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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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Falheiros, Elaine Santos. "Luís e Antônio Xavier de Jesus: mobilidade social de africanos na Bahia oitocentista." Faculdade de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas, 2013. http://repositorio.ufba.br/ri/handle/ri/17601.
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Esta dissertação discute a trajetória de vida do africano escravizado e liberto na Bahia, Luís Xavier de Jesus, que apesar de não ter comprovada a sua participação no levante dos malês, em 1835,foi expulso do Brasil em novembro daquele ano. Após sua partida para a África, Luís Xavier solicitou, insistentemente, o seu retorno à Bahia, a fim de liquidar seus negócios deixados aos cuidados de seu ex-escravo, o também africano, Antônio Xavier de Jesus. Este, além de ser receptador de cativos enviados ilegalmente por Luís Xavier da costa africana, foi nomeado seu herdeiro universal naquele mesmo ano de 1835, e, com a morte de seu exsenhor, após anos de conflitos e demandas judiciais, Antônio Xavier conseguiu herdar os bens a ele deixados. Também, será discutida a relação de Antônio com Felicidade Francisca Friandes, africana, sua companheira por pelo menos, vinte e seis anos, com quem teve mais de dez filhos. This thesis discusses the life trajectory of Luís Xavier de Jesus, an African enslaved and later freed in Bahia who was accused of participation in the 1835 Malê uprising and, despite his innocence, was expelled from Brazil in November of that year. After leaving, Luís Xavier petitioned several times for his return to the country, aiming at selling off his property, which he had left in under supervision by his African ex-slave by the name of Antônio Xavier de Jesus. Besides receiving captives illegally sent from Africa by Luís Xavier, Antônio was made his universal heir in that same year of 1835, and after Luis‟ death, he spent several years struggling in the courts to obtain control over his ex-master‟s legacy. Furthermore, I will also discuss the relationship between Antônio and Felicidade, his African companion for at least, twenty-six years, with whom he had more than ten Brazilian.
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Ramos, de Santana Aderivaldo. "Destins d’Osifekunde, né et mis en esclavage au Nigeria, déporté au Brésil, transporté en France, revenu au Brésil et assassiné à Recife (1793-1842)." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Sorbonne université, 2022. http://www.theses.fr/2022SORUL034.
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Pendant les plus de trois cents ans que dura la traite négrière transatlantique, du XVIe au XIXe siècle, plus de douze millions de personnes furent déportées du continent Africain pour servir de main-d'œuvre dans les plantations de canne à sucre, de coton, ainsi que dans les mines "du Nouveau Monde." On considère que 4.800.000 Africains ont débarqué au Brésil, soit 43 % du total des déportés. Des études plus récentes sur les biographies d’esclaves, retracent les itinéraires individuels des captifs ainsi que leurs démarches pour regagner la liberté. La reconstitution du parcours de ces derniers leur donne de l’humanité, tout en leur restituant leur dignité. Nous nous inspirons de cette méthodologie pour accomplir notre étude doctorale sur la biographie d’Osifekunde, un commerçant issu de l’ethnie Ijebu (du sud-ouest de l’actuel Nigeria), réduit en esclavage au Brésil en 1820 et devenu homme libre en France en 1837. Pour ce faire, nous avons divisé notre étude en six parties et chaque partie est subdivisées en trois chapitres: Dans la première partie nous avons présenté des observations sur les études biographiques en France après les années 1970, notamment sur les biographies d’esclaves, sur l’utilisation de la méthode microhistorique dans ces dernières recherches et les champs de recherche sur les biographies d’esclaves aux États-Unis, au Brésil et en France. Dans une deuxième partie, nous avons essayé de comprendre comment l’intérieur de l’Afrique est devenu le centre d’intérêt des Sociétés Savantes et par conséquent, comment les membres de ces sociétés ont utilisé les témoignages d’esclaves dans leurs études, afin de trouver des endroits très reculés comme la ville de Tombouctou ou la source du fleuve Niger, pour propager l’idée de l’Africain comme « sauvage, antropophage, » ce qui pourrait justifier l’argument civilisateur, utilisé par les européens pour coloniser l’AfriqueDuring the more than three hundred years that the transatlantic slave trade lasted, from the XVIth to the XIXth century, more than twelve million people were deported from the African continent to serve as labor in the plantations of sugar cane, cotton, as well as in “New World” mines. It is considered that 4.800,000 Africans have landed in Brazil, or 43% of the total deportees. More recent studies on the biographies of slaves, retrace the individual itineraries of the captives as well as their steps to regain freedom. The reconstruction of their journey gives them humanity, while restoring their dignity. We are inspired by this methodology to complete our doctoral researcher on the biography of Osifekunde, a trader from the Ijebu ethnic groupe (from southwestern present-day Nigeria), enslaved in Brazil in 1820 and become a free man in France in 1837. To do this, we divided our researcher into six parts and each part is subdivided intro three chapters: In the first part we presented observations on biographical studies in France after the 1970s, in particular on the biographies of slaves, on the use of the microhistorical method in this latest research and the fields of research on the biographies of slaves in the United States, Brazil and France. In a second part, we tried to understand how the interior of Africa became the center of interest of the “Scientifical Societies” and consequently, how the members of these societies used the testimonies of slaves in their studies, in order to find very remote places like the city of Timbuktu or the source of the Niger river, to propagate the idea of the African as “wild, anthropophagous,” which could justify the civilizing argument, used by Europeans to colonize the Africa
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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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Deaton, Thomas Edward. "Slave castle." Thesis, University of Iowa, 2015. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/1581.
