Slavery Case Studies Samples For Students

“Issue #20: Is Now the Time for Reparations for African Americans?”

Introduction
The question of reparations to African Americans owing to slavery, lost opportunities, and state-enforced segregation has been long unresolved. The issue keeps emerging into the realms of national debate. The American psyche would not be healed till the time the question of reparations to African Americans is laid to rest, one way or the other.

Arguments for Reparations

Robert Allen, Adjunct Professor for African American Studies at the University of Berkeley, lends his voice in favor of reparations for African Americans. Allen is the editor of the Black Scholar journal and has written eight books covering the odyssey of the ...

In chapter three of A People's History of the United States, author Howard Zinn makes it clear that the socioeconomic conditions of colonial America were anything but democratic. Zinn paints a picture of Indian uprisings, negro revolts, and white servant rebellions that betray our conventional understanding of the earliest events of American history.
At the beginning of the Revolutionary War in the 1770s, the colonies were highly-divided. Aristocratic, white landholders owned most of the wealth while poor whites, negro slaves, and Indians comprised the majority of the American populace. While the white elites usually had the backing of England ...

Background of human trafficking

Human trafficking can be related to the slave trade, a practice that was common before the 17th century. Human trafficking involves the transportation of human beings from one region to the other for the main purpose of providing cheap labour, as well as some income to the traders. In this procedure, humans are lured or forced into accepting to work elsewhere for a fee. In some cases, there is no payment accorded to the workers, they are not paid anything especially if they have been exchanged for money. Their masters or mistress only agree to carter for their needs during the ...

Historians affirm that Thomas Garrett is one of the prominent personalities who took an active role in the development of Underground Railroad. He was born on 21 August 1790 at Upper Darby Pennsylvania and died on 25 January 1817. Throughout his lifetime and career as a stationmaster, Thomas worked as an abolitionist and helped more than three thousand slaves escape; an idea that compelled others credit him as Delaware greatest savior (Heinrichs, 56).
The venture of helping slaves originated from his up bring as White Quaker son, where he learnt to help and assist runway slaves. His family owned a ...

The abolition of the slave trade in Britain between 1750 and1920

Historians agree that changes in the Atlantic world contributed to the abolition of the British slavery between 1750 and 1920. Modern historians treat slavery with the consideration of the capitalist world, which include its tassel and in classical ruins that played a critical role in European education. Hochschild was responsible for labeling these societies. In Hochschild’s theory, the slaves practiced productive labor, and slave labor was highly significant the state and the society. Slavery was present in the key industrial societies. The prevalence of slave labor made some European states create reservoirs of people that could offer them their ...

Article 3 of the Palermo Protocol of 2000 which adds-on the UN Convention against Transnational Organized Crime gives the definition of trafficking of people as an international crime which entails recruiting, relocation or confinement of persons through illegal meansby using force, threatening the person, abducting them, deceiving or by misrepresenting facts primly for purposes of exploitation. The exploitation can be through enslavement, removal of organs, forced marriages, begging, and child soldiers among other activities for profit (Shelly 3).

Statement 1

The woman under the control of the pimp is vulnerable emotionally and psychologically due to the sensitive secret the pimp is ...

Human Geographical Factors and Social Systems

Human Geography is defined as the activities of human beings and its impact on the society and the earth in general. Human geography is a key indicator and pointer that can and has been used to explain trends in societies and communities. According to Jared Diamond, societies and how they rise and collapse can be linked to a number of human geographic factors which influences the way societies are ran and can be analyzed. This is mainly due to the fact that society is based on livelihood and a reliance on the environment. Thus, human geography identifies these collective ...

Abstract

The American Civil War was of course the most devastating event in the American History. Thousands of people died during the war .Almost every American lost some one in the w3war be it: a relative or friend while thousands were injured. On the other hand, the Great War cost much havoc and suffering to people all over the world. The different effects of the two wars are still being felt today. In this essays I am going to look at various disciplines ad their relation to the both the two wars and cultural values prevailing in these societies during the ...

This paper will present an analysis of Martin Luther King’s “I have a Dream speech.” The analysis will focus on the five key elements of the five elements of dramatistic pentad. These are act, agency, agent, scene, and purpose.

