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Term Papers on Slavery & Civil Rights

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Massachusetts and Slavery's End »

This 5 page paper discuses the event that acted as a catalyst to end slavery in this state. As one writer commented, because the North was free during the Civil War era, people have forgotten that slavery was practiced in the North early in American history. It was common European ...
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Analysis of African American Civil Rights and Women's Equal Rights Struggles »

4 pages in length. The writer briefly discusses several important events in the timeline of both historic movements. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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Struggles for Equality in Thomas Jefferson's Declaration of Independence and Martin Luther King Jr.'s Letter from a Birmingham Jail »

A 3 page overview of the underlying fight for equality that drove the production of these two documents. Martin Luther King Jr. and Thomas Jefferson were widely disparate in terms of their race and their socioeconomic and political footing. Both, however, were intent on abolishing a situation that they saw ...
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Causes and Effects of the Revolution in Haiti »

A 12 page paper which provides an overview of the causes and consequences of the Haitian Revolution. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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20th Century Race History »

This 6 page paper discusses the history of race in the twentieth century and included such major movements as slavery, segregation, desegregation, and the civil rights movement. Furthermore, many notable authors and their views on this topic are noted in this paper, such as Zinn, McBride, Mel King, and ...
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US Slavery History »

5 pages in length. A discussion of the beginnings of slavery in the South and how it impacted the economics, as well as the nature of the institution. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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KKK's History »

A 7 page paper that examines the history of the development of the Ku Klux Klan. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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Early American and Equality »

A 5 page discussion of the ideology of equality which existed in the years preceding the American Revolution. Notes that while the words of Thomas Jefferson, preserved for history in the Declaration of Independence, proclaiming that all men are created equal; were far from accurate in regard to the ...
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The Impact of the Transatlantic Slave Trade on the American Colonies »

This 5 page paper examines issues related to slavery in colonial America. Economic and social effects of slavery are discussed. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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America's Constitution and Slavery »

A 10 page research paper that examines what the framers of the Constitution included regarding the institution of slavery. The writer addresses why slavery was included when, presumably, the nation was founded on principles of equality and also details the ongoing debate as to whether the framers of the Constitution ...
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The KKK Today »

A 5 page paper which examines the KKK today and discusses whether it still affects the South. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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KKK »

This 12 page paper explores the experience of the KKK and reasons why the group's activity dominated just a few decades within American history. The paper concludes that the Klan's motivations are largely economic in nature. Bibliography lists 12 sources.
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America's Slavery Legacy »

This 5 page paper delves into the institution of slavery. Racism, poverty, marriage, and obesity in the African American community are some issues discussed. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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The Material Culture of Slaves in Early America »

A 4 page discussion of how material culture can reflect a blending of cultural influences. Using the example of pottery from early slave quarters found in the archaeological record, this paper suggests a blending of white, slave, and Native American influences. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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1955's Bus Boycott in Montgomery, Alabama »

This 5 page paper provides an in depth study of this infamous event in the civil rights movement. Key players such as Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King, Jr. are discussed. Also, President Clinton's memory of the 1955 event, as well as his honoring of Parks long after the boycott, ...
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Early 20th Century Niagara African American Civil Rights Movement »

A 6 page informative paper which examines the inspirational African-American civil rights movement of the early twentieth century that was the forerunner of the NAACP. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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Slavery and Its Origins »

This 3 page paper provides a general overview of slavery in the United States but also includes an argument that suggests it evolved due to prejudice. Support is provided for the supposition. Only scholarly sources are used. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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Slave Live Stereotypes and Actual Realities »

A 5 page paper discussing stereotypes of slaves versus the realities of slave life, including methods of resistance. The writer provides an overview of various misconceptions of slave life and reasons for slave behavior as well as various forms of resistance. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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KKK Should Not Exist »

This 5 page paper argues that the KKK should not be allowed to exist. Although freedom of speech is supported, the argument embraces the fact that murder is illegal and the KKK has been tied to several racially motivated killings. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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The Klan and its Beginnings »

This 4 page paper explores the KKK as it remanifested in the 1920s. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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Argument in Favor of Nineteenth Century Southern Slavery »

5 pages. This paper details the southern pro slavery argument and accounts for why it continued despite abolitionist criticism. Southerners increasingly defended slavery as a positive good rather than a necessary evil. Also looks at why southern pro emancipation sentiment declined. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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Slavery Compromises and the Constitution of the United States »

5 pages in length. Discusses the statement "in dealing with the issue of slavery, when writing and adopting the U. S. Constitution during the summer of 1787, the founders arrived at several necessary compromises that were inconsistent with the ideals and principles of the Declaration of Independence." At ...
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Tocqueville/His Views of Blacks »

A 6 page essay that offer analysis and discussion of Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America. In the chapter entitled, "The Present and Probable Future Condition of the Three Races that Inhabit the Territory of the United States," Tocqueville describes the relations between the three, "naturally distinct" races that inhabited ...
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San Domingo Revolution and Toussaint L'Ouverture »

10 pages in length. Rebellion was part of the enslaved people's everyday lives in San Domingo. Not a day went by that they did not plan and scheme and devise ways to gain their freedom, a freedom that was unjustly oppressed by the white population. Yet so ...
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Slavery in Two Worlds »

This 3 page paper summarizes two articles about slavery: Eric R. Wolf’s “The Slave Trade,” and “The ‘Giddy Multitude’” by Ronald Takaki. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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History of the Civil Rights Movement in America »

This 7 page paper examines the general history of civil rights in the United States, ranging from the mid-1800's through the modern-day civil rights movement that occured in the late 1950's. This paper highlights such topics as the Reconstruction era, the KKK, the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments, the ...
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Slavery as Impacted by Western Expansion »

This 3 page paper explores western expansion and its association with the American institution of slavery. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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17th and 18th Century America and White Slaves »

An 8 page consideration of an often overlooked component of American history. While it is impossible to assign a precise number to the percentage of slaves that were white, suffice it to say that this number was significant and that these slaves served in the same capacity as blacks. As ...
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