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Mustakeem, Sowande'. "'Make haste & let me see you with a good cargo of Negroes' gender, health, and violence in the eighteenth century Middle Passage /." Diss., Connect to online resource - MSU authorized users, 2008.
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Rule, Karen Louise. "Thomas Thistlewood and women slaves." Thesis, University of Canterbury. Department of History, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/4674.
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The diary of Thomas Thistlewood, 1750 to 1786, provides us
with a case study in which to assess the nature of eighteenth
century Jamaica. The level of interaction that Thistlewood has
with the slave community means that we are able to build up a
picture not only of white, but also slave society. The diary
shows that a continuum existed between the white and slave
communities. Slave women were important to the process of
intermingling. They bridged the gap between the two
communities in three important ways. These were through
engaging in long term sexual liaisons with white men, bearing
mulatto children, and becoming the commercial intermediaries
between the two communities. These roles meant that slave
women filtered information, culture, and money back and forth
between the two communities.
Gender was an important determinant in the experience of a
slave, Slave women were subject not only to exhaustive work
routines and punishment, but also to sexual exploitation and the
extra burden of reproduction. Gender also played a role in the
opportunities a slave had to escape from the field. Field slaves
were assigned work in a largely genderless way, however,
positions of authority, such as driver, were reserved for male
slaves. Slave occupations away from the field were also gender
biased, with women working in the house and as marketers, and
men pursuing the trades. This bias was based on white gender
assumptions, and effectively limited the ability of women to
escape from the field. The sexual exploitation of slave women
was common in Jamaica. While most women gained nothing from
sexual liaisons with white men, a small number were able to
turn their exploitation to their advantage, and gain an improved
lifestyle and position.
Slave women played an important role within the slave
community. As bearers of tradition they had an important role in
the preservation and retention of a separate slave culture with
African influences. Slave women were the primary care givers
to children, however, Thistlewood's diary suggests that slave
men were also important in the upbringing of the children.
The experiences of Thistlewood and those he mentions in his
diary give us an ideal place to centre wider debates concerning
the nature of slave and master interaction, and the role and
position slave women played.
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Roth, Ulrike. "Thinking tools agricultural slavery between evidence and models /." London : Institute of Classical Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London, 2007. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/164733117.html.
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Doezema, Jo. "Sex slaves and discourse masters : the historical construction of 'trafficking in women'." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.409963.
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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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Antoniazzi, Barbara <1972>. "New women, white slaves: separate spheres and social anxiety in the Progressive Era." Doctoral thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/1044.
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During the Progressive Era (1890-1920), the dominant meaning of sexuality in the United States underwent a paradigm shift that called for different regulations and politics. The iconic “New Woman” emerged as an epitome of modern femininity in her many emancipated incarnations: the intellectual, the suffragist and the professional, but also the divorcee, the free‐lover, and the working girl. At the same time, the preoccupation with prostitution developed into a national obsession and the Progressives invested enormously in the fight against “white slavery,” an
ostensibly international traffic for the abduction and sexual enslavement of girls. This dissertation investigates how the white slavery scare can be considered part of a general attempt to recompose and repair the male social sphere from the attacks it was suffering in the form of more and more assertive womanhood. In exploring how the attitude towards prostitution exposed the anxieties of modern America, this study relies close readings and historical analysis of novels, reformative writings, journalistic pieces, sculptures and legal
documents in which New Women and white slaves appear center stage.Negli anni del Progressismo Americano (1890-1920), la concezione della sessualità negli Stati Uniti subì un cambiamento epocale che produsse una serie di nuove politiche sociali. La “New Woman” emerse come esempio di moderna femminilità in svariate accezioni: l’intellettuale, la politica, la professionista, ma anche la divorziata, l’adepta del libero amore e la lavoratrice. Al tempo stesso, la preoccupazione nei confronti della prostituzione si trasformò in ossessione generale. I Progressisti investirono enormemente nella lotta sul suolo nazionale quella che venne denominata “white slavery,” ossia un ipotetico traffico internazionale atto al rapimento e alla riduzione in schiavitù sessuale di ragazze bianche. Questa tesi analizza come l’isteria della “white slavery” possa essere considerata parte di un movimento generale per la restaurazione della sfera pubblica maschile, incrinata dalle incursioni ricevute da parte di una presenza femminile sempre più indipendente. Nell’esplorare come l’atteggiamento nei confronti della prostituzione riveli le tensioni dell’America moderna, questo studio analizza romanzi, trattati di riforma sociale, articoli giornalistici, sculture e atti processuali in cui la “New Woman” e la “schiava bianca” giocano un ruolo determinante.
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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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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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Murray, G. N. "Sparta en Athene : 'n studie in altérité /." Link to the online version, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10019/372.
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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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Hallvig, Ylva. "The Bona Dea Cult." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Antikens kultur och samhällsliv, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-296621.
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This essay concern the Bona Dea cult and women in the Roman Republic. By using ancient literary sources and inscriptions the different aspects of the cult is examined from a gender and an intersectional perspective. The essay covers the lives and rights of Roman women, their role in religion in general and how they participated in the Bona Dea cult specifically. The aim of the study is to understand the importance of the cult for women, freedmen and slaves, as well as analysing the paradox of letting women participate in rituals and customs otherwise forbidden to them.
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Mukhtar, Al-B. "Human rights and Islamic law : the development of the rights of slaves, women and aliens in two cultures." Thesis, University of Manchester, 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.498396.
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Jordan, Caroline Sophy Amanda. "Gender, spirit and soul : the differences in attitude of Plato and Augustine of Hippo towards women and slaves." Thesis, Durham University, 2003. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/4068/.
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This thesis will look at the changes brought about in the perception of women's role in society by the advent of Christianity. The early chapters will discuss the actual status of women in ancient Graeco-Roman and Jewish society, so far as that can be discovered; followed by St Paul's views on women, which heavily influenced St Augustine. I shall then examine the status assigned to women and slaves by Plato in his two outlines for ideal societies, the Republic and the Laws, and shall finish with an examination of Augustine's attitudes to women and slavery. Plato believed that intelligent women were just as capable as men of achieving the philosophical ideal, and he believed that there would be many intelligent women in any given society. Many of Augustine's Letters are addressed to 'holy women", though he was reluctant to accept that these women were not exceptional. Augustine had many female correspondents, most but not all of whom were consecrated virgins or chaste widows. It is quite clear that Augustine believed that these women could achieve salvation on their own account, and also that he respected the intellect of some of them. However, even these women were to live subdued, enclosed lives. In the City of God he follows Paul in circumscribing the actions of women, but his estimation of their intellect is consistently higher than Paul's. The major difference between Plato and the Christians on this issue was that for Plato, sex was a part of normal life, and indeed essential to the continuation of the State; whereas for Christians it had become a problem and a hindrance to salvation. Neither Paul nor Augustine considered it necessary to combat slavery, probably because they were more concerned with securing the afterlife than with correcting conditions in this life.
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Murph, Karen S. "Negotiating the master narratives of prostitution, slavery, and rape in the testimonies by and representations of Korean sex slaves of the Japanese military (1932-1945)." Connect to Electronic Thesis (ProQuest) Connect to Electronic Thesis (CONTENTdm), 2008. http://worldcat.org/oclc/451026166/viewonline.
