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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"Antebellum US"”.
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Slavery and Sickness in the Lower Mississippi Valley, 1803-1860
… culture of the slave plantation system of the antebellum US South between 1803 and 1860. Specifically I explore the Lower Mississippi Valley area of the region, sometimes referred to as the ‘Cotton Kingdom.’ At the project’s heart is the question of how the region’s disease ecology, and the …
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“An American Sun Shines Brighter”: Art, Science, and the American Reinvention of Photography
… photography invented? Received knowledge tells us that a few European men of distinction invented the medium sometime around 1839. This dissertation de-centers this origin story to include the United States, where artisans, chemists, and instrument-makers effectively reinvented photography, …
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Slavery and the origins of Louisiana’s prison industry, 1803-1861
… which identifies the origins of the prison industrial complex in the decades following the abolition of slavery in the United States. Scholars have already contended that the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment in 1865, which abolished slavery and involuntary servitude ‘except as a punishment …