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Sorensen-Gilmour, Caroline. "Badagry 1784-1863 : the political and commercial history of a pre-colonial lagoonside community in south west Nigeria." Thesis, University of Stirling, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/2641.
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By tracing the history of Badagry, from its reconstruction after 1784 until its annexation in 1863, it is possible to trace a number of themes which have implications for the history of the whole 'Slave Coast' and beyond. The enormous impact of the environment in shaping this community and indeed its relations with other communities, plays a vital part in any understanding of the Badagry story. As a place of refuge, Badagry's foundation and subsequent history was shaped by a series of immigrant groups and individuals from Africa and Europe. Its position as an Atlantic and lagoonside port enabled this community to emerge as an important commercial and political force in coastal affairs. However, its very attractions also made it a desirable prize for African and European groups. Badagry's internal situation was equally paradoxical. The fragmented, competitive nature of its population resulted in a weakness of political authority, but also a remarkable flexibility which enabled the town to function politically and commercially in the face of intense internal and external pressures. It was ultimately the erosion of this tenuous balance which caused Badagry to fall into civil war. Conversely, a study of Badagry is vital for any understanding of these influential groups and states. The town's role as host to political refugees such as Adele, an exiled King of Lagos, and commercial refugees, such as the Dutch trader Hendrik Hertogh, had enormous repercussions for the whole area. Badagry's role as an initial point of contact for both the Sierra Leone community and Christianity in Nigeria has, until now, been almost wholly neglected. Furthermore, the port's relations with its latterly more famous neighbours, Lagos, Porto-Novo, Oyo, Dahomey and Abeokuta, sheds further light on the nature of these powers, notably the interdependence of these communities both politically and economically. Badagry's long-standing relationship with Europe and ultimate annexation by Britain is also an area which has been submerged within the Lagos story. But it is evident that the, annexation of Badagry in 1863 was a separate development, which provides further evidence on the nature of nineteenth century British imperialism on the West Coast of Africa.
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Sonoi, Chine. "British romanticism, slavery and the slave trade." Thesis, Nottingham Trent University, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.657618.
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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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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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Knight, Christina Anne. "Performing Passage: Contemporary Artists Stage the Slave Trade." Thesis, Harvard University, 2013. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:11178.
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My dissertation examines the work of George C. Wolfe, August Wilson, Lorna Simpson and Glenn Ligon, theater and visual artists working in the 1980s and 1990s who feature representations of the Middle Passage in their work. Despite their different mediums--Wolfe and Wilson created plays for the proscenium stage and Simpson and Ligon crafted art installations--all four critiqued the racialized social retrenchment of their historical moment by linking it to the slave trade, and each did so through an engagement with black performance traditions.African and African American Studies
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Omuku, S. A. G. "Representations of slavery and the slave trade in the Francophone West African novel." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2013. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1397876/.
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Representations of domestic slavery and the trans-Saharan and transatlantic systems of the slave trade in Francophone West African literature incorporate remembering and forgetting through oral, corporeal and spatial narratives. With respect to the oral epic and the postcolonial novel, this thesis approaches the paucity of literature on slavery and the slave trade from the perspective of cultural memory and trauma theory. Through the presence of the slave voice in the West African oral epics of Segou, Macina, and the Songhay Empire and the use of this genre in the novels of Aminata Sow Fall and Yambo Ouologuem, this thesis explores the notion of the manipulation of oral memory through omission, invention, and fictionalisation, and examines the marginalisation of the slave past and the reclaiming of this record via an alternative slave narrative within the novel. Corporeal narratives of slavery and the slave trade in the novels of Timité Bassori, Ibrahima Ly, Yambo Ouologuem and Ali Zada depict the body both as a site and a memory of slavery. Through the body, slavery is re-enacted by the repetition of the corporeal wound as a manifestation of the physiological and psychological trauma of slavery, and the transmission of that memory through the reproductive capacity of the female body. The novels of M’Barek Ould Beyrouk and Ahmed Yedaly interrogate the concept of ex-slavery in the Sahara with reference to Mauritania, whilst Kangni Alem and Tierno Monénembo navigate transatlantic notions of departure and return within the context of Brazil, specifically Salvador de Bahia. By examining slavery from a geographical perspective, these authors highlight the significance of spatial remembering within a trans-Saharan and transatlantic memory of slavery and the slave trade.
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MacMaster, Thomas Jarvis. "The transformative impact of the slave trade on the Roman World, 580-720." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/22819.
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According to its first great historian, the story of the English Church began in a street market in Rome sometime around 580. There, Bede reported, a young cleric named Gregory joined a large crowd examining what newly arrived merchants had to sell: Dicunt, quia die quadam cum, aduenientibus nuper mercatoribus, multa uenalia in forum fuissent conlata, multi ad emendum confluxissent, et ipsum Gregorium inter alios aduenisse, ac uidisse inter alia pueros uenales positos candidi corporis, ac uenusti uultus, capillorum quoque forma egregia. Quos cum aspiceret, interrogauit, ut aiunt, de qua regione uel terra essent adlati. Dictumque est, quia de Brittania insula, cuius incolae talis essent aspectus. The conversation continued as Gregory quizzed them regarding their religion and homeland, including the part usually summarized as “non Angli, sed Angeli!” The slaves were from Deira and their king was named Ælla; Gregory made further puns on these. Afterward, he went to the Bishop of Rome, begging to be sent as a missionary to the English. Though the Pope was willing to send him, the Roman people would not allow Gregory to leave the city. Eventually, Gregory himself became Pope and dispatched Augustine and his companions to fulfil his ambition. Gregory’s encounter with the angelic slaves has long been one of the most familiar stock-images of English history even though, in the principal source, Bede himself warns that he cannot testify to its veracity as he only knows the story from oral accounts. However, the very strength of an oral tradition makes it seem likely that the idea of English slaves being sold in Rome did not surprise Bede or his audience while, as Pope, Gregory himself wrote instructing his representatives in Marseille to purchase English slaves there. Other written evidence demonstrates that, at the end of the sixth century, there was a movement of slaves from the Anglo- Saxon kingdoms southwards to Gaul as well as a further movement of slaves from Gaul into the Mediterranean world. Whether or not Gregory ever actually had the reported conversation, it was widely seen as likely that slaves from Britain would be offered for sale in Rome. This slave trade across Gaul, as well as a second route along the Atlantic coasts of western Europe, brought a steady supply of goods from the developed economies of the eastern and southern Mediterranean to these western lands while, in return, the peoples of those regions exported both raw materials and other humans. At the time of Gregory’s papacy, this system of exchange linked all the parts of the former Roman Empire. Within little more than a century, however, it had all but disappeared. That trade within the former boundaries of the Roman Empire and its disappearance in the period between the time of Gregory’s visit to the market (roughly 580) and Bede’s recording of it (sometime before 731) is the subject of this thesis. Investigating the slave trade in the long seventh century in the post-Roman world will involve investigations into both slavery and commerce in a period in which neither was static. Instead, the seventh century was an era of rapid and profound change in many things, not least of which were transformations within the slave trade itself. Yet, the slave trade, as argued in this thesis, can be seen as providing a critical framework for understanding the economic and cultural developments of the entire period. The slave trade and its fluctuations may even have been a driving force in some of the enormous social changes of the time that continue to shape the present world. Four principal theses will be advanced and supported through the combination of a reading of the written sources (primarily, though not exclusively, those in Arabic, Greek, and Latin), an examination of relevant archaeological data, and the use of analogous evidence from other periods. These four propositions may be seen as the basis of the overall argument demonstrating 1) that slaves were numerous and that they played a crucial role in the societies of the post-Roman world, 2) that the continuing function of these societies required a greater supply of slaves than could be provided internally, 3) that this resulted in a long-distance slave trade that was a key force in the post-Roman system of exchange in the Mediterranean world, 4) and that the breakdown of this system of trade and of many contacts across the Mediterranean during the seventh century was caused primarily by alterations in the sources of the slave supply of the most developed economies. None of these four has been argued previously though academics have been increasingly examining the pre-modern history of slavery and of the slave trade. Though numerous articles and volumes have looked at particular aspects of slave-systems in the periods immediately before or after, none have examined the slave trading systems of the long seventh century itself. Similarly, those works that do touch on it have been largely concerned with other issues or focussed solely on a single region, whether that is the Byzantine Empire, the British Isles, Spain, Gaul, or the earliest Islamic societies. Older works were similarly limited in geographic scope, with even the broadest concentrating solely on European or Islamic materials. No one has previously attempted to bring together materials from the whole of the post-Roman world in a single coherent account nor has any prior scholarship shown either the ubiquity of slavery in the period or the extent of the slave trade at the time. By putting together these four arguments, an overall thesis that provides an original synthesis and reconciliation between divergent interpretations of the economies of the end of the Roman Empire and the formation of the medieval world will be created.
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Dumas, Paula Elizabeth Sophia. "Defending the slave trade and slavery in Britain in the Era of Abolition, 1783-1833." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/9715.