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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. Resistance history in the Caribbean and Americas in its various forms has always emphasized the role of men as leaders and heroes. Studies in the last two decades Momsen 1996, Mintz 1996, Bush 1990, Beckles and Shepherd, Ellis 1985, 1996, Hart 1980, 1985) however, are beginning to suggest the enormous contributions of women to the successes of many of the resistance events. Also, research revelations are being made correcting the negative impressions and images of enslaved women as depicted in colonial writings (Mathis 2001, Beckles and Shepherd 1996, Cooper 1994, Campbell 1986, Price 1996, Campbell 1987). Some of these new findings portray women as not only actively at the forefront of colonial military and political resistance operations but performed those activities in addition to their roles as the bearers of their individual original cultures. Their goal was achievement of freedom for their people. Freedom can be seen as a magic word that politicians, propagandists, psychologists and priests throw around with ease. Yet, to others freedom has a different meaning which varies with the individual's sense of associated values. Freedom without qualification is an abstract noun meaning, "not restricted, unimpeded", or simply, "liberty"; but when it is concretized in individual situations its meaning is narrowed, and it becomes clear that no one can be fully free. Yet the love of freedom is one of our deepest feelings, a truly heartfelt cry, freedom of wide open spaces, liberty to enjoy the taste, in unrestricted fashion, of the joys of nature, to live a life free from external anxieties and internal fears; freedom to be truly ourselves. All living creatures, even animals seem to value their freedom above all else. Enslaved people were not submissive towards their oppressors; attempts were made both subtly, overtly and violently to resist their so-called "masters" and slavery conditions. Violent and non-violent resistance were carried out by the enslaved throughout colonial history on both sides of the Atlantic, and modern historical literature shows that women oftentimes displayed more resistance than men. Enslaved Africans started to fight the transatlantic slave trade as soon as it began. Their struggles were multifaceted and covered four continents over four centuries. Still, they have often been underestimated, overlooked, or forgotten. African resistance was reported in European sources only when it concerned attacks on slave ships and company barracoons, but acts of resistance also took place far from the coast and thus escaped the slavers' attention. To discover them, oral history, archaeology, and autobiographies and biographies of African victims of the slave trade have to be probed. Taken together, these various sources offer a detailed image of the varied strategies Africans used to defend themselves and mount attacks against the slave trade in various ways. The Africans' resistance continued in the Americas, by running away, establishing Maroon communities, sabotage, conspiracy, and open uprising against those who held them in captivity. Freed people petitioned the authorities, led information campaigns, and worked actively to abolish the slave trade and slavery. In Europe, black abolitionists launched or participated in civic movements to end the deportation and enslavement of Africans. They too delivered speeches, provided information, wrote newspaper articles and books. Using violent as well as nonviolent means, Africans in Africa, the Americas, and Europe were constantly involved in the fight against the slave trade and slavery. Women are half the human race and they're half of history, as well. Until recent years, Black women's history has been even less than that. Much work has been done studying the lives of slaves in the United States and the slave system. From elementary school in the USA on through college we are taught the evils of slavery that took place right here in the Land of the Free. However, how much do we know about the enslaved in other places, namely the Caribbean? The Caribbean was the doorway to slavery here in the New World, and so it is important that we study the hardships that enslaved people suffered in that area. Slaves regularly resisted their masters in any way they could. Female slaves, in particular, are reported to have had a very strong sense of independence and they regularly resisted slavery using both violent and non-violent means. The focus of my research is on the lives of enslaved women in the Caribbean and their brave resistance to bondage. Caribbean enslaved women exhibited their strong character, independence and exceptional self worth through their opposition to the tasks they performed in the fields on plantations. Resistance was expressed in many different rebellious ways including not getting married, refusing to reproduce, and through various other forms as part of their open physical resistance. The purpose of this project is to identify the role enslaved women in both the Caribbean and the USA played in some of the major uprisings, revolts, and rebellions during their enslavement period. The research identifies individual female personalities, who played key roles in not only the everyday work on plantations, but also in planning resistance movements in the slave communities. This study utilizes plantations records, archival material, and official sources. Archival records from plantations located in archives and county clerks' offices; interviews with sources such as researchers and experts familiar with the plantations of slave communities in designated areas; and research in libraries, as well as other sources, oral histories, written and oral folklore, and personal interviews were used as well.
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Lecaudey, Hélène. "Behind the mask: another perspective on the slavewomen's oral narratives." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/43902.
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In the last twenty years, studies in Afro-American slavery have given special attention to the slave community and culture. They have emphasized the slaves' control over their lives, while glossing over the brutality of the institution of slavery. Slave women have been ignored until very recently, and those few historians who studied their lives have applied the same categories of inquiry used by traditional historians with a male perspective. The topic of interracial sexual relations crystallizes this problem. This issue has been left aside in most scholarly studies and, when mentioned, addressed more often than not from a male perspective. As sexual abuse, it exemplifies the harshness of slavery.
The oral slave narratives, often referred to by the same historians, are one of the few primary sources by and on slave women. Yet, historians have not used them adequately in research on slave women, primarily because of inadequate conceptual frameworks.Master of Arts
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Roddy, Rhonda Kay. "In search of the self: An analysis of Incidents in the life of a slave girl by Harriet Ann Jacobs." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2001. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2262.
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In her bibliography, Incidents in the life of a Salve Girl, Harriet Ann Jacobs appropriates the autobiographical "I" in order to tell her own story of slavery and talk back to the dominant culture that enslaves her. Through analysis and explication of the text, this thesis examines Jacobs' rhetorical and psyshological evolution from slave to self as she struggles against patriarchal power that would rob her of her identity as well as her freedom. Included in the discussion is an analysis of the concept of self in western plilosophy, an overview of american autobiography prior to the publication of Jacobs' narrative, a discussion of the history of the slave narrative as a genre, and a discussion of the history of Jacobs' narrative.
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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 structure recognized enslaved women in the interest of owners, and this limitation was defining, meaning that justice flowed in one direction. If married white women were "civilly dead," as famously evoked by the Declaration of Sentiments (1848) then enslaved women were civilly non-existent. The law controlled, but did not protect slaves, and a number of opponents to slavery denounced this contradictory scenario during the antebellum era (and before). Literally, enslaved women were claimed by their masters, purchased and sold as chattel. Physically, they were claimed by those men (both white and black) who sought to have power over them. Symbolically, they were claimed by anti-slavers and pro-slavers alike when it suited their purposes, often in the domains of news and literature, for the sake of advancing their ideas, a rich record of which fills court cases, newsprint, and propaganda touching the slavery issue before the civil war.
Due to the numerous ways that enslaved women's bodies have been claimed, owned, or circulated in markets, it may have been considered implicit to many that others owned their bodies. I believe that this is an oversimplified historical supposition that needs to be re-theorized. Indeed, enslaved women lived in a time when they were often led to believe that their bodies were not truly their own, and yet, many of them resisted their particular forms of oppression by claiming ownership of their bodies and those of their children; sometimes using rather extreme methods to keep from contributing to their oppression. In other words, slave owners' monopoly of the legal, economic, and logistical meanings of ownership of slaves had to be constantly reaffirmed and negotiated. This thesis asks: who owned the enslaved woman's body? I seek to emphasize that enslaved women were valid claimants of themselves as can seen in primary sources that today have only been given limited expression in the historiography.
