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Birdsong, Daniel R. "Who Owns the Blank Slate? The Competition for News Frames and Its Effect on Public Opinion." Cincinnati, Ohio : University of Cincinnati, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view.cgi?acc_num=ucin1243299972.
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Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Cincinnati, 2009.Advisor: Barbara A. Bardes. Title from electronic thesis title page (viewed July 29, 2009). Keywords: News Frames; media; president; public opinion. Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references.
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Lystar, Kimberley J. "Two female perspectives on the slave family as described in Harriet Jacobs' "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl" and Mattie Griffith's "Autobiography of a Female Slave"." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/9987.
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This thesis will explore an issue in the history of American slavery: the importance of the slave family to individual female slaves. The slave families examined in this thesis do not consist exclusively of blood relations. They also include groups of individuals who came together and depended on and loved one another as much as blood relations. These bonds of affection also constituted family. In the main part of the thesis two sources will be examined in great detail: Harriet Jacobs' Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, published in 1861; and Mattie Griffith's Autobiography of a Female Slave, published in 1856. The main issue to be discussed is how these two women described the interaction of members of slave families. Jacobs was a fugitive slave living in the North when she wrote her slave narrative, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl in the 1850s. Griffith, on the other hand, was a white women who wrote a slave novel entitled Autobiography of a Female Slave in 1856. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
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Hurbon, Laennec. "TH SLAVE TRADE AND BLACK SLAVERY IN AMERICA." Bulletin of Ecumenical Theology, 1991. http://digital.library.duq.edu/u?/bet,1477.
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Hoopes, Daniel Matthew. "The ContexTable: Building and Testing an Intelligent, Context-Aware Kitchen Table." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2004. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/12.
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The purpose of this thesis was to design and evaluate The ContexTable, a context-aware system built into a kitchen table. After establishing the current status of the field of context-aware systems and the hurdles and problems being faced, a functioning prototype system was designed and built. The prototype makes it possible to explore established, untested theory and novel solutions to problems faced in the field.
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McGhee, Fred Lee. "The Black crop : slavery and slave trading in nineteenth century Texas /." Digital version accessible at:, 2000. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/main.
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Blossom, Bonnie L. "Black Beauty as Antebellum Slave Narrative." [Tampa, Fla] : University of South Florida, 2008. http://purl.fcla.edu/usf/dc/et/SFE0002451.
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Harbison, Jane. "The black executioner: the intercolonial interactions of a Martinican slave in Québec, 1733-1743." Thesis, McGill University, 2011. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=104898.
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This microhistory of an African slave in eighteenth-century New France offers a unique series of angles with which we can examine the motivations, struggles and consequences of slavery in Canada. Mathieu Léveillé worked as a plantation slave in Martinique before arriving in Quebec to serve as the colony's executioner. The story of his importation demonstrates how the buying and selling of these persons reinforced the social and economic connections between Canada's elites and the rest of the Atlantic World. Though often imported as objects of luxury, the slaves themselves generally lived lives of social isolation, marred by their image as odd, foreign and deviant. Léveillé's enslaved status therefore made him the ideal candidate to fill the socially maligned position of the bourreau. Léveillé's Atlantic experience of itinerancy and exchange furthermore offers a glimpse onto the modes of interaction among the various marginalized groups participating in that system. While the population of Canadian slaves under the French regime paled in comparison to that of the more southerly colonies, the value of this study derives from exploring the uniqueness of the institution in this understudied context.Cette étude microhistorique d'un esclave africain en Nouvelle France au XVIIIe siècle offre une perspective unique avec laquelle nous pouvons examiner les motivations et les conséquences de l'esclavage au Canada. Mathieu Léveillé a travaillé comme esclave dans une plantation en Martinique avant son arrivée à Québec. En arrivant, il a servi comme bourreau de la colonie. L'histoire de son importation montre comment l'achat et vente de ces personnes ont renforcé les liens sociaux et économiques entre les élites du Canada et le monde atlantique. Les esclaves étaient souvent importés comme des objets de luxe. Mais, comme sujets de l'histoire, les esclaves avaient des vies isolées, marquées par leurs images d'étrangers et de déviants. Léveillé, avec son état asservi, était le candidat idéal pour combler le poste du bourreau. Les expériences d'importation et d'itinérance de Léveillé offrent un aperçu des modes d'interaction entre les groupes marginalisés qui participaient au système. La population des esclaves canadiens ne compare pas aux nombres des esclaves aux colonies du sud; la valeur de cette recherche provient de l'exploration de l'institution unique qui est étudiée.
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Spong, Kaitlyn M. "“Your love is too thick”: An Analysis of Black Motherhood in Slave Narratives, Neo-Slave Narratives, and Our Contemporary Moment." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2018. https://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/2573.
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In this paper, Kait Spong examines alternative practices of mothering that are strategic nature, heavily analyzing Patricia Hill Collins’ concepts of “othermothering” and “preservative love” as applied to Toni Morrison’s 1987 novel, Beloved and Harriet Jacob’s 1861 slave narrative, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. Using literary analysis as a vehicle, Spong then applies these West African notions of motherhood to a modern context by evaluating contemporary social movements such as Black Lives Matter where black mothers have played a prominent role in making public statements against systemic issues such as police brutality, heightened surveillance, and the prison industrial complex.
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Coleman, Darrell Edward. "THE TROPE OF DOMESTICITY: NEO- SLAVE NARRATIVE SATIRE ON PATRIARCHY AND BLACK MASCULINITY." Cleveland State University / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1371724364.
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Chaney, Michael A. "Picturing slavery hybridity, illustration, and spectacle in the antebellum slave narrative /." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2005. http://wwwlib.umi.com/dissertations/fullcit/3162968.
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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of English, 2005.Title from PDF t.p. (viewed Dec. 2, 2008). Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 66-02, Section: A, page: 0590. Chair: Eva Cherniavsky.
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Milatovic, Maja. "Reclaimed genealogies : reconsidering the ancestor figure in African American women writers' neo-slave narratives." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/10656.
