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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"Abolitionism"”.
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Hiding in plain sight: Virginia oystering and landscapes of abolitionism
In July 1832, seventeen enslaved individuals and one free black man stole a whaleboat and sailed from Virginia’s Eastern Shore to New York City in search of freedom. This escape occurred months after Nat Turner’s revolt, and coincided with the rise of abolitionist ideologies and increased interest …
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Anarchist Abolitionism: The Context and Meaning of Kropotkin's Prison Writings
The use of the prison is a highly debatable topic. Its main aims are to deter and reform criminals, but recent reports show high recidivism rates which suggests that the prison does not work in reducing crime. Penal abolitionists oppose the current use of the prison and wish for its removal. In …
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Human Capital: The Moral and Political Economy of Northeastern Abolitionism, 1763–1833
… and political-economic groundwork for antebellum abolitionism by emphasizing the under-appreciated bridge figure of Benjamin Lundy and the formation of the American Anti-Slavery Society in 1833.</p>
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POWER, OPPRESSION, AND LIBERATION: NEW HAMPSHIRE ABOLITIONISM AND THE RADICAL CRITIQUE OF SLAVERY, 1825-1850
… growth of the North. Hence, in New Hampshire, abolitionism was both a movement to free the slaves and a crusade to save northern economic progress from the stranglehold of an archaic and agrarian South.</p><p>This concern with the unrestrained power of an oppressive backwater region was taken …
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Explaining the emergence and gradual transformation of policy regimes: the case of contemporary French prostitution policy (1946-2016)
… policies and programmes enacted in the name of 'abolitionism' have varied considerably: policies based on supporting 'victims' have been succeeded by some that seek to criminalise individuals in prostitution by outlawing soliciting. More recently, in April 2016, the country adopted a policy of …
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Revolutionary Nationalism, Imperialism and Anti-Slavery in the Trans-National Irish-American Press, 1840-1865
… explores the Irish-American press’ coverage of Abolitionism and anti-slavery mobilisation in the United States. The dissertation reveals that opposition to Abolitionism in the United States was a core component of the vision for Irish-American identity each editor wanted to impose on their …
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Abolitionist Futures: Black Cultural Imagination at the End of the World
… From its inception in the nineteenth century, abolitionism has evolved from a social movement to abolish the institution of chattel slavery to a political tradition. Presently, abolition is as a critical method of understanding the genealogy of contemporary practices of racialized social …
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Potential and limits of abolitionist restorative justice in the UK
… to custody available in England, penal abolitionism will be introduced, particularly its definitions of crime, its critical discussion of the law, and its views on punishment (see the work of Mathiesen (2015), Christie (1994), Hulsman (1991), Ruggiero (2015), Bianchi (1994) et al). The …
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Anti-Slavery and Church Schism among Protestants in Antebellum Central Kentucky
… to prevent the worst examples of northern abolitionism and southern pro-slavery agitation from becoming common in Kentucky. Through their efforts, Christianity in antebellum Kentucky was characterized by moderation on the slavery question and responsiveness to the needs of believers. </p>
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An anatomy of a slave society in transition : the Virgin Islands, 1807-1864
… single British Caribbean territory in the age of abolitionism and its aftermath. Few studies in Caribbean history have sought to go beyond the transition from slavery to freedom and more specifically, to explore the impact of the enslaved themselves in shaping their own history during this …
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Paradoxes of the Heart and Mind: Three Case Studies in White Identity, Southern Reality, and the Silenced Memories of Mississippi Confederate Dissent, 1860-1979
… case studies: F. A. P. Barnard’s 1860 trial for abolitionism, the transformation of community memory which surrounded Newt Knight in the early twentieth century, and Mississippi’s interaction with the Civil War through popular culture. These examples will reveal the cultural and discursive …
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Ground Plans: Conceptualizing Ecology in the Antebellum United States
… as a crucial intellectual battleground for abolitionism. Moreover, it shows these politically-charged antebellum debates over nature's meaning to be crucial to the story of natural science, showing that abolitionists speculated on the natural principles that would eventually constitute the …
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Dýr sem eignir. Kenningar afnámssinna og velferðarsinna.
… sem aðhyllast annars vegar afnámshyggju (e. Abolitionism) og hins vegar velferðarhyggju (e. Welfarism) í umræðu um dýrasiðfræði og í umræðu um stöðu dýra sem eignir. Annars vegar er sérstaklega fjallað um kenningarar bandaríska heimspekingsins, Gary L. Francione, eins helsta fulltrúa …
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No Foreign Despots on Southern Soil: The American Party in Alabama and South Carolina, 1850-1857
… ideology to explain the growing influence of abolitionism in America, which became a powerful political issue in the South. Though northerners maintained that Catholics and immigrants supported slavery, southern Know Nothings contended that they exerted abolitionist influences on the nation. …
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The medi(atis)ation of the slave experience: a journey from page to screen
… of those underpinning nineteenth-century abolitionism and the twentieth-century Civil Rights movement. Thus, this thesis examines the effects of mediatisation on the representation of blackness and identity, as instantiated by the experiences of slavery and mediatised Othering, and the …
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Humanitarianism, Reform, and the Natural Rights Atlantic, 1815-1867
… A multitude of reform movements—including abolitionism, women’s rights, temperance, and Universal Peace—interwove in this Anglo-American reform pathway. This dialogue was rooted in and sustained by a spectrum of natural rights beliefs filtered through a prism of reformist Christian …
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NEITHER NORTHERN NOR SOUTHERN: THE POLITICS OF SLAVERY AND FREEDOM IN PHILADELPHIA, 1820-1847
… Philadelphia maintained a long tradition of abolitionism and fugitive slave activity. Conflicts that arose over fugitive slaves and the kidnapping of free African-Americans forced Philadelphians to confront the politics of slavery. This dissertation argues that until 1847, Pennsylvania was in …
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Error theory after J.L Mackie: Contemporary error theorists’ arguments
… irreducible normativity, unbelievability, abolitionism, fictionalism, conservationism, substitutionism.
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Economic activity or public order limitations: the interplay of the regulation of prostitution between national law, EU law and efforts to combat human trafficking
… approaches, which here refer to regulationism, abolitionism and prohibitionism. <br/><br/>The findings are that minor philosophical discrepancies pertaining to individual elements of the understanding of prostitution, such as morality, harm or the preference for either autonomy or paternalism, …
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MODELING THE LEADERSHIP OF LANGUAGE CHANGE FROM DIACHRONIC TEXT
… and Black editors in shaping the discourse on abolitionism. Finally, a method to induce an aggregate semantic leadership network using contextual word representations is proposed to investigate the link between semantic leadership and influence in the form of citations among publication venues …
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