Bias
Beginning of paper
What does the word mean? is a mental
predilection or prejudice. The essay "The View from the Bottom Rail" by
James West Davidson and Mark Hamilton Lytle opened my eyes on how American
history could be looked at as one sided and even . Even today there is
still bias in America. In today's soci ....
Middle of paper
.... You did not get
a view on slavery from the slaves themselves.
In the 1920's, black scholars like W.E.B. Du Bois, Charles
Johnson, and Carter Woodson, started a project to collect oral evidence
from former slaves who were still living. Even these interviews could not
be viewed as 100% accurate. One example, is a geographic bias. The people
that were interviewed were only a very small portion of the millions of
freed slaves. Counting the number of slaves interviewed from each state,
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