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This thesis examines the ancestor figure in African American women writers’ neoslave narratives. Drawing on black feminist, critical race and whiteness studies and trauma theory, the thesis closely reads neo-slave narratives by Margaret Walker, Octavia Butler, Gayl Jones, Toni Morrison and Phyllis Alesia Perry. The thesis aims to reconsider the ancestor figure by extending the definition of the ancestor as predecessor to include additional figurative and literal means used to invoke the ancestral past of enslavement. The thesis argues that the diverse ancestral figures in these novels demonstrate the prevailing effects of slavery on contemporary subjects, attest to the difficulties of historicising past oppressions and challenge post-racial discourses. Chapter 1 analyses Margaret Walker’s historical novel Jubilee (1966), identifying it as an important prerequisite for subsequent neo-slave narratives. The chapter aims to offer a new reading of the novel by situating it within a black feminist ideological framework. Taking into account the novel’s social and political context, the chapter suggests that the ancestral figures or elderly members of the slave community function as means of resistance, access to personal and collective history and contribute to the self-constitution of the protagonist. The chapter concludes by suggesting that Walker’s novel fulfils a politically engaged function of inscribing the black female subject into discussions on the legacy of slavery and drawing attention to the particularity of black women’s experiences. Chapter 2 examines Octavia Butler’s Kindred (1978), featuring a contemporary black woman’s return to the antebellum past and her discovery of a white slaveholding ancestor. The chapter introduces the term “displacement” to explore the transformative effects of shifting positionalities and destabilisation of contemporary frames of reference. The chapter suggests that the novel challenges idealised portrayals of a slave community and expresses scepticism regarding its own premise of fictionally reimagining slavery. With its inconclusive ending, Kindred ultimately illustrates how whiteness and dominant versions of history prevail in the seemingly progressive present. Chapter 3 discusses Gayl Jones’ Corregidora (1975) and its subversion of the matrilineal model of tradition by reading the maternal ancestor’s narrative as oppressive, limiting and psychologically burdening. The chapter introduces the term “ancestral subtext” in order to identify the ways in which ancestral narratives of enslavement serve as subtexts to the descendants’ lives and constrict their subjectivities. The chapter argues that the ancestral subtexts frame contemporary practices, inform the notion of selfhood and attest to the reproduction of past violence in the present. Chapter 4 deals with Toni Morrison’s Beloved (1987) and Phyllis Alesia Perry’s Stigmata (1998) exploring complex ancestral figures as survivors of the Middle Passage and their connection to Africa as an affective site of identity reclamation. The chapter identifies the role the quilt, the skill of quilting and their metaphorical potential as symbolic means of communicating ancestral trauma and conveying multivoiced “ancestral articulations”. The chapter suggests that the project of healing and recovering the self in relation to ancestral enslavement are premised on re-connecting with African cultural contexts and an intergenerational exchange of the culturally specific skill of quilting.
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Williams, Algie Vincent. "Patterns in the Parables: Black Female Agency and Octavia Butler's Construction of Black Womanhood." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2011. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/126489.
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This project argues that Octavia's Butler's construction of the black woman characters is unique within the pantheon of late eighties African-American writers primarily through Butler's celebration of black female physicality and the agency the black body provides. The project is divided into five sections beginning with an intensive examination of Butler's ur-character, Anyanwu. This character is vitally important in discussing Butler's canon because she embodies the attributes and thematic issues that run throughout the author's work, specifically, the author's argument that black woman are provided opportunity through their bodies. Chapter two addresses the way black women's femininity is judged: their sexual activity. In this chapter, I explore one facet of Octavia Butler's narrative examination of sexual co-option and her subsequent implied challenge to definitions of feminine morality through the character Lilith who appears throughout Butler's Xenogenesis trilogy. Specifically, I explore this subject using Harriet Jacobs' seminal autobiography and slave narrative, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl as the prism in which I historically focus the conversation. In chapter three, I move the discussion into an exploration of black motherhood. Much like the aforementioned challenge to femininity vis-à-vis sexual morality, Octavia Butler often challenges and interrogates the traditional definition of motherhood, specifically, the relationship between mother and daughter. I will focus on different aspects of that mother/daughter relationship in two series, the Patternist sequence, which includes, in chronological order, Wild Seed, Mind of my Mind and Patternmaster. Chapter four discusses Butler's final novel, Fledgling, and how the novel's protagonist, Shori not only fits into the matrix of Butler characters but represents the culmination of the privileging of black female physicality that I observe in the author's entire canon. Specifically, while earlier characters are shown to create opportunities and venues of agency through their bodies, in Shori, Butler posits a character whose existence is predicated on its blackness and discusses how that purposeful racial construction leads to freedom.
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Mayer, Elisabeth. "Shakespeare and Black Masculinity in Antebellum America: Slave Revolts and Construction of Revolutionary Blackness." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2017. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/904.
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This thesis explores how Shakespeare was used by Antebellum American writers to frame slave revolts as either criminal or revolutionary. By specifically addressing The Confessions of Nat Turner by Thomas R. Gray and "The Heroic Slave" by Frederick Douglass, this paper looks at the way invocations of Shakespeare framed depictions of black violence. At a moment when what it means to be American was questioned, American writers like Gray and Douglass turned to Shakespeare and the British roots of the English language in order to structure their respective arguments. In doing so, these texts illuminate how transatlantic identity still permeated American thought. This thesis also argues that the conscious use of British literature, Shakespeare in particular, by abolitionists constitutes a critique of the unfulfilled American ideals they believe slavery undermines. In addressing depictions of slave revolts and black masculinity in this period, this thesis explores how allusions to Shakespeare helped frame the historiography surrounding how slave revolts in America were and are remembered.
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Lewis, Lance Kwesi. "Khepra : cultural developmental group-work; an evaluation; effective ways of working with school pupils of Afrikan descent." Thesis, Manchester Metropolitan University, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.390782.
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May, Cory J. "The racialized-politics within African-American studies as evidenced by the dismissal of the work of Jupiter Hammon and the conservative tradition of African-American slave Christianity." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 2018. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk:80/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=237582.
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My dissertation explores the minimizing, and often dismissal, of the evangelical conservative tradition of African-American Christianity within African-American studies. I argue that the primary cause of this development derives from the hermeneutics and methodologies employed by contemporary Black theologians and “Afrocentric-liberationist” scholars. Generally, these hermeneutics and methodologies were originally proposed by secular Black Nationalist and Black Power advocates during the Civil Rights Movement. This is seen in three areas: First, there is an interpretation of “Whiteness,” or European-Americans as completely corrupt and unredeemable. Second, there are calls for “Blackness,” or African-Americans to racially and socially segregate from Whiteness. Last, there are concepts of an “Ideal-Blackness,” a renewed or transformed Blackness created independently from Whiteness. These and other principles were employed by many contemporary Black scholars to various degrees. Furthermore, I argue that these principles sustain influential Black Nationalist/Black Power historiographies, and shape the dominant trends within the discipline. I maintain that there are two conflicting traditions within African American culture: the religious tradition of conservative evangelicalism that was established during colonialism, and the secularist tradition of Black Nationalism and Black Power which originated during the civil rights movement. These traditions opposed one another during the civil rights movement. Later, this conflict was grafted into the academy, where it continues through the scholarship of many Black theologians and Afrocentric-liberationist scholars. Finally, I discuss the theology of Jupiter Hammon, an 18th century Christian slave, as a representative of the conservative tradition of African American Christianity. I argue that it is essential that scholars explore Hammon's theology, and the conservative tradition of African-American Christianity during colonialism, for a variety of reasons: first, it is important to understand this tradition, as it has shaped African-American Christianity and the Black church more than any other; second, exploring the conservative tradition during colonialism provides the constructive theologies, and alternative conservative historiographies, that complement the Black Nationalist/Black Power historiographies advocated by many contemporary Black scholars.
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Gomaa, Sally Said. "From free/slave binaries to black/white dialectics the problem of race in anebellum discourse (1831-1861) /." View online ; access limited to URI, 2003. http://0-wwwlib.umi.com.helin.uri.edu/dissertations/dlnow/3112118.
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Cosner, Charlotte A. "Rich and poor, white and black, slave and free : the social history of Cuba's tobacco farmers, 1763-1817." FIU Digital Commons, 2008. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/2659.
