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Showing 1 to 20 of 254 for “"Slaves"”.
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The admission of slaves and 'prize slaves' into the Cape Colony, 1797-1818
This study supports the thesis that slaves were admitted into the Cape colony by the Cape colonial government, even though the government was opposed to slave importation in principle and law (Slave Trade Act, 1807) from 1797-1818. The colonial demand for slaves was at its height after the …
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Children of the Sugar Slaves: Black and Resilient
This MA thesis is framed by the advocacy work of the Australian South Sea Islanders (Port Jackson). Through grassroots access to local knowledge and Australian South Sea Islander oral histories, the research is informed by an adapted First Nations Standpoint theory. I draw on memories that link …
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The Governor, the Merchant, the Soldier, the Nun, and their Slaves
… which included Indigenous and African descent slaves and other labourers who are generally not considered as a part of family formation, contributes to our understanding of the interconnected nature of the French colonial world. There are different ways to explore the commercial, social, and …
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Perfectly White: Light-Skinned Slaves and the Abolition Movement 1835 - 1865
… 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 primary sources …
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Domestic slaves in bulozi: the transition from slavery to freedom, 1780 - 1925.
This study examines the transition of domestic slaves in Bulozi to freedom from 1780 to 1925. It reveals that the landscape of the Lozi kingdom supported productive activities such as gardening, fishing, cattle keeping, trading, the construction of houses, canals and mounds, all of which needed …
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Domestic slaves in bulozi: the transition from slavery to freedom, 1780 - 1925.
This study examines the transition of domestic slaves in Bulozi to freedom from 1780 to 1925. It reveals that the landscape of the Lozi kingdom supported productive activities such as gardening, fishing, cattle keeping, trading, the construction of houses, canals and mounds, all of which needed …
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Saving Sex Slaves: The A21 Campaign and the Mobilization of Christian Affect
… to prime audiences to empathize with sex slaves, viewing themselves as relationally proximal to the trafficked “other.” Lastly, audiences are positioned as “saviors” who are encouraged to fulfill their role as Christ followers by taking action to support the A21 Campaign. Together, these …
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Roman Slavery: A Study of Roman Society and Its Dependence on slaves.
<p>Rome's dependence upon slaves has been well established in terms of economics and general society. This paper, however, seeks to demonstrate this dependence, during the end of the Republic and the beginning of the Empire, through detailed examples of slave use in various areas of Roman life. The …
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Bodies of Knowledge: The Influence of Slaves on the Antebellum Medical Community
The influence of slaves on the south is well documented in areas such as agriculture, music, diet, religion and language. This thesis extends the list to include medicine. It also suggests that the importance of cultural transfer to America from places other than Europe has been overlooked in the …
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The responsibility of clothing slaves in the United States as described in slave petitions, 1775 to 1867
… the expense and burden attributed to clothing slaves, slave dress neglect, hiring contracts that included slave dress, the use of slave dress as a reflection of the slaveholders character, compensation for slave dress provided by an individual other than the slaveholder, the quality of slave …
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African-Virginian Extended Kin: The Prevalence of West African Family Forms among Slaves in Virginia, 1740-1870
… as the primary socializing institution among slaves. Such a paradigm ignores the extended family, which was the primary form of family organization among peoples in western and central Africa. By exploring slave trade data, I argue that 85% of slave imports to Virginia in the 18th century were …
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Salvation black or white: Presbyterian rationale and Protestant support for the religious instruction of slaves in South Carolina
… Presbyterians for the religious instruction of slaves and the connection between such education and the salvation of masters as well as slaves. Previous scholarship has largely ignored the issue of salvation in the ante-bellum South for Christians black or white; To adequately explain the …
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Saving the "Slaves of Kings and Priests": The United States, Manifest Destiny, and the Rhetoric of Anti-Catholicism
This paper seeks to demonstrate how anti-Catholicism, like other domestic issues such as race, economics, and politics, influenced U.S. foreign policy toward Latin America during the first half of the nineteenth century. Catholicism, the Roman Catholic Church, and monarchism/despotism were all seen …
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'The Slaves of Chance': Aspects of the Exposition of Change in Some of Shakepeare's Works and their Sources
Rather than the assertion of a pre-defined thesis, this study is an empirical investigation of the bearing that the exposition of change in some of Shakespeare's sources may have upon his work. The first chapter, devoted to the poems Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece, points to the …
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Renegades, Slaves, and Pirates: the Representation of Mediterranean Corsair Wars and Barbary in early modern Western Literature and Culture
<p>The interdependent phenomena of piracy, privateering, and slave trading have been endemic to the Mediterranean since antiquity. However, from the mid-sixteenth to the beginning of the eighteenth-century, these phenomena – known at the time as corso – grew exponentially, both in volume and …
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Symbolic masters/semiotic slaves : subjectivity and subjection in Atwood, with reference to The circle game and Two-headed poems
This dissertation explores the construction of the subject via a relationship of power in two poem sequences, 'The circle game' and 'Two-headed poems', by Margaret Atwood. I argue that Atwood proposes a subject similar to the kind of subject found in psychoanalysis. Like the psychoanalytic subject, …
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The Effects of the Nat Turner Slave Revolt on the Health and Welfare of 19th-Century Slaves in Southeastern Virginia
… away from morenutritious food grown by the slaves themselves to poor quality rations provided by the masters. This change in subsistence practices dealt a serious blow to the nutritional health of those living in the area surrounding the revolt. </p> <p>By examining stature recorded in the …
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"White Slaves of California": Race, Religion, and the Railroad in Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton's <i>The Squatter and the Don</i>
<p>In <em>The Squatter and the Don</em> (1885), Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton depicts the decline of the Alamars, a patrician Californio family, in the years after California was annexed by the United States. This thesis explores the different rhetorical maneuvers Ruiz de Burton makes to place the …
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