Essays on Plantation

Question 1: Initial Post

The books Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl written by Harriet Jacobs and Blake; or the Huts of America (1859–1861) by Katy L. Chiles extensively compares in the themes, especially the plight of slaves during the antebellum period. Keckley’s is an autobiographical non-fiction narrative that describes her childhood experiences and her plight as a woman slave. At the age of 14, Keckley is raped by a white man and gives birth to a son, George. Mrs. Burwell, on the other hand, encourages Mr. Bingman, the schoolmaster to physically abuse her in order to suppress her ...

a) Elements of Ecology In “Kampung Boy”, the author has portrayed an intrinsic biography of a Muslim boy born in Kampong in Perak. How the young boy grows up in rural Malaysia is explained in a vivid fashion, from which the reader is able to draw various inferences on ecological factors and their influence on childhood. The Bronfenbrenner’s Ecological System Model analyses the child development paradigm in a framework of simple yet meaningful relationships with environment. The essay focuses on how these elements have been embedded in the childhood of the Kampung Boy.

The Microsystem

Urie Bronfenbrenner has identified microsystem ...

Indentured Servants

Indentured Servants

Introduction

At the beginning of the seventeenth century a lot of labor market institutions were created with the purpose of promoting the movement of labor. The majority of plantations in Southern English America, which were involved in the cultivation of tobacco, sugar cane, indigo and rice, began to feel an urgent demand for labor. Modern machinery was definitely providing considerable solutions, though human blood and sweat was still essential for the planting, cultivation and reaping of these commercial crops. As a result, many planters started to gradually introduce the idea of indentured servitude. This system, created because of ...

No region has experienced as much growth as the south as far as development and prosperity of the area in the United States of America are concerned. The region has been a victim of the conflict and was once said to be uninhabitable characterized by the lack of progress in the early late 19th century and early 20th centuries. The change in the region, especially in the contemporary society associated with its growth, demonstrates that indeed political progress is not cast in stone. The paper, therefore, embarks on providing an argument both positive and negative on the political issues ...

Influence of American Revolution of the Civil War

Influence of American Revolution of the Civil War

Introduction

The American Revolution and the Civil War are two wars that have shaped American history and the American society. The American Revolution started with 13 colonies forming the Continent Congress declaring their Independence from the British rule in 1776 and ended with the Loyalists winning the Revolutionary War (Becker, 2013, p. 5). The Civil War was started when Southern states declared independence by seceding from the Union. South Carolina was the first state to secede in 1860 and they were later joined by Florida, Mississippi, Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana, Texas, Virginia, North ...

Throughout America history there were always people who spoke out against slavery. Quakers were the most vocal as slavery violated their adherence to equality. However, the Quakers were seen as religious fanatics and banned from holding public office. Others came to view slavery as wrong after coming in contact with a slave and having the encounter change their views. It was not until the 1830’s that the abolitionist movement really picked up momentum as it was taken up by Evangelical Protestants, who felt that slavery was a sin and that it was the moral responsibility of the populace ...

The American civil war in the West: Grant’s River War

Introduction The American Civil War is among the majorly discussed wars in the history of the United States. Ideally, Civil War is considered a central event in the U.S historical civilisation. While it is evident that the revolution that occurred in 1776-1783 facilitated the establishment of the United States, the American Civil War of 1861-1865 provided a suitable platform for the determination of the future of the United States (Doyle, 2014). Fundamentally, it offered the solutions to two major questions initially created by the revolution, and these included whether the United States was going to be transformed into a ...

Introduction: Historically, female Black slaves endured the worse treatment, but have received the least amount of attention than their male counterparts in North American Slavery (Hine, 2007). There are longstanding myths that surround the experiences of female Black slaves, and struggles they face daily trying to survive. Deborah Gray White provides an intimate look into female slavery that until 1985 was long overdue. In her book she stated “Slave women were the only women in America who were sexually exploited with impunity, stripped and whipped with a lash, and worked like oxen” (White, 1999, p. 162). In the nineteenth ...