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Miles, Tiya Alicia. ""Bone of my bone" : stories of a Black-Cherokee family, 1790-1866 /." ON-CAMPUS Access For University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Click on "Connect to Digital Dissertations", 2000. http://www.lib.umn.edu/articles/proquest.phtml.
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Telles, Lorena Feres da Silva. "Libertas entre sobrados: contratos de trabalho doméstico em São Paulo na derrocada da escravidão." Universidade de São Paulo, 2011. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8138/tde-10082012-170442/.
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A pesquisa acompanha as experiências sociais de mulheres escravas, libertas e descendentes livres, na cidade de São Paulo, durante o último quartel do século XIX, no processo social da transição do trabalho escravo para o livre. Pesquisamos livros de inscrições e de contratos de trabalho livre, exigências previstas pelas Posturas Municipais sobre Criados e Amas de Leite, de 1886. O conjunto de regulamentos vinha formalizar deveres e obrigações para empregadores e trabalhadores livres, no contexto do crescimento urbano acelerado, do processo avançado da abolição e da política imigratória que conduziam para a Capital imigrantes pobres e libertos destutelados. Migrantes das regiões escravistas da Província e daquelas que forneceram escravos para o tráfico interprovincial, africanas livres e nascidas na Capital empregaram-se nas residências das elites e camadas médias urbanas. Vislumbramos as estratégias de sobrevivência das agentes do trabalho doméstico livres e pobres, que a polícia registrava nos anos finais do regime escravista. Afastadas das atividades rentáveis, no contexto de pouca diversificação econômica, ex-escravas e descendentes livres sobreviveram dos parcos ganhos auferidos daqueles serviços socialmente desqualificados, dos quais os membros das elites e classes médias dependiam: fazendeiros, estrangeiros proprietários de hotéis, donos de confeitarias, coronéis, funcionários públicos, profissionais liberais, viúvas pobres e remediadas. Reconstituímos o cotidiano dos variados trabalhos que desempenharam a cozinha, a lavagem e o engomado das roupas, a limpeza da casa, o cuidado e o aleitamento de crianças , transitando entre as ruas, as várzeas dos rios e o tenso ambiente das casas. Das entrelinhas dos textos emergem libertas dispostas a improvisar variadas formas de resistência e recusa à opressão cotidiana. Experimentaram as liberdades possíveis e inegociáveis: recusaram com suas indisciplinas as jornadas extenuantes de trabalho, conquistaram aumentos salariais, cuidaram de seus doentes, compartilharam moradias com seus companheiros e filhos. Abandonando por fim os sobrados, indispuseram-se ao assédio sexual, aos maus tratos e aos baixos ordenados, que nem sempre recebiam: permanências de um escravismo doméstico e persistente, que, com suas práticas, ousaram recusar.The research assembles the social experiences of slave women, released and free descendants in São Paulo during the last quarter of the nineteenth century, in the social process of transition from slave work to freedom. In order to accomplished our aim, we rummage into the books, subscriptions and free employment contracts, requirements established by Municipal ordinances on Criadas e Amas de Leite, from 1886. The ensemble of regulations was made in order to formalize the duties and obligations for employers and free employees , in the context of hasty urban growth the advanced process of abolition and the immigration policy that led, to the main city, poor immigrants and unruly people. Migrants from provincial slavery region sand those slaveholders who provided slaves to an interprovincial trafficking, mainly free African born, were employed in the elite and urban middle classes residences. We glimpse the survival strategies from poor and free agents of the housework registered by the police during the final years of the slave regime. Displaced from profitable activities in the context of low economic diversification, formers slaves and free descendants survived from meager gains earned from these socially unskilled services of which the members of the elite and middle classes depended and profited: farmers, foreigners hotel owners, colonels, civil servants, professional, widows and poor remedied. Our research attempt to reconstruct the daily life of several jobs that these free women have done in the new social order: the kitchen, washing and ironing clothes, cleaning the house, care and feeding children, traffic in the streets, the riverside and the tense environment of the houses. Reading between the lines of texts, it is possible to observe the existence of released women willing to improvise various ways of resistance and rejection of everyday oppression. Their experience makes possible ways of non-negotiable freedom, refusing, with their misbehavior, the days of exhausting work, consequently, winning wage increases, caring for their patients and the possibility of sharing housing with their partners and children. With the further abandon of the traditional townhouses, they eventually avoid the sexual harassment and the bad treatment: sojourn of domestic and persistent slavery, that these women, with their daily practices, have dared to decline.
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Galdino, Maria Rakel Amancio. "Mulheres escravas e forras na Ribeira do Acaraà (1750-1788)." Universidade Federal do CearÃ, 2013. http://www.teses.ufc.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=10703.
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FundaÃÃo Cearense de Apoio ao Desenvolvimento Cientifico e TecnolÃgicoA investigaÃÃo que resultou neste trabalho analisou a inserÃÃo e presenÃa da escravidÃo negra ao longo do sÃculo XVIII na regiÃo Noroeste cearense, cuja maior parte do territÃrio foi intitulada Ribeira do AcaraÃ. Para tanto, destacou-se as atuaÃÃes de mulheres escravas e forras e a partir das experiÃncias vivenciadas por elas, buscou-se analisar as mudanÃas nessa sociedade que propiciaram a ascensÃo e predominÃncia de africanos e seus descendentes no mundo dos cativos. AtravÃs da consulta a vÃrias fontes documentais como: cartorÃrias, registros da CÃmara de Sobral, correspondÃncias entre os colonos e o Conselho Ultramarino, registros paroquiais e o cruzamento das informaÃÃes contidas nestas, pode-se constatar situaÃÃes diversas a respeito dessa sociedade, do mundo do trabalho e da construÃÃo da rede de solidariedades possÃveis aos trabalhadores escravos e libertos numa regiÃo agropastoril e de predominÃncia do trabalho familiar. Adentrando no universo dos cativos atravÃs da experiÃncia das mulheres, observa-se que a atuaÃÃo dessas foi permeada pela intencionalidade de sobreviverem, preservar suas famÃlias, e atà mesmo alcanÃarem a liberdade. Para assegurÃ-los, as mulheres trabalharam, buscaram a uniÃo sacramentada pela igreja, se envolveram em relaÃÃes de compadrio, os quais lhes permitam contar com a proteÃÃo e solidariedade de uma rede de contatos formada por pessoas livres, libertas (forras), outros escravos e atà mesmo senhores. As fontes consultadas, em consonÃncia com a discussÃo, possibilitaram a constataÃÃo de que pelo menos em se tratando dos cativos e forros, inseridos geralmente em pequenos plantÃis, trabalho e solidariedade foram elementos estratÃgicos para enfrentarem os desafios e limites impostos pela escravidÃo.