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Tobacco was of primary importance to Spain, and its impact on Cuba’s economy and society was greater than just the numbers of farms, workers, or production, demonstrated by the Spanish crown’s outlay of monies for capital assets, bureaucrats’ salaries, and payments to farmers for their crop. This study is a micro- and macro-level study of rural life in colonial Cuba and the interconnected relationships among society, agricultural production, state control, and the island’s economic development.
By placing Cuba’s tobacco farmers at the forefront of this social history, this work revisits and offers alternatives to two prevailing historiographical views of rural Cuba from 1763 (the year Havana returned to Spanish control following the Seven Years’ War) to 1817 (the final year of the 100-year royal monopoly on Cuban tobacco). Firstly, it argues against the primacy of sugar over other agricultural crops, a view that has shaped decades of scholarship, and challenges the thesis which maintains the Cuban tobacco farmer was almost exclusively poor, white, and employed free labor, rather than slaves, in the production of their crop.
This study establishes the importance of tobacco as an agricultural product, and argues that Cuban tobacco growers were a heterogeneous group, revealing the role that its cultivation may have played in helping some slaves earn their freedom.
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Light, Ryan. "Power, Inequality, and Resistance: Responses to Subordination in the American Slave Narrative, 1800-1930." The Ohio State University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1250004135.
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Simpson, Tiwanna Michelle. "“She has her country marks very conspicuous in the face”: African Culture and Community in Early Georgia." The Ohio State University, 2002. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1039397619.
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Farias, Adriana Merly. "Female slave narratives: consistency and permanence: a study of two texts from the XIXth and XXth centuries." Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, 2012. http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=3839.
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Esta dissertação tem por objetivo investigar o papel das slave narratives como poderoso gênero literário na denúncia da escravidão africana e na representação do homem negro e da mulher negra nos séculos dezoito e dezenove. Este trabalho também se propõe a investigar o papel das neo-slave narratives no estudo do passado e a representação da identidade negra no século vinte. Ambos os gêneros desafiam seus tempos presentes ao discutirem questões de etnia e subjugação humana, em uma abordagem crítica. Em Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861), Harriet Jacobs narra sua experiência na escravidão, deixando um importante legado não somente para a História mas também para a Literatura Afro-Americana. Em Dessa Rose (1986), Sherley Anne Williams, revisa o passado para resgatar a memória da escravidão e reescrever a história para examinar seu tempo presente. Além disso, as duas autoras apresentam questões de gênero, levantando questões feministas em suas obrasThis dissertation aims to investigate the role of slave narratives as a powerful literary genre in the denouncement of African slavery and in the representation of the black man/woman in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It also aims to analyze the role of neo-slave narratives in the revision of the past and the representation of black identity in the twentieth-century. Both genres challenge their present times by discussing issues of ethnicity and human bondage through a critical approach. In Incidents in the Life of s Slave Girl (1861), Harriet Jacobs narrates her experience in slavery, leaving an important legacy not only to History but also to African-American Literature. In Dessa Rose (1986), Sherley Anne Williams revises the past in order to recover slavery memory and rewrite history to examine her present time. Besides, these two authors present matters of gender, bringing feminist issues in their works
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Reynolds, Diana Dial. "Signifying in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: Harriet Jacobs' Use of African American English." Thesis, Connect to resource online, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1805/2195.
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Thesis (M.A.)--Indiana University, 2010.Title from screen (viewed on July 19, 2010). Department of English, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI). Advisor(s): Susan C. Shepherd, Frederick J. DiCamilla, Stephen L. Fox. Includes vitae. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 48-50).
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Brantley, Demario Jamar. ""Unraveled Pieces of Me: A Sociological Analysis of Former African American Slave Women's Experiences and Perceptions of Life in Antebellum Arkansas"." University of Akron / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1349720506.
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Koh, Adam Byunghoon. "Black Dionysus classical iconography and its contemporary resonance in Girodet's Portrait of Citizen Belley /." Access to citation, abstract and download form provided by ProQuest Information and Learning Company; downloadable PDF file, 84 p, 2008. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1605135741&sid=2&Fmt=2&clientId=8331&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Alves, Simao Joana Luis. "The Villancicos de Negro in Manuscript 50 of the Biblioteca Geral da Universidade de Coimbra: A Case Study of Black Cultural Agency and Racial Representation in 17th-Century Portugal." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1483636386001958.
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Santiago, Bruna Oliveira. "Humor e artes gráficas: a representação do negro na revista Semana Ilustrada (1860-1876)." Universidade de São Paulo, 2017. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8138/tde-26052017-110432/.
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Esta pesquisa se propõe a analisar a revista Semana Illustrada, dirigida pelo prussiano Henrique Fleiuss, com especial atenção para as representações do negro e do tema da escravidão. O periódico circulou no Rio de Janeiro entre 1860 e 1876 e é pioneiro no que se refere ao uso de imagens na imprensa. As novas tecnologias, associadas à demanda por imagens, incitaram o surgimento e posterior consolidação da imprensa ilustrada. A invenção e a popularização da fotografia evidenciavam uma sociedade ávida por imagens e que estava em pleno processo de transformação e elaboração de uma educação visual. Nesta pesquisa, a reflexão sobre as imagens presentes no periódico Semana Illustrada que se referem ao negro e ao escravo tem como objetivo entender a visão que este veículo de comunicação tinha sobre o assunto, como parte das questões cotidianas da sociedade oitocentista do Rio de Janeiro na segunda metade do século XIX. O contexto brasileiro se revela peculiar, uma vez que se tratava de uma sociedade que se pretendia moderna, mas que convivia ainda com grande contingente de mão de obra escrava. Ao estudar essas imagens, descortina-se a cultura visual de um tempo emblemático para o Brasil.This research aims to analyse the magazine Semana Illustrada, managed by the prussian Henrique Fleiuss, focusing on the representation of black people and slavery. The magazine circulated in Rio de Janeiro between 1860 and 1876 and plays a pioneer role concerning the use of images in the press. The new technologies associated to the demand for images incited the appearing and consolidation of illustrated press. The invention and popularization of photography evinced a society avid for images and in process of transformation and elaboration of a visual education. This research intends to reflect upon the images found in Semana Illustrada that refers to the black people and the slave in order to understand the vision of this vehicle of communication about the subject as part of social life in Rio de Janeiro by the second half of nineteenth century. The brazilian context is peculiar once there was a society pretending to be modern, that nevertheless cohabited with a big contingent of slave work force. Study this images is to discover the visual culture of an emblematic time for Brazil.
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Poole, Chamere R. "The Re-formation of Imaginative Testimony: A Look at the Historical Influences and Contemporary Conventions of the Neo-Slave Narrative Genre." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1290296419.
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Fonseca, Mariana Bracks. "Nzinga Mbandi e as guerras de resistência em Angola. Século XVII." Universidade de São Paulo, 2012. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8138/tde-14032013-094719/.
