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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"slave labor"”.
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The New American Slavery: Capitalism and the Ghettoization of American Prisons as a Profitable Corporate Business
<p>The labor of enslaved Africans and Black Americans played a large part in the history of colonial America, with the American plantation being the epicenter for all that was to be produced. While the two have never been completely tied together, capitalism and modern day slavery have been linked …
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Colonizing Schemes In An Integrated Atlantic Economy: Labor And Settlement In British East Florida, 1763-1773.
… obvious differentiation was in their choice of labor. Some men chose to base their settlements on slave labor. Others imported white laborers either as indentured servants or tenant farmers. Historians have looked at this differentiation in labor as an important element in the downfall of the …
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In the Shadows of Capitalism: Human Trafficking, Embodied Potlatch, and Enclaves of Entrapment in Brazilian and Mexican Cultural Production
… extreme precarity, debt bondage, and slave labor. As part of my academic research, I employ cultural production from Mexico and Brazil and use them as case studies to investigate the intersection of violence and capitalism. For example, I investigate the representation of human …
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The Castillo de San Fernando de Omoa : The History of a Fiasco
… is devoted to the use of Indian and black slave labor during the construction period.</p> <p>Materials found especially useful during the research include the Annual Register, in the Loma Linda University, La Sierra Campus library; the unpublished "Historia" of Rubio Sanchez at the Academia …
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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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Circuits Of Containment: Iron Collars, Incarceration And The Infrastructure Of Slavery
… and distribution. The use of iron collars by enslavers, in conjunction with chains, jails, the state penitentiary, and forced labor on municipal and state public works shows how technologies shaped enslaved peoples lives as they were captured, contained, and forced to be productive units of …
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The Plantation Pull: Modernities and Genre in the Anglo-Hispanic-Dutch Caribbean-Atlantic, 1831-1935
… populace consuming the products and profits of slave labor influenced not only the commercial markets across the globe, but affected everyday social norms, consumerism, psychology and ethics from New Orleans to Havana and London. Conversely, I argue that systems that I term "micro-modernities," …
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Incentives to Incarcerate: Corporation Involvement in Prison Labor and the Privatization of the Prison System
<p>The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the entire world. The United States accounts for approximately 5% of the world’s population, yet it accounts for 25% of the world’s prisoners. Not only does the United States mercilessly incarcerate its own citizens, it disproportionately …