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This study seeks to explore the nature and activities of the anti-abolitionists in the era of British abolition. There were Britons who actively opposed the idea of abolishing the slave trade and West Indian slavery. They published works promoting and defending the trade and the institution of slavery. They challenged abolitionist assertions and claims about life in the colonies and the nature of the slaves and attacked the sentimental nature of abolitionist rhetoric. Proslavery MPs argued in Parliament for the maintenance of slavery and the slave trade. Members of the West Indian interest formed committees to produce their own propaganda and petitions. They also worked with Parliament to develop strategies to ameliorate slavery and end British slaveholding, whilst securing several more years of plantation labour and financial compensation for slaveholders. Politicians, writers, members of the West Indian interest, and their supporters actively fought to maintain colonial slavery and the prosperity of Britain and the colonies. A wide range of sources has been employed to reveal the true nature of the proslavery arguments advanced in Britain in the era of abolition. These include committee minutes, petitions, pamphlets, reviews, manuals, travel writing, scientific studies, political prints, portraits, poetry and song, plays, and the records of every parliamentary debate on slavery, the slave trade, and the West Indian colonies. Specific proslavery and anti-abolitionist arguments have been identified and analysed using these sources, with some commentary on how the setting or genre potentially impacted on the argument being presented. This analysis reveals that economic, racial, legal, historical, strategic, religious, moral, and humanitarian arguments were all used to counter the growing popularity of abolition and emancipation. Proslavery rhetoric in Parliament is also analysed, revealing an active proslavery side committed to fighting abolition. Overall, this study contributes to our current understanding of the timing, nature, and reception of British abolition in Britain by showing that the process was influenced by a serious debate.
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Wills, Mary. "The Royal Navy and the suppression of the Atlantic slave trade c.1807-1867 : anti-slavery, empire and identity." Thesis, University of Hull, 2012. http://hydra.hull.ac.uk/resources/hull:6885.
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This thesis examines the Royal Navy’s efforts to suppress the transatlantic slave trade between 1807 and the mid-1860s. The role of the West Africa squadron in detaining slave ships embarking from the West African coast was instrumental in the transformation of Britain’s profile from a prolific slave trading nation to the principal emancipator of enslaved Africans. The wider framework for naval suppression encompassed international law, official policy and diplomacy, but at the operational frontline of the campaign were naval personnel. This history of suppression shifts the emphasis from political and diplomatic contexts to the experiences of naval officers tasked with the delivery of the anti-slavery message, positioning them at the heart of Britain’s abolitionist campaign on the West African coast. Through officers’ narratives and personal testimonies – found in letters, journals, report books and diaries – it examines the reactions, relations and encounters of these agents of change, and their contributions to the exchange of information crucial to Britain’s anti-slavery efforts in West Africa. The personal, social and cultural experiences of naval officers provide insight into attitudes towards the key themes of Britain’s abolitionist mission, namely anti-slavery beliefs, burgeoning empire, and national identity. In their responsibilities to confront the human trauma of the slave trade and liberate enslaved Africans, officers engaged with humanitarian ideals and anti-slavery rhetoric. These ideas had significant impact on how they conceived their identity as Britons and the nature of their duty as naval personnel, but could be undermined by their disgust at the conditions of service on the West African coast. Officers were also at the forefront of Britain’s broader anti-slavery assault on shore, intended to reform West African society to European, ‘civilised’ standards. In their encounters with slavery and African peoples, officers faced numerous concerns, including concepts of racial identity, paternalism and the true meanings of freedom.
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Delvaux, Matthew C. "Transregional Slave Networks of the Northern Arc, 700–900 C.E.:." Thesis, Boston College, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/bc-ir:108583.
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Thesis advisor: Robin FlemingThis dissertation charts the movement of slaves from Western Europe, through Scandinavia, and into the frontiers of the Caliphate, a movement which took shape in the early 700s and flourished into the late 800s. The victims of this movement are well attested in texts from either end of their journey, and the movement of everyday things allows us to trace the itineraries they followed. Necklace beads—produced in the east, carried to the north, and worn in the west—serve as proxies for human traffic that traveled the same routes in opposite directions. Attention to this traffic overcomes four impasses—between regional particularism and interregional connectivity; between attention to exchange and focus on production; between privileging textual or material evidence; and between definitions of slavery that obscure practices of enslavement. The introduction outlines problems of studying medieval slavery with regard to transregional approaches to the Middle Ages, the transition to serfdom, and the use of material evidence. Chapter One gathers narrative texts previously dealt with anecdotally to establish patterns for the Viking-Age slave trade, with eastward traffic thriving by the late 800s. Chapter Two confirms these patterns by graphically comparing viking violence to reports of captive taking in the annals and archival documents of Ireland, Francia, and Anglo-Saxon England. Chapter Three investigates how viking captive taking impacted Western societies and the creation of written records in Carolingian Europe. Chapter Four turns to the material record, using beads to trace the intensity and flow of human traffic that fed from early viking violence. Chapter Five establishes a corresponding demand for slaves in the ʿAbbāsid Caliphate through Arabic archival, legal, historical, and geographic texts. The conclusion places this research in the context of global history. By spanning periods, regions, and disciplines, this dissertation brings to focus people who crossed boundaries unwillingly, but whose movements contributed to epochal change
Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2019
Submitted to: Boston College. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Discipline: History
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Jones, Mark. "The mobilisation of public opinion against the slave trade and slavery : popular abolitionism in national and regional politics, 1787-1838." Thesis, University of York, 1998. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/14169/.
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Camargo, Luís Fernando Prestes 1969. "1848 : o grande medo senhorial : o papel da insurgência escrava na abolição do tráfico africano." [s.n.], 2014. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/279745.
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Orientador: Robert Andrew Wayne SlenesDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas
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Resumo: Esta dissertação de mestrado teve como objetivo inicial a compreensão de um plano de rebelião escrava, ocorrido em 1848, em uma série de localidades da região conhecida à época como Oeste Paulista. O ano em que as tentativas de rebelião ocorreram foi marcado pela instabilidade política. No Brasil, conservadores e liberais se digladiavam para tentar impor seu modelo de organização ao país. Na Europa, a Revolução de 1848 derrubou as principais casas monárquicas européias, além de acabar com a escravidão nas colônias francesas. Para complexizar o contexto, os ingleses estavam pressionando a sociedade escravista para que acabasse efetivamente o tráfico africano para o Brasil. Entre a escravatura das mais variadas regiões do país, todo esse complexo contexto político, aliado às formas tradicionais de organização comunitária, os encorajou a tentar obter a liberdade por meio de tentativas de insurreições que foram organizadas. Essas ações políticas da escravatura, embora não tenham alcançado sucesso imediato, criaram um ambiente de grande medo e tensão entre a população, pressionando a sociedade oitocentista a analisar mais profundamente o fim do tráfico africano de escravos
Abstract: This dissertation initially aims to understand a plan for a slave rebellion in 1848, in the region then known as Paulista West. That year was marked by political instability. In Brazil, conservatives and liberals battled for political control. In Europe, the Revolutions of 1848 took down the main monarchist regimes and ended slavery in the French colonies. In addition, England was pressing hard to effectively end the transatlantic slave trade. This unstable and complex political context encouraged many slaves from various regions of Brazil to plan insurrections through traditional forms of community organization. In spite of their immediate and apparent failure, the slaves succeeded to create great fear and tension amongst the general population, pressing the 19th century slavery-based Brazilian society to consider more deeply the prospect of putting an end to the transatlantic slave trade
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Junior, Waldomiro Lourenço da Silva. "Entre a escrita e a prática: direito e escravidão no Brasil e em Cuba, c.1760-1871." Universidade de São Paulo, 2015. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8138/tde-21102015-124324/.
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Esta tese examina o papel do Direito na dinâmica que envolveu a reprodução do sistema de escravidão no Brasil e em Cuba no longo século XIX, a partir do nexo fundamental entre o tráfico transatlântico de escravos e a prática da alforria. Se, por um lado, a ordem jurídica abriu espaço para a ações criativas dos sujeitos históricos vitimados pela escravização, permitindo a reclamação de direitos adquiridos em juízo, especialmente em busca da liberdade, por outro, ela foi um dos elementos estruturantes dos respectivos sistemas de escravidão. Apesar das muitas semelhanças e pontos de contato, a configuração assumida pelos respectivos quadros jurídicos divergiu quanto a tópicos essenciais, especialmente no tocante ao reconhecimento legal do direito dos escravos à alforria onerosa, que se verificou precocemente em Cuba, enquanto que, no Brasil, ocorreu apenas em 1871, com a promulgação da Lei do Ventre Livre. O contraponto verificado não conduz a uma nova dicotomia entre uma escravidão mais branda ou severa do que a outra, mas à compreensão dos traços específicos que envolviam a ordenação do cativeiro e o alcance do protagonismo dos escravos naqueles dois espaços.This thesis analyzes the role of the law in the slave system\'s dynamics in Brazil and Cuba during the long nineteenth century, from the fundamental connection between the transatlantic slave trade and the manumission. The main argument is that, if on the one hand the law created possibilities for the historical subjects victimized by slavery act creatively, seeking freedom in the courts, particularly, on the other, it was part of the structuring elements of those slave systems. Despite the similarities, the configuration assumed by the respective legal frameworks diverged as the essential topics, especially with regard to legal recognition of the right of slaves to the onerous manumission, which occurred early in Cuba, while, in Brazil, only in 1871, with the enactment of the Free Womb Law. The observed counterpoint does not lead to a new dichotomy between a milder and a severe slave system, but the understanding of the specific characters involving the regulation of slavery and the slave agency in those two spaces.
