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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"slave system"”.
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"Come Recently from Guinea": Control and Power in the African-Descended Illinois Country, 1719-1848.
During the eighteenth century, African slavery played a fundamental role in the lives of settlers in the Illinois Country. The master class viewed slavery in terms of control meaning the complete domination of the slave system. Lawmakers, first the French bureaucracy and later (to a lesser extent) …
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Implementation of a force-reflecting telerobotic system with magnetically levitated master and wrist
… of a new force-reflecting teleoperation system have been addressed in this thesis. A six-degree-of-freedom magnetically levitated fine-motion device is used as the teleoperation master. The slave system is a redundant coarse-fine manipulator system which consists of a conventional robot …
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The Apologist Tradition: A Transitional Period in Southern Proslavery Thought, 1831-1845
Early antebellum defenders of slavery acknowledged that slavery created problems for southern society. They contended, however, that slave society was better and more natural than other forms of social organization. Thomas R. Dew, William Harper, and James Henry Hammond each expressed a social …
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Perfectly White: Light-Skinned Slaves and the Abolition Movement 1835 - 1865
… at American abolitionists use of light-skinned slaves to prove to Northerners slavery was an abomination. This project is also a study of the social constructions of race and the meanings of skin color in Northern and Southern American societies. This research draws mostly upon primary sources …
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Dead Virginians: The Corpse and its uses in Early Virginia
… and later the casual violence inherent in the slave system. Virginia’s elite disregarded images of decay and death and embraced symbols of stability both the legitimize Virginia as a place for Europeans to settle, and to disguise the barbarity of their economic system.
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The Elemental Ideas of Harriet Beecher Stowe Revolutionized: Popular Thought in a Critical Period of American History
… Cabin. The novel was a reply to the evils of the slave system. For too long a time, an attitude of heartless submissiveness to slavery was noted in the united States. Sincere citizens of the North and the South alike saw its injustice. But either through the want of leadership, or through the …
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VIOLENCE AND RHETORIC: NARRATIVE PRODUCTION IN THE WAKE OF HARPER’S FERRY
… fallen short of expectations—the beginning of a slave insurrection eventually leading to collapse of the institution entirely—but had dismally failed. The raid had cost seventeen lives, among them two of Brown’s sons. Not a single slave had been freed. The raid, however, had touched off something …
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VIOLENCE AND RHETORIC: NARRATIVE PRODUCTION IN THE WAKE OF HARPER’S FERRY
… fallen short of expectations—the beginning of a slave insurrection eventually leading to collapse of the institution entirely—but had dismally failed. The raid had cost seventeen lives, among them two of Brown’s sons. Not a single slave had been freed. The raid, however, had touched off something …
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Sensory Feedback Implementation for a Teleoperated, Master-Slave Robotic Manipulator
A teleoperated, master-slave, sensory feedback control system was developed to increase the telepresence a user experiences throughout manipulating a five degree of freedom robotic actuator in the Mars University Rover Challenge (Mars URC), as well as to replace another five degree of freedom …
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In defense of "Huckleberry Finn": Antiracism motifs in "Huckleberry Finn" and a review of racial criticism in Twain's work (Mark Twain)
… are trapped within the confines of the existing slave system and the other entrapments of culture, most notably--language. Huckleberry Finn is a dialectic in that Twain uses the language against itself. Ironically, it is that very language that so upsets Black readers that the very essence of the …