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Nzinga Mbandi é a mais famosa e controversa personagem da história de Angola no século XVII. Pretendemos neste trabalho, analisar a trajetória política de Nzinga tendo em vista o conturbado contexto da expansão da colonização portuguesa na África Central e da instituição do tráfico negreiro, principalmente durante o período em que representou maior oposição aos portugueses, nas décadas de 1620 e 1630. Buscamos compreender as estruturas de poder que haviam no reino do Ndongo antes da chegada dos portugueses e como o povo Mbundo se organizava política e economicamente. Entramos no debate historiográfico sobre quem eram os Jagas, como lutaram a favor dos portugueses e contra eles, ao lado de Nzinga. Buscamos entender como Portugal criou a colônia de Angola através do avassalamento dos sobas, construção de presídios, controle das feiras e composição de um exército africano que servia a seus interesses. Nzinga Mbandi desempenhou diferentes papéis durante sua trajetória: cristã, Ngola, Tembanza, rainha de Matamba, etc. Buscamos compreender estes papéis face à disputa pelo controle do Ndongo, em que os portugueses a destituíram do trono e instituíram um novo rei em 1626, para isto, analisamos a questão da legitimidade e do poder feminino no reino do Ndongo. Entendemos Nzinga como a principal líder da resistência contra a presença portuguesa em Angola no período, pois além de dar asilo a centenas de escravos fugidos dos portugueses, impediu feiras e desorganizou a cobrança dos impostos.Nzinga Mbandi is the most famous and controversial character in the history of Angola in the 17th century. We intend, in this dissertation, to analyze the political trajectory of Niznga in the trouble contex of expanding Portuguese colonization in Central Africa, ando f the slave trade, principally in the 1620s and 1630s, during which Nzinga represented the major opposition to the Portuguese. We attempt to understand the Power structures in the Kingdon of Ndongo before the Portuguese arrived, and how the Mbundo people organized themselves political and economically. We consider the historiographical discussion abou Who the Jagas were, and how they fougth beside the Portuguese and agaist them. We also seek to understand how Portugal created the colony of Angola by the subjulgation of sobas, by building prisions, controlling markets and organizing na African army to serve their interests. Nzinga Mbandi played different roles during her trajectory: Christian, Ngola, Tembanza Jaga, Queen of Matamba, etc. We analyze these roles in the contexto f the struggle to control Ndongo, when the Portuguese ousted her from the throne and replaced her with a new king in 1626. We considered the questiono f legitimacy and feminin Power in the Ndongo and Matamba kingdons. We understand that Nzinga Mbandi was the most important leader of the resistance agains the Portuguese presence in Angola in this period, because she gave asylum to many fugitives slaves, obstructed markets and disrupted tax collection.
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Childs, David J. "The Black Church and African American Education: The African Methodist Episcopal Church Educating for Liberation, 1816-1893." Oxford, Ohio : Miami University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=miami1250397808.
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Oliveira, José Max de Lima. "Transgressão e tragédia: um estudo sobre Bom-Crioulo, de Adolfo Caminha." Universidade Federal do Amazonas, 2012. http://tede.ufam.edu.br/handle/tede/2368.
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Previous issue date: 2012-08-31This dissertation has as study object the romance Bom-Crioulo of Adolfo Caminha. We will realize through of the analysis two powerful forces that influence the author: the first is the manor ideology and the other, the crista ideology. Joining with this kind of thinking, the writer build the black main character, ex-slave and homosexual, Amaro that flows between the misery and the disbelieving. This has as reason to get some satisfaction in his empty life, get through the freedom and love. Everything was for nothing, because of he was destined to fail.
Esta dissertação tem como objeto de estudo o romance Bom-Crioulo, de Adolfo Caminha. Vamos perceber, através da análise, duas forças poderosas que influenciam o autor: a primeira é a ideologia senhorial e a outra, a ideologia cristã. Alinhando-se a tais correntes de pensamentos dominantes, o escritor constrói um protagonista negro, exescravo e homossexual, Amaro, que flutua entre a miséria e a desesperança. Este, com o intuito de alcançar alguma satisfação em sua vida vazia, lança-se em busca da liberdade e do amor. Tudo em vão, já que está fatalmente destinado ao fracasso.
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Howard, Jonathan. "Changing the Law; Fighting for Freedom: Racial Politics and Legal Reform in Early Ohio, 1803-1860." The Ohio State University, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1293551467.
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Blunkosky, Sarah K. "Unlawful Assembly and the Fredericksburg Mayor's Court Order Books, 1821-1834." VCU Scholars Compass, 2009. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/1730.
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Unlawful assembly accounts extracted from the Fredericksburg Mayor’s Court Order Books from 1821-1834, reveal rare glimpses of unsupervised, alleged illegal interactions between free and enslaved individuals, many of whom do not appear in other records. Authorities enforced laws banning free blacks and persons of mixed race from interacting with enslaved persons and whites at unlawful assemblies to keep peace in the town, to prevent sexual relationships between white women and free and enslaved black men, and to prevent alliance building between individuals. The complex connections necessary to arrange unlawful assemblies threatened the town’s safety with insurrection if these individuals developed radical ideas opposing the existing social order, the foundation of which was slavery. Akin to residents of areas where natural disasters like volcanoes always pose a risk of dangerous eruptions, those living in Fredericksburg lived their lives within the town slave society and its potential threats. In an area, state, and region where insurrections occurred, unlawful assembly, whether frequent or infrequent, mattered.
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Demaree, Nancy. "Place, Disease and Mortality: Trimble County, Kentucky 1849-1894." TopSCHOLAR®, 2000. http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/716.
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This researcher describes the characteristics of place...physical, cultural and human...of a small Kentucky county and looks at the incidence of disease and dying that occurred in that place in the last half of the nineteenth century. The impact of death on particular subsets of the general population was given a closer evaluation. Very young, females and the slave/Black communities were investigated individually. The overall site and situation of all aspects of Trimble County, Kentucky were viewed in an effort to support the notion that it is the manner in which man interacts with this environment that causes disease and death and that is not the environment itself that destroys human life.
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Carrier, Toni. "Trade and plunder networks in the second Seminole War in Florida, 1835-1842." [Tampa, Fla.] : University of South Florida, 2005. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/SFE0001020.
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Velásquez, Lambur Rosa Mélida. "Una interpretación de la esclavitud africana en Honduras siglos XVI-XVIII." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/378355.
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En las páginas siguientes se presentan los resultados del estudio de la población de ascendencia africana sometida a esclavitud en la provincia de Honduras en la época colonial. Este esfuerzo está encaminado a analizar sus experiencias y a revalorizar la importancia que tuvieron en la construcción de la nueva sociedad que se fue estructurando a partir de la llegada de los colonizadores. Aquí tratamos de desvirtuar la visión de marginalidad con que generalmente se valora la participación de esta población, y lo hacemos dando cuenta de la diversidad de actividades en las que se involucraron junto a sus amos, y de la trascendencia de las mismas en el proceso de dominación de las poblaciones nativas y de defensa del territorio cuando acechaba el enemigo. Un tema que por el escaso abordaje historiográfico, ha limitado nuestra participación en la discusión que actualmente recobra cada vez mayor importancia en el área.The following pages presents the results of the study of the population of African ancestry submitted to the slavery in the province of Honduras in the epoch colony. This effort is to analyze his experiences and to revaluing the importance that they had in the construction of the new company that was structured from the arrival of the settlers. Here we try to spoil the vision of marginality with which generally there is valued the participation of this population, and do it realizing of the diversity of activities in which they interfered together with his owners, and of the transcendence of the same ones in the process of domination of the native populations and of defense of the territory when the enemy was stalking. A topic that has limited our participation in the discussions which currently recovers more and more importance in the area by the scare historiographical approach.