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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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Weimer, Gregory Kent. "Forced Labor and the Land of Liberty: Naval Impressment, the Atlantic Slave Trade, and the British Empire in the Eighteenth Century." Online version, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ysu1197601289.
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Pessi, Bruno Stelmach. "Entre o fim do tráfico e a abolição: a manutenção da escravidão em Pelotas, RS, na segunda metade do século XIX (1850 a 1884)." Universidade de São Paulo, 2012. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8138/tde-11032013-120538/.
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A presente pesquisa tem como principal objeto a escravidão em Pelotas na segunda metade do século XIX. Procurou-se entender como essa instituição se sustentou ao longo dos últimos 35 anos de sua existência, bem como quais foram as modificações ocorridas em decorrência de duas leis abolicionistas, a Lei Eusébio de Queirós e a Lei do Ventre Livre. Além disso, procurou-se entender a escravidão na localidade de forma global, quais eram as características dos plantéis escravos, seu perfil demográfico, como se montaram e se sustentaram, fugindo da exclusividade da charqueada, mas procurando incorporar toda a sociedade escravista pelotense. O uso de fontes de caráter serial e de metodologias do estudo de posse escrava e demografia histórica tornaram possível a verificação de um quadro bem complexo para escravidão local no período estudado. Longe de ser um fornecedor em potencial de escravos para as regiões produtoras de café após o encerramento do tráfico transatlântico, Pelotas demonstrou um esforço para a manutenção da escravidão até praticamente seu fim oficial na década de 1880.The present investigation has as main object the slavery in Pelotas in the second half of the nineteenth century. We sought to understand how this institution was maintained over the last 35 years of its existence, and what were the changes occurring as a result of two abolitionists laws, the Eusebio de Queiroz Law and the Law of Free Womb. In addition, we sought to understand slavery in the locality as a whole, what were the characteristics of slaves groups, their demographic profile, hou it was assembled and maintained, fleeing of the exclusiveness of the charque production, but looking to incorporate all the Pelotas slavery society. The use of serial sources and the slave ownership and historical demography methodologies made it possible to scan a very complex picture for local slavery in the studied period. Far from being a potential supplier of slaves to the coffee growing regions after the close of the transatlantic slave trade, Pelotas showed an effort to maintain slavery until almost its official end in the 1880s.
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Sappington, R. Jay. "Legislative compromise as moral strategy lessons for the pro-life movement from the abolitionism of William Wilberforce /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1998. http://www.tren.com.
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Fernandes, Edson 1962. "A escravidão na fronteira : um estudo da escravidão negra numa "boca do sertão" paulista. Lençóes, 1860-1888 /." Araraquara : [s.n.], 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/93458.
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Orientador(a): Dora Isabel Paiva da CostaBanca: Horácio Gutiérrez
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Resumo: O povoamento da porção ocidental da Província de São Paulo foi um processo que se desenvolveu ao longo do século XIX, conseqüência, em grande parte, do avanço da cultura cafeeira. Os povoados que aí se estabeleceram, com seus acanhados núcleos urbanos e seus inúmeros roçados e fazendas estavam, num primeiro momento, não interligados ao comércio de longa distância, o que fazia com que sua produção se destinasse aos mercados local e regional. Lençóes, vila desmembrada de Botucatu em 1865, não prescindiu do trabalho escravo em suas atividades econômicas. A análise de inventários post-mortem, de livros de notas cartoriais e registros paroquiais permite concluir que algumas características da população escrava desta vila de povoamento mais recente eram semelhantes às de outras áreas também não interligadas ao comércio de exportação. Deste modo, verificou-se em Lençóes uma ampla predominância dos proprietários de pequenos plantéis (de 1 a 5 escravos) que detinham uma pequena parcela da mão-de-obra. Por outro lado, algumas características da população escrava lençoense não eram comuns a outras áreas escravistas brasileiras. Entre elas, encontramos uma maior ocorrência de alforrias onerosas, ou seja, as que envolviam algum tipo de pagamento. Além disso, os preços alcançados pelas mulheres escravas eram, em média, semelhantes aos dos homens num determinado período, durante a década de 1860, resultado das dificuldades de reposição da mão-de-obra cativa e, conseqüentemente, valorização da mulher devido à sua condição de reprodutora
Abstract: The western part of the São Paulo province was settled throughout the 19th century, primarily due to coffee cultivation. Initially, settlements in this region, with its restricted urban areas and its countless fields and farmlands, were not connected to long distance trade, restricting trade to local and regional markets. Lençóes, a village that separated from Botucatu in 1865, did not give up slave labor as part of its economic activities. Through an analysis of post-mortem registers, books of registry offices and parish books we can infer that some later characteristics of the slave population in this village were similar to others that did not conduct export trade. For instance, there was a considerable predominance of small plantation owners (from 1 to 5 slaves) in Lençóes who did only a small amount of manual labor wore. In contrast, some characteristics of the slave population in Lençóes were not the same as in the other Brazilian slaveholding regions. Among them, we can find a wider occurrence of conditional liberations, in other words, liberation of slaves that involved some kind of payment. Moreover, during the 1860s average prices of slave women were similar to those of slave men. Because replacing slave labor was very difficult, the value of slave women increased due to their ability to reproduce.
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TEIXEIRA, Luana. "Comércio interprovincial de escravos em Alagoas no Segundo Reinado." Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, 2016. https://repositorio.ufpe.br/handle/123456789/18741.
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Esta é uma pesquisa em história social dedicada a investigar o comércio interprovincial de escravos na Província de Alagoas, Brasil, nas décadas de 1840, 1850, 1860 e 1870. A partir de documentação de diversas proveniências e de uma metodologia de análise quantitativa e qualitativa busca-se estimar o volume e as dinâmicas do comércio nos dois principais portos da província: Jaraguá (Maceió) e Penedo. Procura demonstrar as semelhanças e especificidades de cada uma dessas praças comerciais do negócio de escravos, identificando os circuitos comerciais que se estabeleciam dentro e fora da província. Trata de analisar o grupo responsável pela transferência de milhares de escravos de Alagoas para outras partes do Império (principalmente Rio de Janeiro) e qual seu papel na economia local. Procura compreender como funcionou o Imposto de Exportação de escravos e como ele proporcionou uma importante fonte de receita para a província. Analisa as características dos escravos que estavam sendo exportados e como estas variaram ao longo das décadas. Visa perceber a experiência de escravos envolvidos no comércio interprovincial e o impacto deste na vida desta população. Investiga a relação entre demanda por direitos e o comércio interprovincial no contexto da legislação vigente nas últimas décadas da escravidão. Por fim, à luz das fontes analisadas e da historiografia sobre o assunto, demonstra que o comércio interprovincial de escravo foi um evento sócio-econômico de relevância na história de Alagoas ao longo do Segundo Reinado.
This is a social history research that focus at the interprovincial slave commerce (domestic slave trade) in Alagoas provincy, Brazil (1840, 1850, 1860 and 1870). It employs varoius sources and a quantitative and qualitative methodology for analysing in the sense to estimate the volume and the dynamics of the interprovincial slave commerce at its most important ports: Maceió and Penedo. It seeks to demonstrate the similarity and the differences in both trading venues, indentifing the commercial channels inside and outside the pronvice. It analysing the goup responsilble for transfer thousands of slaves from Alagoas to another parts of the Empire (primarily Rio de Janeiro) and its role in the local economy. It aims to understand what was the exportation rate of slave and how it became an important source of income to the public coffers. It analyse the exported slaves‟ caracteristics and its variation thorought the decades. It seeks to understand the slaves' “experience” involved in the interprovincial slave trade and the impact on their lifes. It investigate the relation between the demand for rights and the slave commerce within the context of the last decades of slavery in Brazil. Finally, in the light of the sources and the historiography, this thesis argue that the interprovincial slave commerce was a social and economic important event the history of Alagoas at the Second Empire.
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Parron, Tâmis Peixoto. "A política da escravidão na era da liberdade: Estados Unidos, Brasil e Cuba, 1787-1846." Universidade de São Paulo, 2015. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8138/tde-09102015-151621/.
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A expansão e o colapso da escravidão negra nas Américas no século XIX são um dos maiores desafios interpretativos para a historiografia mundial. Ao passo que especialistas costumam abordar a questão por meio de narrativas nacionais, esta Tese apresenta uma história integrada da política da escravidão nos Estados Unidos, na monarquia espanhola e no Império do Brasil desde a Independência dos Estados Unidos até meados do século XIX. Seu principal objetivo consiste em oferecer um enquadramento analítico para a compreensão dos processos mutualmente condicionados entre as conjunturas econômicas globais e os pactos políticos nacionais que levaram à montagem, ao desenvolvimento e à crise da escravidão negra nas Américas.Slavery expansion and its sudden overthrow in the Americas during the nineteenth century remain one of the major challenges to historical interpretation all over the world. While many specialists have approached this question through a national narrative, this study examines it by proposing an encompassing history of the politics of slavery in the United States, the Spanish monarchy and the Brazilian Empire. Its main purpose is to offer an analytical framework to discuss how the mutually conditioned processes of global economic conjunctures and political national compacts led to the rise and fall of slavery in the Americas.