The investigation that resulted in this paper examined the insertion and presence of black slavery throughout the eighteenth century in the northwestern state of CearÃ, where most of the territory was entitled Ribeira AcaraÃ. Therefore, stood out the performances of slave and free women and from the experiences of them, we have analyzed the changes in this society that enabled the rise and dominance of Africans and their descendants in the world of captives. Through consultation with various documentary sources as cartorÃrias, records of the Chamber of Sobral, correspondences between the settlers and the Overseas Council, parish records and the crossing of the information contained in these, one can observe different situations regarding this society, the world of work and the network construction workers solidarity possible slaves and freedmen in a region agropastoral and predominance of family labor. Entering the universe of captives through the experience of women, it is observed that the performance of these was permeated with intent to survive, preserve their families, and even achieve freedom. To reassure them, the women worked, sought union sanctified by the church, engaged in crony relationships, which enable them to have the protection and solidarity of a network formed by free persons freed (blinders), other slaves and even gentlemen. The sources consulted in line with the discussion, allowed the observation that at least in the case of captives and ceilings, usually inserted in small flocks, labor and solidarity were strategic elements to meet the challenges and limitations imposed by slavery.
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Altink, Henrice. "Representations of slave women in discourses of slavery and abolition, 1780-1838." Thesis, University of Hull, 2001. http://hydra.hull.ac.uk/resources/hull:3124.
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Galdino, Maria Rakel Amâncio. "Mulheres escravas e forras na Ribeira do Acaraú (1750-1788)." www.teses.ufc.br, 2013. http://www.repositorio.ufc.br/handle/riufc/6154.
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The investigation that resulted in this paper examined the insertion and presence of black slavery throughout the eighteenth century in the northwestern state of Ceará, where most of the territory was entitled Ribeira Acaraú. Therefore, stood out the performances of slave and free women and from the experiences of them, we have analyzed the changes in this society that enabled the rise and dominance of Africans and their descendants in the world of captives. Through consultation with various documentary sources as cartorárias, records of the Chamber of Sobral, correspondences between the settlers and the Overseas Council, parish records and the crossing of the information contained in these, one can observe different situations regarding this society, the world of work and the network construction workers solidarity possible slaves and freedmen in a region agropastoral and predominance of family labor. Entering the universe of captives through the experience of women, it is observed that the performance of these was permeated with intent to survive, preserve their families, and even achieve freedom. To reassure them, the women worked, sought union sanctified by the church, engaged in crony relationships, which enable them to have the protection and solidarity of a network formed by free persons freed (blinders), other slaves and even gentlemen. The sources consulted in line with the discussion, allowed the observation that at least in the case of captives and ceilings, usually inserted in small flocks, labor and solidarity were strategic elements to meet the challenges and limitations imposed by slavery.
A investigação que resultou neste trabalho analisou a inserção e presença da escravidão negra ao longo do século XVIII na região Noroeste cearense, cuja maior parte do território foi intitulada Ribeira do Acaraú. Para tanto, destacou-se as atuações de mulheres escravas e forras e a partir das experiências vivenciadas por elas, buscou-se analisar as mudanças nessa sociedade que propiciaram a ascensão e predominância de africanos e seus descendentes no mundo dos cativos. Através da consulta a várias fontes documentais como: cartorárias, registros da Câmara de Sobral, correspondências entre os colonos e o Conselho Ultramarino, registros paroquiais e o cruzamento das informações contidas nestas, pode-se constatar situações diversas a respeito dessa sociedade, do mundo do trabalho e da construção da rede de solidariedades possíveis aos trabalhadores escravos e libertos numa região agropastoril e de predominância do trabalho familiar. Adentrando no universo dos cativos através da experiência das mulheres, observa-se que a atuação dessas foi permeada pela intencionalidade de sobreviverem, preservar suas famílias, e até mesmo alcançarem a liberdade. Para assegurá-los, as mulheres trabalharam, buscaram a união sacramentada pela igreja, se envolveram em relações de compadrio, os quais lhes permitam contar com a proteção e solidariedade de uma rede de contatos formada por pessoas livres, libertas (forras), outros escravos e até mesmo senhores. As fontes consultadas, em consonância com a discussão, possibilitaram a constatação de que pelo menos em se tratando dos cativos e forros, inseridos geralmente em pequenos plantéis, trabalho e solidariedade foram elementos estratégicos para enfrentarem os desafios e limites impostos pela escravidão.
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Hardy, Marie. "Le monde du café à la Martinique du début du XVIIIe siècle aux années 1860." Thesis, Antilles-Guyane, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014AGUY0724.
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L’historiographie antillaise n’a donné jusqu’ici qu’une vision tronquée de la société martiniquaise. L’appréhension de l’ère coloniale s’est très tôt autocentrée sur l’économie plantationnaire sucrière à moteur externe, mais cette dernière n’a guère occupée plus de la moitié de la population de l’île au XVIIIe et dans la première moitié du XIXe siècle. Pour une grande majorité, la masse laborieuse libre ou esclave se répartit entre les villes et les exploitations de type « secondaire ». A mesure de l’appréhension de l’univers caféier, un monde à part se profile dessinant une nouvelle catégorie sociale divergente de l’élite sucrière qui apparaissait jusqu’ici comme le modèle représentatif de la population blanche propriétaire terrienne. Une catégorie intermédiaire est mise en place mettant en relief un groupe caféier économiquement faible au mode de vie difficile, présentant des comportements matrimoniaux endogames aussi bien spatialement que socialement. Cette analyse révèle un corps social pluriel dans lequel les femmes, les libres de couleur, et avec l’abolition de l’esclavage les nouveaux libres tiennent une place de choix. Ce travail a l’avantage de combler un important vide historiographique en matière d’histoire sociale de la Martinique, ainsi que de renouveler le concept de société d’habitation à travers la mise en perspective d’une catégorie sociale jusque-là restée inaperçueThe historiography of the Antilles to date has yielded only a limited vision of society in Martinique. The scientific works of the Colonial Era were egocentrically focused on the economy of sugar plantations, but this only covered a little over half of the population of the island in the eighteenth century and the first half of the nineteenth century. The other half of the working population, whether they were free or slaves, was divided between cities and secondary enterprises. As the coffee industry took root, a separate world emerged, diverging from the elite sugar plantation owners that represented the land-owning white population. This parallel society of economically disadvantaged small farmers and coffee growers, living a hard-working, difficult lifestyle, exhibited endogamous marriage behavior. This analysis highlights a multi-faceted social body in which women, free people of color, and, with the abolition of slavery, the new free hold a special role. On the other side of the barrier, the slaves also have a unique profile, they operate in small plantations on which opportunities for advancement are greater than in the large sugarcane plantations. This work fills an important gap in the social history of Martinique, as it reexamines the perception of the elite sugar plantation society via the perspective of a social class hitherto unnoticed
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Abela, Joan Angela. "The impact of the arrival of the Knights of St John on the commercial economy of Malta 1530-1565." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10871/8182.