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Watts, Robert (Daud). "Rethinking Our Outlines/ Redrawing Our Maps: Representing African Agency in the Antebellum South 1783-1829." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2011. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/212646.
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Rethinking Our Outlines/ Redrawing Our Maps: Representing African Agency in the Antebellum South 1783-1829 The lenses through which our common perceptions of African/Black agency in the antebellum period are viewed, synthetic textbooks and maps, rarely reveal the tremendous number of liberating acts that characterized the movements of Black people in the South from 1783 to 1829. During the American Revolution, 80,000 to 100,000 such enslaved Africans threw off their yokes and escaped their bondage. Subsequently, large numbers embarked on British ships as part of the Loyalist exodus from the United States, while others fled to the deep South, to Native lands, to the North, or held their ground right where they were, attempting, as maroons, to establish themselves and survive as free persons. While recent historical scholarship has identified many of the primary sources and themes that characterize such massive levels of proactivity, few have tried to present them as a synthetic whole. This applies to maps used to illustrate the African American history of those regions and times as well. Illustrating these movements defines the scope of this scholarly work entitled Rethinking Our Outlines/ Redrawing Our Maps: Representing African Agency in the Antebellum South 1783-1829. This work also critically looks at several contemporary maps of this period published in authoritative atlases or textbooks and subsequently creates three original maps to represent the proactive movements and relationships of Africans during this period.
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Telles, Lorena Feres da Silva. "Libertas entre sobrados: contratos de trabalho doméstico em São Paulo na derrocada da escravidão." Universidade de São Paulo, 2011. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8138/tde-10082012-170442/.
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A pesquisa acompanha as experiências sociais de mulheres escravas, libertas e descendentes livres, na cidade de São Paulo, durante o último quartel do século XIX, no processo social da transição do trabalho escravo para o livre. Pesquisamos livros de inscrições e de contratos de trabalho livre, exigências previstas pelas Posturas Municipais sobre Criados e Amas de Leite, de 1886. O conjunto de regulamentos vinha formalizar deveres e obrigações para empregadores e trabalhadores livres, no contexto do crescimento urbano acelerado, do processo avançado da abolição e da política imigratória que conduziam para a Capital imigrantes pobres e libertos destutelados. Migrantes das regiões escravistas da Província e daquelas que forneceram escravos para o tráfico interprovincial, africanas livres e nascidas na Capital empregaram-se nas residências das elites e camadas médias urbanas. Vislumbramos as estratégias de sobrevivência das agentes do trabalho doméstico livres e pobres, que a polícia registrava nos anos finais do regime escravista. Afastadas das atividades rentáveis, no contexto de pouca diversificação econômica, ex-escravas e descendentes livres sobreviveram dos parcos ganhos auferidos daqueles serviços socialmente desqualificados, dos quais os membros das elites e classes médias dependiam: fazendeiros, estrangeiros proprietários de hotéis, donos de confeitarias, coronéis, funcionários públicos, profissionais liberais, viúvas pobres e remediadas. Reconstituímos o cotidiano dos variados trabalhos que desempenharam a cozinha, a lavagem e o engomado das roupas, a limpeza da casa, o cuidado e o aleitamento de crianças , transitando entre as ruas, as várzeas dos rios e o tenso ambiente das casas. Das entrelinhas dos textos emergem libertas dispostas a improvisar variadas formas de resistência e recusa à opressão cotidiana. Experimentaram as liberdades possíveis e inegociáveis: recusaram com suas indisciplinas as jornadas extenuantes de trabalho, conquistaram aumentos salariais, cuidaram de seus doentes, compartilharam moradias com seus companheiros e filhos. Abandonando por fim os sobrados, indispuseram-se ao assédio sexual, aos maus tratos e aos baixos ordenados, que nem sempre recebiam: permanências de um escravismo doméstico e persistente, que, com suas práticas, ousaram recusar.The research assembles the social experiences of slave women, released and free descendants in São Paulo during the last quarter of the nineteenth century, in the social process of transition from slave work to freedom. In order to accomplished our aim, we rummage into the books, subscriptions and free employment contracts, requirements established by Municipal ordinances on Criadas e Amas de Leite, from 1886. The ensemble of regulations was made in order to formalize the duties and obligations for employers and free employees , in the context of hasty urban growth the advanced process of abolition and the immigration policy that led, to the main city, poor immigrants and unruly people. Migrants from provincial slavery region sand those slaveholders who provided slaves to an interprovincial trafficking, mainly free African born, were employed in the elite and urban middle classes residences. We glimpse the survival strategies from poor and free agents of the housework registered by the police during the final years of the slave regime. Displaced from profitable activities in the context of low economic diversification, formers slaves and free descendants survived from meager gains earned from these socially unskilled services of which the members of the elite and middle classes depended and profited: farmers, foreigners hotel owners, colonels, civil servants, professional, widows and poor remedied. Our research attempt to reconstruct the daily life of several jobs that these free women have done in the new social order: the kitchen, washing and ironing clothes, cleaning the house, care and feeding children, traffic in the streets, the riverside and the tense environment of the houses. Reading between the lines of texts, it is possible to observe the existence of released women willing to improvise various ways of resistance and rejection of everyday oppression. Their experience makes possible ways of non-negotiable freedom, refusing, with their misbehavior, the days of exhausting work, consequently, winning wage increases, caring for their patients and the possibility of sharing housing with their partners and children. With the further abandon of the traditional townhouses, they eventually avoid the sexual harassment and the bad treatment: sojourn of domestic and persistent slavery, that these women, with their daily practices, have dared to decline.
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Zahra, Lidiane Confessor de Cerqueira. "Simeão, o crioulo e A Escrava Isaura: o negro no romantismo brasileiro." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2015. https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/14772.