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The work described in this thesis is a series of narrative prints detailing the exploits of a criminally inclined religious cult. These prints encourage an open dialogue about the nature of religious practice and serve as a cautionary tale regarding absolute power and the importance of questioning authority and generally accepted beliefs.
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Pirola, Ricardo Figueiredo 1980. "A conspiração escrava de Campinas, 1832 : rebelião, etnicidade e familia." [s.n.], 2005. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/281896.
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Orientador: Robert W. SlenesDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Filosofia e Ciencias Humanas
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Resumo: No ano de 1832 foi descoberto um plano de revolta escrava em Campinas, envolvendo quinze fazendas. O objetivo deste trabalho é construir uma biografia coletiva dos escravos e do liberto envolvidos nesse plano de rebelião. Buscaremos acompanhar a trajetória desses revoltosos desde o momento em que chegaram na vila de Campinas até o ano de 1832. Levantaremos vários aspectos de suas vidas, como, por exemplo, a época em que chegaram na região, as procedências, os tipos de tarefas desempenhadas nas fazendas, as relações de parentesco e outros. Esperamos com isso tirar algumas conclusões para discutir a temática da comunidade escrava. Existiria uma comunidade escrava homogênea pelo simples fato de todos terem a mesma condição cativa? Ou os escravos eram bastante divididos entre si pelas diferenças de origem, sendo os crioulos (cativos nascidos no Brasil) menos propensos a se rebelarem contra os senhores que os africanos? Ou, ainda, seriam aqueles escravos casados e com profissões especializadas completamente estranhos à maioria dos cativos que não experimentavam essas vivências e totalmente avessos a rebeliões coletivas? O trabalho utiliza o método de ligação nominativa das fontes, baseado em cinco séries documentais: processo-crime de 1832, inventários, censos populacionais, registros de batismo e casamento escravo
Abstract: In the year of 1832 a plan of enslaved revolt in Campinas was discovered, involving fifteen farms. The objective of this work is to construct a collective biography of the slaves and of free people involved in this plan of rebellion. We will search to follow the trajectory of these rebels since the moment where they had arrived in the village of Campinas until the year of 1832. We will raise some aspects of its lives, as, for example, the time where they had arrived in the region, the origins, the types of tasks played in the farms, the relationships and others. We wait with this to obtain some conclusions to argue the thematic of the enslaved community. Would exist a homogeneous enslaved community for the simple fact of all to have the same captive condition? Or the slaves sufficiently were divided between itself for the origin differences, having been the crioulos (captive been born in Brazil) less inclined to rebel against the masters who the Africans? Or, still, they would be those slaves married and professions specialized completely strange to the majority of the captives who did not try these experiences and total opposite the collective rebellions? I will use five documents: the evidence produced during the repression, inventories, censuses, registers of baptism and enslaved marriage
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Horstmann, Annette, Anja Dietrich, David Mathar, Maria Pössel, Arno Villringer, and Jane Neumann. "Slave to habit?" Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig, 2016. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa-196707.
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The motivational value of food is lower during satiety compared to fasting. Dynamic changes in motivational value promote food seeking or meal cessation. In obesity this mechanism might be compromised since obese subjects ingest energy beyond homeostatic needs. Thus, lower adaptation of eating behaviour with respect to changes in motivational value might cause food overconsumption in obesity. To test this hypothesis, we implemented a selective satiation procedure to investigate the relationship between obesity and the size of the behavioural devaluation effect in humans. Lean to obese men (mean age 25.9, range 19–30 years; mean BMI 29.1, range 19.2–45.1 kg/m2) were trained on a free operant paradigm and learned to associate cues with the possibility to win different food rewards by pressing a button. After the initial training phase, one of the rewards was devalued by consumption. Response rates for and wanting of the different rewards were measured pre and post devaluation. Behavioural sensitivity to reward devaluation, measured as the magnitude of difference between pre and post responses, was regressed against BMI. Results indicate that (1) higher BMI compared to lower BMI in men led to an attenuated behavioural adjustment to reward devaluation, and (2) the decrease in motivational value was associated with the decrease in response rate between pre and post. Change in explicitly reported motivational value, however, was not affected by BMI. Thus, we conclude that high BMI in men is associated with lower behavioural adaptation with respect to changes in motivational value of food, possibly resulting in automatic overeating patterns that are hard to control in daily life.
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Keadle, Elizabeth Ann. "Fragmented Identities| Explorations of the Unhomely in Slave and Neo-Slave Narratives." Thesis, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10163331.
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This dissertation explores the unhomely nature of the slave system as experienced by fugitive and captive slaves within slave and neo-slave narratives. The purpose of this project is to broaden the discourse of migration narratives set during the antebellum period. I argue that the unhomely manifests through corporeal, psychological, historical, and geographical descriptions found within each narrative and it is through these manifestations that a broader discourse of identity can be generated. I turn to four slave and neo-slave narratives for this dissertation: Solomon Northup’s Twelve Years a Slave (1853), Frederick Douglass’s My Bondage and My Freedom (1855), Octavia Butler’s Kindred (1979), and Toni Morrison’s Beloved (1987).