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Much has been written about various aspects of the long presence of the Knights of the Order St John on the island of Malta. Nonetheless, throughout this literature there is one noticeable omission - a study of the commercial development of the harbour area during the first decades of the Order’s rule. Despite Malta’s small size, the presence of the Order of St John (1530 -1798) ensured an inflow of foreign resources which eventually permitted very dense human settlement and an international projection beyond the island’s shores which was largely disproportionate to what would normally have occurred in such a small and sterile island. The maritime nature of the Order and the heavy dependence on imports hastened the creation of an efficient maritime communication system. The development of all these economic activities resulted in a prime economic means of generating wealth and served as a pull factor to a large number of enterprising individuals, both local and foreign. Early modern Hospitaller Malta eventually saw the consolidation of an enterprising business class, which, out of sheer necessity, grew accustomed to operating well beyond its narrow confines. In turn, this contributed to the island becoming more open to connectivity with the outside world. Hence, the main aim of this thesis is to explore in detail various economic activities taking place in Malta during this particular period which spans from 1530 to 1565. The year 1565 has been chosen as a marker since during this year there was a break in the normal chain of events due to the turmoil created by the Great Siege. In order to reach this goal the practical functioning of commerce with its agreements and disputes, its currencies, its trading posts and its nodal points shall be analyzed. Furthermore, this thesis strives to show how notarial evidence, together with that derived from records of various tribunals set up on the island at the time, supplement each other and help to fill in gaps. While discussing different methodological approaches to the study of the Mediterranean, the first chapter of this study shall also assess Malta’s place within the wider Mediterranean historiographical framework. It shall also trace the development of Maltese historiography and its contribution to the study of legal, economic and social issues relating to the sixteenth century. Furthermore, this study shall place the various series of primary sources used for its compilation in their proper context, thus allowing the reader to evaluate better the significance of the information provided. The second chapter shall evaluate how the arrival of the Order provided for the setting up of new institutions and for the promulgation of new laws in order to consolidate its authority over the island despite repeated promises to respect and honour ancient rights and privileges. The following three chapters shall each be dedicated to a particular case study which will try to address specific topics that have been largely neglected in Maltese historiography. Thus, starting with an analysis of the grain trade, which was of the utmost importance for a sterile island with an ever-increasing population, it will be followed by another case study which seeks to evaluate the role of women, their legal persona and how this affected their contribution to the island’s economic activities. The final chapter will try to establish whether there were any commercial links between Malta, often described as the frontier and bulwark of Christianity, and its neighbouring Ottoman North African territories. If such trade existed, how did merchants, both Christian and Muslim, manage to overcome religious antagonism which should have inhibited the easy flow of trade? The objective of this study shall therefore be to shed much-needed light on economic activities taking place in and around the harbour area during a largely unexplored period in Maltese history. Moreover, it shall seek to provide a better understanding of Mediterranean commercial relations since the Maltese harbour was a point of intersection not only for people of different nationalities, but even for people of different faiths, such as Muslims, Jews and Christians of different denominations. All had one common goal which unified them, that is, trading and making profit out of it.
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Perrin, Liese. "Slave women and work in the American South." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.395593.
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This thesis examines slave women's work in the American South in order to ascertain the presence, extent, and nature of gendered divisions of labour, It argues that divisions of labour in field work were not as prevalent as previously thought, and that they depended on a number of factors including plantation size, crop type and season. The thesis also examines house work and argues that although gendered divisions of labour were far more apparent in this environment the important division between field slaves and house slaves was based on status rather than gender. This study interprets reproduction as a form of labour, and discusses the issue of production versus reproduction, and also slave women's resistance to reproduction, in particular through the use of birth control. Chapters on the work slaves performed for themselves, and the work they performed after freedom suggest that slave men and women subscribed to a clear gender ideology, and that it influenced gendered divisions of labour. However, they were pragmatic about its application, discarding divisions of labour whenever economic pressures dictated. The overarching theme of this thesis is that slave men and women more frequently worked together than apart and, as a consequence were able to form supportive relationships, rather than relying exclusively on their own sex for emotional and practical succour.
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Midgely, Clare. "Women anti-slavery campaigners in Britain, 1787-1868." Thesis, University of Kent, 1989. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.330199.
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Godinho, Tereza Martins. "O lugar da mulher no quilombo Kalunga." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2008. http://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/2817.
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This research was done at, located at the cities of Cavalcante, Teresina and Monte Alegre, northeast of the State of Goiás. As from references of Anthropological Theory, tried to describe this Hiding-place of fugitive Negro Slaves and its people considering their caracteristics of identity, of culture, social, economical and historical. Investigated and analyzed above all the role of women, through their cultural atitudes and routine, foccusing the relations they have with themselves, with their partners, with their group and with their past, trying to understand the meaning of " being a woman" in this context. The method used was open country work, preceded of bibliographical survey associated to research of documents
Esta pesquisa foi realizada no quilombo kalunga, localizado nos municípios de Cavalcante, Teresina e Monte Alegre, nordeste do Estado de Goiás. A partir de referenciais da teoria antropológica, buscou descrever este quilombo e sua gente nas suas características identitárias, culturais, sociais, econômicas e históricas. Investigou e analisou sobretudo o lugar da mulher, através de suas práticas culturais e sua rotina, enfocando as relações que estabelecem entre si, com seus parceiros, com seu grupo e com seu passado procurando compreender o sentido do ser mulher nesse contexto. O método utilizado foi o trabalho de campo, precedido de levantamento bibliográfico e associado à pesquisa de documentos
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Formico, Marcela Regina. "A "Escrava Romana" de Oscar Pereira da Silva : sobre a circulação e transformação de modelos europeus na arte acadêmica do século XIX no Brasil." [s.n.], 2012. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/284343.
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Orientador: Claudia Valladão de MatosDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Artes
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Resumo: Este trabalho apresenta uma contribuição para a análise do jogo de relações que se estabeleceu entre a pintura produzida no contexto brasileiro do século XIX e a produção internacional, especialmente francesa, centrando-nos na trajetória artística do pintor Oscar Pereira da Silva. A trajetória desse artista foi marcada por diversas idas e vindas entre Brasil e França, fazendo do artista um verdadeiro tradutor do sistema artístico francês para o contexto brasileiro. Desta forma, a partir da escolha da obra, "Escrava Romana", como "chave-mestra" para o desenvolvimento do debate em questão que se baseia o fluxo argumentativo da pesquisa. Razão que é justificável por esta tela representar um exemplar do primor técnico do estudo acadêmico do pintor brasileiro durante sua estádia com os mestres franceses, principalmente o pintor Jean- Léon Gérôme, que possui uma gama de obras que versam a temática explorada pelo objeto central de estudo. O segundo e último motivo se resguarda por se tratar de uma obra de grande impacto visual que compõe a galeria da Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo e ser um belíssimo representante da mais clássica das atividades do currículo da arte acadêmica do século XIX, a representação do nu
Abstract: This work presents a contribution for the relation's analysis between the masterpieces made inside the Brazilian's context on the 19th century and the international art's production, specially in France, focussing in the artistic path of the painter Oscar Pereira da Silva. The artist's life had a closer relation with France, making the painter a true translator of the French artistic model to Brazil. By choosing a particular painting as a methodological matter, the "Escrava Romana" became the "master key" for the research. To justify, this canvas is a perfect model of academic studies during his learning period with the French masters, specially Jean-Léon Gérôme, artist who developed a great number of canvas with the same thematic. The second and last reason is the great visual impact that this master-piece represents inside the gallery of Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo and for being a beautiful sample of the most classic discipline in the learning process at École des Beaux Arts and the academic art in general, the representation of the nude
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Milatovic, Maja. "Reclaimed genealogies : reconsidering the ancestor figure in African American women writers' neo-slave narratives." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/10656.
