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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Abolitionist Movement"”.
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Acting American in the Age of Abolition: Transatlantic Black American Celebrity and the Rise of Yankee Theatre, 1787--1827
… I argue that the swift rise of the English abolitionist movement in conjunction with the successful career of the black American actor Ira Aldridge in England were essential catalysts to the rise of Yankee Theatre, which began a new era in American professional theatre that for the first …
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The Spring Street Church in the Age of Abolition
… an integrated congregation active in the local abolitionist movement. It is framed against the rapid economic and social changes taking place within New York and the immediate neighborhood of the Eighth Ward during the early 19th century. Research focuses on religious antislavery during the …
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The World Is Not Yet Completed: Moral Imaginaries and Everyday Politics in Progressive Religious Communities
… American civic and political life, including the abolitionist movement, civil rights movement, and anti-nuclear movement. Through an ethnographic examination of six politically progressive religious communities, including two communes and four congregations, I examine how religion is put towards …
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Application of Public Administration As Viewed Through a Non-Profit Organization Intern
… trade. NFSGA aims to educate and mobilize an abolitionist movement in Georgia State. My supervisor was Mark Hoerrner, State Director of NFSGA. All of my assignments came from him. As an international student intern, I was assigned to work as the other intern, like collecting and importing …
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POWER, OPPRESSION, AND LIBERATION: NEW HAMPSHIRE ABOLITIONISM AND THE RADICAL CRITIQUE OF SLAVERY, 1825-1850
<p>This dissertation examines the abolitionist movement in New Hampshire. The study, consisting of two parts, is divided at 1837 when rival factions of Granite State abolitionists sought control of the New Hampshire Anti-Slavery Society (NHASS). Although the nature and structure of the movement had …
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Revolutionary Nationalism, Imperialism and Anti-Slavery in the Trans-National Irish-American Press, 1840-1865
… empire was secretly controlling the American Abolitionist movement, in an attempt to destroy the United States from within. In convincing their readers that the British controlled the American anti-slavery movement to destabilise the United states, the Irish-American press could maintain the …
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Asanti Daughter of Zion: The life and memory of Harriet Tubman
… famous conductor on the Underground Railroad, abolitionist, spy, nurse, and suffragist. Her successful, secret journeys into the slave states to rescue bondwomen, men, and children have immortalized her in the minds of Americans for over one hundred and thirty years. One of the most famous …
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Paradoxical power: Victim claims as a rhetorical genre
… – Charlotte Temple, slave narratives of the Abolitionist Movement, and the Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692.
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THE MYTH OF THE SLAVELESS SOCIETY: BLACK POLITICS AND THE AMBIGUITIES OF ANTISLAVERY IN MASSACHUSETTS, 1641-1783
… interracial, organized, successful abolition movement in American history. As petitioners, plaintiffs, soldiers, and citizens, Black men, like James Somerset and Felix Holbrook, and Black women, like Jenny Slew and Phillis Wheatley, capitalized on their native fluency in the language to …
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Capital punishment in South Asia (India, Pakistan and Bangladesh): a legal analysis
… Pakistan and Bangladesh have not embraced the abolitionist movement and still fail to accept capital punishment as a human rights issue. The application of capital punishment in the Indian subcontinent is not only a violation of international human rights law but is also contradictory to the …
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That We May Exert Our Influence More Powerfully: Race, Politics and Identity in Ohio's Southeast Borderland, 1802-1865
The Ohio constitutional convention in 1802 established Ohio's status as a free state, marking the Ohio River as the border between slavery and freedom. However, slaveholder influence continued to permeate the region as questions over fugitive slaves, Black migration, and the rights of free African …