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This essay intends to analyze the readers "Simeão, o crioulo", by Joaquim Manuel de Macedo, published in 1869, and A Escrava Isaura, by Bernardo Guimarães, published in 1875. They report the black and the mestizo´s conditions when forming the Brazilian identity, in the nationalist romanticism. For this purpose, we referred ourselves to the base of the German romanticism with the theories of Rousseau, Kant and the Germans of Iena, pursuing to verify how much as the I romantic is toward to its inwardness, until we approach the romanticism in Brazil which uses the literature as the government's political instrument, with the responsibility to contribute for the formation of the people and to execute the establishment of the nation. It is wondered: To what extent, in those narratives, the black and the mestizo accomplish the protagonist's role in the formation of the Brazilian identity? How do they hide an image of the black / slave? In what extent does it point to the constituent values of the Brazilian romantic ideology and, especially, of Macedo and Guimarães? This work guides the hypothesis: the romantic subject's speech, by embodying the black's image, is based on the imaginary construction of the caricature, adjusting the black slave and mestizo figures. In order to oppose those ideas and to hear a voice from within the slavery, it was chosen the poem "QUEM SOU EU ?, by Luiz Gama, which exposes the existence of the slave condition. In order to handle those interrogations, it consults the critical purposes from David Brookshaw, Zilá Bernd, Antonio Cândido, Eduardo Etzel, Silvio Romero, Gilberto Freyre. As a methodological strategy, firstly it was searched the theories which sustain the commented subjects, and later to dialogue those theories with the analysis of the corpus. The suggested hypothesis is ratified, realizing it as a form of approaching the black and mestizo, both slaves, in a relationship of preservation of the nationalist ideas of the Brazilian romanticismk. The slave
Esta dissertação propõe-se a analisar as obras Simeão, o crioulo de Joaquim Manuel de Macedo, publicada em 1869, e A Escrava Isaura de Bernardo Guimarães, publicada em 1875. Trata do estado do negro e do mestiço quando da formação identitária brasileira, no romantismo nacionalista. Para tanto, nos reportamos à base do romantismo alemão com as teorias de Rousseau, Kant e os alemães de Iena, buscando verificar o quanto o Eu romântico está voltado para sua interioridade, até chegarmos ao romantismo no Brasil que usa a literatura como instrumento político do governo, com a responsabilidade de contribuir para a formação do povo e efetivar o estabelecimento da nação. Pergunta-se: Até que ponto, nessas narrativas, o negro e o mestiço cumprem papel de protagonista na formação identitária brasileira? Como ocultam uma imagem do negro/escravo? Em que medida apontam para valores constitutivos do ideário romântico brasileiro e, em especial, de Macedo e Guimarães? Orienta este trabalho a hipótese: o discurso do sujeito romântico, ao corporificar a imagem do negro, pauta-se na construção imagética da caricatura, acomodando a figura escrava do negro e mestiço. Para contrapor essas ideias e ouvir uma voz de dentro da escravidão, elegemos o poema QUEM SOU EU? , de Luiz Gama, que expõe a vivência da condição cativa. Para dar conta desses questionamentos, recorrese às propostas críticas de David Brookshaw, Zilá Bernd, Antonio Candido, Eduardo Etzel, Silvio Romero, Gilberto Freyre. Como estratégia metodológica, buscou-se primeiro situar as teorias que sustentam as questões levantadas, e depois dialogar essas teorias com a análise do corpus. Ratifica-se a hipótese aventada, percebendoa como uma forma de abordar o negro e mestiço, ambos escravos, numa relação de preservação dos ideias nacionalistas do romantismo brasileiro
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Al-Zebari, Nawar. "Production and characterisation of self-crosslinked chitosan-carrageenan polyelectrolyte complexes." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2017. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/267918.
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Macromolecular biomaterials often require covalent crosslinking to achieve adequate stability and mechanical strength for their given application. However, the use of auxiliary chemicals may be associated with long-term toxicity in the body. Oppositely-charged polyelectrolytes (PEs) have the advantage that they can self-crosslink electrostatically and those derived from marine organisms are an inexpensive alternative to glycosaminoglycans present in the extracellular matrix of human tissues. A range of different combinations of PEs and preparation conditions have been reported in the literature. However, although there has been some work on complex formation between chitosan (CS) and carrageenan (CRG), much of the work undertaken has ignored the effect of pH on the consequent physicochemical properties of self-crosslinked polyelectrolyte complex (PEC) gels, films and scaffolds. Chitosan is a positively-charged polysaccharide with NH3+ side groups derived from shrimp shells and, carrageenan is a negatively-charged polysaccharide with OSO3- side groups derived from red seaweed. These abundant polysaccharides possess advantageous properties such as biodegradability and low toxicity. However, at present, there is no clear consensus on the cell binding properties of CS and CRG or CS-CRG PEC materials. The aim of this study was to explore the properties of crosslinker-free PEC gels, solvent-cast PEC films and freeze-dried PEC scaffolds based on CS and CRG precursors for medical applications. The objective was to characterise the effect of pH of the production conditions on the physicochemical and biological properties of CS-CRG PECs. Experimental work focused on the interaction between PEs, the composition of PECs, the rheological properties of PEC gels and the mechanical properties of PEC films and scaffolds. In addition, cell and protein attachment to the PEC films was assessed to determine their interactions in a biological environment. For biomedical applications, these materials should ideally be stable when produced such that they can be processed to form either a film or a scaffold and have mechanical properties comparable to those of collagenous soft tissues. FTIR was used to confirm PEC formation. Zeta potential measurements indicated that the PECs produced at pH 2-6 had a high strength of electrostatic interaction with the highest occurring at pH 4-5. This resulted in stronger intra-crosslinking in the PEC gels which led to the formation of higher yield, solid content, viscosity and fibre content in PEC gels. The weaker interaction at pH 7-12 resulted in higher levels of CS incorporated into the complex and the formation of inter-crosslinking through entanglements between PEC units. This resulted in the production of strong and stiff PEC films and scaffolds appropriate for soft tissue implants. The PECs prepared at pH 7.4 and 9 also exhibited low swelling and mass loss, which was thought to be due to the high CS content and entanglements. From the range of samples tested, the PECs produced at pH 7.4 appeared to show the optimum combination of yield, stability and homogeneity for soft tissue implants. Biological studies were performed on CS, CRG and PECs prepared at pH 3, 5, 7.4 and 9. All of the PE and PEC films were found to be non-cytotoxic. When the response of three different cell types and a high binding affinity protein (tropoelastin) was evaluated; it was found that the CS-CRG PEC films displayed anti-adhesive properties. Based on these experimental observations and previous studies, a mechanistic model of the anti-adhesive behaviour of PEC surfaces was proposed. It was therefore concluded that the CS-CRG PECs produced might be suitable for non-biofouling applications.
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Volpato, Luno. "A argumentação na obra O abolicionismo de Joaquim Nabuco: uma perspectiva historiográfica." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2007. https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/14453.