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Fernandes, Edson [UNESP]. "A escravidão na fronteira: um estudo da escravidão negra numa boca do sertão paulista. Lençóes, 1860-1888." Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/93458.
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fernandes_e_me_arafcl.pdf: 580473 bytes, checksum: 963d440fa4b4a54b7a371e5a3128714c (MD5)O povoamento da porção ocidental da Província de São Paulo foi um processo que se desenvolveu ao longo do século XIX, conseqüência, em grande parte, do avanço da cultura cafeeira. Os povoados que aí se estabeleceram, com seus acanhados núcleos urbanos e seus inúmeros roçados e fazendas estavam, num primeiro momento, não interligados ao comércio de longa distância, o que fazia com que sua produção se destinasse aos mercados local e regional. Lençóes, vila desmembrada de Botucatu em 1865, não prescindiu do trabalho escravo em suas atividades econômicas. A análise de inventários post-mortem, de livros de notas cartoriais e registros paroquiais permite concluir que algumas características da população escrava desta vila de povoamento mais recente eram semelhantes às de outras áreas também não interligadas ao comércio de exportação. Deste modo, verificou-se em Lençóes uma ampla predominância dos proprietários de pequenos plantéis (de 1 a 5 escravos) que detinham uma pequena parcela da mão-de-obra. Por outro lado, algumas características da população escrava lençoense não eram comuns a outras áreas escravistas brasileiras. Entre elas, encontramos uma maior ocorrência de alforrias onerosas, ou seja, as que envolviam algum tipo de pagamento. Além disso, os preços alcançados pelas mulheres escravas eram, em média, semelhantes aos dos homens num determinado período, durante a década de 1860, resultado das dificuldades de reposição da mão-de-obra cativa e, conseqüentemente, valorização da mulher devido à sua condição de reprodutora.
The western part of the São Paulo province was settled throughout the 19th century, primarily due to coffee cultivation. Initially, settlements in this region, with its restricted urban areas and its countless fields and farmlands, were not connected to long distance trade, restricting trade to local and regional markets. Lençóes, a village that separated from Botucatu in 1865, did not give up slave labor as part of its economic activities. Through an analysis of post-mortem registers, books of registry offices and parish books we can infer that some later characteristics of the slave population in this village were similar to others that did not conduct export trade. For instance, there was a considerable predominance of small plantation owners (from 1 to 5 slaves) in Lençóes who did only a small amount of manual labor wore. In contrast, some characteristics of the slave population in Lençóes were not the same as in the other Brazilian slaveholding regions. Among them, we can find a wider occurrence of conditional liberations, in other words, liberation of slaves that involved some kind of payment. Moreover, during the 1860s average prices of slave women were similar to those of slave men. Because replacing slave labor was very difficult, the value of slave women increased due to their ability to reproduce.
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Parron, Tâmis Peixoto. "A política da escravidão no império do Brasil, 1826-1865." Universidade de São Paulo, 2009. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8138/tde-04022010-112116/.
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Esta dissertação examina as defesas do tráfico negreiro e da escravidão negra no Império do Brasil entre 1826 e 1865, isto é, desde o início regular do regime representativo no país até o desenlace da Guerra Civil nos Estados Unidos. O corpus documental compreende discursos políticos emitidos na forma de falas parlamentares, pareceres do Conselho de Estado, artigos de jornal, panfletos, memórias, livros e representações municipais e provinciais. Os textos foram interpretados por meio não apenas da análise do discurso, mas também da história social e política, de forma que se verificou seu impacto sobre a intensidade do contrabando negreiro, as articulações partidárias e as relações sociais. O primeiro capítulo aborda os efeitos do convênio antitráfico anglo-brasileiro sobre as relações entre Executivo e Legislativo, bem como as expectativas correntes sobre o fim definitivo do comércio. O segundo estuda sua reabertura sob a forma de contrabando, fundada no apoio sólido de determinados grupos sociais a políticos que o vindicavam (sobretudo, o grupo do Regresso e saquaremas). O seguinte narra as respostas pró-cativeiro dos estadistas imperiais à diplomacia mais agressiva da Grã-Bretanha na década de 1840, enquanto o último afere como os líderes parlamentares, mesmo depois da supressão do contrabando (1850), defenderam a sobrevida da escravidão no Brasil por tempo indeterminado como meio de desenvolvimento nacional.This work studies the defense of slavery and slave trade in Imperial Brazil from 1826 to 1865, since the regular workings of Parliament until the outcome of the Civil War in the United States. It focuses on political discourses such as parliamentary speeches, State Council rulings, journal articles, pamphlets, books and political petitions. These evidences have been interpreted in the field not only of discourse analysis, but also of Social and Political History, in order to verify their impact upon slave trade dynamics, party building and social relations. The first chapter approaches the effects of the Anglo-Brazilian Slave Trade Treaty over Executive and Legislative relations, as well as the widespread conviction that the odious commerce was definitely finished. Chapter two handles its reopening as an illegal activity through articulated actions of particular social groups and members of Parliament (mainly the so-called grupo do Regresso and saquaremas). The following chapter relates the proslavery strategies of imperial politicians to cope with the increasingly more aggressive British diplomacy in the 1840s. The last one shows how parliamentary leaders, even after the slave trade suppression (1850), vindicated the political existence of slavery in Brazil as a means of national development for an indeterminate period of time
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Falheiros, Elaine Santos. "Luís e Antônio Xavier de Jesus: mobilidade social de africanos na Bahia oitocentista." Faculdade de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas, 2013. http://repositorio.ufba.br/ri/handle/ri/17601.
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Esta dissertação discute a trajetória de vida do africano escravizado e liberto na Bahia, Luís Xavier de Jesus, que apesar de não ter comprovada a sua participação no levante dos malês, em 1835,foi expulso do Brasil em novembro daquele ano. Após sua partida para a África, Luís Xavier solicitou, insistentemente, o seu retorno à Bahia, a fim de liquidar seus negócios deixados aos cuidados de seu ex-escravo, o também africano, Antônio Xavier de Jesus. Este, além de ser receptador de cativos enviados ilegalmente por Luís Xavier da costa africana, foi nomeado seu herdeiro universal naquele mesmo ano de 1835, e, com a morte de seu exsenhor, após anos de conflitos e demandas judiciais, Antônio Xavier conseguiu herdar os bens a ele deixados. Também, será discutida a relação de Antônio com Felicidade Francisca Friandes, africana, sua companheira por pelo menos, vinte e seis anos, com quem teve mais de dez filhos. This thesis discusses the life trajectory of Luís Xavier de Jesus, an African enslaved and later freed in Bahia who was accused of participation in the 1835 Malê uprising and, despite his innocence, was expelled from Brazil in November of that year. After leaving, Luís Xavier petitioned several times for his return to the country, aiming at selling off his property, which he had left in under supervision by his African ex-slave by the name of Antônio Xavier de Jesus. Besides receiving captives illegally sent from Africa by Luís Xavier, Antônio was made his universal heir in that same year of 1835, and after Luis‟ death, he spent several years struggling in the courts to obtain control over his ex-master‟s legacy. Furthermore, I will also discuss the relationship between Antônio and Felicidade, his African companion for at least, twenty-six years, with whom he had more than ten Brazilian.
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Sutherland, Samuel S. "Mancipia Dei: Slavery, Servitude, and the Church in Bavaria, 975-1225." The Ohio State University, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu150046157710009.
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Gilman, Daniel. "The Acoustics of Abolition: Recovering the Evangelical Anti–Slave Trade Discourse Through Late-Eighteenth-Century Sermons, Hymns, and Prayers." Thèse, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/24055.
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This thesis explores the late-eighteenth-century movement to end Britain’s transatlantic slave trade through recovering one of the major discourses in favour of abolition, namely that of the evangelical Anglicans. This important intellectual milieu has often been ignored in academia and is discovered through examining the sermons, hymns, and prayers of three influential leaders in this movement: Member of Parliament William Wilberforce, pastor and hymn writer John Newton, and pastor and professor Charles Simeon. Their oral texts reveal that at the heart of their discourse lies the doctrine of Atonement. On this foundation these abolitionists primarily built a vocabulary not of human rights, but of public duty. This duty was both to care for the destitute as individuals and to protect their nation as a whole because they believed that God was the defender of the enslaved and that he would bring providential judgement on those nations that ignored their plight. For the British evangelicals, abolishing the slave trade was not merely a means to avoid impending judgement, but also part of a broader project to prepare the way for Jesus’s imminent return through advancing the work of reconciliation between humankind and God as they believed themselves to be confronting evil in all of its forms. By reconfiguring the evangelical abolitionist arguments within their religious framework and social contexts, this thesis helps overcome the dissonance that separates our world from theirs and makes accessible the eighteenth-century abolitionist discourse of a campaign that continues to resonate with human rights activists and scholars of social change in the twenty-first-century.