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Vincenot, Claude. "L'accentuation slave, etude diachronique." Université Marc Bloch (Strasbourg) (1971-2008), 1987. http://www.theses.fr/1987STR20065.
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Les problemes concernant l'evolution des faits suprasegmentaux slaves ont donne lieu a trois grandes hypotheses qui sont refutees dans la premiere partie: celle de a. Vaillant, qui, par la methode comparative. Reconstitue six tons slaves communs, dont trois secondaires, de recul sur intonations dissociees de l'intensite, celle de j. Kurylowicz, qui fonde la plupart des metatonies et deplacements d'accents sur des interferences entre paradigmes, celle de p. Garde, qui, etendant les proprietes accentuelles des morphemes aux formes flexionnelles toute entieres, suppose l'existence de mots pleins accentogenes inaccentuables recevant tardivement un circonflexe dont la place varie selon les langues. Il convient d'opposer a ces theories inconciliables, l'hypothese realiste de deux lois fondamentales: loi de coalescence de l'intensite et de l'acuite, regroupant les lois de hirt et de meillet-fortunatov, et cas particulier d'une loi cenematique fondee sur les proprietes de l'opposition binaire sequence cooccurrence; loi de stabilite relative, etablie par l'analyse interne et comparative, et fondee sur trois isomorphismes: 1) isomorphisme des tons longs et des tons brefs du serbo-croate, qui explique les metatonies par des deplacements d'accent intrasyllabiques repondant a des reculs ou avancees phonetiques ou morphologiques des frontieres du mot; 2) isomorphisme des plans du contenu et de l'expression, qui confirme les mecanismes analogiques de l'extention de cette loi par remanence, phenomene de fixation in absentia d'un changement in praesentia; 3) isomorphisme des axes syntagmatiques et paradigmatiques, qui explique le ton circonflexe par une loi d'opposition maximale analogue aux lois de dissimilation visant a assurer des contrastes maximumsThe problems concerning the evolution of suprasegmental phenomens in slavonic languages have given rise to three major hypotheses which are refuted in the first part: that of a. Vaillant, who, using a comparative method, reconstitutes six common slavonic tones, of which three are secondary, of backward displacement on intonations dissociated from intensity, that of j. Kurylowicz, who bases most metatonies and accent movements on interferences between paradigms, that of p. Garde, who, extending the accentual properties of morphemes to whole flexional forms, presumes the existence of inaccentuable full words which take a circonflex accent later, the place depending ont he language. It is opportune to confront these incompatible theories with a realistic hypothesis of two fundamental laws: 1) the law of coalescence between intensity and tonality - regrouping the laws of hirt, and meillet - fortunatov, which is in itself a special case of a general law based on the properties of binary opposition succesivity simultaneity, and 2) a law of relative stability, discovered by internal and comparative analysis, and founded on three isomorphism: 1) isomorphism of long and short tones in serbo-croatian, which explains the metatonies by the intra-syllabic movements of the accent consecutive to the phonetical or morphological displacements of the word's limits; 2) isomorphism of the plans of content and expression, which confirms the analogical mechanisms of the extension of this law by remanence, a phenomenen of stabilisation in absentia of a change in praesentia; 3) isomorphism of syntagmatic and paradigmatic axes, which explains the circonflex tone by a law of maximum opposition analogue to the laws of dissimilation which ensure maximum contrasts
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Vincenot, Claude. "L'Accentuation slave étude diachronique /." Lille 3 : ANRT, 1988. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb37610622j.
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Joss, Kelly. "Re-constructing the slave : an examination of slave representation in the Greek polis." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/3843.
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This thesis examines the ways in which slaves are represented in classical Greek sources. The aim of this study is to examine the ideology which informed Greek depictions of slaves. Through such an analysis, we can learn a great deal not only about important issues such as Greek perceptions of barbarians and manual labour, but also wider issues, such as the nature of our sources and the ways in which Greeks defined themselves through their use of the antithetical image of the slave - the quintessential "Other" to the Greek ideal. Since slaves are depicted in a range of material, this thesis draws upon representations of slaves from sources as varied as art, drama, oratory, and philosophy. In short, this study examines representations of slaves in their own right. It highlights the cross-generic pervasiveness of slave representation and examines how representation functioned to naturalise and perpetuate the institution of slavery in ancient Greece.
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Mayo-Bobee, Dinah. "12 Years A Slave: Solomon Northup & The Fugitive Slave Act of 1793." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2014. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/742.
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Boulukos, George Eleftherios. "The grateful slave : representations of slave plantation reform in the British novel, 1720-1805 /." Digital version accessible at:, 1998. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/main.
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Zorer, Tolga. "Vme Slave Implementation On Fpga." Master's thesis, METU, 2008. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/2/12610128/index.pdf.
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In today&rsquos complex technological systems, there is a need of multi tasking several units running in accordance. Each unit is composed of several intelligent microcontroller cards. Each intelligent card performs a different task that the unit is responsible of. For this reason, there is a need of common communication bus between these cards in order to accomplish the task duties. VME (Versa Module Euro-Card) bus is a well known, the most reliable and the commonly used communication bus, even if it was standardized three decades ago. In this thesis work, the world wide accepted VME parallel bus protocol is implemented on FPGA (Field programmable Gate Array). The implementation covers the VME standard slave protocols. The VME Slave Module has been developed by VHDL (Very high level Hardware Description Language). The simulations have been carried over a computer based environment. After the verification of the VHDL code, an Intellectual Property (IP) core is synthesized and loaded into the FPGA. The FPGA based printed circuit board has been designed and the IP core&rsquo
s function has been tested by bus protocol checkers for all of its functionality. The designed hardware has several standard serial communication ports, such as
USB, UART and I2C. Through the developed card and the add-on units, it is also possible to communicate with these serial ports over the VME bus.