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This thesis examines the ancestor figure in African American women writers’ neoslave narratives. Drawing on black feminist, critical race and whiteness studies and trauma theory, the thesis closely reads neo-slave narratives by Margaret Walker, Octavia Butler, Gayl Jones, Toni Morrison and Phyllis Alesia Perry. The thesis aims to reconsider the ancestor figure by extending the definition of the ancestor as predecessor to include additional figurative and literal means used to invoke the ancestral past of enslavement. The thesis argues that the diverse ancestral figures in these novels demonstrate the prevailing effects of slavery on contemporary subjects, attest to the difficulties of historicising past oppressions and challenge post-racial discourses. Chapter 1 analyses Margaret Walker’s historical novel Jubilee (1966), identifying it as an important prerequisite for subsequent neo-slave narratives. The chapter aims to offer a new reading of the novel by situating it within a black feminist ideological framework. Taking into account the novel’s social and political context, the chapter suggests that the ancestral figures or elderly members of the slave community function as means of resistance, access to personal and collective history and contribute to the self-constitution of the protagonist. The chapter concludes by suggesting that Walker’s novel fulfils a politically engaged function of inscribing the black female subject into discussions on the legacy of slavery and drawing attention to the particularity of black women’s experiences. Chapter 2 examines Octavia Butler’s Kindred (1978), featuring a contemporary black woman’s return to the antebellum past and her discovery of a white slaveholding ancestor. The chapter introduces the term “displacement” to explore the transformative effects of shifting positionalities and destabilisation of contemporary frames of reference. The chapter suggests that the novel challenges idealised portrayals of a slave community and expresses scepticism regarding its own premise of fictionally reimagining slavery. With its inconclusive ending, Kindred ultimately illustrates how whiteness and dominant versions of history prevail in the seemingly progressive present. Chapter 3 discusses Gayl Jones’ Corregidora (1975) and its subversion of the matrilineal model of tradition by reading the maternal ancestor’s narrative as oppressive, limiting and psychologically burdening. The chapter introduces the term “ancestral subtext” in order to identify the ways in which ancestral narratives of enslavement serve as subtexts to the descendants’ lives and constrict their subjectivities. The chapter argues that the ancestral subtexts frame contemporary practices, inform the notion of selfhood and attest to the reproduction of past violence in the present. Chapter 4 deals with Toni Morrison’s Beloved (1987) and Phyllis Alesia Perry’s Stigmata (1998) exploring complex ancestral figures as survivors of the Middle Passage and their connection to Africa as an affective site of identity reclamation. The chapter identifies the role the quilt, the skill of quilting and their metaphorical potential as symbolic means of communicating ancestral trauma and conveying multivoiced “ancestral articulations”. The chapter suggests that the project of healing and recovering the self in relation to ancestral enslavement are premised on re-connecting with African cultural contexts and an intergenerational exchange of the culturally specific skill of quilting.
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Kusi, Carolyn Amelia. ""Am I not a woman" : the myth of the strong black woman." Toledo, Ohio : University of Toledo, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=toledo1263223895.
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Thesis (M.L.S.)--University of Toledo, 2010.Typescript. "Submitted to the Graduate Faculty as partial fulfillment of the requirements for The Master of Liberal Studies." "A thesis entitled"--at head of title. Title from title page of PDF document. Bibliography: p. 55-56.
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Ahn, Yonson. "Korean "comfort women" and military sexual slavery in World War II." Thesis, University of Warwick, 1999. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/4001/.
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The aim of this thesis is to explore the way in which sexualities and identities are involved in the creation of patriarchal relations, ethnic hierarchies and colonial power in the context of "Comfort Women". The women were considered sexual slaves for Japanese soldiers during World War II. I attempt to show the It) ways in which masculinity, femininity, and national identity were re/constructed through the enforcement of the subject-positionings of gender, colonialism and nationalism. The questions I raise and attempt to answer are: What kinds of masculinity and femininity of the Japanese soldiers and Korean "Comfort Women" respectively, and the national identities of both, were re/constructed through the comfort station system? How were the positionings of the "Comfort Women" enacted through daily practices and ideology, and what were the consequences of the re/construction of their identity? Finally, how did the "Comfort Women" position themselves in the face of the imposition of gender and national identities, by Japanese colonial and Korean nationalist power? I use personal narratives, including testimonies and life histories of the former Korean "Comfort Women" and Japanese veterans obtained from my interviews with them as well as from testimonies already released. I interviewed thirteen former Korean "Comfort Women" and seventeen Japanese veterans. Thirteen out of the veterans were 'rehabilitated' in China after World War El, the remaining four were not. I also occasionally use official documents on the comfort station system, which were issued by the Japanese military and the Western Allies. I argue that the development of gender and national identities contributed to the construction of Japanese colonialism, and that the "Comfort Women" system helped to produce and reproduce Japan as an imperial state with power over the lives and human resources of the colonies. In particular, the maintenance of the military system depended on the circulation of these concepts of masculinity and femininity. The regulation of masculine and feminine sexuality and national identities through the military comfort station system was a crucial means through which Japan expanded its colonies by military means.
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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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Hall, Rebecca. "Not killing me softly : African American women, slave revolts, and historical constructions of racialized gender." Ann Arbor, Mich. : ProQuest Information and Learning, 2005. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?res_dat=xri:ssbe&url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_dat=xri:ssbe:ft:keyresource:G_Sla_Diss_01.
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Heishman, Emma. "Disremembered and unaccounted for : the symbolic annihilation of women from slavery cinema." Thesis, Aix-Marseille, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018AIXM0427.
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En 1972, George Gerbner, professeur et spécialiste de la télévision, publia un article intitulé « Violence in Television Drama : Trends and Symbolic Functions », une étude sur la violence télévisée et ses effets sur la société américaine. Au cœur de ce texte, Gerbner identifie une nouvelle théorie, celle de « l’annihilation symbolique ». Il définit ce terme comme une absence de représentation, un effacement dans le monde fictionnel ayant des conséquences dans le monde réel. Quelques années plus tard, en 1978, cette théorie serait appliquée par la sociologue Gaye Tuchman dans un essai, « The Symbolic Annihilation of Women by the Mass Media ». Dans sa recherche sur les représentations des femmes dans les médias, Tuchman affirme une absence d’images des femmes par rapport aux hommes. Elle développe cette notion davantage en rajoutant que condamner ou dévaloriser le comportement des femmes seraient également un moyen de dénier des droits aux femmes. La théorie d’annihilation symbolique a souvent été élaborée pour analyser des représentations des minorités dans les médias, mais à ce jour, il n’existe aucune étude sur l’annihilation symbolique des femmes dans un contexte historique particulier tel que le contexte de l’esclavage aux États-Unis. Cette recherche mettra en exergue l’importance et les conséquences de ces absences, soulignant le rôle de l’annihilation symbolique dans l’ensemble des œuvres cinématographiques sur l’esclavageSymbolic annihilation is a sociological theory developed by George Gerbner (1972) and Gaye Tuchman (1978) in their studies of gender and media. According to the theory of symbolic annihilation, the lack of images and/or the misrepresentation of a group of people can cause damaging consequences for spectators. Gerber and Tuchman studied the erasure of women in media, but their research also concentrated on the marginalization and condemnation of female characters. Symbolic annihilation has been used by other researchers to study images of minorities in the media, but this dissertation offers a new perspective on the symbolic annihilation of women by focusing on the specific historical event of slavery in the American South. Although the theory of symbolic annihilation has been used in previous research to examine visual (mis)representations of minorities, the addition of this historical element makes this dissertation unique. Indeed, through the study of cinematic images of American slavery, this research addresses how the cultural-historical identity of American women has been significantly constructed by mass media. Furthermore, the current socio-political situation in the United States makes this research particularly relevant. Social movements which publicly denounce the whitewashing of Hollywood productions and the overt sexual assault that has permeated the movie industry have clearly demonstrated the particular power Hollywood yields in shaping the fabric of American society
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Clark, Daniel J. "Hagar, favored woman, favored wife a narrative-critical study of the Egyptian slave /." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2003. http://www.tren.com.
