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Showing 1 to 20 of 56 for “"Bondage"”.
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Bonding Over Bondage: Slavery, Racial Complexities and Commonalities in New Orleans, 1803-1819
<p>Different events in the nineteenth century have transformed America’s sociopolitical,</p> <p>physical and cultural landscape and contributed to the formation of an American identity based on political liberty, a concept that revolved around the notion of freedom. The concept of slavery, which …
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Black Folk /White Bondage: Race, *Class and the Literature of Sharecropping, 1925--1942
… images of both Southern rural suffering (""white bondage"") and literary grotesquery. I see Depression-era Southern writing as a literature of conflict rather than consensus, countering the Agrarian/New Critics' canonical prescriptions while unearthing the cultural debates on which they cut their …
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The Trinitarian Doctrine of Grace in Martin Luther's The Bondage of the Will
… ever created was his De servo arbitrio / The Bondage of the Will (1525), his powerful polemic against the leading Humanist of his day, Erasmus, who had criticized Luther in his De libero arbitrio diatribe sive collatio / The Freedom of the Will (1524). Luther’s The Bondage of the Will is …
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"Bondage or Barbarism," Parson Brownlow and the Rhetoric of Racism in East Tennessee, 1845-1867.
<p>This study analyzes the rhetoric of William "Parson" Brownlow during the Civil War era. Within the pages of the <em>Whig</em>, Brownlow's famous newspaper, he created a fixed image of African Americans. Brownlow argued that when removed from slavery, people of African descent naturally became …
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Revising Rhetorical Theory in "My Bondage and My Freedom": Narrativizing and Theorizing a Rhetoric of Blackness
… essay examines Frederick Douglass’s <em>My Bondage and My Freedom </em>in a liminal space between disciplinary lines of inquiry. In imagining his work within this space, I utilize Kenneth Burke’s notion of identification and cooperation as a means of understanding how Douglass enacts …
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The History of Human Bondage and An Instructional Strategy Resource Guide for Teaching History through the Humanities
This thesis focuses on the history of human bondage through historiography and original research and provides an instructional strategy resource guide for teaching history through the humanities. This resource will provide teachers with the tools to create and implement student-centered learning …
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Indiana's High-Stakes Reading Assessment: Impact on Professionalism and Instructional Practices of Elementary Teachers
… these shared experiences emerged as teachers in bondage.</p> <p>Conclusions.</p> <p>The implementation of the IREAD-3 has impacted both instructional practice and professional autonomy among the elementary teachers. Educators have been constrained by the bondage of ignorance, the bondage of …
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"We Need the Storm, the Whirlwind, the Earthquake": The Intersection of Language and Violence in Nat Turner's "Confessions" and Frederick Douglass's <i>My Bondage and My Freedom</i>
… language and violence. Frederick Douglass's My Bondage and My Freedom is a self-conscious revision within resistance literature that argues for national change by advocating physical violence with written language. Reading this text as an intertext with Nat Turner's "Confessions" reveals the …
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Critical Exploration of the Neo-Slave Narrative in Selected Walker and Morrison Novels
… the many ways African American women lived in bondage during slavery. Their characters speak volumes to the mis-treatment of African Americans.</p> <p>Neo-Slave Narratives are contemporary works of fiction. Walker and Morrison have chosen to illustrate the horrors of slavery as it relates to …
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In the Shadows of Capitalism: Human Trafficking, Embodied Potlatch, and Enclaves of Entrapment in Brazilian and Mexican Cultural Production
… as human trafficking, extreme precarity, debt bondage, and slave labor. As part of my academic research, I employ cultural production from Mexico and Brazil and use them as case studies to investigate the intersection of violence and capitalism. For example, I investigate the representation of …
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Marching masters: slavery, race, and the Confederate Army, 1861-1865
… Confederate soldiers’ idealized view of human bondage. Federal armies wrecked havoc on masters’ farms and plantations, seized hundreds of thousands of slaves, and eventually armed African Americans. Rebel troops were not blind to the war’s negative effects on the peculiar institution. They …
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After Uncle Tom: The domestic dialogue on slavery and race, 1852--1859
… Northern Bride (1854), Frederick Douglass' My Bondage and My Freedom (1855), Stowe's Dred (1856), and Harriet Wilson's Our Nig (1859) as answers to Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) and the popular phenomena it inspired and illustrates a complex set of intersections between sentimentalism and …
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NEITHER NORTHERN NOR SOUTHERN: THE POLITICS OF SLAVERY AND FREEDOM IN PHILADELPHIA, 1820-1847
… regardless of their condition of bondage or freedom. Furthermore, these cases often precipitated into desperate rescues and bloody riots on the streets of Philadelphia; these civil wars in miniature reflected the negotiated and compromised realities of living while black in the …
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Kite
… for radical love that can unchain her from the bondage of the past. She improvises to hear the sound of her own voice clearer, to get out of the binary logic of phallocentrism, to wage a solitary struggle against the silencing of her desires, to explore her sexuality and to decolonize her …
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THE MYTH OF THE SLAVELESS SOCIETY: BLACK POLITICS AND THE AMBIGUITIES OF ANTISLAVERY IN MASSACHUSETTS, 1641-1783
… themselves, that denied the reality of chattel bondage in the Bay Colony while simultaneously permitting the expansion of Indigenous and Black enslavement across the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. This narrative was, even at its creation, fatuous, illogical, and palpably erroneous. …
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Echoes of the Future-Past: Slavery and Sonic Testimony in African American and Diasporic Literature 1845-Present
… ineffable about the historical experience of bondage, and as the theoretical ground of black liberation ideologies. The project’s critical attention to sound reveals diasporic testimony as a heretofore-undiscovered aspect of African diasporic textual practice that forces an expansion of …
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An Assessment of the Significance of the International Labour Organisation's Convention 182 in South Africa with specific reference to the Instrumental use of Children in the Commission of Offenses as a Worst Form of Child Labour
… issues to commercial sex exploitation, debt bondage and slavery. This thesis sought to evaluate the theoretical and practical soundness of Convention 182 generally in relation to South Africa more specifically.
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On the Tails of the Trade: Enslaved Women, Slave Traders, and the Households they Shared
… upholding the institution that kept them in bondage. While each individual’s experience varied, the origins and subsequent circumstances of these women emerged from white notions of enslaved and black women’s sexuality and the widespread sexual exploitation of enslaved women, particularly …
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A Study of Constellational Novel Form
… ethical relation to alterity as captivity and bondage can be rethought as a constellational form of ‘bondage’ in the sense of ‘enchaînement’—links, chains, and associations of ideas. My second chapter offers a revised account of readerly judgement and ethical confoundment through a close …
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Social contract theory, African American slave narratives, and the reconstruction of early modern conceptions of political freedom
… the concepts and ideas concerning freedom and bondage found within African American Slave narratives be read as political philosophic claims? How would one position the perspectives on liberty and liberalism found in slave narratives within the nexus of the history of political philosophy? It …
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