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The topic of our study is the argumentation about the composition of Joaquim Nabuco, O abolicionismo. The target is the knowledge of the argumentative resources and the linguistic resources that construct this argument, applying the principles of the Linguistic Historiography, to know, the Contextualization, the Immanency and of the Adequacy. Always instigated us to know closer the illustrious brazilian, Joaquin Nabuco. In the second half of the century XIX, in full literary bubbling, among others excellent names, Joaquin Nabuco obtained a place of preeminence among his pairs. This detail, and for the fact of his composition not to be divulged as other classics of our language, showed us a singular attention and we went to the search of the elements that had taken him to become an expressive figure at his time. He has written a composition in defense of the slaves emancipation, O abolicionismo, object of this research. To know it better, we considered the following questions that had directed our study: Which were the argumentative and linguistic resources made for the author and, with them, how has the author reached his public, the oitocentista reader? Which was his audience? Has the nabuconeana language followed the linguistic molds of its time? In full movement of freedom which was the language used by him, the classic of Portugal or the Brazilian dialect? Which current literary has he belonged? Can his language be considered out of the time? Guided for these questions, we looked more details in his composition, over all in what concerns to the strategies for him used for the adhesion of his personage, the way he chooses the proves, how he trams the arguments, and the progression to make the hierarchy and how it intensifies during the advance of the chapters of the book. To reach this objective, we follow the three principles considered for Koerner: of the contextualization, where it creates the climate opinion, of the immanency, where it analyzes the corpus on the basis of the classic Rhetoric and the adequacy, where it brings up to date the previous analysis, with bedding in a modern theory, the New Rhetoric. After the analysis, we´ve got the results
O tema de nosso estudo é a argumentação na obra de Joaquim Nabuco, O abolicionismo. Seu escopo é o conhecimento dos recursos argumentativos e dos recursos lingüísticos que constroem essa argumentação, aplicando os princípios da Historiografia Lingüística, a saber, a Contextualização, a Imanência e da Adequação. Sempre nos instigou conhecer mais de perto o ilustre brasileiro, Joaquim Nabuco. Na segunda metade do século XIX, em plena efervescência literária, entre outros nomes relevantes, Joaquim Nabuco conseguiu um lugar de proeminência entre seus pares. Esse detalhe, e pelo fato de sua obra não ser tão divulgada como a de outros clássicos de nossa língua, despertou-nos singular atenção e fomos à busca dos elementos que o levaram a tornar-se uma figura expressiva em sua época. Ele escreveu uma obra em defesa da emancipação dos escravos, O abolicionismo, objeto desta pesquisa. Para melhor conhecê-la, propusemos as seguintes questões que direcionaram nosso estudo: Quais foram os recursos argumentativos e lingüísticos usados pelo autor e, com eles, como teria o escritor atingido seu público alvo, o leitor oitocentista? Qual era seu auditório? A linguagem nabuconeana acompanhou os moldes lingüísticos de sua época? Em pleno movimento de liberdade qual o idioma por ele usado o clássico de Portugal ou o dialeto brasileiro? A que corrente literária pertenceu? Sua linguagem pode ser considerada atemporal? Orientados por essas perguntas, procuramos conhecer com mais detalhes sua obra, sobretudo no que concerne às estratégias por ele empregadas para a adesão do seu interlocutor, à maneira como escolhe as provas, como urde argumentos e a progressão como os hierarquiza e intensifica na proporção que os capítulos avançam. Para atingirmos esse objetivo, seguimos os três princípios propostos por Koerner: o da contextualização, em que se cria o clima de opinião, o da imanência, em que se analisa o corpus com base na Retórica clássica a e o da adequação, em que se atualiza a análise feita, com fundamento em uma teoria moderna, a Nova Retórica. Após a análise, concluímos havermos atingido as metas propostas, conhecemos melhor o processo de criação de Joaquim Nabuco, as técnicas argumentativas usadas, as estratégias de convencimento e comprovamos o caráter de universalidade da obra
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Richey-Abbey, Laurel Rhea. "Bush Medicine in the Family Islands: The Medical Ethnobotany of Cat Island and Long Island, Bahamas." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1335445242.
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Buchsbaum, Robert Michael III. "The Surprising Role of Legal Traditions in the Rise of Abolitionism in Great Britain’s Development." Wright State University / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wright1416651480.
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Harris-Birtill, Rosemary. "Mitchell's mandalas : mapping David Mitchell's textual universe." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/12255.
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This study uses the Tibetan mandala, a Buddhist meditation aid and sacred artform, as a secular critical model by which to analyse the complete fictions of author David Mitchell. Discussing his novels, short stories and libretti, this study maps the author's fictions as an interconnected world-system whose re-evaluation of secular belief in galvanising compassionate ethical action is revealed by a critical comparison with the mandala's methods of world-building. Using the mandala as an interpretive tool to critique the author's Buddhist influences, this thesis reads the mandala as a metaphysical map, a fitting medium for mapping the author's ethical worldview. The introduction evaluates critical structures already suggested to describe the author's worlds, and introduces the mandala as an alternative which more fully addresses Mitchell's fictional terrain. Chapter I investigates the mandala's cartographic properties, mapping Mitchell's short stories as integral islandic narratives within his fictional world which, combined, re-evaluate the role of secular belief in galvanising positive ethical action. Chapter II discusses the Tibetan sand mandala in diaspora as a form of performance when created for unfamiliar audiences, reading its cross-cultural deployment in parallel with the regenerative approaches to tragedy in the author's libretti Wake and Sunken Garden. Chapter III identifies Mitchell's use of reincarnation as a form of non-linear temporality that advocates future-facing ethical action in the face of humanitarian crises, reading the reincarnated Marinus as a form of secular bodhisattva. Chapter IV deconstructs the mandala to address its theoretical limitations, identifying the panopticon as its sinister counterpart, and analysing its effects in number9dream. Chapter V shifts this study's use of the mandala from interpretive tool to emerging category, identifying the transferrable traits that form the emerging category of mandalic literature within other post-secular contemporary fictions, discussing works by Michael Ondaatje, Ali Smith, Yann Martel, Will Self, and Margaret Atwood.
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Siegel, Daniela [Verfasser]. "Black Slate : surface alternation due to fungal activity / von Daniela Siegel." 2010. http://d-nb.info/1010318284/34.
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Jensen, Melba P. "Frederick Douglass's “The Heroic Slave”: Text, context, and interpretation." 2005. https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI3179890.
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In November 1852, Frederick Douglass composed The Heroic Slave , a novella about Madison Washington's leadership of the 1841 Creole insurrection. In the novella, Douglass attempted to justify his adoption of political methods to the antislavery community. As literary models for his story, Douglass drew on portraits of heroic slaves in his own autobiography, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave (1845), Harriet B. Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin; Or, Life among the Lowly (1852), Lord Byron's Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (1812–18), and the deposition of the Creole crew, called the “New Orleans Protest” (1841). The result was an intertextual conversation among Douglass, Stowe, Byron, and the Creole crew, which Douglass used to initiate a series of autobiographical revisions. Reading The Heroic Slave as an intertextual conversation offers an alternative to the current practice of assigning this work either to the genre of fiction or to the slave narrative, which has subordinated discussion of the historical context for the story's composition to contemporary attempts to theorize the genre of autobiography. An intertextual reading shows that Douglass was developing a notion of political discourse and action based on friendship as an alternative to Stowe's emphasis on moral reform based on sympathy. Douglass's emphasis on friendship in the novella was, in part, a response to his collaboration with Gerrit Smith, whom he helped elect to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1852, and the novella reflects Douglass's intellectual and professional development from 1847 to 1852, a period to which his latter autobiographies give relatively little attention. Writing a history of Madison Washington's participation in the Creole rebellion for an audience who had, largely, forgotten the event, offered Douglass the opportunity to examine the connection between enslavement and erasure from national history. His novella attempted to reverse this process by presenting Washington's actions as a battle in an ongoing American revolution.
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Mitchell, Willyetta Adele. "Physics instructors are not blank slates either an exploratory study of introductory physics instruction /." 2009. http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/theses/available/etd-07132009-205533/unrestricted/etd.pdf.
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Barker, Hannah. "Egyptian and Italian Merchants in the Black Sea Slave Trade, 1260-1500." Thesis, 2014. https://doi.org/10.7916/D8610XH4.