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Thomas, Jeffrey Scott. "The Political Imaginings of Slave Conspirators: Atlantic Contexts of the 1710 Slave Conspiracy in Martinique." W&M ScholarWorks, 2011. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539626661.
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Kintz, Salomé Hours-Richard Françoise. "Indexation matière et systématique pour une mise en valeur des collections, l'exemple de la bibliothèque de slavistique de l'université de Vienne (Autriche) /." [S.l.] : [s.n.], 2007. http://www.enssib.fr/bibliotheque/documents/dcb/kintz-dcb15.pdf.
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McLemore, Donald Rodney Jr. "Layered Sensing Using Master-Slave Cameras." Wright State University / OhioLINK, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wright1253565440.
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Spearman, Darian. "The Philosophical Significance of Slave Narratives." OpenSIUC, 2014. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/theses/1511.
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This thesis asserts that the slave narratives are a significant resource for philosophers. Following Lewis Gordon, I argue that the slave narratives should not be understood merely as experiential evidence by which to validate Western thought. Instead, the narratives should be read as moments in which Black narrators shared their unique insights on the Western world. In line with Angela Davis, I argue that these critiques are still relevant to philosophers of this day and age. However, I argue that Davis' Marxist reading of Frederick Douglass' Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave is still vulnerable to Gordon's criticism. Using the narrative Olaudah Equiano, I demonstrate that by reading the slave narratives as expressing unique thoughts, philosophers can discover new resources to invigorate their philosophical inquiries.
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Edwards-Ingram, Ywone. "Master-Slave Relations: A Williamsburg Perspective." W&M ScholarWorks, 1990. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539625579.
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Lystar, Kimberley J. "Two female perspectives on the slave family as described in Harriet Jacobs' "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl" and Mattie Griffith's "Autobiography of a Female Slave"." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/9987.
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This thesis will explore an issue in the history of American slavery: the importance of the slave family to individual female slaves. The slave families examined in this thesis do not consist exclusively of blood relations. They also include groups of individuals who came together and depended on and loved one another as much as blood relations. These bonds of affection also constituted family. In the main part of the thesis two sources will be examined in great detail: Harriet Jacobs' Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, published in 1861; and Mattie Griffith's Autobiography of a Female Slave, published in 1856. The main issue to be discussed is how these two women described the interaction of members of slave families. Jacobs was a fugitive slave living in the North when she wrote her slave narrative, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl in the 1850s. Griffith, on the other hand, was a white women who wrote a slave novel entitled Autobiography of a Female Slave in 1856. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
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Swenson, Catherine Anne. "Hegel and Nietzsche on master and slave." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape9/PQDD_0021/MQ47969.pdf.
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McLendon, Eric Blake. "Slave missions and membership in North Alabama." Auburn, Ala., 2006. http://repo.lib.auburn.edu/2006%20Fall/Theses/MCLENDON_ERIC_1.pdf.
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Barron, Agnel Natasha. "Representations of Labor in the Slave Narrative." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2009. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/english_theses/62.
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This study examines the slave narratives The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, The History of Mary Prince, A West Indian Slave, Related by Herself and The Bondwoman’s Narrative to determine the way in which these texts depict the economics of labor in slave society. Taking into account the specific socio-historical contexts in which these narratives were written, this study analyzes the way in which the representations of labor in these narratives interrogate slavery and address issues relating to the social relations and power dynamics of their respective societies. Emphasis is given to the way in which the gender complexities of slavery merge with the dynamics of labor thereby underscoring some of the peculiarities of the female slave experience.
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Thomas, Helen Sarah. "Spiritual autobiography : Romanticism and the slave narratives." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.389782.
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Sonoi, Chine. "British romanticism, slavery and the slave trade." Thesis, Nottingham Trent University, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.657618.
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Bagby, Ross Frederick. "The Randolph Slave Saga : communities in collision /." The Ohio State University, 1998. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487951214939913.
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TAZZIOLI, FEDERICA. "La rappresentazione letteraria della schiavitù transatlantica nel contesto culturale britannico: l’evoluzione letteraria dalle Slave Narratives alle Neo-Slave Narratives." Doctoral thesis, Università degli studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia, 2022. https://hdl.handle.net/11380/1291707.
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Il Regno Unito si presenta oggi come una realtà multiculturale in cui la diversità è apparentemente più tollerata che in passato; tuttavia, quest’ultima è ancora fortemente temuta e discriminata. Purtroppo, le tensioni e le contraddizioni che il paese presenta oggi, sono l’eredità del passato coloniale e della schiavitù transatlantica: la schiavitù rappresenta, infatti, un fenomeno centrale nella storia inglese, eppure essa sembra essere stata rimossa dalla memoria collettiva. Tale amnesia storica è stata denunciata da scrittori e storici contemporanei quali Andrea Levy, James Walvin, Herbert S. Klein, William D. Phillips e Caryl Phillips tra gli altri. Infatti, negli ultimi decenni, artisti e accademici hanno mostrato un crescente interesse nei confronti della schiavitù, come testimonia la pubblicazione di opere letterarie incentrate su tale tematica.
