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Journal articles on the topic "Women slaves – America – History"

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Chira, Adriana. "Affective Debts: Manumission by Grace and the Making of Gradual Emancipation Laws in Cuba, 1817–68." Law and History Review 36, no. 1 (2017): 1–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0738248017000529.

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Drawing on thirty freedom suits from nineteenth-century eastern Cuba, this article explores how some slaves redefined slaveholders' oral promises of manumissions by grace from philanthropic acts into contracts providing a deferred wage payout. Manumissions by grace tended to reward affective labor (loyalty, affection) and to be granted to domestic slaves. Across Cuba, as in other slave societies of Spanish America, through self-purchase, slaves made sustained efforts to monetize the labor that they did by virtue of their ascribed status. The monetization of affective work stands out amongst su

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Wood, Betty. "Some Aspects of Female Resistance to Chattel Slavery in Low Country Georgia, 1763–1815." Historical Journal 30, no. 3 (1987): 603–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0018246x00020902.

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Although often differing dramatically in their methodologies and conclusions, most studies of the slave societies of the American South either draw to a close by the middle years of the eighteenth century or begin their story only in the 1820s and 1830s. Moreover, whilst some scholars have differentiated between particular patterns of black behaviour, as for example between African- and country-born slaves, field hands and domestic slaves, until quite recently comparatively little interest has been shown in delineating the ways in which black women perceived and responded to their status and c

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Dornan, Inge. "“Whoever Takes Her Up, Gives Her 50 Good Lashes, and Deliver Her to Me”." Journal of Global Slavery 6, no. 1 (2021): 131–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2405836x-00601009.

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Abstract This study establishes that women slave-owners were specifically inscribed into South Carolina’s laws on slave management from the first decades of English colonization. Mistresses were explicitly named alongside masters or incorporated into the gender-neutral rubric of owner in a common understanding that absolute ownership and authority over enslaved people was as much rooted in female mastery as male. Remarkably, neither the scholarship on women slave-owners nor the far more voluminous scholarship on American slave laws and slave management have explored, or even acknowledged, how

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Hardesty, Jared Ross. "Disappearing from Abolitionism's Heartland: The Legacy of Slavery and Emancipation in Boston." International Review of Social History 65, S28 (2020): 145–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0020859020000176.

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AbstractThis article examines why Boston's slave and free black population consisted of more than 1,500 people in 1750, but by 1790 Boston was home to only 766 people of African descent. This disappearing act, where the town's black population declined by at least fifty per cent between 1763 and 1790, can only be explained by exploring slavery, abolition, and their legacies in Boston. Slaves were vital to the town's economy, filling skilled positions and providing labor for numerous industries. Using the skills acquired to challenge their enslavement, Afro-Bostonians found freedom during the A

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Restall, Matthew. "2018 Presidential Address: The Trouble with “America”." Ethnohistory 67, no. 1 (2020): 1–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00141801-7888671.

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Abstract This address reflects upon the ethical responsibility of ethnohistorians to consider the ongoing impact of historical depictions of indigenous peoples, in text and image, and our handling of those depictions. The essay draws in particular upon the historical mistreatment and misrepresentation of indigenous women, using Pocahontas and Malinche as examples of distorted icons, referencing the hidden history of the sixteenth-century trade in indigenous sex slaves in the Caribbean and Mesoamerica, and arguing that the Armed Freedom statue atop the US Capitol Building is an allegorical icon

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Geggus, David. "Sex Ratio, Age and Ethnicity in the Atlantic Slave Trade: data from French shipping and plantation records." Journal of African History 30, no. 1 (1989): 23–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021853700030863.

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This article examines the age and sex composition of the Atlantic slave trade in the belief it was of considerable significance in shaping black society in both Africa and the Americas. Focusing on the French slave trade, two main samples are analysed. One is composed of 177,000 slaves transported in French ships during the years 1714–92, which is taken from the Répertoire des expéditions négrières of Jean Mettas and Serge Daget. The other, derived from nearly 400 estate inventories, consists of more than 13,300 Africans who lived on Saint Domingue plantations in the period 1721–97. The result

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Hanger, Kimberly S. "“Desiring Total Tranquility” and Not Getting It: Conflict Involving Free Black Women in Spanish New Orleans." Americas 54, no. 4 (1998): 541–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1007774.

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Colonial New Orleans was a community, like so many others in Latin America, in which the upper sectors desired to maintain order and “toda tranquilidad,” preferably by way of legislation and judicial compromise but through force and authoritarian measures if necessary. Challenges to this tranquility came from those groups considered marginal and thus often subordinated, oppressed, and made generally unhappy with the status quo, among them workers, women, soldiers, slaves, and free blacks (libres). Free black women— the focus of this paper—drew upon multiple experiences as members of several of

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Griffin, Farah Jasmine. "At Last …?: Michelle Obama, Beyoncé, Race & History." Daedalus 140, no. 1 (2011): 131–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/daed_a_00065.

