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Showing 1 to 20 of 33 for “"Antebellum period."”.
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A Stirling Education: Education in Antebellum Louisiana
… Louisianans’ value and support education. The antebellum period was chosen for study because it was arguably the last time period in which the South was not influenced or controlled by the dominant narrative of the Common School Movement, which Wayne Urban (1981) refers to as the “phenomenon of …
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CONSUMERISM, SOCIAL PRACTICE, AND SLAVERY: CONSUMER PRACTICES AMONG ENSLAVED LABORERS AT POPLAR FOREST PLANTATION (1828-1861)
… and consumerism of enslaved laborers at antebellum Poplar Forest plantation in Central Virginia. Key developments in the antebellum period, including expanded transportation options, industrialization, and increased slave leasing shaped the enslaved laborer’s lives. These factors resulted …
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Staging Intersectionality: Power and Performance in American Cultural Texts, 1855-2019
… representations to live performances, from the antebellum period to the contemporary moment,that highlight African-American women singer-celebrities navigating entertainment industries in the United States. Focusing on significant figures from the nineteenth century to the present including …
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Frontier Capitalism and Unfree Labor in Middle Appalachia: The Development of Western Pennsylvania and Maryland, 1760-1840
… slavery and unfree labor existed well into the antebellum period in the North despite the lack of legal support for the institution. Few historians have identified the importance of slavery in the development of western areas, however, particularly in the Appalachian regions of western …
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Archaeological Perspectives On Partisan Communities: Francis Marion At Snow'S Island In History, Landscape, And Memory
… community was remembered or re-imagined in Antebellum Period literature and history.</p>
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On the Tails of the Trade: Enslaved Women, Slave Traders, and the Households they Shared
Throughout the antebellum period, enslaved women engaged in intimate relationships with white men, some of whom were actually slave traders, upholding the institution that kept them in bondage. While each individual’s experience varied, the origins and subsequent circumstances of these women …
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An Analysis of the Message of the Negro Spriituals Withing the Conext of Jurgen Moltmann's Theology of Hope
… (songs composed by enslaved Africans during the antebellum period of American history) within the context of Jurgen Moltmann’s concept of the theology of hope. Moltmann, Professor Emeritus of Systematic Theology at the University of Tubingen in Germany, places hope within the framework of …
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American Exceptionalism And The Antebellum Slavery Debate
… The debate over American slavery during the antebellum era was in many ways a debate over American exceptionalism. Could America claim American exceptionality while they held on to slavery? George Fitzhugh, an ardent supporter of slavery during the antebellum period, argued that America was …
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The transformation of the American legal mind: Habeas corpus, federalism, and constitutionalism, 1787-1870
… impact on courts, state and federal, in the antebellum period. The supremacy of state courts was established by issuing writs of habeas corpus for prisoners confined under the authority of the federal government. But whenever the Union faced an emergency, states' rights doctrine and the …
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The Health and Medical Care of Enslaved African Americans at Somerset Place, 1839-1863
… plantations in North Carolina at the end of the Antebellum period. The owner of Somerset Place, Josiah Collins III, owned the third largest slave plantation in the state. Slaves at Somerset Place focused primarily on growing rice; however, they also grew corn, wheat, peas, and ran a saw mill. …
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Examining the Battle House: the greek revival, religion, race relations, and slavery justifications
… rule over slavery and race relations during the Antebellum period in Alabama. I demonstrate how Battle’s comprehensive plan acts as a visual symbol for concepts of race and morality as well as a hierarchical tool meant to dictate a more rigid sense of morality for the community, separate whites …
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Domesticity, Manhood, and the Natural Environment in Antebellum American Literature
… or domestic culture are relatively common in antebellum literary scholarship, but this dissertation explores the less commonly discussed connections among these three areas of study. Likewise, ecofeminist scholars have done groundbreaking work describing the relationship between gender and the …
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Regular Wild Irish: Race, Ethnicity, and Identity in Irish American Fiction
… and Irish American authors writing from the antebellum period through the early twentieth century and particularly focuses on those figures who were publishing in the 1890s. Regular Wild Irish considers the links between the representational strategies used by Irish American writers and …
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For conscience's sake: the 1839 emigration of the Saxon Lutherans
… and immigration history. Arriving during the antebellum period, the immigrants faced the unique challenges of the young American republic, which would include the trauma of the nativist movement, frontier-type conditions on the land they purchased in Perry County, the institution of slavery, …
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Fighting engineers : the U.S. Navy and mechanical engineering, 1840-1905
… Civil War, the U.S. Naval Academy in the postwar period designed an unprecedented technical curriculum. Through this program, the Navy trained the nation's first group of modern mechanical engineers. As Navy engineers built their profession after the war, they attempted to redefine what it meant …
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THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR AND THE BRITISH IMPERIAL DILEMMA
… of view Confederation had its genesis in the antebellum period and was a long-term aim - not only to secure the British North America - but even fact to counter United States hegemony in on the continent. Therefore rather than being conceived as a ‘retreat’, it was an overarching plan to …
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Constructing Comanche: Imperialism, Print Culture, and the Creation of the Most Dangerous Indian in Antebellum America
Anglo-American print sources during the antebellum era framed the Comanche as “the most powerful” or “the most dreaded” Indian whom settlers encountered on the frontier. This research examines the pivotal role that American print culture played in constructing dubious stereotypes of Comanche …
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Cakewalking into representation : Gabriele Münter's America travels (1898-1900) and art of dailiness
… African Americans to parody their masters in the antebellum period and was taken up by whites at the time of Münter' s visit; she herself designed a postcard of a young relative performing the dance. Though the daily enabled Münter to come into representation, by its slightness and imbrication in …
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"An ill-judged piece of business": The failure of slave trade suppression in a slaveholding republic
… of federal power during the early republic and antebellum period. This work assesses the disconnect between the harsh laws against the slave trade and the United States' ineffectiveness at suppressing the trade, especially since, at its founding, U.S. involvement in the African slave trade …
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Piety and politics: Baptist social reform in America, 1770-1860
… two explanations to the social movements of this period. Attention is given to the tension between personal piety and social activism inherent in Baptist life. Chapter two explores the most controversial social issue of the nineteenth century: slavery. By weighing in on the colonization scheme, …
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