwest Ordinance was passed. ... This would create an advantage in the Senate because the North would have 4 more Senators to pass legislation. ... This bill was ruled unconstitutional and was never passed but it had a lingering effect in Congress and on the American people. ... Property from the Oregon territory was now considered all northern land. ...

• Word Count: 1167
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

The black codes passed by the legislators of Southern states also suppressed blacks. ... High Confederate officials and all those owning property valued at more than $20,000 were excluded from amnesty, but were entitled to individual pardons granted directly by the president. ... Congress, believing that emancipation was not enough and the rights of former slaves were in need of protection, passed the Freedmen's Bureau and Civil Rights bills. ... In its final form the Fourteenth Amendment defined American citizenship, (includingblacks) prohibited states to pass laws which hurt the natural...

• Word Count: 1277
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

From as early as 1629 in Jamestown, Virginia, codes or laws were being passed that segregated, humiliated and oppressed the black slave in the new world. ... This law was in effect the first law in the new world that consigned slaves as property. ... In 1705, Virginia passed another set of laws that declared that all servants who were not Christians in their native lands would be slaves for life. ... As a reaction to the revolt, apprehensive whites in New York quickly passed new stricter and more oppressive laws. ... New laws were again passed taking all blacks freedoms away. ...

• Word Count: 1791
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Celia as the victim of this scenario will be the figure of sexual exploitation of owner and slave that will question the limits of property and morality. ... White male access to slave women both threatened the stability of the white family and emphasized the fact that in many respects married white women were little more than the property of their husbands. ... It would have interfered to some degree with what owners saw as property right and changed the fundamental concept of slave law, which many fought to preserve. ... Five years of devastating experiences pass when Celia decides to fi...

• Word Count: 2545
• Approx Pages: 10

They were placed in the slave market when they arrived in America, and at auction white property was often sold along with the slaves (Hughes 14-16). ... Newly freed slaves and property holding African Americans provided an important source of manpower for the Union Army. ... "Contrabands were escaped slaves, so called because of the ingenious theory that, whose owners being at war with the United States, their property somehow became "contraband of war" (Miller 104). ... Slavery was finally abolished when the Thirteenth Amendment was passed by the House of Representatives on J...

• Word Count: 1436
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

This group of people were moved from different places, bought and sold, and were considered "property " during those years. ... The fact that they were slaves meant that they were the "property " of the slave owners and they had a lesser standing when compared to the whites in the colony. ... There was in fact a trend in the lineage of both groups; trends that were actually passed down from generation to generation. ... As Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence which talked about freedoms, he owned two hundred and two human beings as his personal property. ...

• Word Count: 1494
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There was a great amount of property damage done to farms, factories, and railroads. ... Whites saw emancipation as the reason for loss of the nation's largest concentration of private property." (Current, pg.88) Planters went from owning blacks as property, to negotiating a wage in exchange for their labor. ...

• Word Count: 1876
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

A war that was so heroically fought and so victoriously ended shall pass into history a miserable failure. ... "Although the freedmen were no longer considered the property of the individual master, they were considered the slaves of society. ... Across the South, so-called "Black Codes" passed by the new state governments, imposed a range of oppressive measures that amounted to a second slavery for freed people. ... It would take another hundred years after that before laws were passed outlawing racial discrimination in employment, housing, public education, accommodations, and voting. ...

• Word Count: 1168
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Frederick Douglass The work of Douglass was one of the first African-American literary works, an important autobiography representing the black culture. Autobiographies were extremely popular in the 18th and 19th centuries, because people were looking for models. Benjamin Franklin can be consider...

• Word Count: 900
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

They were kidnapped and imported from Africa to be bought and sold as property for the sole purpose of working. ... Slaves passed the travel instructions from plantation to plantation by singing songs. ...

• Word Count: 837
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• Grade Level: High School

Johnson had established not only a dominant plantation, but had created enough revenue to keep his family secure for many generations after he had passed away. ... "Anthony realized that he and the local justices shared certain basic beliefs about the sanctity of property before the law. ...

• Word Count: 877
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• Grade Level: High School

Slave owners would hang their human property by their hands and set their hands or feet on fire as one form of punishment. ... The reason for this breeding was because the lighter skinned slaves were desirable and cost more money, but a law was passed to stop the breeding since Royal African company were losing profit from not being able to sell African slaves. ...

• Word Count: 758
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• Grade Level: High School

The Northern states also started to abolish slavery and they passed several laws for freeing slaves. ... Connecticut authorities started to pass laws which destabilized the institution during the Revolution. ... Later, more and more laws were passed to protect from slave trade that toughened penalties on slaves' catchers. ... In 1780, Pennsylvania passed a gradual emancipation law then Connecticut and Rhode Island followed suit in 1784. ... Southern blacks were also considered as property. ...

• Word Count: 1901
• Approx Pages: 8
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People who aided runaways ("conductors") risked their lives and property to escort runaways to freedom. ... Some were females dressed as males, males disguised as females, fair-skinned African Americans passed as whites, and others pretended to deliver messages or goods for their masters. ... In an attempt to appease the South's sectional difference, Congress passed the Compromise of 1850, which revised the Fugitive Slave Bill. ...

• Word Count: 1212
• Approx Pages: 5