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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"chattel slavery"”.
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America’s Enabler: How Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad Contributes to Racial Inertia
… difficulty and horror that was black life under chattel slavery. This essay argues that despite the work’s stated purpose, its ultimate, if unintended effect is to reify the current racial hierarchy. Drawing primarily from current events and an Afropessimist framework, I attempt to illustrate how …
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Dismantling Lost Cause fables : a content analysis examining narrative and visual representations of slavery in U.S. history textbooks.
Lost Cause revisionism obscures racialized chattel slavery's foundational position in antebellum society and its significance as the cause of the American Civil War. Misperceptions about enslavement and the social construction of race abound in modern classrooms due to vague coverage and …
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On the Path to Slavery: Indentured Servitude in Barbados and Virginia during the Seventeenth Century
… that would ultimately lead to the rise of chattel slavery in both colonies. It investigates servitude in law, politics, and practice providing examples of the treatment, trade, and resistance of servants throughout this period. Included are chapters examining the trade in servants and a …
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Fourteen
… takes on difficult topics such as chattel slavery, sexual violence, racism and discrimination. I use music, tangents and a prejudicial preference for the number fourteen as tools to aid my telling. The telling of <italic>Fourteen<italic> is, consciously, a slice of United States …
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Beyond gangsta: hip-hop, web culture and racial masking in the musical work of Tyler, The Creator
… tropes of black American masculinity. From chattel slavery to blackface minstrelsy, the African diasporic experience in the West is marked by a series of stigmas, contradictions and dichotomies evidenced in the challenge of being black in a white world. This duplicity denounced and analyzed …
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Slavery and the origins of Louisiana’s prison industry, 1803-1861
This thesis examines the role that chattel slavery played in shaping a system of for-profit incarcerations in Louisiana between 1803 and 1862. In doing so, it challenges the conventional historical narrative of American penal development, which identifies the origins of the prison industrial …
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George Mason: Slave Owning Virginia Planter as Slavery Opponent?
… slave-owning Virginian who vehemently opposed slavery. Utilizing Mason's state papers, letters, and other documents, as well as contemporaries' accounts of his speeches, this work will analyze those records' contextual construction, and it will deconstruct both Mason's written and spoken words …
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Cartographies of Black Diaspora and Foster Care Diaspora: Arguments Toward Abolition in the Aftermath of<em> Partus Sequitur Ventrem</em>
… become as common sensical as enslavement and chattel slavery all were as these systems are considered widely socially acceptable, common modes of domination and methods for controlling Black and “Other” populations. I coin a diaspora of community and cultural destabilization called the foster …
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The problem with belief: the history and present of discursive violence in policing rape
… systems including within settler-colonialism, chattel slavery, and various social movements. This historical and archival research establishes further evidence that rape is always racialized, gendered, and classed, regardless of the identities of those involved and that these identities …
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Do You See What We Carry?: A Digital Content Analysis of Black Mothering Affective Experiences
… motherhood and mothering experiences during chattel slavery, b) how those meanings have informed contemporary social constructions around Black mothering in opposition to normative mothering and motherhood–defined as white, cisgender, and middle class and c) the ways affect appears in Black …
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Deadweight loss and the American civil war : the political economy of slavery, secession, and emancipation
… the history of economic thought with respect to chattel slavery. The view of the classical economists, dating back as far as Adam Smith and including a good many abolitionists, was that slavery was inefficient and therefore unprofitable. The contrasting position of the new economic historians, …
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Role-Ing While BIPOC: Understanding the Experiences of Table Top Role Playing Game Players of Color
… as an accessible way to teach about American chattel slavery by mixing elements normally associated with roleplaying games (RPGs), Tabletop Roleplaying Games (TTRPGs), and social studies curriculum. The conversations surrounding the game exemplify the complicated history of RPGS/TTRPGs and the …
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Resisting internalized oppression: Black women's perceptions of incarceration
… important as similarities are uncovered between chattel slavery (and other pre-civil rights anti-black racist institutions like Jim Crow segregation) and contemporary incarceration practices in America (Alexander, 2010, Davis, 2010). The connections made between historic anti-black institutions …
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The Literary Reception of the Spirituality of Phillis Wheatley (1753-1784): an Afrosensitive Reading
… open American exceptionalism through the lens of chattel slavery. Critical race theory becomes the analytical lens to understand the intersection of religion, race, class, and gender on Wheatley sociopolitical imagination. Chapter 4 develops a conversation on social justice and neighbor love …
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How To Make Him Stop: Geographies of Ownership & Perpetration
… of racialized subjugation inaugurated through chattel slavery. Applying Black feminist frameworks to seminal perpetration theories, I elucidate how Lundy Bancroft's formulation of an "ownership mentality" and Evan Stark's "coercive control" model invoke yet disavow the afterlife of mastery, an …
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A Raucous Entertainment: Melodrama, Race, and the Search for Moral Legibility in Nineteenth-Century America
… resolutions of so-called "Indian" and slavery plays to address nineteenth-century melodrama's fundamental engagement with race. Melodrama is a spectacular form that uses iconic images to move audiences to feel powerful emotions and to assign moral legibility to societal problems. Given …
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Groundwork and Principles for Applied Conservatism
… is demonstrated by application to transatlantic chattel slavery from the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries and nationalisation of labour in the UK in 1940. Further applications are suggested, including in ontology, epistemology and ethics, to help resolve very current political and geostrategic …
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Slavery, race, and nation in Indian Territory, 1830-1866
… the same time, each also adopted the plantation slavery system, and instituted unprecedented racialized social hierarchies. These three significant shifts —national identity, chattel slavery, and the adoption of a legally defined racial hierarchy—combined to make the Five Tribes’ experience a …
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Violence and Social Unrest: Implications of the Reconstruction Amendments for African Americans in the Post Civil War South, 1863-1877
… and poll taxes ushered in a new era of American slavery by 1877. Between 1865 and 1877, African Americans who had fought for freedom from chattel slavery and had won emancipation were being targeted because of the laws guaranteed by the Constitution. The Reconstruction Amendments along with the …
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