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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"American slavery"”.
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The New American Slavery: Capitalism and the Ghettoization of American Prisons as a Profitable Corporate Business
<p>The labor of enslaved Africans and Black Americans played a large part in the history of colonial America, with the American plantation being the epicenter for all that was to be produced. While the two have never been completely tied together, capitalism and modern day slavery have been linked …
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Uniting a Broken Nation: A Study of the Unification Devices Employed by Antebellum Baptist Ministers in the American Slavery Debate
… by two antebellum Baptist ministers in the American slavery debate. By analyzing the published correspondence between Rev. Francis Wayland of New England and Rev. Richard Fuller of South Carolina it is noted that their focus on charity throughout their debate allows them to effectively …
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FROM RIVER ROAD PLANTATIONS TO THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD: BRINGING THE TRUE STORY OF AMERICAN SLAVERY TO THE PRESENT RACIAL DIVIDE
… America. This essay traces that divide back to American slavery, using a visit to five historical plantations and Colson Whitehead’s <em>The Underground Railroad</em> to illustrate the persistence of injustice beyond slavery to Jim Crow laws, color-blind rhetoric, and mass incarceration. At each …
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The rhetorical dimension of an apology for slavery.
… and practical applications of an apology for American slavery. It will focus upon former Representative Tony Hall's 1997 and 2000 request for a congressional apology for slavery. The rhetorical dimensions of the sociopolitical apology in regard to American slavery process will be the primary …
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DEFYING CONVENTION: ATYPICAL PERSPECTIVES OF SLAVERY IN ANTEBELLUM NEW ORLEANS
… the first half of the nineteenth century, slavery became a vital economic component upon which the success of the southern states in America rested. Cotton was king, and slavery was the peculiar institution that ensured its dominance in the domestic and international markets of America. …
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Behind the mask: another perspective on the slavewomen's oral narratives
In the last twenty years, studies in Afro-American slavery have given special attention to the slave community and culture. They have emphasized the slaves' control over their lives, while glossing over the brutality of the institution of slavery. Slave women have been ignored until very recently, …
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Remembering the Cultural Trauma Legacies of Slavery: African American Young Adult Perceptions on Racism, Ethnic Identity, and Racial Socialization
… is to explore cultural trauma theory on African American young adult development. Cultural trauma theory asserts the adverse cross-cultural encounter, North American slavery, reproduces intergenerational psychosocial legacies for contemporary African Americans. Accordingly, cultural trauma theory …
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American Exceptionalism And The Antebellum Slavery Debate
<p> American exceptionalism is the idea that America is or was somehow unique or different compared to other nations throughout history. Many Americans also believed that America had a special mission to be an example to the rest of the world. Many politicians and intellectuals have debated …
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A Peculiar Place for the Peculiar Institution: Slavery and Sovereignty in Early Territorial Utah
… slightly shifted their position on African-American slavery, but maintained the middle ground on the issue overall. When Mormons began gathering to Utah in 1847, Southern converts brought their black slaves with them to the Great Basin. In 1852 the first Utah Territorial legislature passed …
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Rethinking the Liberian Predicament in Anti-Black Terms: On Repatriation, Modernity, and the Ethno-Racial Choreographies of Civil War
… 1822, the Colony of Liberia was annexed by the American Colonization Society to expatriate and colonize ‘free’ negros and their descendants on the coast of West Africa. ‘Re-colonization’, as it was called by the ruling U.S. Southern class, was rendered a compromise between the absolute abolition …
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Victorians and the Underground
… the cotton gin incited the social injustices of American slavery; the progress of the Internet embodies this century's attachment to fast-food, fast-money, and fast-information. Likewise, in the Victorian Age, the invention of underground tunnels exposed some important social issues which …
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A more perfect union : Joseph Story's synthesis of natural rights philosophy and the common law.
… a reading of the U.S. Constitution grounded in American social compact theory. In response, Story articulated a national conception of popular sovereignty that contextualized the American notion of consent through a synthesis of natural rights philosophy and the common law. Against arguments …
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The theatrical strategies of James Robinson Planché
… during the Greek Revolution and the Crimean War. American slavery, the Railway Bubble of the 1840s, and the revolutions of 1848 are typical of other major concerns upon which the plays commented. Beyond politics, current events (including scientific and technological advances, trends in …
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Transatlantic Acts: Nation, Self-Narration, and Celebrity in Victorian and Modernist Women's Autobiography
… narrative strategies aimed at British and/or American audiences, both literary and popular. Specifically, Martineau's Retrospect of Western Travel (1838) conflates masculine and feminine voices, drawing from genres of memoir, travelogue, fiction, and folklore alike in audience-aware ways that …
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“WELL, I’VE WHISPERED ‘RACISM’ IN A POST-RACIAL WORLD”: SATIRE AND THE ABSURDITY OF “POST-RACIAL” AMERICA
… is to look at the works of contemporary African American satirists as they confront post-racial ideology. In looking at the works of Jordan Peele, Paul Beatty, Mat Johnson, and Boots Riley, thematic threads emerge to form a portrait of dire unrest amongst those non-white identities living in an …
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The Effects of the Nat Turner Slave Revolt on the Health and Welfare of 19th-Century Slaves in Southeastern Virginia
… as a major turning point in the history of American slavery and represents a fundamental shift in the master slave relationship. This event shattered the previous paternalistic view and caused a fundamental reorganization of slave life. Included in this reorganization was a shift in the …
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The Radical Frances Wright and Antebellum Evangelical Reviewers: Self-Silencing in the Works of Sarah Josepha Hale, Lydia Maria Child, and Eliza Cabot Follen
… the values of evangelical Protestantism with American middle-class respectability. Individuals who contested those values, like Scottish heiress Frances Wright, came under intense public scrutiny. Once the intimate of revolutionary heroes, liberal theorists, and elite society, a radicalized …
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Travelling hair pains of the past: The continued impact of colonialism on the construction of black women's hair
… from historical racial discrimination and Euro-American beauty standards. Furthermore, these studies showed that western biases informed by discrimination target Black women and their hair. The dissertation analyzes the historical relationship between African and American experiences of Black …
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Tragic mercies and other journeys to redemption: defining the Morrisonian tragedy
… portrayals of tragedy and tragic acts in African American literature. Using Toni Morrison’s Beloved as a foundational text, I argue that Morrison executes a literary aesthetic that disrupts traditional constructs of the tragedy that elevate Eurocentric ideologies at the expense of Black identity …
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Violence and Social Unrest: Implications of the Reconstruction Amendments for African Americans in the Post Civil War South, 1863-1877
… on their principles of equality for African Americans, these rights became part of the Constitution and propelled a nation and its citizens into a protracted and racialized civil war that lasted into the l 960's. The Reconstruction Amendments granted former enslaved persons rights and …
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