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Ramos, Amanda Ciarlo. "Cruzando a linha em tempos de incerteza : crimes de cativos em pelotas no contexto de intensificação do tráfico interno (segunda metade do século XIX)." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/183011.
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O presente trabalho pretende problematizar os crimes de cativos em Pelotas no contexto de intensificação do tráfico interno que caracterizou a segunda metade do século XIX. A partir da análise de processos criminais com cativos como réus e tendo como proposta a abordagem do cotidiano vivenciado pela comunidade cativa, esta pesquisa propõe-se a compreender o padrão de crimes cometidos por trabalhadores escravizados, identificar o perfil dos acusados e suas vítimas, analisar a agência cativa no contexto de incremento do tráfico interno, assim como as disputas existentes entre parceiros de cativeiro, os sentidos de liberdade atribuídos pelos cativos pelotenses, a porosidade entre as fronteira da escravidão e da liberdade e, brevemente, o papel da Justiça no cotidiano escravista da segunda metade do Oitocentos.The present work aims to problematize the captives’ crimes in Pelotas in the context of internal slave trade’s intensification that characterized the second half of the XIX century. From the analyze of criminal processes with captives as defendants and having as proposal the approach of the daily routine experienced by the captive community, this research proposes to comprehend the pattern of crimes committed by enslaved workers, identify the accused’s and victim’s profiles, analyze the captive agency in the increase of the internal slave trade’s context, as the disputes between captivity partners, the liberty’s meanings attributed by the captives in Pelotas, the porosity between the frontiers of slavery and liberty and, briefly, the Justice’s role in slaver’s daily routine in the second half of the XIX century.
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Hoefel, Brian Adam. "Trains, Steamers, and Slavers: The Antebellum Southern Commercial Conventions and American Empire." University of Akron / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1333561407.
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Bowden, Ashley Camille. "Intersections of History, Memory, and “Rememory:” A Comparative Study of Elmina Castle and Williamsburg." The Ohio State University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1250174347.
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Negrão, Alessandra Pellegrino 1986. "Revolta, tráfico e escravidão no Correio Mercantil : Salvador, 1836-1849." [s.n.], 2012. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/282066.
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Orientador: Jefferson CanoDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas
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Resumo: Este trabalho tem como objetivo analisar de que forma o jornal baiano Correio Mercantil, entre os anos de 1836 e 1849, veiculou artigos acerca das revoltas livres e escravas, do tráfico de africanos para o Brasil e da própria escravidão, buscando compreender os interesses políticos que determinaram estas publicações. Para tanto, interessa compreender a influência das rebeliões no período, e de quais maneiras elas foram veiculadas, assim como a relação que foi estabelecida entre as revoltas livres e escravas e a instrumentalização do medo das elites políticas da província em relação à grande quantidade de africanos e da população de cor na Bahia. Importa, também, entender como o Correio compreendia a formação da nação brasileira no contexto pós-independência, especialmente no que tange aos indivíduos que deveriam construir e fazer parte da identidade do Brasil, à condição de cidadania e à instituição escravista. Por fim, é imprescindível analisar de que forma o periódico abordou os debates e os processos decorrentes da lei de 1831, que proibiu o tráfico de africanos para o Brasil, e quais interesses os seus redatores tinham em veicular certos debates e notícias, silenciando outros. Estes eixos de análise foram desenvolvidos no sentido de buscar descortinar as estratégias, tanto de argumentação, quanto de produção, utilizadas pelo Correio Mercantil com a finalidade de defender a manutenção da ordem, da lei, da propriedade e das relações de poder escravistas
Abstract: This work aims to analyze how the Bahia's newspaper Correio Mercantil, between the years of 1836 and 1849, ran articles about the free and slave revolts, the slave trade of Africans to Brazil and of slavery itself, trying to understand the political interests that determined these publications. To this end, we are interested to understand the influence of the rebellions in the period, and the ways in which they were conveyed, as well as the relationship that was established between free and slave revolts and the use of the fear of political elites of the province in relation to the large number of Africans and the colored population in Bahia. It is also important to understand how Correio understood the formation of Brazil in the post-independence, especially in regard to individuals who should build and be part of the identity of Brazil, the condition of citizenship and the institution of slavery. Finally, it is essential to examine how the newspaper approached the debates and proceedings arising from the 1831 law, which prohibited the slave trade to Brazil, and which interests their writers had in certain debates and vehicle news, silencing others. These lines of analysis have been developed in order to unveil the strategies of both arguments and production, used by Correio Mercantil in order to defend the maintenance of order, law, property and power relations of slavery
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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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Berute, Gabriel Santos. "Dos escravos que partem para os portos do sul : características do tráfico negreiro do Rio Grande de São Pedro do Sul, c.1790-c.1825." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/10917.
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O objetivo desta investigação é analisar o tráfico de escravos na Capitania do Rio Grande de São Pedro do Sul, na passagem do século XVIII para o XIX. Duas questões básicas orientaram nossa investigação: a análise das características demográficas dos escravos traficados (sexo, naturalidade, condição e faixa etária) e a caracterização da dinâmica de funcionamento do circuito mercantil (composição dos envios, concentração do tráfico e traficantes envolvidos). Verificou-se que, embora se realizasse apenas na sua etapa interna, o tráfico de escravos da capitania apresentava características semelhantes àquelas observadas nas regiões que participavam diretamente do tráfico atlântico de escravos. Quanto ao perfil demográfico, constatou-se o predomínio dos escravos africanos e uma elevada razão de masculinidade, tanto entre os africanos quanto entre os crioulos.Por outro lado, observou-se que aproximadamente 1/3 dos escravos despachados para o Rio Grande de São Pedro do Sul, entre 1788-1802, tinham entre 10 e 14 anos. No que diz respeito ao circuito mercantil, concluiu-se que o comércio se dava através de pequenos envios e era realizado por um grande número de traficantes eventuais. Estes pequenos comerciantes foram responsáveis pela comercialização de uma parcela importante do total de escravos e pela maior parte dos envios realizados e, deste modo, foram indispensáveis para o funcionamento do mercado negreiro sul-rio-grandense. As principais fontes utilizadas foram as guias de transporte de escravos emitidas pela Provedoria da Fazenda Real, os despachos e passaporte de escravos emitidos pela Polícia da Corte e o Livro de Sisas da Vila do Rio Grande.The objective of this investigation is to analyze the slave trade in Capitania do Rio Grande de São Pedro do Sul, during the passage from the 18th to the 19th century. Two basic subjects guided our investigation: the analysis of the demographic characteristics of traded slaves (sex, naturalness, condition and age) and the characterization of the trading circuit (composition of shipments, trade concentration and traders engaged). It was noticed that, although it took place only internally, the slave trade in capitania presented characteristics similar to the ones observed in the regions which participated directly in the Atlantic slave trade. As to the demographic profile, it was verified a predominance of african slaves and a high percentage of males, both among africans and crioulos. On the other hand, it was observed that approximately 1/3 of the slaves sent to Rio Grande de São Pedro do Sul, between 1788-1802, was between 10 and 14 years old. Concerning the trading circuit, it was concluded that the slave trade took place through small shipments and was accomplished by a high number of eventual traders.These little traders were responsible for the commercialization of the majority of the slaves and of the shipments. This way, they became indispensable to the success of the slave trade in Rio Grande de São Pedro do Sul. The main sources used were the documents of slaves transportation issued by the Provedoria da Real Fazenda; the dispatching and passports of slaves issued by the Polícia da Corte and the Livro de Sisas da Vila do Rio Grande.
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Santos, Elaine Ribeiro da Silva dos. "Barganhando sobrevivências: os trabalhadores centro-africanos da expedição de Henrique de Carvalho à Lunda (1884-1888)." Universidade de São Paulo, 2010. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8138/tde-15082011-084606/.
