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How did slavery alter and shape religion and gender roles in African/black communities in the Americas, especially the acceptance of Christianity, the establishment of the black church, and the role of black women in families and communities?

Explain how Europeans and African ethnic groups contributed to Africans becoming the dominant source of chattel slavery in the Americas. What role did economics have in the development? What role did each have in capture and the slave trade? How did each rationalize the enslavement of Africans?

Explain the goal of the British in establishing colonies in the Americas in the 1600s and afterwards. Was it similar to the goals of other Europeans nations like Spain? Explain and provide examples of how that goal shaped their relationship with other European nations, Native Americans, and Africans. How did it shape the evolution of slavery in the colonies? How did that mission ultimately led to the American colonies revolting and fighting a war to change their relationship with Britain?

Essay

Historicize Douglass’s narrative. Explain the conception of at least three of Douglass’s moral arguments (reasons) for ending slavery. Using sources from the course, explain what events, developments, and beliefs in American society did Douglass believe made these arguments effective. Secondly, contrast the narrative’s moral depiction of slaveholders and white workers versus that of enslaved and black workers and suggest what Douglass was attempting to achieve through such a conception.

Explain the development of slavery

Explain the development of slavery using four factors

Discuss the revolution in the making of the industrial working class and their work and living conditions, the evolving authority of the U.S. federal government, the evolution of U.S. geopolitical influence, and the struggle for African American equality between 1860 and the 1930s.

Was the integration of these sports a product of a U.S. post-WWII liberalism derived from fighting against Nazi Germany, the result of post-WWII economic growth in the U.S., a combination of both, or other factors? The paper should definitively answer the question and develop and explain supporting reasons, at least three, to support the answer.

Does Sinclair’s muckraking present an accurate depiction and history of these three types of reforms? A key here is to understand the examples of the various reform movements presented in the novel For each of the three categories, you should present at least two examples from the text and explain their successes or failures. Lastly, if Sinclair is correct, why did not more Americans become socialists and/or support socialism?