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Showing 1 to 20 of 223 for “"antebellum"”.
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American Exceptionalism And The Antebellum Slavery Debate
… The debate over American slavery during the antebellum era was in many ways a debate over American exceptionalism. Could America claim American exceptionality while they held on to slavery? George Fitzhugh, an ardent supporter of slavery during the antebellum period, argued that America was …
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A Stirling Education: Education in Antebellum Louisiana
… Louisianans’ value and support education. The antebellum period was chosen for study because it was arguably the last time period in which the South was not influenced or controlled by the dominant narrative of the Common School Movement, which Wayne Urban (1981) refers to as the “phenomenon of …
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The German Immigrant Experience in Late-Antebellum Kentucky
… on the German-American experience in late-antebellum Kentucky, it will, from time to time, make comparisons to immigrants elsewhere in America, especially the Irish. In addition, the thesis will explore the rich story of the strengths and weaknesses, the harmony and divisiveness, and the …
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Antebellum Manufacturing Returns, Risks, and Patterns of Specialization
At the middle of the nineteenth century returns to investment in manufacturing exceeded those to investment in agriculture. This difference was significantly greater in the South. The South also had the lowest value of manufactures per capita, the smallest manufacturing facilities, and the greatest …
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Trilobites and the Culture of Wonder in Antebellum America
… the culture of wonder represents the impulse by antebellum Americans to find something special in and about America and the American way of life.
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Ground Plans: Conceptualizing Ecology in the Antebellum United States
… This dissertation depicts how Thoreau's fellow antebellum antislavery writers discerned the power of concepts to shape "the universe." Wishing for a new universe, one free of slavery, they spent their lives crafting new concepts. "Ground Plans" argues that antebellum antislavery writers …
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Enslaved People's Environmental Thought in the Antebellum American South
In the first half of the nineteenth century, the American South was a region undergoing rapid social and environmental change. As cotton cultivation reshaped the physical landscape, Americans theorized about the relationship between people and their environments. From transcendentalism to …
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John C. Calhoun and Nationalism in the Antebellum South
This thesis examines John C. Calhoun's shift from a more nationalist to a more states' rights position. The study explores the evolution of his thought from the War of 1812 until the early 1830s. Using the debate surrounding the policy issues of the National Bank, internal improvements and …
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<b><em>Black Beauty</em></b> as Antebellum Slave Narrative
… social power within the genre of the American antebellum slave narrative.
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Blackstone's Commentaries: Foothold or Footnote in Louisiana's Antebellum Legal History
The judges of the Supreme Court of Louisiana issued a court order, in the year 1840, mandating a required reading course of legal materials for prospective bar applicants. Included in the list of materials was Sir William Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England. Louisiana's legal system …
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Capitalist Entrepreneurs and Industrial Slavery in the Rural Antebellum South
… milieu, reveal an early example of rural antebellum industrialization enabled and made successful through the use of enslaved labor. Archaeological investigations within the domestic loci at the Reverend John Landrum site (38AK497) combined with the analysis of historical documents help to …
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DEFYING CONVENTION: ATYPICAL PERSPECTIVES OF SLAVERY IN ANTEBELLUM NEW ORLEANS
<p>During the first half of the nineteenth century, slavery became a vital economic component upon which the success of the southern states in America rested. Cotton was king, and slavery was the peculiar institution that ensured its dominance in the domestic and international markets of America. …
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Domesticity, Manhood, and the Natural Environment in Antebellum American Literature
… or domestic culture are relatively common in antebellum literary scholarship, but this dissertation explores the less commonly discussed connections among these three areas of study. Likewise, ecofeminist scholars have done groundbreaking work describing the relationship between gender and the …
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The Queer Work of Fantasy: The Romance in Antebellum America
<p>This project examines the ways in which antebellum writers of romances theorized the relationship between fantasy and queer desire. These writers produced vision of alternative forms of sociality that serve to criticize the heteronormativity of antebellum sexual culture and to promote fantasy as …
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A Canada in the South: Marronage in Antebellum American Literature
… were tied to conceptions of liberalism in the antebellum United States.</p> <p>Whereas previous scholars, especially those whose work focuses on Latin America and the Caribbean, have tended to regard forms of marronage in relation to their potential for large-scale emancipatory schemes like …
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Performing Union: Walt Whitman, Participatory Democracy, and Antebellum Performance Culture
"This dissertation examines the antebellum editions of Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass (those published in 1855, 1856, and 1860) within the context of his indebtedness to antebellum performance culture, particularly as represented in the streets, in the theatres, and in the public halls that housed …
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States of Suffering: Marital Cruelty in Antebellum Virginia, Texas, and Wisconsin
… or defensive, this dissertation contends that antebellum wives were indeed capable, and often willing, to commit a wide variety of cruelties within marriage. This work presents the first multi-state comparative study of marital discord focusing on the United States. Exploring nineteenth-century …
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