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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Post-Emancipation"”.
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“They Know Too Much Already:” Black Education in Post-Emancipation Era Columbus, GA, 1866-1876
… of Columbus’s freedmen school efforts in the post-emancipation era, through those African Americans’ own historical voices and experiences. Though an analysis of archived unpublished letters, local and religious newspapers, census data, government documents, and meeting minutes, this study …
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"To Make Him Feel His Manhood" : Black Male Identity and the Politics of Gender In the Post-Emancipation South
… 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, fought in those years was how to organize and distribute power within society. The ability to …
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The politics of race and mental illness in the Post-Emancipation US South : Central Lunatic Asylum for the Colored Insane in historical perspective
… control to black mental health care in the Post Emancipation era.
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Bearing the mark, bearing the costs: memories of slavery in coastal Tanzania, 1922-2008
… look into the lived experiences of members of post-emancipation societies. An investigation into the ways communities make use of memories of slavery in the absence of living witnesses is important in that doing so provides a lens for understanding contemporary ideals, institutions and …
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The decline of sugar production and the rise of cocoa production in Grenada 1870-1917: the changing fortunes of a cocoa peasantry
Post-emancipation Grenada poses a unique situation in the agricultural milieu of the Caribbean. Grenada not only defied the norms of a mono-cultural existence, but experienced relative prosperity during a time of general depression. The colony's prosperity between 1870-1917 can be attributed to the …
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Missions and emancipation in the South Western Cape : a case study of Groenekloof (Mamre), 1838-1852
… very little research directed at the immediate post-emancipation period. This study seeks to examine the consequences of emancipation for the former slaves who settled at the Moravian mission at Groenekloof. This was situated in the wheat-producing Malmesbury district of the Cape Colony. The …
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Returning the gaze from the margins: decoding representations of gender, race and sexuality in tourist images of Jamaica
The thesis adopts a post-colonial approach to examine the relationship between historical and contemporary visual representations of Jamaica and identifies the repeated visual associations made with blackness and servitude, and whiteness with luxury from the colonial period in Jamaica and the …
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CONSUMERISM, SOCIAL PRACTICE, AND SLAVERY: CONSUMER PRACTICES AMONG ENSLAVED LABORERS AT POPLAR FOREST PLANTATION (1828-1861)
… have been useful to scholars of slavery and post-emancipation African American communities, but have not been applied to slavery in the antebellum period of Central Virginia. By employing consumer strategies to negotiate the experiences of slavery and craft identities that resisted the …
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Governing The Peripheries: The Social Reconstruction Of The South And West After The American Civil War
… at the nation’s peripheries. In both the postbellum South and West, U.S. officials sought to govern indigenous peoples and the formerly enslaved by reorganizing their labor, land, and social relations, thereby undermining struggles for social and political autonomy. Yet this project faced …
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Behind Workhouse Walls: The Public Regulation of Slavery in Charleston, 1730-1850
… African Americans within penal institutions in a post-emancipation moment and then traces the implications through convict leasing, chain gangs, and penitentiaries in the late-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The presence of enslaved people within jails and workhouses during the …
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Elections in the Mid-Nineteenth Century British Empire
… and the Cape, and the early elections of the post-emancipation period in Jamaica, it questions how residents within these sites engaged with elections via the cultures of the canvass, public meetings, open nominations and viva voce polling. Through this study, I show how mid-century elections …
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Jemimas, Jockeys, and Jolly Banks: The Racial Discourse of Black Collectibles
… as a construct that romanticizes Antebellum and post-Emancipation racial relations. With its ubiquity seeking to naturalize its fictiveness, the mammy image perpetuates notions of harmonious race relations that obscure a history of exploitation. From this perspective, the objects facilitate ways …