Section

Introduction Hawaii is located nearest the state of California. It is a state of the United States of America and is found East of Japan. It is made of various and numerous islands scattered throughout a slanted pattern . Hawaii is largely volcanic, having been formed due to eruptions which spanned hundreds and even thousands of years. The first island to have been formed is Kauai on the Northern region, whereas the youngest among them are the Hawaiian Islands, located on the Southern most part of the region .

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This American state has a total of 132 islands; most of it ...

Introduction to Public Relations

The Subway yoga mat social media campaign was informed by the leak that the company was still using a chemical component used in the production of rubber and yoga mats in the preservation of food. The large corporation did not apply universal standard when deciding on the regions that would use the component. Even though the chemical has been approved by the food and drug agency in America, other parts of the world have restricted its use even in the non-food industries. Therefore, from the perspective of the company’ and the management, the use of the component in the ...

The “Rules of the Plantation” document highlights the overseer’s code of conduct during American slavery. Its 23 provisions or rules raise managerial and ethical issues in the current managerial, capitalist work environment. One provision that is especially interesting as related to the current managerial practices is number 10, which is also critical for the nowadays work ethics. Rule number 10 of the “Rules of Plantation” documents indicates that “The negroes must be made to obey, and to work [], with very little whipping” (Southern Cultivator 103). Therefore, the whipping, a physical punishment, was accepted as a work practice. The ...

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Slavery was always a very defined and argumentative topic in the old days. African-Americans were noticeably mistreated due to racism. Slavery was what these people were bound to. Many blacks stood up for themselves, formed groups and different movements such as the Abolitionists Movement. One thing is true, African-Americans always looked up to a brighter future, they saw themselves as equal and free people. Harriet Jacobs, born February 11, 1813, to two slaves, Elijah and Delilah Jacobs lived in North Carolina. When Harriet was just 11 years old, ...

Interatrial Relationships in America

Before the Civil War Interatrial Relationships in America Before the Civil War The film industry has presented extreme pictures of the treatment of slaves in America. On the one hand films like Gone with the Wind present images of the idyllic plantation, with paternalistic owners and happy loyal slaves eager to serve their masters. On the other hand, films like Twelve Years a Slave presents the brutal treatment inflicted upon slaves in southern plantations (Brook, “Slavery on Film: What is Hollywood’s Problem”). These extreme representations of the treatment of slaves fail to capture the varied conditions under which ...

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Introduction ‘The Marrow of Tradition’ is an historical novel written by the African-American author, Charles Chesnut. The novel depicts life in the American South where slavery has taken its deepest roots. Published in 1901, ‘The Marrow of Tradition,’ provides a deeper understanding of the South’s post-war society. The novel, particularly depicts the plight of Black Americans as they struggle to keep their humanity in a hostile and racially segregated society. After the civil war, the Negro has not totally achieved freedom since they were still widely discriminated upon. Despite the promise of citizenship through the passing ...

Introduction

It was a unique time in history; slavery had been abolished, Jim Crow las were in effect but the civil rights movement had not yet begun. Voices like Langston Hughes spoke out against the racial oppression. Hughes himself wrote many short stories, poems and plays in his time. One of the themes that repeats itself in the works of Hughes is the word “mulatto”. “Mulatto”, a word used to describe a person of mixed black and white heritage, elicits a negative feeling or response from most people given the prejudiced nature of the word. Due to the negative nature ...

Based on the novel Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell, the production of a film with the same name is world-famous. With its release date falling in 1939, the movie starred Clark Gable, Leslie Howard, Vivien Leigh, and Olivia de Havilland and went on to win multiple academy awards for its apparent ability to capture the Old South as it was before the coming of the American Civil War. Presently, the movie has become one of the classic romantic renditions of turbulent love affairs, with a particular emphasis on Rhett Butler and Scarlet O’Hara, who, as they ...

Introduction

Both Judith Carney and Rafael Marquese examine the contribution of African Slaves in the development and production of specific cash crops. Carney believes that the production of Rice in South Carolina is as a result of diffusion of agricultural culture from Africa to Americas. She argues that rice production was the culture of the West Africans far before the Portuguese explorers reached Africa in in the 14th century. Rice was the staple food among most of the West African communities. They used the mangrove swamps to create paddies and used canal irrigation to water the rice. The same methodology ...