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Entre os anos de 1884 e 1888, o militar português Henrique Augusto Dias de Carvalho realizou uma grande expedição que partiu de Luanda e atingiu a mussumba (capital) da Lunda, governada pelo muatiânvua. Levava consigo vários objetivos, em parte determinados pelos interesses dos poderes governamentais de Lisboa, em parte por suas aspirações de saber científico. A esta expedição agregaram-se diferentes grupos de africanos, trabalhadores atraídos ou arregimentados que se revelaram responsáveis, em grande parte, pelo andamento da viagem. Tendo como referência a narrativa desta expedição, produzida por Henrique de Carvalho, a presente pesquisa é uma tentativa de reconstituir a história de vida desses homens e mulheres, dimensionando suas experiências a partir do pressuposto de que não foram marginais à organização e êxito do empreendimento português. Inserida a problemática no contexto mais amplo de processos históricos relacionados ao advento da política imperialista na segunda metade do século XIX, a atuação destes trabalhadores africanos foi analisada nos termos em que se rearticularam as formas de exploração do trabalho, acarretadas pelas abolições do tráfico de escravizados e da própria escravidão em regiões africanas. Importou-nos verificar não só as formas de participação de carregadores, guias e intérpretes na expedição de Henrique Carvalho, como também as respostas dadas por parte dos diferentes grupos africanos às formas de trabalho às quais se encontravam submetidos. Sob tal perspectiva, a investigação sobre a vivência destes trabalhadores, tal como registrada na obra do militar português, foi uma proposta de perscrutar resistências por meio do entendimento das suas noções de direitos e de deveres, formas de organização de tarefas, práticas cotidianas, estratégias no trato com as autoridades africanas e com o comando da expedição.Between the years 1884 and 1888, the Portuguese military Henrique Augusto Dias de Carvalho made a great expedition from Luanda and reached mussumba (capital) of Lunda, governed by Muatianvua. He took with him several objectives, determined in part by the interests of the governmental powers of Lisbon, in part because their aspirations for scientific knowledge. In this expedition were added to different groups of Africans, lured or recruited workers who have proved responsible in large part by the progress of the trip. With reference to the narrative of this expedition, produced by Henrique de Carvalho, the present research is an attempt to reconstruct the life story of these men and women, measuring their experiences from the assumption that there were not marginal to the organization and success of the enterprise Portuguese. Set on the issue in the broader context of historical processes related to the advent of the imperialist policy in the second half of the nineteenth century, the role of African workers was analyzed in terms of what is rearticulate forms of exploitation of labor, brought about by the abolition of the slave trade and of slavery itself in African regions. Matters to us verify not only the forms of participation of porters, guides and interpreters in the expedition of Henrique de Carvalho, as well as the answers given by the various African groups the types of work for which they were submitted. From this perspective, the research about the experience of these workers, as recorded in the work of the Portuguese military, was a proposal for analyzing resistance through understanding of their notions of rights and duties, organizational tasks, daily practices, strategies in dealing with the African authorities and the command of the expedition.
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Abu, alkhir Saleh. "La traite des esclaves noirs en Lybie dans les temps modernes." Thesis, Lyon, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016LYSE2041/document.
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Cette thèse, sur la traite des esclaves noirs en Libye, dans les temps modernes, en particulier aux XVIIIe et XIXe siècles, a nécessité une recherche à partir de questions telles que : quelles sont les origines et les catégories des esclaves noirs qui arrivèrent en Libye ? Les divers prix pratiqués ? Les stations commerçantes les plus importantes du Sahara ? Les routes caravanières empruntées pour le transport des esclaves vers l’Afrique du Nord et plus particulièrement la Libye ? La thèse porte sur les principaux marchés libyens, les méthodes d’achat et de vente, les prix des esclaves, les impôts, les douanes. La Libye a servi, en premier lieu, de plaque tournante pour l’exportation des esclaves vers d’autres destinations et notre étude s’est attachée à ses ports d’où partaient les esclaves en direction de l’Egypte, de l’Empire ottoman, du Levant et des pays du Maghreb. La thèse met aussi l’accent sur la vie sociale des esclaves, leurs rituels religieux, leurs traditions et coutumes, leur habitat, leurs relations avec leurs maîtres, leur intégration dans la communauté libyenne et musulmane jusqu’à en faire partie, le point de vue de la société libyenne sur ce phénomène de l’esclavage. La dernière partie de la thèse aborde la diminution du phénomène de l’esclavage en Libye, puis l’interdiction et l’abolition du commerce à partir de la pression internationale exercée sur l’Empire ottoman. Une évaluation est faite sur la qualité des mesures gouvernementales à cet égard, à travers un récit historique des évènements jusqu’à la fin du commerce à partir de l’occupation italienne, en 1911This thesis is about the black slaves’ trade in Libya in the modern era especially in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It illustrates a range of research issues such as, the sources of black slaves which came to Libya, its types and prices, the important commercial stations in the desert, the routes of the caravans which carried the slaves to North Africa and to Libya in particular. The research study comes across the most important markets on the Libyan soil, the methods of purchasing and buying, the slaves’ prices, the taxes and the customs. Hence, Libya was the area of re-exporting the slaves in the first place, the theses will mention the important exporting harbours and the important destinations such as Egypt, the Ottoman State (Turkey), and the Levant and the Maghreb countries. The thesis extends its scope to cover the social life of the slaves, their religious rituals, their customs and traditions, their houses, their relationships with their masters, the perception of the Libyan society to the slave phenomenon until they become an important component of the Libyan society and the Islamic societies in general. The last part of the thesis deals with the history of abolition of the slave trade and the disappearance of the slave phenomenon totally in Libya. This will be done by following the sequence of events starting with the international pressure on the Ottoman Empire for the abolition of slavery, the assessment of the seriousness of the governmental measures (procedures) and recalling the historical events until the end of the slave trade by the Italian occupation to Libya in 1911
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Greenwald, Erin Michelle. "Company Towns and Tropical Baptisms: From Lorient to Louisiana on a French Atlantic Circuit." The Ohio State University, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1306442070.
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Freire, Jonis. "Escravidão e familia escrava na Zona da Mata Mineira oitocentista." [s.n.], 2009. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/280898.
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Orientador: Robert Wayne Andrew SlenesTese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Filosofia e Ciencias Humanas
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Resumo O objetivo deste trabalho é estudar as relações familiares e de parentesco dos escravos em Juiz de Fora, região de plantation na Zona da Mata Mineira, no decorrer dos oitocentos. Para tanto, foi feito o intercruzamento de fontes variadas relativas aos mesmos grupos de cativos pertencentes a três famílias abastadas, procurando sempre que possível acompanhar esses escravizados ao longo do tempo. Houve a preocupação de investigar as famílias senhoriais proprietárias desses cativos. Analisamos como se deu a manutenção e/ou a ampliação das posses cativas, se por meio do tráfico e/ou da reprodução natural, fatores que influenciavam a formação das famílias escravas. Da mesma forma, procuramos avançar um pouco mais na compreensão das relações familiares dos cativos e de sua estabilidade, bem como na avaliação da importância da família escrava para os projetos de obtenção da liberdade por meio da alforria
Abstract The object of this thesis was to study the family relationships of slaves in Juiz de Fora, a plantation area in the region of the Zona da Mata Mineira, during the nineteenth century. This was done by cross-referencing various sources relating to the slaves of three well-to-do families, trying always to follow these bondspeople over time. The examination of the slave-owning families was also of concern. We have analyzed how slave holdings were maintained and/or increased, whether though the slave trade and/or by natural reproduction, factors that influenced the formation of slave families. In addition, we tried to advance our knowledge of the family relationships of the slaves and of their stability, as well as assess the importance of the slave family for the project of obtaining freedom through manumission
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Armenteros, Martínez Iván. "La esclavitud en Barcelona a fines de la Edad Media (1479-1516). El impacto de la primera trata atlántica en un mercado tradicional de esclavos." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Barcelona, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/95887.
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El objetivo de esta tesis doctoral es analizar y evaluar, desde una perspectiva demográfica, económica y social, el impacto de un nuevo modelo de esclavitud, el de la primera trata negrera, en un mercado tradicional de esclavos enraizado en la experiencia medieval, pero adaptado al contexto atlántico.
Como muchas otras ciudades ibéricas, Barcelona vivió la llegada de un nuevo grupo de población hasta entonces desconocido, el esclavo negro procedente de las costas mauritanas, senegambianas y guineanas, y la abrupta desaparición de quienes habían sido cautivos en las comunidades del Mediterráneo occidental cristiano desde mediados del siglo XIV, mujeres y hombres orientales, eslavos y balcánicos. Y todo ello en un período, el reinado de Fernando II (1479-1516), en el que la llegada intermitente de cautivos musulmanes se mantuvo constante, únicamente estimulada tras las conquistas de Granada, Bugía, Orán y Trípoli, haciendo de los sarracenos el segundo colectivo en importancia numérica entre las poblaciones esclavas de las principales ciudades ibéricas.