Act:

The “I have a dream” speech was a speech that sought to fight for civil rights liberties and freedoms for oppressed Americans. Black Americans had suffered discrimination for centuries in the country. The speech began with a history of the suffering of the black people in America. It also gave an excellent portrayal of the struggles the black people ...

This decade is characterized by two fundamental phenomena. These are the increased globalization and the campaign for an ethical culture in business practice. Globalization is fastened and facilitated by liberalized economies while the ethical drive is informed by the need for sustainability in businesses. Within that context, this paper seeks to discuss the issue of child exploitation within the cocoa industry. The noble agitation for an ethical lifestyle must not be limited to the developed worlds; rather, the war has to be taken to the doorsteps of the developing nations as well. In this case, the biggest casualty is ...

Unfair Exploitation of Child Labor

Introduction
Child labor is defined as all those work that affect children’s life in terms of health and their education. Other instances where children help their parents in running errands at home do not qualify as child labor. When the activities involved is positive then we cannot say it is child labor rather it enhances the skills of the child. Child labor has a long historical background dating back to the colonization time when there was slave trade. Industrial revolution contributed to the relocation of people to urban areas where child labour was preferred in many factories because ...

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Background:

One of the biggest problems that the United States is facing today is that of racial intolerance. African Americans reside in the United States in millions and not only are they found abundantly, but they are also participants in all the professions in the country including the civil services (Bennet, 1995). Hence, they have become from slaves to valuable part of the society in the United States. The tension however between the different races has elevated greatly over the past decade as once again there is found a fair bit of friction at both the political and ...

Formed in 2005 by Wal-Mart, Global procurement organization owned the Global Certificate Program (GCP). Prior to its renaming, the program managed ethical conduct of the supply chain. It later changed its name to Ethical Standards Program and in 2006; it announced that it had conducted 13,600 factory audits in the previous year. The announcement by the then president of the company also stated that the audit was a collaboration of the supply chain and their suppliers. However, in 2006 an article was published saying that one of the supply chain’s supplier in china fabricated their reports. During the ...

Abstract

The Great War and the American civil war have had immense effects on the historical, political, social, and cultural context. The outcomes and the processes of the war have greatly influenced the development of the humanity discipline. These ideologies have then been spread over the world to other nations thereby stamping America as the most dominant nation in the world. Furthermore, there have been greater interdisciplinary relationships in humanity and new ideas have been developed. These ideas have gone a step further to enhance the streamlining of governance and social structures by incorporating people from diverse backgrounds.

Wars throughout history ...

Social Stratification is the hierarchical arrangement of persons according to their social classes, castes and strata within society. Social classesses are identified with social stratification in that they are used to define how hierarchical arrangements are made. The four systems of stratification include slavery which entails the ownership of people, estate systems where land and other resources are controlled by a few people. The other are caste system where people are born and belong to unequal systems and the other one is the class system where people are born into a social ranking. Slavery is closed whereas the class system is ...

The narrator reflects back to the period of the civil war in 1865. In this case, things unfolded in a rather slow pace as compared to the current century. Comparing the sounds made by the branches to those of the old age harps clearly indicates a comparison of time and innovation during this period.
As the narrator focuses the main character’s thoughts, the character seems uneasy on how things are moving in a slow pace. He seems furious with everything around him as they appear to slow down the situation,” a piece of dancing driftwood caught his attention and his eyes ...

Business ethics

Capitalism is an ideology, which refers to an economic system whereby the methods of production and distribution is privately owned by individuals or corporate firms. According to Shaw et al, some of the features of capitalism include; free enterprise non-restrictive government interference in the economy and maximization of consumer welfare from a free market that is based on supply and demand. Capitalism also favors freedom of individual economic enterprise, which has been protected from abuse by the government. Such actions have varied over many years from country to country. An example is slavery in Britain and the United States and ...

Criminal Defense

In most jurisdictions, when an individual is accused of a criminal offense, he or she must appear in court of law to answer the charges (Farrell, 2008). In this circumstance, the accused individual is known as the defendant. Therefore, as a defendant, one is supposed to establish a criminal defense with the assistance of a criminal attorney in order to avoid a guilty verdict (LexisNexis, 2012). The prosecutor is the other party which tries to prove that the criminal act performed by the defendant is factual. A criminal defense can be described as a strategic argument which attempts to confront the legitimacy and satisfactoriness of ...