Plot

The musical is a dark comical tale that follows the adventures of a charismatic bandit as he courts the daughter of a wealthy plantation owner. In the novella is an evil stepmother that wishes her stepdaughter dead and a wicked burglar who carries with him the head of his dead brother in a suitcase. The musical, in essence, is a story with the characteristics of an American fairy tale, based on the 1942 Eudora Welty tale. Seemingly, the story resonates as a form of yarn created from loose threads of mythologies and traditional stories twisted together in a strange ...

Question One

Many families moved to the United States of America for various reasons, which includes social and economic reasons. However, during and after the world wars (1&2), many families migrated from their homelands for various reasons, which include both positive and negative effects. In this precept, the auspices of the World Wars saw many communities voyaging to the United States of America in search of employment, safety due to civil wars back at home, and other reasons that include education (Marger 217). Most of these immigrants occupy spaces in urban areas, where they are able to get housing and other ...

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is the movie adaptation of the Tennessee Williams play. It was a box office hit in 1958. The movie stars Paul Newman as Brick Pollitt. Brick is married to Maggie, portrayed by Elizabeth Taylor. Brick and Maggie take a trip to visit Brick’s family’s plantation in Mississippi, where Big Daddy has been diagnosed with terminal cancer, a truth that is unbeknownst to him. He has been given a year to live. This movie chronicles the events of a Southern family whose wealth drives a wedge between their relationships. Brick’s brother, ...

It is estimated that the United States and Brazil had more than two-thirds of the total enslaved population in the American continent (Horne 3). Brazil had the largest population of slaves compared to the United States. The wealth of both countries was based on slave trade commerce and labor from the slaves. This fact made the abolition of slave trade be difficult in both countries. The expansion of plantation agriculture in the two nations made it difficult for slavery to be abolished in the two countries. The increase in the global demand for sugar, cotton and coffee made it ...

Describe the different courses of the Revolutionary War in New England, the middle colonies, and the South. What role did the battles in each region play in the eventual American victory? The American Revolutionary War was characterized by three phases being the New England phase, the middle colonies phase, and the Southern phase, which took place between 1775 and 1783 (Grossberg & Tomlins, 2008). New England colonies consisted of 13 colonies, which included Rhode Island colonies, Massachusetts, Providence Plantation, and New Hampshire among others. France attempted on several occasions to colonize New England but failed. New England, mainly carried out ...

Introduction

The connection between Colonial America, Atlantic trade and slavery helped in the development and growth of America’s colonies. Without slavery, it would have unmanageable for European colonists to develop the New World (Morgan 6). It is also inconceivable that colonists and settlers could have managed to settle and develop America without slave labour. Slave labour is the essential reason American was able to produce major consumer goods that became the basis of global trade of tobacco, cotton, rice, etc. (Dodson). Slavery and the Making of America is a documentary made by PBS that discusses the role played by ...

After watching the narrative video, there was an expected, but profound impact on me. During one of the narratives, a slave expresses anguish over being freed, stating they were only “freed to starve to death.” Her plantation owners had treated her well, and sounds as though she misses her old life as a slave. I was unaware that some were treated better and more kindly as slaves, than they were as free individuals. More to the point, I did not even know there were kind plantation owners. Education was not allowed and slaves were forced to learn in secret ...

Maria Full of Grace is a film about a 17-year-old girl named Maria who works on a flower plantation to support her family, and the effects of the decisions that she makes. She has to deal with a significant amount of unfair treatment from the manager at the place where she works and ends up quitting her job as a result. Two themes that are heavy in the film are financial struggles and the issues that come as a result of that, and the use of cities in cinema. The film, which is directed by Joshua Marston is based ...

