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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Freemen"”.
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Sokemen and freemen in late Anglo-Saxon East Anglia in comparative context
… is an investigation into sokemen and freemen, a group of higher status peasants, in tenth- and eleventh-century East Anglia (hereafter and throughout the dissertation referred to as less dependent tenants). The study considers four themes. The first concerns the socio-economic …
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"Daughters of freemen still": female textile operatives and the changing face of Lowell, 1820-1850
This thesis investigates the female labor force of the Lowell textile mills from 1820 to 1850. First, it describes the development of the Lowell system and the philosophy on which it was founded. Next, it examines the working conditions in the mills and the daily lives of the women who worked in …
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Migration in the Cotton South: The Geographic Mobility of Alabama Farmers, 1850-1860.
… once the abode of industrious and intelligent freemen, now occupied by slaves, or tenantless, deserted, and delapidated [sic]." The result was, as Clay somberly concluded, an agricultural region where "the freshness of agricultural glory is gone, the vigor of youth is extinct, and the spirit of …
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Pragmatic and dialectic conceptions of methodology for inquiries into freedom and their implications for education
… in America would deny that the development of freemen is an essential aim of education. Educators have shown an awareness of the pivotal position that freedom plays in America’s life.</p><p>While issues involving freedom are of crucial importance in the contemporary scene, disputants are not …
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"To Make Him Feel His Manhood" : Black Male Identity and the Politics of Gender In the Post-Emancipation South
… it investigates the spaces where black men, both freemen and freedmen, worked to define and deploy their ideas about manhood in the era of emancipation. During this period American society was thrown into flux and the central question at the heart of the battles, both literal and figurative, …
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The Hostmen of Newcastle upon Tyne in the Sixteenth Century
This thesis examines a group of freemen trading in coal at Newcastle upon Tyne in the sixteenth century known as the Hostmen’s Company. The Newcastle hostmen had established an unincorporated guild by 1508 and held the monopoly in the sale of coal from the town’s port during the rapid expansion of …