La investigación se divide en dos volúmenes. El segundo recoge buena parte de la documentación utilizada para la elaboración de este trabajo, tanto en forma de regento como incluyendo las transcripciones de los textos más significativos. Por su parte, el primer volumen se estructura en dos mitades. La primera aborda el desarrollo de la esclavitud en Europa occidental desde la antigüedad clásica hasta la irrupción de la trata negrera, analizando diversos aspectos que ayudan a comprender la evolución de la esclavitud desde una perspectiva diacrónica en la que no hubo rupturas pero sí modificaciones sustanciales. La segunda parte se dedica al análisis del fenómeno de la esclavitud en la Barcelona del renacimiento. Partiendo de una visión de conjunto sobre el desarrollo de la esclavitud durante los siglos XIV y XV, y después de abordar las consecuencias económicas, sociales y políticas de la guerra civil catalana (1462-1472), así como los efectos de la política fernandina que conduciría hacia la recuperación económica, esta segunda parte disecciona el modelo de esclavitud desarrollado en la Barcelona de fines de la Edad Media desde diversas perspectivas. En primer lugar, las características demográficas de la población esclava y liberta son analizadas atendiendo al ritmo de la llegada de los cautivos para abordar, después, cada una de las variables que definieron a los hombres y las mujeres esclavizados. A continuación, se proponen una serie de explicaciones sobre la dinámica del abastecimiento tratando de profundizar en los medios de los que se sirvió la ciudad catalana para acceder a las redes de distribución de la primera trata atlántica. Asimismo, se disecciona el funcionamiento del mercado de la Barcelona del renacimiento atendiendo a la variedad de las operaciones de tipo económico en las que podía intervenir un cautivo y a los perfiles socioprofesionales de los dueños de los esclavos. Finalmente, el último apartado sitúa en el centro del análisis al cautivo. Desde esta perspectiva, son abordadas las distintas formas con las que la comunidad libre aprovechó su capacidad para el trabajo y se analizan los distintos caminos que tomó el proceso de la socialización, muchas veces condicionado por el tipo de relación establecido entre amo y esclavo. Por último, las páginas finales de la tesis doctoral examinan la cofradía de esclavos y libertos negros de Sant Jaume, una de las primeras asociaciones de este tipo que se conocen, y la proliferación de hermandades negras en el sur de Europa occidental, claro síntoma de la importancia que la trata atlántica llegó a alcanzar en el Viejo Continente.SLAVERY IN LATE-MEDIEVAL BARCELONA (1479-1516). THE IMPACT OF THE FIRST ATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE IN A TRADITIONAL SLAVE MARKET The aim of this thesis is to analyze and evaluate, from a demographic, economic and social perspective, the impact of a new model of slavery; that of the Atlantic slave trade in a traditional market rooted in the medieval experience, but adapted to the Atlantic context. The study consists of two volumes. The second includes most of the documentation used for the research, while the former is further divided into two parts. The first one deals with the development of slavery in Western Europe from Antiquity to the emergence of the Atlantic slave trade (mid 15th century), analyzing various aspects that help us understand the evolution of slavery from a diachronic perspective. The second part is devoted to the analysis of the phenomenon of slavery in Renaissance Barcelona from different perspectives. First, the demographic characteristics of the slave and freed population are analyzed, taking into account the rate of the captives brought to the city and the variables that defined men and women enslaved, such as colour, age and origin. Then, we examine the dynamics of supply, stressing the role played by Catalan merchants and their interrelation in the first Atlantic slave trade networks. The running of the market of Renaissance Barcelona is analyzed as well, paying attention to the variety of economic operations in which a slaved person could be involved, and the socio-professional profiles of the owners. Finally, the last chapter places the slave in the center of the analysis. From this perspective, the ways that the free community exploited work capacities of enslaved people, and the different paths that the socialization process took, are examined. The last pages of the thesis are devoted to the study of the black brotherhood of "Sant Jaume", one of the first black associations of the Iberian Peninsula, founded in 1455, and the proliferation of black brotherhoods in South Western Europe.
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Greenfield-Liebst, Michelle. "Livelihood and status struggles in the mission stations of the Universities' Mission to Central Africa (UMCA), north-eastern Tanzania and Zanzibar, 1864-1926." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2017. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/270105.
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This thesis is about the social, political, and economic interactions that took place in and around the Universities’ Mission to Central Africa (UMCA) in two very different regions: north-eastern Tanzania and Zanzibar. The mission was for much of the period a space in which people could – often inventively – make a living through education, employment, and patronage. Indeed, particularly in the period preceding British colonial rule, most Christians were mission employees (usually teachers) and their families. Being Christian was, in one sense, a livelihood. In this era before the British altered the political economy, education had only limited appeal, while the teaching profession was not highly esteemed by Africans, although it offered some teachers the security and status of a regular income. From the 1860s to the 1910s, the UMCA did not offer clear trajectories for most of the Africans interacting with it in search of a better life. Markers of coastal sophistication, such as clothing or Swahili fluency, had greater social currency, while the coast remained a prime source of paid employment, often preferable to conditions offered by the mission. By the end of the period, Christians were at a social and economic advantage by virtue of their access to formal institutional education. This was a major shift and schooling became an obvious trajectory for future employment and economic mobility. Converts, many of whom came from marginal social 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.
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Cournil, Mélanie. "De la pratique esclavagiste aux campagnes abolitionnistes : une Ecosse en quête d'identité, XVII-XIX siècles." Thesis, Lyon, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016LYSE2043.
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Ce travail de thèse a pour but d’étudier le degré d’implication des Écossais dans le système esclavagiste britannique graduellement mis en place dans les colonies du Nouveau Monde à partir du XVIIe siècle. Dans la lignée de publications récentes témoignant d’un intérêt grandissant pour la question, il vise à mettre au jour un pan problématique de l’histoire écossaise, qui trouve un écho particulier dans les discussions actuelles sur l’identité nationale écossaise. Cette thèse s’attarde ainsi sur le rôle particulier joué par les Écossais dans le développement économique de la traite négrière et au sein des sociétés esclavagistes des Antilles britanniques. Ce travail de recherche s’intéresse également à l’émergence des idées abolitionnistes en Grande-Bretagne au début du XIXe siècle et à la place des Écossais dans ce grand débat sociétal. L’enjeu de cette thèse est de déterminer s’il existait une spécificité de comportement, d’idéologie, dans le rôle joué par les Écossais au sein du système esclavagiste et dans les campagnes abolitionnistes dans le contexte impérial post-Union. Cette démarche ne s’inscrit pas dans la volonté clivante de singulariser les Écossais, mais de remettre en question l’homogénéité des notions d’« esclavagisme britannique » et d’ « abolitionnisme britannique ». Selon une approche chronologique, ce travail de recherche s’organise en trois mouvements. La première partie s’articule autour de la genèse d’une idéologie impériale écossaise, s’appuyant sur une conception économique esclavagiste. La seconde partie s’attarde sur la réalité du système esclavagiste dans les colonies et la place des colons écossais tandis que la dernière partie revient sur l’apport philosophique, idéologique et politique des Écossais dans les campagnes abolitionnistes britanniques et sur leur inclusion dans un projet à l’identité britannique très affirméeThis dissertation explores the scope of the Scottish involvement in the British slave system that was implemented in the colonies of the New World from the 17th century onwards. In the wake of recent research revealing a growing interest for this specific issue, it aims at examining a problematic aspect of Scotland’s history, shedding some new light on the current debate about national identity in Scotland. This thesis dwells on the particular role played by the Scots in the economic development of the African slave trade and their participation in slave societies in the West Indies. This research also takes interest in the emergence of abolitionist ideas in Great Britain at the beginning of the 19th century and the part Scottish people played in the national debate. The main purpose is to determine whether there existed a Scottish specificity, regarding behaviours and ideology, in the British slave system and in the British abolitionist movement within the post-Union imperial context. The intent is not to single Scottish people out but rather to question the relevance of concepts such as « British slavery » and « British abolitionism ».Adopting a chronological approach, this thesis consists of three parts. First, it revolves around the development of the Scottish imperial ideology and of a colonial economic conception based on slavery. The second part dwells on the harsh reality of the slave system in the colonies and the role Scottish colonists played in it. Finally, the thesis tackles the philosophical, ideological and political contribution of Scottish people to the British abolitionist campaigns and examines their inclusion within this British scheme
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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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Cartaya, Jorge E. "Listening/Reading for Disremembered Voices: Additive Archival Representation and the Zong Massacre of 1781." FIU Digital Commons, 2017. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/3187.
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This thesis grapples with questions surrounding representation, mourning, and responsibility in relation to two literary representations of the ZONG massacre of 1781. These texts are M. NourbeSe Philip’s ZONG! and Fred D’Aguiar’s FEEDING THE GHOSTS. The only extant archival document—a record of the insurance dispute which ensued as a consequence of the massacre—does not represent the drowned as victims, nor can it represent the magnitude of the atrocity. As such, this thesis posits that the archival gaps or silences from which the captives’ voices are missing become spaces of possibility for additive representation. This thesis also examines the role voice and sound play in these literary texts and the deconstructive-ethical philosophies of Jean-Luc Nancy and Jacques Derrida. This thesis argues that these texts invoke the sonic materiality of voice in the service of responding to the disremembered dead through mourning and acknowledgment.
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Ojo, Olatunji. "Warfare, slavery and the transformation of Eastern Yorubaland c.1820-1900 /." 2003.
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Thesis (Ph.D.)--York University, 2003. Graduate Programme in History.Typescript. Includes bibliographical references. Also available on the Internet. MODE OF ACCESS via web browser by entering the following URL: http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url%5Fver=Z39.88-2004&res%5Fdat=xri:pqdiss &rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:NQ99219
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Montana, Ismael Musah. "The trans-Saharan slave trade, abolition of slavery and transformations in the North African Regency of Tunis, 1759-1846 /." 2007. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:NR29512.
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Thesis (Ph.D.)--York University, 2007. Graduate Programme in History.Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves236-252). Also available on the Internet. MODE OF ACCESS via web browser by entering the following URL: http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:NR29512
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Candido, Mariana Pinho. "Enslaving frontiers : slavery, trade and identity in Benguela, 1780-1850 /." 2006. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:NR19794.
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Thesis (Ph.D.)--York University, 2006. Graduate Programme in History.Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 275-310). Also available on the Internet. MODE OF ACCESS via web browser by entering the following URL: http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:NR19794
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Barragan, Yesenia. "To The Mine I Will Not Go: Freedom and Emancipation on the Colombian Pacific, 1821-1852." Thesis, 2016. https://doi.org/10.7916/D8R211DQ.