The short fiction work of turn-of-the-century author Kate Chopin regularly deals with the recurring themes of womanhood, agency and identity, usually telling stories of women trapped in stifling lives due to the patriarchal expectations placed on them to live a certain way. Through these explorations of gender roles, particularly through marriage and motherhood, Chopin uses these central themes to explore the imbalances found between men and women in terms of power and agency. At all turns, the protagonists of Chopin’s stories must make unconventional, taboo decisions to reject the white, male-dominated judgments and expectations placed on them. Two ...

Katie Johnson was a twenty-year-old lady who was married to Jacob Johnson, a twenty-four-year-old man. The two lived a simple life that involved eating healthy meals and living peasant life in their garden. Katie was a stay-home wife, and her birth could be traced back to the year 1308 in Virginia. She was the only child of Joseph Mount and his wife. By the time she was three years old, Katie had lost her father. Her mother managed to get remarried to another man, who became her step-father for a while until he died. For the next seven years, ...

ABSTRACT

The environmental friendly activities have been given utmost importance in every field. Due to the environmental degradation, the new trend of “go green” has been formed among the people. The people are very persistent about sustainability. The architecture and civil engineering are one of the major fields where the sustainability has to be considered on priority basis. Architect Stefano Boeri has been translating his unique idea of sustainability through world’s first vertical forest building, Bosco Verticale. The objective of the present paper is to explore the safety, durability and the sustainability of the architecture. It these factors are ...

Slavery, Industrialization, and the Origins of Modern Consumer Culture

Industrialization was a pivotal moment in the creation of modern society. It can be considered a turning point for the modern world and the era that truly defined how the rest of the future of the world was going to play out. The Industrial Revolution introduced capitalism and mass production, which drive the current economy and have remained vital to the American, and global, infrastructure. This era of industrialized progress and prosperity began with the institution of slavery and the implementation of production within the major world powers, including Britain, France, and Spain. It later spread to countries all ...

Introduction

The American Revolutionary War was a turning point in the history of the United States of America. It signified the independence of America from the British colonizers. The war surrounding this independence of America has been featured in films such as The Patriot. Through such films, everyone can learn about historical wars that shaped the future of the United States (Ansen 58). However, the questions that arise from such movies as The Patriot is if they are truly historically accurate in their character depiction, scenery and weapons that were used, what the film got right and what it got ...

Question 1

The colonists devised new strategies to support their colonies as well as thwart any rebellions from the poor, regardless of their skills. In an attempt to achieve the goal, they devised various methods to raise funds using dubious means. One of the strategies they used was the Stamp Act. The British colonists imposed the Stamp Act to amass enough funds to repay debts and support their vast colonial territories in America (Taylor, 2002). The Stamp Act was a legislation that imposed a direct tax on printed materials of profitable nature and legal use in British territories. Stamp Act affected ...

Slavery, which the South frequently referred to as its “peculiar institution,” had an enormous impact on American history. Even after 1863 and the abolition of slavery through the Emancipation Proclamation, as well as the 1865 passage of the 13th amendment to the Constitution, slavery continued to have lasting effects on the American people for decades to come. The beginnings of African slavery go all the way back to the first British settlements in North America. However, it was the division of former British colonies into slave states in the South and free states in the North that laid the ...

Statement of historical question

Consumption of coffee in the America. What role does Starbucks play in the American coffee culture? Thesis Statement The evolution of the American coffee culture traces its origins from the seventeenth century. Over the years, the country would grow to become the largest consumer of coffee in the world. It is corporations such as Starbucks have served to spread this culture across the globe.

Annotated Bibliography

William H. Urke. All about coffee. Newyork, Newyork the tea and coffee trade Journal Company 1922, Retrieved Apr 13, 2016 from http://ibiblio.org/pub/docs/books/gutenberg/2/8/5/0/28500/28500-h/28500-h.htm Urke was an author in 18th and 19th centuries that focused primarily on ...

There are those who would justify the enslavement of humans by pointing to the enormous amount of wealth generated through that enslavement and that that enslavement was a sacrifice to which blacks willingly, though unwittingly, took part. If that were a valid assessment of the enslavement of so many for the benefit of so few, then its validity would sit on the testimony of those who were enslaved. However, that testimony, as found in Fredrick Douglas’ Narrative of the Life of Fredrick Douglas does not support such an outlandish premise. On the contrary, Douglas’ Narrative witnesses the atrocity that ...