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Morabito, Valeria <1990>. "Yearning for Freedom: Afro-descendant Women Writers at the Edge of Transatlantic Slavery." Doctoral thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2019. http://amsdottorato.unibo.it/8728/1/VM_Yearnin_final.pdf.
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The aim of this doctoral dissertation is to reconsider nineteenth century European literature through the study of non-canonical texts written by Afro-descendant women during the transatlantic slavery, in English, Spanish and Portuguese. It advances the thesis that the writings of the “minor subjects” in modern Europe put forth an innovative idea of freedom, which can help us to reconsider not only our understanding of gender identities but also our notion of Europe. The literary texts selected for this study are the following: the slave narrative written by Mary Prince, a former slave from the British colonies in the Caribbean and entitled "The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave Related by Herself" (1831); a collection of Cuban poems written by Maria Cristina Fragas (Cristina Ayala), "Ofrendas Mayabequinas" (1926); and "Ursula" (1859), a novel by Maria Firmina dos Reis, a woman of African descent born in Brazil. These works are useful examples in order to re-examine European identity in the light of the important historical event of the transatlantic slave trade, given the role that slavery and colonialism played not only as historical facts but also as ideologies. The study hereafter presented is structured in five chapters, with an introduction and a concluding section. In the first chapter, the topic of the research and its rationale are discussed, explaining the hypothesis and the objectives of the work and presenting a review of the existing literature on the topic. The second chapter examines the way in which the historical and cultural background of the nineteenth century influenced my corpus of primary texts. Subsequently, in the following three chapters, I examine each work individually: "The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave Related by Herself" in the third chapter; "Ofrendas Mayabequinas" in the fourth; and "Ursula" in the fifth.
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Wilcox, Joseph Morgan. "Trafficking in women: International sex services." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2005. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2754.
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This research looks to identify precursors to women becoming involved in trafficking for prostitution and/or sexual services in the United States. The failure to find patterns or trends regarding why women are trafficked or what types of women are trafficked most often, helps dispel some myths regarding the stereotypical victim of trafficking.
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Williams, Rhonda (Rhonda Laurie Maverne) Carleton University Dissertation International Affairs. "The contemporary international slave traffic in women and children: a comparison of institutional responses with feminist responses." Ottawa, 1991.
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Sabbag, Kerry Ann. "Women as Readers in Alexander Pushkin's Eugene Onegin, Ivan Turgenev's Rudin and Karolina Pavlova's A Double Life." The Ohio State University, 1997. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1394794224.
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Sandon, Tatjana. "The freedwoman in the Roman world : the evidence of the Latin inscriptions." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/25947.
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This thesis offers the first full-scale analysis of the epigraphic evidence for Roman freedwomen, i.e. an analysis of all Latin inscriptions mentioning libertae in the Roman Empire – almost 10,000 texts – from the city of Rome, Italy and the provinces. The aim of this project is to present a fuller image of the lives of these women, based on the evidence left behind by themselves and those in close contact with them, to put a check on their portrayal in the ancient literary sources, which has strongly influenced the modern understanding of libertae. The inscriptions have been drawn from the standard corpora and databases (esp. CIL and AE), and assembled in a searchable FileMaker Pro database. The study of the data has been conducted in two parts, the first focussing on the role of freedwomen in the familia, and the second on the role achieved by libertae in their communities and the wider Roman society, including also analysis of the identity of freedwomen’s partners, the marital terms used in inscriptions to describe married freedwomen, the legal status of freedwoman’s children, the women’s (and their relatives’) involvement in professions as well as cultic activities. The method employed in the discussion of the material is that of methodical argumentation, progressively building a new and fresh image of Roman libertae in the course of the thesis. The results demonstrate that the focus on the city of Rome adopted by many scholars distorts the picture substantially, as does the focus on the literary sources; in particular, the women emerge from this study as endowed with greater agency than hitherto accepted, and their ‘double flaw’ of having a servile past and of being of female gender appears less of an obstacle in their lives than widely assumed: epigraphically attested libertae do not conform to the image of ‘the Roman freedman’. This thesis thus represents both a contribution to the study of Latin epigraphy and the study of women in the Roman world. The analysis is supported by two appendices: the Appendix Epigraphica offers a list of many of the texts discussed in the chapters, together with an English translation; the Appendix Graphica assembles all the graphs and tables employed in the thesis to analyse the data.
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Saunders, Julia Edwina. "White slavery : Romantic writers and industrial workers, 1790-1840." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2000. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:655d1502-34a7-4bf7-b0e6-fa8a85a31b43.
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In this thesis, I argue the case for putting the industrial revolution back into literary accounts of the Romantic period. Writers of fiction played an important part in disseminating knowledge about the changes to technology and society, as well as helping to form the image of the newest social class: that of the industrial workers. Literature aspired to educate and integrate this class, as well as to influence the parallel process of educating the upper classes about the advent of the new manufacturing order. I have taken as the governing metaphor for industrialization that of 'white slavery', drawing the contrast to the contemporary movement to abolish black slavery. To illustrate the thesis, I have chosen six writers: three Romantic poets - Coleridge, Southey and Wordsworth - and three women educationalists - Hannah More, Maria Edgeworth and Harriet Martineau, each of whom represents a significant philosophical approach to a manufacturing society and who each made an important contribution to imaginative literature. Whilst the Romantic poets analysed industrialization as a divisive and demoralizing phenomenon and looked to the past for solutions, the educationalists responded to the challenge presented by the factory system by suggesting new visions of social relationships which bound moral and economic behaviour together. The thesis aspires to restore the voices of neglected women writers in the industrial debate with the aim of promoting a deeper understanding of the dynamics of the Romantic period and a fuller comprehension of its creative expression.
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Trahey, Erin Malone. "Free women and the making of colonial Jamaican economy and society, 1760-1834." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2018. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/285098.
