Essays on Chattel

The concept of “whiteness” is, of course, silly on its face. “Pinkness,” or perhaps, “very light tanness” would be more accurate. Nevertheless, the term is deeply embedded into cultural discourse. “White privilege” is the phrase of the day. “White Man’s Burden” was the public face of the reasoning for British imperialism. White men (no women need apply in those bygone days) not only “could” govern their poor, benighted “colored” brethren better than they could govern themselves, it was an affirmative duty to bring superior culture and civilization to the savages. In the history of the United States the ...

- The History of the Cotton Industry: When Christopher Columbus was exploring the Bahamas and Cuba, he found out that the natives were wearing clothes made of cotton. The natives had sleeveless shirts and mantles beautifully painted with different designs and colors. The French Catholic priest, Fr. Coeurdoux, uncovered how the natives processed its colors and designs. He brought this idea to his country and France introduced cotton throughout Britain and Europe. The new invented spinning wheel speed up the production of cotton. The fabrics made of cotton were easier to design than wool and were cheaper ...

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In the aftermath of the suicide of Aaron Swartz, who hanged himself after Federal prosecutors charged Swartz with 11 felony cases that could landed him in prison for 35 years, there have been calls for reforming the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA), the frontline statute tasked to combat cyber crime and fraud committed on the Internet. The 1986 law was designed to providing a law to combat “unauthorized access” to large computers that are “time-shared”. In the past, the assumed threat was activities related to computer “hacking”- individuals who illegally gain access into computer databases, such ...

Steven Deyle. Carry Me Back: The Domestic Slave Trade in American Life. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.

What is the book's thesis? The book’s main thesis is the Slave Trade in American life and its impact. The book takes as through the slave trade in America from 18th century and its impact on various families, the U.S economy among others. For instance, one of the effects of slave trade is that it led to buying and selling of human beings which in turn led to increased human trafficking. Slave trade also led to the separation of ...

Discuss Slave Ship by J. M. W. Turner shown on page 544 of the textbook. Refer to the early chapters of the text with regard to the Fundamentals of visual art, and also the relevant chapter on Media and Processes. Do not simply describe the artwork (we can all see what it looks like), but discuss how the artist has created the work and how you respond to it. How does it make you feel? Do you think it is successful? Do you like the artwork? Be as detailed as possible in responding to the essay prompt.

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Frederic Douglas was born into slavery in 1818 in the state of Maryland, years before the Civil War that would put an end to slavery in the United States. Although there were a few sympathetic individuals in the South and the abolitionist movement burgeoning in the North, Douglas’s journey to literacy was fraught with peril and required him to invent many clever, unique ways to learn to read and write. The first sympathetic influence in his journey to literacy, his Mistress, also turned out to be a great nemesis who attempted to thwart his later efforts to learn. Douglas ...

Abstract

Hammurabi’s Code placed great value upon the slave as property, not as a human being. The slave’s value appeared to be measured by the degree to which he or she could perform work for the slave-owner. Grave punishments were inflicted upon a man who deprived another of his slave. While assaults upon freemen resulting in injury or death were punished in draconian fashion, monetary damages were the measure of reparation for the injury or wrongful death of a slave and were payable not to the slave or his family, but to the slave-owner. Liability for professional malpractice or negligence resulting ...