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is a famous autobiography that was written by Fredrick Douglas himself. He was a slave who faced many challenges from his childhood to adulthood. Douglas raised many issues in this book, and all those ideas were intended to reach those who defended slavery. In his book, Douglas tried to explain the idea of humanhood as one of his points. He tried to show the thoughts, signs, and actions that make someone a human being. According to him, there is no true humanhood in an individual that supports slavery or an action that ...

Hawaii is an American state where Europeans are not the majority of residents and it is the home to the largest Asian-American community in America. The Asian-American population consists of Koreans, Filipino, Japanese, and Chinese (Avila-Tapies and Dominguez-Mujica 56). Most of the Hawaii natives are descendants of Japanese, Korean, Filipino, and Chinese migrant workers who arrived in the 19th and early 20th century to work in the sugarcane plantations. Since then, more Asians have continued to migrate to the United States. The Hawaii state was the home of Polynesian Islander until European traders began to arrive in mid18th century ...

Andrew Jackson is often only synonymous with being a former president of the United States. He is rarely synonymous with the home he built over many years with his wife, Rachel Jackson. However, The Hermitage is a rich and developed piece of U.S. history that deserves to be shared and preserved. As a site that was built from the ground up, and remodeled several times over, it something to behold. Andrew Jackson became president in The Hermitage, as well as one of Tennessee’s most successful slave owners. He left a home that would become a family legacy, and ...

Before the American Civil War of between 1861 and 1865, black slavery in the United States thrived on the pillars of white supremacy. Otherwise dubbed the antebellum period, the years ranging from 1820 to 1860 witnessed a gradual yet steady increase in the country’s reliance on slave labor. As per the ideologies of white supremacy, the dominance of white people warranted the inferiority of colored individuals and as a result, everyone belonging to the former group could hold those of the latter faction in bondage. Accordingly, the cultural norms of the country during the given era encompassed the ...

They call me Jenny, but my name is Abebi. I live in the cotton fields, in a row house down by the river, where the big house casts a shadow over everything in the evening. It’s in Virginia, outside a place called Jamestown, but I am not of this land, my blood runs in Nigeria. I was born 1813 in the savanna, where the wild beasts roam, and raised where the waterfalls washed the dust from my hair, and smelled sweet and clean. Nothing like the muddy water of the south. I don’t think I’ll ever ...

When asked to view the documentary Slavery by Another Name, I was expecting to see something about prisoners being used in forced labor by some other country. I was clearly not expecting it to be about the treatment of African Americans in the United States after the Emancipation Proclamation. Based on my understanding of American history, I believed that after the Civil War, African Americans had some struggles, but they were free. I understood that there was still discrimination, especially in the American South, but the former slaves at least had the opportunity to make a living on their ...

The Haitian Revolution is thought to be the largest, most successful slave revolt in history. The slave revolt took place between 1791-1804 after which they had succeeded in not just ending slavery but also French control on the island. The Haitian Revolution was a series of revolutions that went on at the same time. Prior to the revolutions Saint Dominigue, or Haiti as it is known today was the wealthiest of France’s overseas colonies. The colony was a major exporter of coffee, cotton and sugar all of which was grown by slaves. In the 1730’s the French ...

Bigelow Tea Company is one of the dominant tea companies in the US market. It was founded in 1945 and remains being a family-owned business (Www.bigelowtea.com, 2016). The company provides its customers with over 50 varieties of tea products including the green, white, black and all sorts of herbal teas. Bigelow’s products are available in most grocery retail shops nationwide. The company also has managed to effectively engage its customers through its catalog that is available on the company’s website. According to the firm’s annual statistics, revenues have remained at over $ 90 million every year over ...

The Name of the School

My Life as a Slave My name is Elijah Johnson and I was born a slave. I say I was born a slave because that was what became my identity for the first fifteen years of my life. It did not matter that I was a boy, a child, a brother or a son. I was looked upon as a slave and treated like one all through my formative years. I was born in the year 1850, on the 23rd of October. I know because like every other child born on the plantation my birth was recorded too. Even ...

