Land of the Free?: A Look at Oppression in America's past Throughout the past, oppression has been a part of Human relations, from the treatment of siblings to the enslavement of an entire race of people, to everything in between. This is empirically proven through the non-fictional autobiograp...

Thomas Jefferson was born on April 13, 1743 in Albermarle County, Virginia, inheriting from his father, some 5,000 acres of land, and from his mother, a Randolph, high social standing. He attended the College of William and Mary where he studied law. In 1772 he married Martha Wayles Skelton, and t...

Abstract Religious beliefs and the zeal of Missionaries and Preachers had an undeniable influence on America's history since the first explorers set foot on this continents shores. Religious was used as a tool to justify individual goals and to provide society with the justification for...

Racism and Prejudice in Equiano Much like that of Mary Rowlandson's writing, Olaudah Equiano's writing shares the qualities of the captivity narrative. The goals behind his writing are for excitement, pity, and admiration as he states in the beginning: "People generally thing t...