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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Slavery & Abolition"”.
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The Politics of Material Culture in the Early American Republic, c. 1800-15
… the election of 1800, the Embargo of 1807, the abolition of the slave trade, and the War of 1812. Using an amalgamation of aesthetic symbols (such as the American Eagle and the Star-Spangled Banner) to represent the United States together with a mixture of historical, mythical, and allegorical …
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Perfectly White: Light-Skinned Slaves and the Abolition Movement 1835 - 1865
This project looks at American abolitionists use of light-skinned slaves to prove to Northerners slavery was an abomination. This project is also a study of the social constructions of race and the meanings of skin color in Northern and Southern American societies. This research draws mostly upon …
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The Afro-British Slave Narrative: The Rhetoric of Freedom in the Kairos of Abolition
… argues that the development of the British abolition movement was based on the abolitionists' perception that their actions were kairotic; they attempted to shape their own kairos by taking temporal events and reinterpreting them to construct a kairotic process that led to a perceived …
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Liberated Africans and Law in the South Atlantic, c. 1839-1871
… people during the most intensive phase of abolition (c. 1839-1856) against the Brazilian slave trade, the largest in the Atlantic world. It focuses on case studies from Sierra Leone, South Africa, and Brazil, which were connected by the legal regime against the slave routes from South East …