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This dissertation tells the story of the abolition of chattel slavery in Colombia, currently the country with the third largest population of African descent in the Western Hemisphere (after the United States and Brazil). In Colombia, as in the vast majority of Latin American nations and the northern United States, the abolition of slavery occurred through a gradual emancipation law. Enacted in 1821 in the aftermath of the Wars of Independence against Spanish colonial rule, this law banned the international slave trade, established local civic councils to manumit “deserving” slaves, and included a Free Womb law that declared the children of slave mothers to be born free, yet bonded them to their mothers’ masters until the age of adulthood. My project unravels the struggles over freedom and bondage during this protracted process of gradual emancipation in the households, courtrooms, streets, and gold mines of the Pacific Coast of Colombia, the region with the highest concentration of slaves and the gold mining center of the former Spanish Empire. "To The Mine I Will Not Go" fundamentally rethinks the nineteenth century project of emancipation by arguing that the freedom generated through the gradual abolition of slavery constituted a modern form of rule that paradoxically birthed new forms of racial domination while consolidating de facto slavery.
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Arena, Carolyn Marie. "Indian Slaves from Caribana: Trade and Labor in the Seventeenth-Century Caribbean." Thesis, 2017. https://doi.org/10.7916/D8H132KM.
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Indigenous resistance made Caribbean colonization a slow and violent process in the period of 1580-1690. The Caribbean Indians who rejected colonization became targets for enslavement. Slavers captured indigenous people in raids or through trade within indigenous-dominated territories. I conceptualize this space as "Caribana." Geographically, it stretched from Guiana northward throughout islands of the Lesser Antilles. I focus on the Indigenous captives from Caribana who were enslaved in English and Dutch colonies, namely Barbados, Curaçao, and Suriname. I show how colonists justified enslaving indigenous people in the same manner as they justified the trans-Atlantic African slave trade, despite widespread taboos against the former practice and not the latter. These taboos did not prevent Indian slavery, but they influenced the creation of seventeenth-century histories, government reports, and other material for public and European consumption. Indian slavery has thus been written about, then and now, as a limited phenomenon wherein Indians had limited and specific labor roles (i.e. as fishermen or domestic servants). However, sources such as deeds and tax-rolls show that more Indian slaves than assumed contributed a broad range of skills to plantations economies. English Barbados was exceptionally successful because it was geographically separated from the conflicts that created captives in Caribana, but nevertheless extracted Indian slaves from the region. Meanwhile, colonies abutting Caribana, such as Suriname, faced trade sanctions from neighboring Indians and rebellions if they abused the Indian slave trade. From the 1670s-1690s, Colonial governments limited the means of accessing Indian slaves, but once enslaved, they faced the same restrictive "black codes" that allowed the brutal treatment of them as inheritable chattel.
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Oduwobi, Oluyomi Abayoni. "Representations of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade in selected contemporary narratives." Thesis, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/11602/746.
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Taylor, Timothy F. "Believing the Ancients: Quantitative and Qualitative Dimensions of Slavery and the Slave Trade in Later Prehistoric Eurasia." 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10454/2668.
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"Modes of Transnationalism and Black Revisionist History: Slavery, The Transatlantic Slave Trade and Abolition in 18th and 19th Century German Literature." Doctoral diss., 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.62837.
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abstract: This study explores the eighteenth-century and nineteenth-century German dramatic genre Sklavenstücke (slave plays). These plays, which until recently have not received any significant attention in scholarship, articulate a nuanced critique of slavery and the transatlantic slave trade and thus bear witness to an early German-language discourse indicative of abolitionist currents.Tracing individual acts of German-language abolitionism, I investigate the correlation between abolitionist movements in the Euro-American space and German involvements in these very efforts. In this sense, I contest the notion of an absence of German abolitionist awareness in Europe during the Age of Enlightenment. My reading of these slave plays contributes to discussions about the transcultural nature of abolitionist discourse and defies the notion that abolitionist activism only emerged within the specific nation-states that have previously been the subject of scholarship. Challenging this layering both theoretically and analytically, then, requires an innovative shift that centers approaches rooted in Black thought and theories, which are the foundation of this study. These concepts are necessary for engaging with issues of slavery and abolition while at the same time exposing white paternalist perspectives and gazes. Plays of this genre often foreground the horrors of slavery at the hands of cruel white slaveholders, and characterize enslaved Black Africans as unblemished, obedient, submissive, hard-working, and grateful “beings” deserving of humanitarian benevolence. Based on these sentiments, an overarching discourse opposing slavery and the transatlantic slave trade emerged by way of German-language theatrical plays, theoretical treatises, newspaper articles, academic writings, travelogues, diary entries, and journal articles that negotiated the nature, origin, and legitimacy of Black African humanity around debates on slavery. Thus, my study demonstrates that these German-language literary contributions indicate inscribed socio-critical commentary and take up transatlantic abolitionist discourses, a dialogue that surfaced under the auspices of the Enlightenment.Dissertation/Thesis
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Osinubi, Taiwo Adetunji. "Argonauts of the black Atlantic : representing slavery, modernity, and the colonising moment." Thesis, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/18222.
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This dissertation is a comparative analysis of the uses of tropes of marginality in
American, Caribbean, British, and African fiction that engages with the aftermaths of the
trans-Atlantic slave trade and slavery. This study begins by exploring the utility of the
frame of Paul Gilroy's concept of the "black Atlantic" as a heuristic model for
understanding encounters with slavery and the slave trade as phases of an emerging
capitalist modernity. I suggest that, within this heuristic framework, marginality is
always variable, contingent and changing. Several positions of marginality might even
emerge in conflict with each other, since the ideological deployments of slavery in the
U.S., the Caribbean, and in African countries are not always in concert. In fact, it is
through the study of conflicts and tensions between such seemingly unified marginalities
that their differences become discernible. As a result, the common theme in the texts I
examine is the need to create communities of listeners who can discern the
transformations of the colonising moment in the disparate sites of the diaspora. The
practice of listening is a step in apprehending the forms of marginalisation and occlusions
of the violence of colonisation that continue at different sites.
In the five chapters of this dissertation, I read stories by Edgar Allan Poe and
Herman Melville, and novels by Richard Wright, Toni Morrison, Caryl Phillips, Maryse
Conde, Joseph Conrad, Ayi Kwei Armah, Amos Tutuola, Yaw Boateng, and Syl Cheney-
Coker. I focus, particularly, on the use of animals, spatial boundaries, literacy, orality,
and tropes of listening in the selected texts. I show that these authors use the opposition
of visual and aural metaphors to draw attention to the limits of their characters'
knowledge in order to highlight the situatedness of each character in processes of
marginalisation that continue to unfold. Further, as much as these narratives excavate the
afterlives of slavery, they are also engaged in the task of differentiating them in order to
identify the necessary site-specific tasks of reparation or repair.Arts, Faculty of
English, Department of
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Foucher, Maxime. "La France - la race - les colonies : une analyse historiographique en trois temps." Thèse, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/11977.
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Ce mémoire a pour objectif d’analyser et de répertorier les productions historiographiques sur la race et le racisme dans l’Atlantique français au XVIIIe siècle. À travers nos lectures, nous avons pu constater que l’historiographie sur les colonies françaises, de plus en plus abondante, et l’approche privilégiant l’espace atlantique ont pris beaucoup d’importance depuis les vingt dernières années et cela a grandement influencé notre choix de diviser les productions historiographiques en trois catégories qui seront les trois chapitres de ce mémoire. Dans un premier temps, nous traiterons des travaux portant plus spécifiquement sur la race et le racisme où nous présenterons le débat quant à l’origine temporelle du racisme. Par la suite, nous présenterons certains travaux en histoire de l’esclavage dans l’Atlantique français qui relient le développement de l’esclavage et celui de la pensée raciale. Finalement, nous aborderons la question du racisme dans la métropole française au XVIIIe siècle en analysant les études qui ont été faites sur les questions des minorités noires et juives en France ainsi que les études sur la question coloniale à l’heure de la Révolution française. Par ailleurs, nous allons aussi présenter le désaccord qu’il y a entre les historiens quant à l’authenticité de la croyance des philosophes des Lumières en leur idéologie prônant la tolérance. Avec les nouvelles productions en histoire atlantique, il est évident que la conception de la race en France est le résultat d’une multitude de facteurs : culturels, scientifiques, économiques et politiques.This thesis aims to analyse and categorize the historiography on race and racism in the French Atlantic in the eighteenth century. The increasing weight of historical productions on the colonies and especially on the French Atlantic in the past 20 years is clear and influenced our decision to divide the historiography into three categories corresponding to the three chapters of this thesis. First, we will discuss the work relating more specifically to race and racism and present the debate concerning the period in which racism first arose. Second, we will present historical works on the intersection of slavery and race in the French Atlantic. Finally, we will address the issue of racism in the French metropolis in the eighteenth century by analyzing studies concerning Black and Jewish minorities in France, on political debates during the French Revolution and on race in Enlightenment thought. Taken together, these studies show that ideas about race in France were the result of a multitude of factors, from scientific and intellectual to economic and political.