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A history of the Amistad captives
Thesis (M.A.)--University of Kansas, History, 1921. ; Includes bibliographical references.
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Opportunities of Empire: Three Barbary captives and American nation-building, 1770-1840
… State Navies. Later they were merchant sailors; captives in the Barbary States; advisors to a foreign Muslim ruler; and soon after securing their freedom they returned to North Africa as American consuls. They went on to become, variously: state politicians; frontiersmen; surveyors in the West; …
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Opportunities of Empire: Three Barbary captives and American nation-building, 1770-1840
… State Navies. Later they were merchant sailors; captives in the Barbary States; advisors to a foreign Muslim ruler; and soon after securing their freedom they returned to North Africa as American consuls. They went on to become, variously: state politicians; frontiersmen; surveyors in the West; …
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My Brother, My Slave: The Social and Cultural Role of Slavery among the Navajo
<p>This thesis concerns the lives of captives taken by the Navajo people during the 1846-1863-time period in New Mexico. The goals of this work are two-fold: First, to expand upon the available literature regarding the captivity experience of people taken in raids or conflict and to explain those …
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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
… a major role in the translation of African captives into 'slave bodies' for France. To demonstrate how these Creole authors have interpreted their past, I discuss selected theories on the translation of a literary text and compare them to the metaphorical and literal translation of a human …
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Danville's Civil War prisons, 1863-1865
… confinement and a transitory depot. The earliest captives found the prisons ill-prepared. Inadequate food, heat, and medical facilities contributed to miserable living conditions. During the spring and summer of 1864, the prisoners enjoyed some sense of normalcy inside the compound. By autumn, …
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The Kongolese Atlantic: Central African Slavery & Culture from Mayombe to Haiti
… sides of the Atlantic world. To do so, I follow captives from their point of origin in West Central Africa to the Loango Coast and finally to the French colony of Saint Domingue in order to examine these areas as part of a larger "Kongolese Atlantic" world. </p><p>My dissertation begins by …
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Strange Vicissitudes: The Memory and Uses of Indian Captivity in the Progressive Era
… captivity by Indians disappeared, historical captives provided a method by which Americans examined concerns brought by modernization and a means by which they reinforced and retained traits that they believed had been created on the frontier such as individualism, bravery, ingenuity, …
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Strange Vicissitudes: The Memory and Uses of Indian Captivity in the Progressive Era
… captivity by Indians disappeared, historical captives provided a method by which Americans examined concerns brought by modernization and a means by which they reinforced and retained traits that they believed had been created on the frontier such as individualism, bravery, ingenuity, …
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New England Slave Trader: The Case of Charles Tyng
… and was engaged in the illicit trade of African captives. A Boston Brahmin, Tyng applied the lessons of his time at sea with Perkins & Company, the opium trading firm, to his occupation as an agent of notorious slave trading firms in Havana. This paper uses as evidence records of the captures of …
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Native Lands in Enemy Territory: Indigenous and Asian American Veteran Erasure and Resistance in the Literature of War
… erasure of their identities in war (as captives, refugees, and military service members), forged new alliances to defend against continued infringements on their civil liberties from the civil rights era onward, and inspired the production of innovative forms of writing that offer …
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Daring Trade: An Archaeology of the Slave Trade in Late-Seventeenth Century Panama (1663-1674)
… and widely recognized premise that African captives played a transforming and profoundly disruptive role in Spanish colonial society, despite the dehumanized social status slaves were given in the early modern world. On the one hand, enslaved Africans were seen as necessary tradable objects …
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CAPTIVATING A NATION: WOMEN'S INDIAN CAPTIVITY AND AMERICAN NATIONAL IDENTITY, 1787-1830
… Yet, less than half of those concerning male captives were published in multiple editions, while every narrative concerning a female captive was republished. Unlike the captivity narratives of men, those concerning women were re-published and re-consumed because settler women taken captive to …
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A Briny Crossroads Salt, Slavery, and Sectionalism in The Kanawha Salines
… Mary Ingles, her newborn baby, and others as captives....to this spot on the Kanawha to attain a salt supply.”1 Mary Ingles’ time in slavery was brief; like some of the African-American slaves who would perform similar work a half century later, she fled captivity in the salt mines and …
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The Function of Dialogue in the Process of Evangelisation. A pastoral-theological appraisal of the relevance of Dialogue in a Nigerian context based on the experience of Igboland
… good news to the poor, proclaiming liberty to captives, restoring sight to the blind, setting the downtrodden free and the proclamation of the Lord’s year of favour” , remains the fundamental basis of the missionary and evangelising vocation of the Church. She has a message to proclaim and that …
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Into the Den of Evils: The Genizaros in Colonial New Mexico
… widespread and lucrative trade in Plains Indian captives and, as such, they represented various tribes, including Apaches, Navajos, Comanches, Kiowas, Pawnees, Utes and Wichitas. The term “genízaro” emerged as a caste label during the Spanish colonial period and usually refers to members of these …
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Into the Den of Evils: The Genizaros in Colonial New Mexico
… widespread and lucrative trade in Plains Indian captives and, as such, they represented various tribes, including Apaches, Navajos, Comanches, Kiowas, Pawnees, Utes and Wichitas. The term “genízaro” emerged as a caste label during the Spanish colonial period and usually refers to members of these …
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From Slave Ship to Supermax: The Prisoner Abuse Narrative in Contemporary African American Fiction
… emphasize the authorial control of abused captives and thus make apparent the rich complexities of their interior lives and the way in which the repressive spaces to which</p><p>they are confined are also generative sites for reimagining the self and community.</p>
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A history of Libby Prison, 1862-1865
… attitudes toward the presence of Federal captives in their city. A majority of the time, prisoners had access to the daily papers. Yet very few of them attempted to draw a correlation between the type of existence that they endured within Libby Prison versus the civilian population's …
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