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Slavery beyond slavery: the American South, British imperialism, and the circuits of capital, 1833-1873
“Slavery Beyond Slavery: The American South, British Imperialism, and the Circuits of Capital, 1833-1873” expands upon W.E.B. Du Bois’s insight that U.S. slavery intensified and transformed the exploitation of labor on a global scale. In places of intense colonial conflict and breakdown—India’s …
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Repairing the legacies of transatlantic slavery
… chain between the history of transatlantic slavery, via colonialism and segregation, to present-day national and international racial inequality. This thesis argues that such conceptualisations of reparations oversimplify the history and legacy of transatlantic slavery, and therefore what is …
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Hampton Plantation: Interpreting Slavery In South Carolina
… of presenting, discussing, and debating slavery at historic sites has become a prevalent topic throughout the United States. This study looks at challenges public historians face when interpreting slavery at historic house museums and offers recommendations for improvement. It …
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American Exceptionalism And The Antebellum Slavery Debate
… of the country. The debate over American slavery during the antebellum era was in many ways a debate over American exceptionalism. Could America claim American exceptionality while they held on to slavery? George Fitzhugh, an ardent supporter of slavery during the antebellum period, argued …
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Justice, Piety, and Slavery in Plato's Thought
This thesis traces the metaphorical language of slavery across the Platonic corpus, arguing that Plato’s political theory emerges in response to Socrates choosing to die a ‘good slave’ to both the laws and the gods. Socrates makes this choice, I argue in Chapter 1, because of his understanding of …
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Slavery in Cape Town, 1806 to 1834
In an influential article on the evolution of Afro-American society on the British mainland of North America, written in 1980, Ira Berlin charged slave historians with having ''produced an essentially static vision of Afro-American life. From Stanley Elkins' Sambo to John W.Blassingame's …
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Slavery and abortion: the paradox of american liberalism
… the paradox of liberalism that allows for this. Slavery is the quintessential illiberal institution, yet liberal concepts allowed it to exist in America for over 200 years. It is my contention that abortion is another illiberal institution that is being promoted by the paradox of liberalism. With …
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Religious imagery in nineteenth-century French slavery narratives
… the growing and dynamic field of Francophone Slavery Studies by revealing the long-overlooked role that religion plays in fictional narratives of slavery by early nineteenth-century French writers. The authors studied are both canonical and non-canonical, male and female, and the integration …
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Reconstructing Somerset Place: Slavery, Memory and Historical Consciousness
<p>In the century and a half since Emancipation, slavery has remained a central topic at Somerset Place, a plantation-turned-state historic site in northeastern North Carolina, and programmers and audiences have thought about and interpreted it in many different ways. When North Carolina's …
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Congressional Legislation on Slavery During the Civil War
Slavery and the Negro! That subject is by no means dead today. The people in this country are still battling with this problem. Though the times have changed, the facts of the issue are basically the same as a century ago. Witness the present agitation over the Civil Rights Bill! |Today the Negro …
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The rhetorical dimension of an apology for slavery.
… applications of an apology for American slavery. It will focus upon former Representative Tony Hall's 1997 and 2000 request for a congressional apology for slavery. The rhetorical dimensions of the sociopolitical apology in regard to American slavery process will be the primary focus. …
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Modern kori rabszolgaság Nyugat-Afrikában: A modern kori rabszolgaság formálódó értelmezése = Contemporary Slavery in West Africa: The Shaping Elaboration of Contemporary Slavery
A kutatás központi feladatként a modern kori rabszolgaságot vizsgálja multidiszciplináris nézőpontból. Ebből fakad a dolgozat egyik tudományos újszerűsége, ugyanis célunk az, hogy a nemzetközi jog, az emberi jogok védelme, a nemzetközi kapcsolatok, és a társadalomtudományok kutatói számára a modern …
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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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The anti-slavery sentiment of Virginia from 1830-1860
Slavery, often described as a "peculiar institution", "black evil", and "inhuman practice", offers one of the most interesting and far-reaching studies of early American history. When viewed in its entirety slavery is found to have had not only economic significance but also political, social, and …
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Negotiating Honor: Women and Slavery in Caracas, 1750-1854
… our historical understanding of gender and slavery. Venezuela represented the largest and longest lasting slave-owning regime in Spanish South America. Slavery, as a system of labor, was an integral part of colonial Venezuelan society and affected all segments of the populace. Understanding …
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