Essays and Research Papers on Slavery & Civil Rights

A 3 page overview of the abolitionist movement of the nineteenth century. This paper emphasizes the multifaceted nature of the movement. Bibliography lists 2 sources.

A 4 page contention that, while slave culture was indeed complex and unique, it was not some esoteric connection to Africa that drove a slave to rebel. It was, in fact, the memory of freedom that inspired resistance. Bibliography lists 5 sources.

This 5 page paper discusses the way in which Dr. Martin Luther King reacted to and adapted Thoreau’s ideas for his own struggle against racism. Bibliography lists 4 sources.

5 pages in length. The writer discusses social, political and economic impact of Dred Scott. Bibliography lists 4 sources.

This 5 page paper argues that Frederick Douglass was not describing stereotypical slave behavior in his “Narrative,” but ordinary behavior which later came to be considered stereotypical. Bibliography lists 1 source.

A 3 page paper which analyzes aspects of Malcolm X’s Malcolm X Speaks: It’s the Ballot or the Bullet. No additional sources cited.

4 pages in length. The writer discusses how blacks and whites coped with and cultural changed because of the institution of slavery. Bibliography lists 3 sources.

A 3 page paper examining how Martin Luther King Jr. has influenced someone. Bibliography lists 2 sources.

A 4 page paper which examines how slavery affected people in the South. Bibliography lists 4 sources.

This 3 page paper discusses Stephen Budiansky’s book The Bloody Shirt, about the violent terrorist attacks on blacks by white Southerners during the Reconstruction period. Bibliography lists 3 sources.

A 7 page discussion of the vigorous slave trade that existed well before the colonization of Africa. Bibliography lists 10 sources.

An 8 page essay that contrasts and compares the narratives of Harriet Wilson's Our Nig and Harriet Jacobs' Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. The first narrative describes life in the antebellum North and the second life in the antebellum South, regarding the lives of these black authors. No additional sources cited.

This 4 page paper explores the KKK as it remanifested in the 1920s. Bibliography lists 4 sources.

This 7 page paper compares two “versions” of Oedipus Rex and argues that they can be called religious plays, though religion is more apparent in Sophocles than in Dove’s modern version. Bibliography lists 5 sources.

This 3 page paper compares Dr. King’s “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” and Barack Obama’s “A More Perfect Union” speech. Bibliography lists 2 sources.

This 7 page paper takes the form of the journal of an American slave to describe slave life. Bibliography lists 3 sources.

A 3 page review of Mary Dudziak’s Cold War Civil Rights. No additional sources cited.

An 8 page paper which examines how Martin Luther King Jr. is representative of the American Dream. Bibliography lists 6 sources.

This 3 page paper argues that it was not until Lyndon Johnson became President in 1963 that the United States was once again a whole nation. Bibliography lists 5 sources.

A 7 page essay that contrasts and compares the use of ethos, pathos, logos and figurative speech in Martin Luther King's "Letter from a Birmingham Jail" and Frederick Douglass' autobiography. No additional sources cited.

An 8 page research paper that contrasts and compares two research efforts, describe how two teams of researchers, Constantine and Sue (2007) and Watts (1991), which addressed racism in the workplace within the context of an empirical study. Both studies are summarized, prior to offering analysis and conclusions. No additional sources cited.

A 5 page paper which examines the trial and conditions surrounding Emmett Till. Bibliography lists 3 sources.

This 3 page paper examines one book. Chapter 2 of the book Young, Gifted and Black by Theresa Perry, Claude Steele and Asa Hilliard is examined. No additional sources cited.

A 3 page paper which examines the negative existence of slavery in American. Bibliography lists 3 sources.

This 3 page paper summarizes two articles about slavery: Eric R. Wolf’s “The Slave Trade,” and “The ‘Giddy Multitude’” by Ronald Takaki. Bibliography lists 2 sources.