After the American Civil War, the South lay prostrate before the specter of the Lost Cause. There was a general poverty, both economic and personal. The war had had such a devastating effect that the intellectual capacity of a whole region shuddered, moaned. There could not be a more devastating occurrence to Southern pride than the ignoble defeat of the entire culture. The extent to which the South declined is documented in its literature. An examination of Southern literature during and after the Civil War provides a perspective on how far down the South had been driven before it ...

There are over 35 million African Americans in the US now, which is more than 12% of the population. As it is known from history this percentage was not the same over the years but very varied. According to the 1790 census, there were 750 thousand African Americans in the US, and it was more than 19% of the population. The percentage of African Americans in society did not change much until 1840s and then began to fall significanlty. Before the Civil War, there were 4 440 000 African Americans, or about 14% of the population. After the Civil ...

In what ways did the Upper South come to differ from the Lower South in the 19th century?

The Upper South came to be characterized less by cotton and sugarcane plantations and more by tobacco cultivation and normal food crop farming and cattle rearing. Large parts of the Antebellum Upper South, especially in Virginia and Kentucky, were hilly country, not suited for large plantation slavery. This led to a lower dependence on slave labor, although slavery as an institution did exist, along with racial discrimination. The politics of the Upper South also reflected this trend. Republicans did slightly better as the attitude was a bit more pro-Union than in the Deep South. Both the business classes as ...

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Introduction Slavery is an age-old practice that has existed in many forms among different human societies. In fact, as early as 3,000 to 2,000 B.C., in the primeval civilization of Mesopotamia, slavery, in its various forms has already been observed (Perbi 1). For many years, the institution of slavery has existed in many places around the globe, but it made the biggest impression in the continent of Africa where slavery took its greatest toll. Intertwined with the African slave trade is the huge demand for slave labor in the European colonies, specifically the large plantations ...

Historical Significance the Whitney Plantation and Its Present Condition

An American trial attorney from New Orleans called Mr. John Cummings founded the Whitney Plantation; he spent nearly sixteen years of his life and eight million dollars of his fortune to establish the plantation that was eventually made accessible to the public in December 2014. It is situated at the south of the United States in St' John Baptist Parish, Wallace in Louisiana. It has a French Creole house that was built in 1803 and another outbuilding that makes the museum significant, especially in the African American history because it is the only preserved slave museum in the country. ...

Emancipation was not an easy time for Africans as they were still on the bottom line. The bad effects of emancipation were seen across different areas of the Caribbean, but the overall decline was seen in the plantation economy. Most of the ex-slaves left the estate and others settled as small farmers. The result was the labour shortage and increased labour costs that affected the sugar industry to shut down (Emmer, n.d.). The yearly sugar production got slumped by 36% and the biggest reason behind this was the increased cost of sugar production. Other reasons were competition in sugar ...

A Culture book review

Life is really a difficult thing. One day you are at the summit of glory and the other one are suffering a defeat. It looks like a gambling game where after each great winning should always be even bigger loss. The task is to learn to overcome all the difficulties and never give up in your life path. Take you own way, do your best and put a finish to everything you intended. No matter how preoccupied with the daily routine you are never miss a chance to find the beauty around you even in the simplest things. Sometimes ...

The history of the West from 1500 forward is the story of the rise and decline of the empires. The British, French, Portuguese, Dutch, and Russians all developed vast empires, often at the expense of other imperial powers. They challenged as well by non-western empires including the Ottoman Empire, the Mughal Empire and the Empire of Japan (Suyin). These are the words that were stated by Han. In looking at history, it can be observed that his words had some truth to it. This can be observed from the Spanish empire. It is considered that the Spanish empire was ...

The documentary Black Harvest, which showed some events from life of the white explorer’s descendant Joe Leahy and the Ganiga tribe in Western Highlands of Papua New Guinea, made me to take a side of the man. Leahy looked like a true victim in this movie. The man worked hard to improve and enlarge his coffee plantation. Leahy wanted to share his profits with Ganiga people. He offered them the smaller part, but this decision was reasonable, because the man charged himself with the whole financial responsibility. It was not Leahy’s fault that coffee prices decreased. Ganiga ...