Con l’obiettivo di prendere parte a questo nuovo dibattito e di contribuire alla rivalutazione dell’importanza storica della schiavitù, la mia tesi riflette sulla schiavitù transatlantica attraverso l’analisi di opere letterarie. In particolare, la tesi segue l’evoluzione del genere letterario delle Slave Narratives per dimostrare che questo genere letterario, che è stato a lungo considerato come esclusivamente afroamericano, ha invece un ruolo fondamentale nel contesto inglese. Inizialmente il genere letterario era utilizzato per sostenere la campagna abolizionista, infatti diffondeva importanti informazioni sulla schiavitù e, presentando la prospettiva degli schiavi, li rendeva più umani agli occhi della popolazione bianca e creava empatia nei loro confronti. Oggi, l’evoluzione di questo genere è usata per ristabilire il valore storico delle prime Slave Narratives e per creare connessioni ideali tra la schiavitù e le attuali forme di discriminazione razziale.
La tesi adotta la prospettiva teorica fornita dai Trauma Studies, infatti, la schiavitù viene concepita come trauma individuale e collettivo che ha ancora necessità di essere affrontato e superato: le rappresentazioni artistiche della schiavitù possono essere lette come un metodo per affrontare tale trauma e ricontestualizzarlo nella memoria storica; così le rappresentazioni letterarie inglese della schiavitù possono essere analizzate come tentativi di superare il trauma provocato dalla schiavitù. Queste rappresentazioni non sono interessanti solamente a livello letterario, quindi, la mia tesi mira a sottolineare l’importanza delle Slave Narratives e delle Neo-Slave Narratives nel contesto della riflessione contemporanea sul razzismo e sull’eredità dell’imperialismo.
Concludendo, la mia tesi evidenzia che il Regno Unito che conosciamo oggi è una conseguenza del periodo coloniale e del coinvolgimento nella tratta degli schiavi e che la situazione attuale richiede una riflessione sul passato. Attraverso l’analisi letteraria delle Slave Narratives e delle evoluzioni contemporanee, la tesi propone nuove prospettive sulla rappresentazione della schiavitù nel contesto britannico. Inoltre, attraverso l’analisi delle Neo-Slave Narratives contemporanee, la tesi rivela l’intento degli autori di condannare il pregiudizio razziale. Le conseguenze dell’eredità del periodo coloniale sono più che mai evidenti e la popolazione nera chiede con forza di trovare posto nella storia, come dimostra il movimento Black Lives Matter. In definitiva, la tesi dimostra che la letteratura e l’arte possono essere utili per ricordare il passato e affrontare il trauma della schiavitù.Britain appears today as a multicultural nation, however, racial diversity, apparently more tolerated than in the past, is still problematic and feared; indeed, contemporary racial tensions and contradictions are the living legacy of the country’s colonial past and involvement with slavery. Clearly, slavery played a key role in British history, and yet it seems to have been largely forgotten by the collective British memory; the British amnesia is indicted by both writers and historians such as Andrea Levy, James Walvin, Herbert S. Klein, William D. Phillips and Caryl Phillips. However, this situation is slowly changing: recently scholars’ and artists’ interest in slavery has grown, as testified by the publication of literary works dealing with the subject of slavery. By reflecting on the heritage of Transatlantic Slavery, my dissertation aims to participate in the recent academic debate over slavery and in the process of reevaluation of slavery’s legacies in the contemporary period. My dissertation analyzes the literary representations of slavery, following the evolutions of the literary genre of the Slave Narrative, and my aim is to demonstrate that this literary genre, which has long been considered as an exclusively African American genre, has played a key role for Britain. This literary genre was initially used to support the abolitionist campaign by raising awareness about slavery and creating empathy towards the slaves; however, it is now used to both reestablish the historical value of the early Slave Narratives, and to metaphorically create connections between Transatlantic Slavery and the present days racial discriminations. My dissertation follows the perspective provided by the Trauma Studies, indeed, I conceive Transatlantic Slavery as both individual and collective trauma, for both the white and the black population, this trauma still needs to be tackled: artistic representations of slavery can be considered as a way to bring it to light, and find slavery’s place in human history and memory; thus, the literary representations of slavery produced in in Britain can be read as attempts to overcome the trauma of slavery. Not only the creation of literary representations of collective traumas such as the Slave Narrative, and its evolution are interesting on a literary level, but they are also considered to have the same therapeutic function as speaking about traumatic events, thus, my dissertation aims to highlight the Slave and Neo-Slave Narratives importance in the context of contemporary reflections on racism and on the legacy of imperialism. To conclude, by means of tracing back Britain’s connections with slavery, my dissertation shows that contemporary Britain has been shaped by the slave trade and its contemporary situation is urging to remember this past and reflect on it. Through the literary analysis of both British Slave and Neo-Slave Narratives the dissertation adds new perspectives on the representation of slavery in the Britain. Moreover, through the analysis of contemporary Neo-Slave Narratives, this dissertation reveals the contemporary authors’ aim to condemn the racial prejudice and structural inequalities which originates in the colonial period and is still present. The consequences of this amnesia are more than ever visible, and the black world population is asking for their repositioning in history, the recent movement Black Lives Matter is an example of that. My dissertation ultimately shows that literature and art can represent a way to remember the past, deal with the trauma of slavery, and reposition the black population in Britain.