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In this essay, Griffin brings to the fore two extraordinary black women of our age: First Lady Michelle Obama and entertainment mogul Beyonce Knowles. Both women signify change in race relations in America, yet both reveal that the history of racial inequality in this country is far from over. As an Ivy League-educated descendent of slaves, Michelle Obama is not just unfamiliar to the mainstream media and the Washington political scene; during the 2008 presidential campaign, she was vilified as angry and unpatriotic. Beyonce, who controls the direction of her career in a way that pioneering bl

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Zeuske, Michael. "Historiography and Research Problems of Slavery and the Slave Trade in a Global-Historical Perspective." International Review of Social History 57, no. 1 (2012): 87–111. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0020859011000770.

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SummaryThis article takes a global-historical perspective on all slaveries and slave trades (and contraband trading of human bodies) in relation to today's state of capitalist accumulation. It follows the different “national” schools of slavery research in different imperial traditions, as well as the sections of historical thinking stimulated through slavery research. Although legal ownership over humans does not exist any more, more women and men are in conditions of slavery today than in any other period of history since 1200. Against this background, the article criticizes the concentratio

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Feinson, Marjorie Chary. "Where are the Women in the History of Aging?" Social Science History 9, no. 4 (1985): 429–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0145553200015170.

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Many Historians of the social aging process have focused primarily on the experiences of aging white men. A prime example is provided in the seminal work of David Hackett Fischer, Growing Old in America (1978). In tracing the reversal in societal attitudes toward the aged, from gerontocratic to gerontophobic, Fischer argues that the authority of the elders in the eighteenth century was very great (1978: 220). Clearly, he was not referring to women for, as Fischer himself acknowledges, “no one would claim that colonial females exerted much political power.” And obviously, he was not including b

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Women slaves – America – History"

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Zernich, Nicole M. "Physicians, Women, and Slaves: The Professionalization of Medicine in the Long Nineteenth Century." Youngstown State University / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ysu1409821393.

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Weissman-Galler, Nancy. "Scarlett's Sisters: The Privileged Negotiations of Plantation Women." Oberlin College Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 1995. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=oberlin1374238688.

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Abbott, Sherry L. "My Mother Could Send up the Most Powerful Prayer: The Role of African American Slave Women in Evangelical Christianity." Fogler Library, University of Maine, 2003. http://www.library.umaine.edu/theses/pdf/AbbottSL2003.pdf.

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Washington, Clare Johnson. "Women and Resistance in the African Diaspora, with Special Focus on the Caribbean (Trinidad and Tobago) and U.S.A." PDXScholar, 2010. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/137.

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American history has celebrated the involvement of black women in the "underground railroad," but little is said about women's everyday resistance to the institutional constraints and abuses of slavery. Many Americans have probably heard of and know about Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth - two very prominent black female resistance leaders and abolitionists-- but this thesis addresses the lives of some of the less-celebrated and lesser-known (more obscure) women; part of the focus is on the common tasks, relationships, burdens, and leadership roles of these very brave enslaved women. Resista

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Sandeen, Loucynda Elayne. "Who Owns This Body? Enslaved Women's Claim on Themselves." PDXScholar, 2013. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/1492.

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During the antebellum period of U.S. slavery (1830-1861), many people claimed ownership of the enslaved woman's body, both legally and figuratively. The assumption that they were merely property, however, belies the unstable, shifting truths about bodily ownership. This thesis inquires into the gendered specifics and ambiguities of the law, the body, and women under slavery. By examining the particular bodily regulation and exploitation of enslaved women, especially around their reproductive labor, I suggest that new operations of oppression and also of resistance come into focus. The legal st

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Sword, Kirsten Denise. "Wayward wives, runaway slaves and the limits of patriarchal authority in early America." Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI Dissertation Services, 2003. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/53820390.html.

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Hunt, Leslie C. "A Tradition of Doubt: Women and Slavery in Nineteenth-Century Virginia." W&M ScholarWorks, 2001. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539626320.

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Lengyel, Christian M. "Pictures of a Forgotten Past: The Socio-Historic Significance of Wartime Vignettes on Confederate Currency." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1394035940.

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McGinity, Keren R. "Still Jewish : a history of women and intermarriage in America /." Ann Arbor, MI : University Microfilms, 2005. 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:3174645.

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Schmidt, Janeal. "Selfish intentions : Kansas women and divorce in nineteenth century America." Thesis, Manhattan, Kan. : Kansas State University, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/2327.