Biology

Pests are regarded as organisms that poses characteristics which are usually unwanted or damaging, since it mainly harms the ecosystem or even carries germs. According to Prins and Gordon (2014), agricultural sector suffers a huge blow due to mammalian pests (p.429). there exists one mammalian pest that harms the ecosystem as well as the agricultural sector. It is called Gazella kadudu. Gazella kadudu is a wild gazelle that excretes feaces which when it comes into contact with water body, it kills the organisms like fish and frog in the habitat. It is also a carrier of the deadly Ebola ...

If it was the description of the end of the Leahy's family story in the Western Highlands of Papua New Guinea, the film succeeded in telling it. The Black Harvest was the last part of the documentary trilogy filmed by Connolly. The project started with the story about Leahy brothers who found near one million people during their search for gold. The Black Harvest demonstrated how the “result” of this journey Joe Leahy failed to expand his coffee plantation and had to leave it. The movie also succeeded in the demonstration of severities, which representatives of mixed races and ...

Introduction

In this paper, I argue that the present coffee crop system in Brazil is and has always been destructive to the interest of local people and small farms. Furthermore, I contend that coffee plantations are based on a system established during the colonial era and reflect those inequities. I dispute the idea that the government in Brazil is trying to help small growers; evidence shows that the government has not established polices at local or national levels to protect Brazilians. In what follows, I will discuss 1) how the nineteenth century coffee plantations in Brazil came on the scene ...

Drugs are bad. So bad that they have shaped the course of human history for the worse and served to enable some of the worst waves of imperialism in human history. Large scale opium addiction in the United States was facilitated and to an extent created by early modern clinical medicine, or what we would now colloquially refer to as ‘real’ medicine. This situation came out of 19th and early 20th century conflicts between professional and practitioners of allopathic (again, ‘real) medicine and unlicensed purveyors of alternative medicines such as chiropractors, also known of as quacks or snake oil ...

Life in the Southern Colonial colonies was considerably different than life in the Northern Colonies. Agriculture became the main industry in the South, and instead of major cities with large population there was sparse population centered upon huge plantations. Tobacco became the primary crop of the South and would become the primary source of income for the Southern Colonies. Agriculture in general is a labor intensive industry, and tobacco required a large labor force to produce the quantities needed. There were several different types of labor employed in the tobacco industry of the South from the beginning of the ...

Introduction

For a long time, slavery, in different parts of the world, in different Nations, was a completely natural form of social development. Slavery saw oriental despotic states like Babylon or Egypt, where the ruler was venerated as the earthly incarnation of God. A completely natural slavery was seen in ancient Greece, which is considered the cradle of the Sciences, knowledge, philosophy, morality, and even democracy. But the fact of the emergence of the slave economy in the capitalist United States of America, as if, disturbs the harmony of the event sequence in the development of human civilization, which supposedly ...

The profitability of human trafficking in the form of slavery was a critical component that shaped the world economy. Indeed, slavery was a lucrative business in the 16th century where merchants used to exchange slave with manufactured goods from Europe. Industrialization which was labor intensive prompted wealthy businessmen to source for free labor from Africa where slaves used to work in their industries and plantation farms for nothing thus reaping a lot from the benefit of the labor. The trading of slaves for manufactured goods and the massive profits those merchants made from the trade qualified slavery to be ...

Southeast Asia is located in the territory of the Indochinese Peninsula and the numerous islands of the Malay Archipelago. The region includes ten countries: Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia, Laos, Cambodia, Indonesia, Philippines, Brunei, Singapore, and East Timor. A major air and sea routes lie through the countries of Southeast Asia: the Strait of Malacca is as important for global shipping, as the Strait of Gibraltar, the Suez and Panama canals. Brunei is one absolute monarchy among the countries in the region. There are also three constitutional monarchies - Thailand, Cambodia, and Malaysia; all other are republics (Reid 7). The region ...