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The present study examines the merchant networks which exported slaves from the Black Sea to Genoa, Venice, and Cairo from the late thirteenth to the late fifteenth century on the basis of both Arabic and Latin sources. It begins with an explanation of features distinctive to slavery in the medieval Mediterranean, the most important of which was its ideological basis in religious rather than racial difference, as well as a comparison between the Christian and Islamic laws governing slavery. In subsequent chapters it covers the variety of roles played by slaves in Mediterranean society, how the use of individual slaves was shaped by their gender and origin, and the processes which led to the enslavement of people within the Black Sea region. The heart of the project is the fourth chapter, an analysis of the commercial networks which conveyed slaves from the ports of the Black Sea to those of the Mediterranean. This chapter profiles individual merchants who dealt in slaves, traces the routes and identifies the logistical challenges of the slave trade, and analyzes the relative importance of various groups of merchants in supplying the Mediterranean demand for slaves. The next chapter explains the process of finding, inspecting, and buying a slave in the marketplace and how it differed from the purchase of other commodities. The final chapter addresses the place of the Black Sea slave trade in the political and religious context of the late medieval crusade movement. Proponents of the crusades argued that Christian merchants, especially the Genoese, were strengthening the sultan of Egypt to the detriment of the crusaders by supplying him with slaves for military service. The validity of these accusations is examined in light of the sources informing the rest of the study.
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"The nineteenth century slave family in rural Louisiana: its household and community structure." Tulane University, 1985.
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Historians have had much to say about the slave family of the nineteenth century South; it has been the focus of a lively debate for nearly three decades, much of it over the relative stability or instability of the black family under slavery and the degree to which it was matrifocal. They have not, however, utilized to a large degree in reference to the United States slave community and its household and family development the kinds of analytical procedures popularized by the Cambridge Group in England and employed internationally by demographic historians This dissertation presents a study of household composition among rural slaves of Louisiana. The first chapter approximates slave organizational structure through the construction of a model to which other slave populations can be contrasted. This model is based on a sample of 155 slave communities form 1810-1865, representing 10,329 slaves residing in major slaveholding parishes. The records, generally inventories, were gathered from archives, parish records, and private collections. The primary criterion in the selection of communities for the sample was that a firm indication of family and household divisions was provided. The lists were transcribed, computerized, and analyzed according to standard definitions of family household types and the various subcategories within those types. The results of the experiment were further described according to variations existing among the sampled communities according to time, place, and size The major objective of this study was to determine the structure of a large number of Louisianans in bondage, but statistical analysis alone could not provide information on the dynamics of change within these communities except in broad outline. Only an intensive study of several slave communities over time could assess the developmental patterns which are inevitably reflected in domestic arrangements. The latter section of the dissertation is composed of three in-depth case studies of Louisiana slave communities and analyzes how their household structures developed and changed according to internal and external factors. The conclusion summarizes the findings emanating from the larger statistical study and the case studiesacase@tulane.edu
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Connolly, David Hugh Jr. "A question of honor: State character and the Lower South's defense of the African slave trade in Congress, 1789--1807." Thesis, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1911/22201.
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The vehement defense of the African slave trade by Georgia and South Carolina in United States Congress during the trade's constitutionally protected period cannot be fully explained by a Lower South planter concern for the security of slavery. Honor and state character were critical considerations in shaping the arguments raised by Lower South representatives in defense of African importation. Accordingly, the debates were as much about honor and character as they were protection of slavery.
Because of importation, antitrade congressmen attacked the Lower South's character as inconsistent with purported American ideals and republican values. Georgia and South Carolina representatives struggled to reconcile the trade with honorable conduct and the evolving American character by crafting constructions of republicanism, the United States Constitution, and American character that protected state reputation within the national community embodied by the Congress.
The Lower South's proffered interpretations of republicanism, the Constitution, and American character sought to minimize the trade as an appropriate standard by which to judge South Carolina and Georgia. The trade was consistent with republican values as access to slaves was the only means by which the two states could develop their economies and thus gain sufficient economic independence to maintain their equality with the other states. Moreover, this productivity benefited the young nation as a whole through the export of its slave-based agricultural products to world markets.
Lower South representatives argued that the region could not be disparaged morally for importation as the Constitution guaranteed that privilege. They saw anti-trade forces' attacks on moral grounds as an attempt to invest the Constitution with moral standards external to that document which were inappropriate to judging a member of the union by the federal government or other states. The rights provided by the Constitution were the only ones by which the region could be judged with regard.
Georgia and South Carolina possessed an American character in spite of slave importation. Each had participated in the American Revolution and otherwise contributed to the country's well-being. Lower South representatives focused on patriotism and loyalty as the fundamental criteria by which the region should be judged.
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Emode, Ruth. "Possibilities of "Peace": Lévinas's Ethics, Memory, and Black History in Lawrence Hill's The Book of Negroes." Thesis, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1828/4544.
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This thesis interrogates how Lawrence Hill’s The Book of Negroes represents histories of violence ethically by utilizing Emmanuel Lévinas’s philosophy of ethics as a methodology for interpretation. Traditional slave narratives like Olaudah Equiano’s autobiography and postmodern neo-slave narratives like Toni Morrison’s Beloved animate the violence endemic to slavery and colonialism in an effort to emphasize struggles in conscience, the incomprehensible atrocities, and strategies of rebellion. However, this project illustrates how The Book of Negroes supplements these literary goals with Hill’s own imagination of how slaves contested the inhumanities thrust upon them. Through his aesthetic choices as a realist, Hill foregrounds the possibilities of pacifism, singular identities, and altruistic agency through his protagonist Aminata Diallo. These three narrative elements constitute Lévinas’s ethical peace, which means displaying a profound sensitivity towards the historical Other whom imperial discourses and traditional representations of catastrophes in Black history might obscure.Graduate
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Bollettino, Maria Alessandra. "Slavery, war, and Britain's Atlantic empire : black soldiers, sailors, and rebels in the Seven Years' War." Thesis, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/ETD-UT-2009-12-543.
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This work is a social and cultural history of the participation of enslaved and free Blacks in the Seven Years’ War in British America. It is, as well, an intellectual history of the impact of Blacks’ wartime actions upon conceptions of race, slavery, and imperial identity in the British Atlantic world. In addition to offering a fresh analysis of the significance of Britain’s arming of Blacks in the eighteenth century, it represents the first sustained inquiry into Blacks’ experience of this global conflict. It contends that, though their rhetoric might indicate otherwise, neither race nor enslaved status in practice prevented Britons from arming Blacks. In fact, Blacks played the most essential role in martial endeavors precisely where slavery was most fundamental to society. The exigencies of worldwide war transformed a local reliance upon black soldiers for the defense of particular colonies into an imperial dependence upon them for the security of Britain’s Atlantic empire. The events of the Seven Years’ War convinced many Britons that black soldiers were effective and even indispensable in the empire’s tropical colonies, but they also confirmed that not all Blacks could be trusted with arms. This work examines “Tacky’s revolt,” during which more than a thousand slaves exploited the wartime diffusion of Jamaica’s defensive forces to rebel, as a battle of the Seven Years’ War. The experience of insecurity and insurrection during the conflict caused some Britons to question the imperial value of the institution of slavery and to propose that Blacks be transformed from a source of vulnerability as slaves to the key to the empire’s strength in the southern Atlantic as free subjects. While martial service offered some Blacks a means to gain income, skills, a sense of satisfaction, autonomy, community, and even (though rarely) freedom, the majority of Blacks did not personally benefit from their contributions to the British war effort. Despite the pragmatic martial antislavery rhetoric that flourished postwar, in the end the British armed Blacks to perpetuate slavery, not to eradicate it, and an ever more regimented reliance upon black soldiers became a lasting legacy of the Seven Years’ War.text