The New World was seen as an opportunity for those who wanted a better life. Those who became successful achieved their goals because they learned of new goods to sell and ways to increase their production.

Are you a stereotype? Explore what that means and hone in on certain aspects and individuals.

A Short Essay about the survival of slaver in the southern colonies.

Reflections on man’s inhumanity to man.

Slaves lived at Martha’s Vineyare beginning around 1680, but the first slave on record was a woman named Rebecca Amos.

Little girls are sold into slavery as young as eight years old to brothels and for servants. These children are beaten, abused and forced to work long back breaking hours as servants or are forced into the sex trade.

This compares and contrasts the many points of the Holocaust and the big slave trade.

The Egyptian Pyramids are one of the wonders of the world. Hollywood films and the bible have led people to believe that slaves built the pyramids for the Egyptian Pharaohs. According to texts such as Joyce Tyldesley’s Egypt’s Golden Empire it was ordinary Egyptians, not slaves, who built the Pyramids as part of a national building project. Workers built them out of reverence for their Pharaoh and the many gods they worshipped.

What is really the Underground Railroad?

Census 2010, should be easier than ever to fill in.