I'm writing a huge paper in my seminar class on slavery within the Abrhamic religions. I plan on using the primary sources, but I also want to find some scholarly sources that discusses slavery within these religions. Also if anyone knows of an article or book that talks about how southern slave owners in the U.S. used the bible as a way to defend slavery, i'd fid that particularly useful. My thesis would be to the effect of Religion having an impact on prolonging slavery.

If you have anything that could help me I'd appreciate it.

One often hears about Saxons, but hardly ever of the Angles. Are they just a type of Saxon tribe who just happened to live a bit further north, or are they two different peoples? Why are they so intertwined that we refer to them as Anglo-Saxons, rather than as the Angles and the Saxons?

Growing up in the USA my father told me that carp weren't an edible fish. As I grew older I learned that it is widely eaten in Asia and even Europe. Why aren't they considered an edible, albeit invasive species?

I'm curious about why Central American nations have not be able to industrialize and modernize as much as other (Latin) American nations.

Although these nations - Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica - have been subject to continued economic exploitation (e.g. banana and coffee corporations) and various coups d'était/regime changes, so have other nations in North and South America (Mexico, Venezuela, Colombia, Chile, Argentina, etc.). Despite times of instability, these nations seem to have been able to recover, maintain more social stability, industrialize, and thus gain more economic progress in modern times than Central America. What exactly caused or led to this?

We often see pictures of the Holocaust, Holomdor, Bengal Famine, nuclear bombings of Japan, Japanese war crimes, etc. But, we never see pictures of China's famine under Mao and I cannot even find pictures of it anywhere online.

Would somebody whose great-grandparents came from Berlin, but identified as a Pole/Hungarian/Czech be expelled?

During the Industrial Revolution, at what point did the power output from coal fired engines become greater than the power output from working horses in Britain?

Assuming this was some minor knight who was not a Peer or otherwise titled, descended from a knightly family, which social class would he considered to fall under? Aristocratic, gentry, commoner, nobility, or something else altogether?

How did UN get involved and how did their presence impact the situation ?

could the average person afford one? were they worth a similar amount to today's guys?

I'm doing an interdisciplinary undergraduate research project with my psychology friend and we're looking at these two cults; her from a psychological perspective, me from a historical one.

In terms of history, my general approach is going to be attempting to explain these cults as religiously motivated terrorist groups born from the social histories of the two regions - Berkeley and Tokyo. Since both terror groups were composed of young professionals or students, I am going to attempt to explain these groups as manifestations of the general disillusionment of young people with modern capitalist systems that they found themselves seemingly trapped within. It is a research project though, and so my findings will probably effect how I restructure my approach. Thanks!