Essays about: "slave trade"
Showing result 6 - 10 of 16 essays containing the words slave trade.
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6. The moral value of slavery as represented in Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturerAbstract : The aim of this essay is to show how Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe, represents the morality of slavery and the conflict between this institution and Christianity. It is necessary to talk about the main characters to explain the value of slaves and see how they were treated. READ MORE
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7. DEAD END : The European Movement and Disappearance of Local Traditional African Clothing Designs, Styles, and Cultural Meaning. An Exchange of Cultural Identity.
University essay from Högskolan i Borås/Institutionen TextilhögskolanAbstract : This thesis aims at showcasing the movement of African cultural meaning from Africa to Europe by Europeans in their involvement in the African slave trade as well as the colonization of Africa, which was the imprisonment of the African cultural expression as well as a limitation of its development and further production. The thesis also addresses one of the reason for the global circulation of the European culture, which is the search and achievement of absolute power and control over the minds of its conquests in order to become a dominant culture. READ MORE
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8. Black Atlantic expression in the poetry of Langston Hughes and Nicolás Guillén
University essay from Engelska institutionenAbstract : As Paul Gilroy has argued, the Black Atlantic is a cultural and literary network that has emerged in the aftermath of the Atlantic slave trade. The concerns of the Black Atlantic are made visible in the poetry of African American Langston Hughes and Cuban Nicolás Guillén. Gilroy’s theorization of the Black Atlantic draws on W.E. READ MORE
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9. Heathcliff : The Black Dog that Became a Bourgeois Gentleman - the Combined Issue of Race and Social Class in Wuthering Heights
University essay from Institutionen för språk (SPR)Abstract : This thesis will illustrate how the issues of race and social class in Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights are main focuses for how Heathcliff is perceived and how they influence his actions. The importance lies in how both issues are main reasons for how Heathcliff is treated. READ MORE
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10. Transatlantic Literary Triangle: The ‘Africanness’ of Writers of African Origin and Descent
University essay from Lunds universitet/Masterprogram: Litteratur - Kultur – Media; Lunds universitet/LitteraturvetenskapAbstract : Africa has suffered two traumatizing events in history that have helped shape the present day individual, be it on the continent or in the diaspora. First there was the transatlantic slave trade that spanned from the 15th century to the late 19th century and saw the inhuman and forceful transportation of Africans to plantations and homes in the Americas. READ MORE
