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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Manumission"”.
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Politicising Manumission and Freedmen in the Late Roman Republic and the Augustan Principate
… Principate were concerned with the level of manumission or the number of freedmen in and of itself. Republican legislators were far more interested in wealthy freedmen with wealthy patrons and how they were connected to and mobilised by the political centre. On the other hand, Augustus’ …
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"Dropped ""from the clouds"": Cincinnati and manumission among the fancy and newly freed, 1831-1901"
This dissertation argues that numerous ex-slave mistresses and the children they produced with white men thoughtfully rebuilt their lives as newly freed people by capitalizing on earlier, sometimes ongoing, ties to white men, but also by relying on themselves and others sharing their circumstances. …
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Freedom’s edge: Enslaved people, manumission, and the law in the eighteenth-century South Atlantic world
… world engaged with the law to achieve their manumission, or legal freedom. Drawing on freedom letters, petitions, legal suits, and other kinds of evidence from the eighteenth century, my analysis focuses on enslaved peoples’ social experience within the law as well as the judicial knowledge …
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Manumission in Isle de France during the revolutionary and post revolutionary years from 1789 to 1810
… is an analysis of the whole 'institution' of manumission as it existed in Isle de France during the period between the French Revolution of 1789 and the post-revolutionary years up to British rule in 1810. In his study of 'The Free Population of Colour in Mauritius', Richard Allen emphasizes …
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Essays on development and finance
… Chapter 3 investigates the economics of manumission, a process whereby a slave purchases her own freedom. Using newly collected data from Louisiana, I first paint a qualitative and quantitative portrait of manumission.
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Roman Slavery: A Study of Roman Society and Its Dependence on slaves.
… and the use of female slaves. A look at manumission demonstrates Rome's growing awareness of this dependence. Through this discussion, it becomes apparent that Roman society existed during this time as it did due to slavery. Rome depended upon slavery to function and maintain its …
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Justice, Piety, and Slavery in Plato's Thought
… good slaves will, like Socrates, in death earn manumission and entry into what I describe in the Epilogue as the divine, paradigmatic polis.
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Fighting for liberty in an unequal society: African American military service in the American Revolution and the path towards citizenship
… converted into additional liberties, including manumission and a rise in social status. Despite opportunities to gain freedom and additional rights, only a select few received such chances. Blacks that did serve were still considered to be inferior and of a lower social status than their white …
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A linguistic analysis of discursive strategies in the Harambee Prosperity Plan (HPP) policy document
… acknowledged for its assistance in economic manumission during the colonial regime and after the country had gained its independence. These were accomplished through the employment of linguistic devices that are believed to persuade, entice, appeal and extort readers to take prompt response …
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George Mason: Slave Owning Virginia Planter as Slavery Opponent?
… Washington, and Jefferson on the matter of slave manumission. The argument is made that despite his consequential role in the development of some of America's revered founding documents, relative to his more prominent Virginia political peers, George Mason has garnered on rudimentary evaluation …
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Reading As A Disclosure Of The Thoughts Of The Heart: Proto-Halakhic Reuse And Appropriation Between Torah And The Prophets
… 20:8–11; Deut 5:12–15 and Jer 17:19– 27, (3) Manumission Instructions in Exod 21:2–11; Lev 25:10, 39–46; Deut 15:12–18; and Jer 34:8–22, and (4) Fasting in Lev 16; 23; 25 and Isa 58:1–14. Finally, I discuss Jer 7 and Ezek 18 as these cases display a different type of reuse than the preceding …
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Baptized by blackness: manumittive baptisms in antebellum Georgia & Black Catholicism's sacramental subversion of an antiblack world
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2023-09-01 without embargo terms