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TAZZIOLI, FEDERICA. "La rappresentazione letteraria della schiavitù transatlantica nel contesto culturale britannico: l’evoluzione letteraria dalle Slave Narratives alle Neo-Slave Narratives." Doctoral thesis, Università degli studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia, 2022. https://hdl.handle.net/11380/1291706.
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Il Regno Unito si presenta oggi come una realtà multiculturale in cui la diversità è apparentemente più tollerata che in passato; tuttavia, quest’ultima è ancora fortemente temuta e discriminata. Purtroppo, le tensioni e le contraddizioni che il paese presenta oggi, sono l’eredità del passato coloniale e della schiavitù transatlantica: la schiavitù rappresenta, infatti, un fenomeno centrale nella storia inglese, eppure essa sembra essere stata rimossa dalla memoria collettiva. Tale amnesia storica è stata denunciata da scrittori e storici contemporanei quali Andrea Levy, James Walvin, Herbert S. Klein, William D. Phillips e Caryl Phillips tra gli altri. Infatti, negli ultimi decenni, artisti e accademici hanno mostrato un crescente interesse nei confronti della schiavitù, come testimonia la pubblicazione di opere letterarie incentrate su tale tematica.
Con l’obiettivo di prendere parte a questo nuovo dibattito e di contribuire alla rivalutazione dell’importanza storica della schiavitù, la mia tesi riflette sulla schiavitù transatlantica attraverso l’analisi di opere letterarie. In particolare, la tesi segue l’evoluzione del genere letterario delle Slave Narratives per dimostrare che questo genere letterario, che è stato a lungo considerato come esclusivamente afroamericano, ha invece un ruolo fondamentale nel contesto inglese. Inizialmente il genere letterario era utilizzato per sostenere la campagna abolizionista, infatti diffondeva importanti informazioni sulla schiavitù e, presentando la prospettiva degli schiavi, li rendeva più umani agli occhi della popolazione bianca e creava empatia nei loro confronti. Oggi, l’evoluzione di questo genere è usata per ristabilire il valore storico delle prime Slave Narratives e per creare connessioni ideali tra la schiavitù e le attuali forme di discriminazione razziale.
La tesi adotta la prospettiva teorica fornita dai Trauma Studies, infatti, la schiavitù viene concepita come trauma individuale e collettivo che ha ancora necessità di essere affrontato e superato: le rappresentazioni artistiche della schiavitù possono essere lette come un metodo per affrontare tale trauma e ricontestualizzarlo nella memoria storica; così le rappresentazioni letterarie inglese della schiavitù possono essere analizzate come tentativi di superare il trauma provocato dalla schiavitù. Queste rappresentazioni non sono interessanti solamente a livello letterario, quindi, la mia tesi mira a sottolineare l’importanza delle Slave Narratives e delle Neo-Slave Narratives nel contesto della riflessione contemporanea sul razzismo e sull’eredità dell’imperialismo.
Concludendo, la mia tesi evidenzia che il Regno Unito che conosciamo oggi è una conseguenza del periodo coloniale e del coinvolgimento nella tratta degli schiavi e che la situazione attuale richiede una riflessione sul passato. Attraverso l’analisi letteraria delle Slave Narratives e delle evoluzioni contemporanee, la tesi propone nuove prospettive sulla rappresentazione della schiavitù nel contesto britannico. Inoltre, attraverso l’analisi delle Neo-Slave Narratives contemporanee, la tesi rivela l’intento degli autori di condannare il pregiudizio razziale. Le conseguenze dell’eredità del periodo coloniale sono più che mai evidenti e la popolazione nera chiede con forza di trovare posto nella storia, come dimostra il movimento Black Lives Matter. In definitiva, la tesi dimostra che la letteratura e l’arte possono essere utili per ricordare il passato e affrontare il trauma della schiavitù.Britain appears today as a multicultural nation, however, racial diversity, apparently more tolerated than in the past, is still problematic and feared; indeed, contemporary racial tensions and contradictions are the living legacy of the country’s colonial past and involvement with slavery. Clearly, slavery played a key role in British history, and yet it seems to have been largely forgotten by the collective British memory; the British amnesia is indicted by both writers and historians such as Andrea Levy, James Walvin, Herbert S. Klein, William D. Phillips and Caryl Phillips. However, this situation is slowly changing: recently scholars’ and artists’ interest in slavery has grown, as testified by the publication of literary works dealing with the subject of slavery. By reflecting on the heritage of Transatlantic Slavery, my dissertation aims to participate in the recent academic debate over slavery and in the process of reevaluation of slavery’s legacies in the contemporary period. My dissertation analyzes the literary representations of slavery, following the evolutions of the literary genre of the Slave Narrative, and my aim is to demonstrate that this literary genre, which has long been considered as an exclusively African American genre, has played a key role for Britain. This literary genre was initially used to support the abolitionist campaign by raising awareness about slavery and creating empathy towards the slaves; however, it is now used to both reestablish the historical value of the early Slave Narratives, and to metaphorically create connections between Transatlantic Slavery and the present days racial discriminations. My dissertation follows the perspective provided by the Trauma Studies, indeed, I conceive Transatlantic Slavery as both individual and collective trauma, for both the white and the black population, this trauma still needs to be tackled: artistic representations of slavery can be considered as a way to bring it to light, and find slavery’s place in human history and memory; thus, the literary representations of slavery produced in in Britain can be read as attempts to overcome the trauma of slavery. Not only the creation of literary representations of collective traumas such as the Slave Narrative, and its evolution are interesting on a literary level, but they are also considered to have the same therapeutic function as speaking about traumatic events, thus, my dissertation aims to highlight the Slave and Neo-Slave Narratives importance in the context of contemporary reflections on racism and on the legacy of imperialism. To conclude, by means of tracing back Britain’s connections with slavery, my dissertation shows that contemporary Britain has been shaped by the slave trade and its contemporary situation is urging to remember this past and reflect on it. Through the literary analysis of both British Slave and Neo-Slave Narratives the dissertation adds new perspectives on the representation of slavery in the Britain. Moreover, through the analysis of contemporary Neo-Slave Narratives, this dissertation reveals the contemporary authors’ aim to condemn the racial prejudice and structural inequalities which originates in the colonial period and is still present. The consequences of this amnesia are more than ever visible, and the black world population is asking for their repositioning in history, the recent movement Black Lives Matter is an example of that. My dissertation ultimately shows that literature and art can represent a way to remember the past, deal with the trauma of slavery, and reposition the black population in Britain.
