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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"ex-slaves"”.
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"Dropped ""from the clouds"": Cincinnati and manumission among the fancy and newly freed, 1831-1901"
This dissertation argues that numerous ex-slave mistresses and the children they produced with white men thoughtfully rebuilt their lives as newly freed people by capitalizing on earlier, sometimes ongoing, ties to white men, but also by relying on themselves and others sharing their circumstances. …
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Missions and emancipation in the South Western Cape : a case study of Groenekloof (Mamre), 1838-1852
… post-emancipation period. This study seeks to examine the consequences of emancipation for the former slaves who settled at the Moravian mission at Groenekloof. This was situated in the wheat-producing Malmesbury district of the Cape Colony. The dissertation takes the form of a case study of …
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“'They was Things Past the Tellin’: A Reconsideration of Sexuality and Memory in the Ex-Slave Narratives of the Federal Writers’ Project"
… women, allowing them to speak publicly of their experiences under slavery. Defying racism and the repressions of Jim Crow, ex-slaves discussed intimate details of their lives. Many researchers considered these interviews unreliable, but if viewed through the lens of gender and analyzed using …
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Citizen or Laborer? The Social Purposes of Black Schooling in Reconstruction Mississippi, 1862--1875
… varied based each of the aforementioned groups' expectations of Mississippi blacks in slavery's aftermath. For example, overwhelmingly Mississippi blacks sought an education to enhance their overall opportunities as state citizens in slavery's aftermath, most northerners promoted black schooling …
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Governing The Peripheries: The Social Reconstruction Of The South And West After The American Civil War
This dissertation examines how the federal government asserted U.S. authority across the national territory after the Civil War. Central to this state project were campaigns for social reorganization at the nation’s peripheries. In both the postbellum South and West, U.S. officials sought to govern …
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Down, Up, and Over: Slave Religion and Black Theology
… answers the following question: In the context of American Protestantism and American culture from 1619 to 1865, how did African American slaves develop a Christian religion? My claim is that enslaved blacks began to fashion a new religion by reinterpreting the Christianity given to them by …
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Livelihood and status struggles in the mission stations of the Universities’ Mission to Central Africa (UMCA), north-eastern Tanzania and Zanzibar, 1864-1926
… backgrounds, sought to overcome a heritage of exploitative social relations and to redraw the field for the negotiation of dependency to their advantage. However, as this thesis shows, the mission also contributed to new sets of exploitative social relations in a hierarchy of work and education.