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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Transatlantic slave trade"”.
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"""20. and odd Negroes"": Virginia and the international system of slavery, 1619-1660"
… between Virginia’s early development and the transatlantic slave trade. This study locates Virginia as a colonizer and an enslaver in the context of the developing international system of slavery and the major upheavals that transformed both West Central Africa and the New World in the early …
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The captives are translated, attached at the wrists' : a study of Antillean identities in the works of Édouard Glissant, Maryse Condé and Patrick Chamoiseau
… Chamoiseau. Due to the horrific nature of the transatlantic slave trade as well as the arrogance of former colonising nations, the true 'voice' of the slaves and their descendants ? the foundation of Creole societies ? has been largely silenced in the official archives of France, and threatens …
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Living Beyond Frontiers Social Network Analysis of Genoese Merchants in the Castilian Atlantic 1450-1530
… sugar cane production and the beginning of the transatlantic slave trade as case studies to showcase the importance of the Ligurian merchant in the late medieval and early moden African and the Atlantic history. This research employs Social Network Analysis as an essential tool and methodology …
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Trade and the merchant community of the Loango Coast in the eighteenth century
… of the Loango Coast during the era of the transatlantic slave trade from the point of contact with Europeans in the sixteenth century until the end of the eighteenth century, with particular focus on the eighteenth century. While a number of previous studies of the West Central African …
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Uniting African Philosophy with Traditional African Dance Rituals to Help Heal Mental Health Symptoms from the Impact of the African Diaspora
… for centuries, initially beginning with the transatlantic slave trade. Africans were scattered abroad to different countries and subjected to the severe psychological impact of enslavement. Despite the considerable financial systemic pressure of profit in the slave trade, it caused …
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Developing a Vocabulary of Feeling: The Spirituality of Black Feminist Self-Repair
… that has been internalized in the wake of the transatlantic slave trade and Jim Crow segregation. This practice of self-repair through magic draws on ritual activities and observances that exist within both Afrodiasporic spiritual traditions as well as a body of Black feminist literary …
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Who are you calling obruni? A case study of African American Immigration to Ghana
… migration of the descendants of victims of the Transatlantic Slave Trade to Ghana. Attention was given to the experiences of African Americans being referred to by Ghanaians as obruni, which effectively means “white man and/or foreigner” and what impact, if any, it had on my Research …
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“THE GREAT QUESTION”: SLAVERY, SECTIONALISM, AND THE U.S. NAVAL OFFICER CORPS, 1820-1861
… States naval officers’ beliefs about race and slavery shaped sectionalism between the North and South in the antebellum era. As agents of the federal government operating far from the capital, naval officers had significant influence on the implementation of American foreign policy. With …
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Rethinking the Liberian Predicament in Anti-Black Terms: On Repatriation, Modernity, and the Ethno-Racial Choreographies of Civil War
… compromise between the absolute abolition of the transatlantic slave trade and perpetual black servitude. Yet, repatriation was superficially crafted by abolitionists and their pro-slavery contemporaries, alike, as a fugitive project, an opportunity for ‘free’ blacks to experiment with …
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The Royal Navy and the suppression of the Atlantic slave trade c.1807-1867 : anti-slavery, empire and identity
… the Royal Navy’s efforts to suppress the transatlantic slave trade between 1807 and the mid-1860s. The role of the West Africa squadron in detaining slave ships embarking from the West African coast was instrumental in the transformation of Britain’s profile from a prolific slave trading …
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Investigating the role of demography and selection in genome scale patterns of common and rare variant diversity in humans
… American Calchaquíes putatively related to the transatlantic slave trade.
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Diasporic Reasoning: The Idea of Africa and the Production of Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century America
… intellectuals grappled with the institution of slavery, the significance of slave revolt, and the extent of black intellectual capacities, they dealt not only with a set of domestic social and political concerns, but also with a wider epistemological crisis surrounding the very idea of Africa …