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In the Antebellum South, most slaves had difficult times characterized by poverty, very long-work hours doing demanding physical tasks, and psychological and physical abuse. They also had their families frequently torn apart.
Women, as recorded in Harriet Ann Jacobs work, were vicitms of sexual abuse on a constant basis.
Not all slaves were abused, and some slaves acquired relative wealth and status, but they were the minority. The vast majority of slaves had extremely difficult living conditions, and most importantly, they lacked the liberty that the US Constitution was supposed to guarantee.
The dominant factor in an epic is the heroic main character. This character often is the son of a god or goddess and is favored by the gods. Heroic characters are also always hounded by constant tragedy which drives them to fulfill their fates. Most heroic characters are high in social status and share close contacts with the gods. All of these qualities of heroic characters show up in the characters of Aeneas <span>from The </span>Aeneid<span> and Gilgamesh from the </span>Epic of Gilgamesh<span>. </span>
European countries engaged in colonialism in the 1600s and 1700s for the main reason of expansion. This expansion resulted in <span>peacefully intermingling the cultures without </span><span>racism </span>and colonial massacres. The term colonialism refers to the developmental differential due to control of one people by an alien one, according to <span>Wolfgang Reinhard. Hope this answers your question. </span>