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This study considers the social and economic lives of free women in Jamaica from 1760 to 1834. Throughout the period studied Jamaica was Britain's most important imperial holding. The colony's slave economy, driven by the labour of hundreds of thousands of enslaved men and women, generated incredible wealth. Still, Jamaica was the deadliest place to live in British America. Due to the endemic nature of tropical disease and atrocious mortality rates, neither the enslaved population nor the white population maintained itself naturally prior to emancipation. However, an environment characterized by death and demographic crisis engendered heightened opportunities for women to take part in tropical enterprise and to shape the futures of their families. Inheritance norms were weakened by the omnipresence of death, precipitating more generous inheritance bequests for women and a greater role given to wives and daughters-both white women, and those of mixed-race descent-in tropical commerce. Additionally, as slave ownership was not limited by gender or race, free women of all races took part in the slave economy. Free women's visibility in the island's formal as well as informal economies, and the wealth accumulated by some, was unsurpassed in a British American context. However, in this slave society, free women's prosperity rested upon the exploitation and oppression of others. In contrast to familiar historical trajectories that have presented Caribbean participation in Atlantic markets of slavery and capital as male-driven ventures, this study argues that free women of all races were vital participants in the slave economy and principle beneficiaries of plantation profits. This project moves beyond previous studies on women in colonial Jamaica by revealing how women's enterprise and relations with one another shaped the nature of this economy and society, including the commercial, familial and kin networks that bound it together. In doing so, it enhances our understanding of this colony and the operation of race and gendered power within it.
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Clauser-Roemer, Kendra. ""Tho' we are deprived of the privilege of suffrage" the Henry County Female Ant-Slavery Society records, 1841-1849 /." Connect to resource online, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1805/1887.
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Thesis (M.A.)--Indiana University, 2009.Title from screen (viewed on August 26, 2009). Department of History, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI). Advisor(s): John R. McKivigan. Includes vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 141-147).
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Blasingame, Dionne. "The Trauma of Chattel Slavery: A Womanist Perspective Women on Georgia in Early American Times." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2012. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/english_theses/138.
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This thesis explores the psycho-socio-cultural dynamics that surrounded black womanhood in antebellumGeorgia. The goal is twofold: first, to examine how slave narratives, testimonies, and interviews depicted the plight of enslaved black women through a womanist lens and second, to discover what political and socio-cultural constructions enabled the severe slave institution that was endemic toGeorgia. Womanist theory, psychoanalytic theory, and trauma theory are addressed in this study to focus on antebellum or pre-Civil WarGeorgia.
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Marshall, Annecka Leolyn. "Orgasmic slavery? : a study of black female sexuality." Thesis, University of Warwick, 1996. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/71199/.
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What is 'orgasmic slavery". This study interrogates the meaning of the term by analysing the racialised sexual exploitation of Black women. I examine the historical changes, differences, under-currents and complexities of the social construction of Black sexuality from the inferior position of African female slaves to the conditions of Black women in contemporary Britain. Refuting the premise that Black women are primarily sexual beings, this thesis examines the origins and consequences of this assumption. Through a literature review, the dominant British portrayal of both Black women and Black men in terms of pathological and rampant sexualities is evident. My work assesses how the British and American film industries contribute to such misconceptions. Utilising the research method of participant observation, the perceptions of men and women from different racial backgrounds about images of Black sexuality are addressed. A questionnaire survey queried opinions about the sexual proclivity and relationships of Blacks, whites, 'mixed race' and gays. Building upon this data, a pilot study that was based on images of Black sexuality and their influence upon identity and experiences, provided more information. Central to this debate were semi-structured interviews on the issues of images, identity and relationships as perceived to be related to Black female sexuality.
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White, Robyn L. "Invisible Women: Examining the Political, Economic, Cultural, and Social Factors that lead to Human Trafficking and Sex Slavery of Young Girls and Women." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2013. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/1708.
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This thesis employs the most recent and best available data on human trafficking, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime’s Trafficking in Persons Global Report 2006, as well as nine independent variables to determine what their effects are on countries’ volumes of human trafficking outflows. By completing a cross-sectional analysis via an OLS regression, I found statistically significant support for three factors that I hypothesize lead to greater outflows of human trafficking. My findings suggest that countries that are less corrupt, have more seats in parliament held by women, and score higher on Cho, Dreher, and Neumayer’s Anti-Trafficking Policy Index are less likely to experience high outflows of human trafficking. Additionally, while they narrowly avoid statistical significance, this study also suggests that states that have a legal stance on prostitution and have fewer women employed in the non-agricultural sector experience less human trafficking outflows.
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Van, der Spuy Patricia. "A collection of discrete essays with the common theme of gender and slavery at the Cape of Good Hope with a focus on the 1820s." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/23439.
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This is a collection of discrete essays, each embodying original research and bearing on the theme of gender and slavery at the Cape of Good Hope. Amelioration at the Cape profoundly altered gendered perceptions of slaves, both on the part of slaveholders, and of the slaves themselves. The amelioration regulations entailed a redefinition of the gender of female slaves, which was resisted by slaveholders and transformed by slave women, while slave men began to redefine their own gendered identities in this light. Slaveholders' traditional patriarchal self-concepts were severely threatened in this context, as they progressively lost power and authority, both to the new paternalist colonial state and to those who had formerly been subsumed within the patriarchal family. There are five papers, the first an introduction to the theoretical framework of the collection and an outline of the general argument as outlined above. The second paper provides a critique of existing Cape slave historiography from a gendered perspective. It examines the problems of this literature methodologically and theoretically, focusing on the implications of the slave sex ratio for the history of slave women. The final three papers are based on empirical research. The third paper examines the structural constraints on slave family formation in Cape Town from the perspective of slave women. The fourth and fifth papers explore issues related to infanticide and slave reproduction, and slave resistance in relation to the Bokkeveld rebellion of 1825, respectively.
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Irvin, Vernita. "'Sugar coated, a novel' : an interdisciplinary exploration of seventeenth and eighteenth century Afro-Caribbean slave women and Irish indentured women being accidentally narrated in Barbados' pre-emancipation archives." Thesis, University of Bristol, 2012. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.573438.
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This dissertation presents a new research methodology called accidental narration. Accidental narration occurs whenever references or comments embedded within the artefacts of a dominant culture serve to unintentionally expose, animate and/or narrate the physical presence, social interactions, and/or social successes of a subordinate or minority person or group. For the purpose of this study, accidental narration is achieved when the archived documents of elite white males who ran the British slave trade reveal incidences of Afro-Caribbean slave women and poor Irish women either speaking out, acting out-or in a few cases, displaying in their lifetimes-a measure of social success that mimics the wealth and lifestyles of members of the plantocracy. In pre-emancipation Barbados in particular, both groups of women existed at the very bottom of slave society and they had no access to education and publishing. Thus, very few of their personalized narratives exist today. This dissertation employs accidental narration to challenge the practice of approaching women's narratives from the consciousnesses of slavery's elites, and suggests instead that researchers target the elites' unconscious recordings to unearth plausible, non-patriarchal female 'voices'.
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Hoog, Fiona de. "The complicity of women in child slavery : a gender analysis of Haiti and the 'restavèk' system." Thesis, University of Hull, 2017. http://hydra.hull.ac.uk/resources/hull:17228.
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