What is the main argument that Del la Casas presents in the reading?

Bartolome de Las Casas. A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies. Assignment: What is the main argument that Del la Casas presents in the reading? Europeans of the time period argued that they engaged in exploration to in engage in missionary work, to convert foreign peoples and to gain fame and wealth for […]

What were the most important factors affecting the slave experience?

DOCUMENT SECONDARY SOURCE Historian Drew Gilpin Faust’s essay on the relationship between mas­ 1 ter and slaves on James Henry Hammond’s South Carolina plantation is based on Hammond’s extensive plantation records. Although Faust bases her discussion about planter-slave relations on documents produced by a white master, they reveal a great deal about slave autonomy and […]

identify the frequency of use of certain words.

4 AAS 322 – #4 Feb 17 – M K Hom On Reading Chinese American Poetry I. “Threads” (author identity omitted for discussion purpose) There is no way to show it No way to even break it or Burn it or throw it away. It is with me, and yet There is nothing I can […]

Why did the Texas insurrection occur?

Mexico had  permitted and even invited immigrants to part of its Northern territory. In the case of the Northeastern section of Mexico, those immigrants  interacted and in a few cases intermarried with the existing inhabitants Northern Mexicanos and Indios.  Although for the most part (like other Northern Mexican regions-today New Mexico , Colorado, California, Arizona, […]