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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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Babbitt, Mark. "Davis Shuman : a biography /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/11325.
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MOREIRA, MARIA LUIZA PENNA. "LUIZ CAMILLO: INTELLECTUAL BIOGRAPHY." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2004. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=5208@1.
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A biografia intelectual de Luiz Camillo de Oliveira Netto
foi construída a
partir de antigas anotações que mostram a marca fundadora
de sua personalidade:
Itabira e o povo do Girau. Desde seu primeiro trabalho,
percebe-se como a
pequena cidade calçada de ferro era o núcleo moral de sua
personalidade, Itabira
com seus parentes mortos e vivos, sua paisagem
circunspecta, sua tradição, seu
estilo. Daí sairiam seu amor aos estudos históricos e seu
destino de intelectual,
pesquisador e ativista político. Seu arquivo constitui-se
em fonte primária, inédita;
possui interesse para os pesquisadores que desejem
compreender os limites e a
importância da sua atuação no mundo da cultura e da
política e entender, através
dos seus olhos, o espírito do tempo em que viveu. As cartas
e demais documentos
com os quais se trabalhou datam em sua maior parte de
momento cultural e
histórico preciso, situado entre 1904-1953, no ponto de
encontro de diferentes
fatores que os fazem objeto da história, da sociologia, dos
gêneros literários;
desses documentos, acrescidos de entrevistas com pessoas
que com ele
conviveram, retiraram-se temas e preocupações do mundo
intelectual brasileiro e
a caracterização de uma época - com mapeamento de
mentalidades,
entrelaçamento de relações de amizade, parentesco e
trabalho.Luiz Camillo de Oliveira Netto s intellectual biography is reconstructed on the basis of old jottings that point to the founding mark of his personality: the town of Itabira and the people of Girau. Since his first job, it is clear that the small, iron-paved town was the moral core of his personality - Itabira with its dead and living relatives, its reserved landscape, its traditions, its style. This was the origin of his love for the study of history and his destiny as an intellectual, researcher, and political activist. His archive includes primary and unpublished sources; it holds interest for researchers who would like to understand the limits and importance of his activities in the cultural and political world and to grasp, from his perspective, the spirit of the times he lived in. Most of the letters and documents upon which this work is based date from a precise cultural and historical moment: between 1904 and 1953. These materials are located at the intersection of different factors which make them the object of history, sociology, and literary genres; from these documents, to which were added interviews with people who lived around him, were drawn themes and concerns of the Brazilian intellectual world and the characterization of a historical period, with the mapping out of mentalities, the interlacing of relationships between friends, family members and fellow workers.
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Spong, Kaitlyn M. "“Your love is too thick”: An Analysis of Black Motherhood in Slave Narratives, Neo-Slave Narratives, and Our Contemporary Moment." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2018. https://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/2573.
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In this paper, Kait Spong examines alternative practices of mothering that are strategic nature, heavily analyzing Patricia Hill Collins’ concepts of “othermothering” and “preservative love” as applied to Toni Morrison’s 1987 novel, Beloved and Harriet Jacob’s 1861 slave narrative, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. Using literary analysis as a vehicle, Spong then applies these West African notions of motherhood to a modern context by evaluating contemporary social movements such as Black Lives Matter where black mothers have played a prominent role in making public statements against systemic issues such as police brutality, heightened surveillance, and the prison industrial complex.
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Hurbon, Laennec. "TH SLAVE TRADE AND BLACK SLAVERY IN AMERICA." Bulletin of Ecumenical Theology, 1991. http://digital.library.duq.edu/u?/bet,1477.
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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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Knight, Christina Anne. "Performing Passage: Contemporary Artists Stage the Slave Trade." Thesis, Harvard University, 2013. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:11178.