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Books on the topic "Women slaves – America – History"

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Enslaved women in America: An encyclopedia. Greenwood, 2012.

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Grayson, Sandra M. Black women in antebellum America: Active agents in the fight for freedom. William Monroe Trotter Institute, 1996.

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Jacobs, Harriet A. Life under slavery: Autobiographies of three American slaves. Red and Black Publishers, 2010.

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Beaumont, Gustave de. Marie, or, Slavery in the United States: A novel of Jacksonian America. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999.

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Enslaved women and the art of resistance in antebellum America. Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.

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Mumbet: The life and times of Elizabeth Freeman : the true story of a slave who won her freedom. Avisson Press, 1999.

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Jones, Jacqueline. Race, sex, and self-evident truths: The status of slave women during the era of the American Revolution. Wellesley College. Center for Research on Women, 1986.

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Jones, Jacqueline. Race, sex, and self-evident truths: The status of slave women during the era of the American Revolution. Wellesley College, Center for Research on Women, 1986.

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Jones, Jacqueline. Race, sex, and self-evident truths: The status of slave women during the era of the American Revolution. Wellesley College, Center for Research on Women, 1986.

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Jones, Jacqueline. Race, sex, and self-evident truths: The status of slave women during the era of the American revolution. Wellesley College, 1986.

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Book chapters on the topic "Women slaves – America – History"

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Barr, Juliana. "From Captives to Slaves: Commodifying Indian Women in the Borderlands." In The Best American History Essays 2007. Palgrave Macmillan US, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-06439-4_2.

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Ulloa, Astrid. "Feminisms, Genders, and Indigenous Women in Latin America." In The Routledge History of Latin American Culture. Routledge, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315697253-19.

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Juster, Susan. "Sinners and Saints: Women and Religion in Colonial America." In A Companion to American Women's History. Blackwell Publishing, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9780470998595.ch5.

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Milanich, Nara. "Women, Gender, and Family in Latin America, 1820-2000." In A Companion to Latin American History. Wiley-Blackwell, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781444391633.ch26.

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Scarborough, Elizabeth. "Recognition for women: The problem of linkage." In Aspects of the history of psychology in America: 1892 – 1992. New York Academy of Sciences, 1995. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/10503-007.

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Friedman, Lawrence M. "The Law of Personal Status: Wives, Paupers, and Slaves." In A History of American Law. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190070885.003.0005.

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This chapter discusses the law on marriage and divorce, family property, adoption, poor laws and social welfare, and slavery and African Americans in the United States. In the colonial period, the United States had no courts to handle matters of marriage and divorce. Marriage was a contract—an agreement between a man and a woman. Under the rules of the common law, the country belonged to the whites; and more specifically, it belonged to white men. Women had civil rights but no political rights. There were no formal provisions for adoption. A Massachusetts law, passed in 1851, was one of the earliest, and most significant, general adoption law. The so-called poor laws were the basic welfare laws.

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Avila, Eric. "1. American culture in red, white, and black." In American Cultural History: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/actrade/9780190200589.003.0002.

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“American culture in red, white, and black” explains how diverse Americans planted the seeds of a new national culture during the colonial period, one that took shape through the contributions of people from Europe, Africa, and the Americas. Even as rival colonial powers usurped Indian land, and as Anglo-Americans expanded the institution of slavery in the South, a homegrown American culture took shape that reflected a synthesis of European, African, and indigenous influences. Women also made distinct contributions to this new culture, even as they found limits to their independence and free expression. The growing print culture in colonial America, which saw the publication of newspapers, provided a vital network of communication.

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Oldstone, Michael B. A. "A General Introduction." In Viruses, Plagues, and History. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190056780.003.0001.

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This introductory chapter provides an overview of how viruses have caused geographic, economic, and religious changes. Smallpox alone, in the twentieth century, killed an estimated 300 million individuals, about threefold as many persons as all the wars of that century. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, smallpox killed emperors of Japan and Burma as well as kings and queens of Europe, thereby unseating dynasties, altering control of countries, and disrupting alliances. In addition to propelling the establishment of Christianity in Mexico and Latin America, viruses played a role in enlarging the African slave trade throughout the Americas. In contrast to viruses such as smallpox and measles which are now harnessed by the innovations of healthcare, new viral plagues of fearful proportions have appeared. These include HIV/AIDS, sudden acute respiratory syndrome, Ebola, Zika, and bird flu. This book looks at the history of viruses and virology, which is also the history of the men and women who have worked to combat these diseases.

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Wood, Betty. "Black Women in the Early Americas." In The Cambridge World History of Slavery. Cambridge University Press, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/chol9780521840682.023.

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Griffin, Susan M. "Reading women in America." In The Cambridge History of American Women's Literature. Cambridge University Press, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/chol9781107001374.034.

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