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A White Slave in America: Hiram Powers's <em>Greek Slave</em> and the Cultural Construction of Race
… cultural influence of Hiram Powers's <em>Greek Slave</em> (first version, c. 1843), a marble sculpture that depicts a white female figure with shackled wrists. During the mid-nineteenth century, the statue appeared in exhibitions throughout Europe and America. In antebellum America, where the …
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Evolutionary Genomics of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade is a remarkable large-scale migration in the human history. On several occasions between the 16th and 19th century, millions of African men, women, and children were purchased from African traders and some abducted for slavery by the Europeans, for forced labour in …
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Slave particle study of the strongly correlated electrons
… technique to handle with these issues is the slave particle method. In the first part of this thesis, using a more general slave particle method we study the strongly correlated Hubbard model, whose ground state may represent a Fermi liquid state at two spatial dimensions. We study the phase …
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Commercial diplomacy, cultural encounter and slave resistance : episodes from three VOC slave trading voyages from the Cape to Madagascar, 1760-1780
… and yet under-represented aspect of Indian Ocean slave history. A number of historians have devoted their attention to the history of slave trading on the island of Madagascar; however, most of these focus on either the 17th or the 19th centuries, leaving the 18th century relatively neglected. In …
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George Mason: Slave Owning Virginia Planter as Slavery Opponent?
… that Founding Father George Mason was a wealthy, slave-owning Virginian who vehemently opposed slavery. Utilizing Mason's state papers, letters, and other documents, as well as contemporaries' accounts of his speeches, this work will analyze those records' contextual construction, and it will …
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Down, Up, and Over: Slave Religion and Black Theology
… from 1619 to 1865, how did African American slaves develop a Christian religion? My claim is that enslaved blacks began to fashion a new religion by reinterpreting the Christianity given to them by their Christian slave masters. With their reinterpreted religion they combined their own novel …
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New England Slave Trader: The Case of Charles Tyng
… firm, to his occupation as an agent of notorious slave trading firms in Havana. This paper uses as evidence records of the captures of several vessels that implicate Tyng directly in equipping ships for the slave trade to correct the historical record and exposing a supposed hero as a predatory …
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Drawing blood : writing architecture at the Old Slave Lodge
The intent of this design dissertation was to set off on a journey of exploration and experimentation that would open itself up to unexpected or surprising results. With no expected result, this inductive process of research would hopefully result in a design investigation that was rich and …
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Sensory Feedback Implementation for a Teleoperated, Master-Slave Robotic Manipulator
A teleoperated, master-slave, sensory feedback control system was developed to increase the telepresence a user experiences throughout manipulating a five degree of freedom robotic actuator in the Mars University Rover Challenge (Mars URC), as well as to replace another five degree of freedom …
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<b><em>Black Beauty</em></b> as Antebellum Slave Narrative
… Although comparisons between animals and slaves have long been made-slaves themselves recognized and used such comparisons-the relationship between animal autobiography and the slave narrative has only recently been recognized. In 1994 Moira Ferguson sketched several commonalities between …
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Inside Out - The Iziko Slave Lodge as Witness to Slavery
The thesis investigates how the Iziko Slave Lodge has witnessed slavery from when it was erected as the VOC SL in 1679 to its current configuration as the Iziko Slave Lodge Museum. It traverses the story of the Lodge both historically and critically through its various iterations over time, in …
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Reform in the land of Serf and Slave, 1825-1861
… of pre-Civil War southern opposition to slavery has been largely marginalized and mischaracterized by previous historiography. By contextualizing southern antislavery activism as but a single wing within a broader reformist movement, historians can move beyond simplistic interpretations …
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