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My dissertation examines the work of George C. Wolfe, August Wilson, Lorna Simpson and Glenn Ligon, theater and visual artists working in the 1980s and 1990s who feature representations of the Middle Passage in their work. Despite their different mediums--Wolfe and Wilson created plays for the proscenium stage and Simpson and Ligon crafted art installations--all four critiqued the racialized social retrenchment of their historical moment by linking it to the slave trade, and each did so through an engagement with black performance traditions.African and African American Studies
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Vaezi, Seyyed Mir Abolhassan. "Slave particle study of the strongly correlated electrons." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/68984.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Physics, 2011.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 143-151).
Until three decades ago, our understanding of the condensed matter systems were based on two frameworks developed by Russian physicist Lev Landau: his theory of phase transition, and Fermi liquids. The Landau theory of phase transition and the Fermi liquid theory together, can successfully explain a wide range of phenomena from ferromagnetism and antiferromagnetism to the conventional superconductivity. However, in the last thirty years, many experiments including the fractional quantum Hall effect (QHE) have revolutionized our view of nature. For a system of electrons that is subject to a very strong interactions and/or strong correlations between electrons, these two frameworks may break down. There many phases of matter, e.g. spin liquids, that do not break any classical symmetry, but are separated by phase transition. These states has the so called topological order. Also, many of these states do not follow predictions of the Fermi liquid theory and have many exotic behaviors. A rather powerful technique to handle with these issues is the slave particle method. In the first part of this thesis, using a more general slave particle method we study the strongly correlated Hubbard model, whose ground state may represent a Fermi liquid state at two spatial dimensions. We study the phase diagram of this model and show that the gapped spin liquid can be realized on the both honeycomb and square lattices, within mean-field. We also investigate the effective low energy theory of these states. Some of them are subject to compact gauge fluctuations. We study instanton effect in them and show that instanton proliferation can destabilize some of them. Another interesting problem in which we are interested in is the copper based high temperature superconductors (HTSC). The parent state of cuprates materials (undoped case) is a Mott insulator whose ground state is proposed to be a spin liquid. Upon doping, many exotic phases appear, from high temperature superconductivity to the pseudogap phase with disjoint Fermi segments (Fermi arcs) instead of a closed Fermi surface, or the strange metal phase where the Fermi liquid theory breaks down and exhibits very unusual transport properties. The isotope effect in these materials is also very different from that of conventional superconductors. In the second part of this thesis we study the above mentioned problem in detail and explain them by appealing to the slave particle method.
by Seyyed Mir Abolhassan Vaezi.
Ph.D.
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Bardak, V. "Reporting of the movie "Twelve years of slave"." Thesis, Sumy State University, 2015. http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/40353.
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«12 years of slave» is the feeling of pain. It reminds about the
slave trade in America in the 19th century. The film is based on a true
story. «12 years of slave» is worth attracting of social attention.
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Yokokohji, Yasuyoshi. "ANALYSIS AND DESIGN OF MASTER-SLAVE TELEOPERATION SYSTEMS." Kyoto University, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/2433/74585.
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Knapp, Adrian. "Eighteenth-century slave narratives and their contemporary rewritings." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2014. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/8545/.
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This thesis explores different modes of self-presentation in eighteenth-century slave narratives and their contemporary rewritings. Focussing on texts by Phillis Wheatley, Ignatius Sancho, Ottobah Cugoano, Olaudah Equiano, Caryl Phillips and David Dabydeen, this study examines the fashioning of self as an oppositional tactic set against the oppressive cultural and discursive confines of the period of British abolition. While the first four chapters concentrate on different modes of self-presentation in texts from the 1770s and 1780s, the last two chapters focus on two novels from the 1990s that creatively reimagine the circumstances in which these eighteenth-century texts were composed. This thesis is not concerned with interior notions of the self or with recovering ‘authentic’ selfhoods that may be buried inside these texts. Instead, it focuses on the ways in which eighteenth-century slave narrators negotiate between self and society to construct particular discursive selves for political effect. I introduce the term ‘counterfeit’ self to foreground slave narrators’ tactical mode of self-fashioning that challenges, manipulates and exploits prevailing systems of discursive formation for political ends. As I will show, these texts’ ‘counterfeit’ selves undermine the genre’s structuring tension between authority and subjugation by provocatively blurring the sharp distinction between ideas of authenticity and fabrication. This not only enables them to break free from their constraining discursive formations, but also promotes a creative trans-epochal dialogue between eighteenthcentury texts and their contemporary rewritings. By bringing these two periods together in this thesis I hope to illustrate the way in which these texts’ slave narrators employ similar tactics to manipulate the discursive structures that underpin their mode of self-narration. To this end, I mine eighteenth-century texts for analytical tools to unpack their contemporary rewritings and to illuminate the way in which contemporary texts creatively redeploy techniques of their eighteenth-century antecedents.
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Donaldson, Adam E. "Peasant and Slave Rebellion in the Roman Republic." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/268576.
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In the second and first centuries BCE a series of three large-scale slave revolts erupted in Sicily and central Italy, each of which ravaged wide swathes of territory and were suppressed only after serious loss of life. These slave rebellions, which were unprecedented in Roman experience to that point, provoked horrified reactions from most ancient authors. Modern scholars have generally treated the late-Republican uprisings as isolated events, the unexpected consequence of military expansion. A focus on the label "slave," however, instead of on the social and economic roles of the specific rebels, has compartmentalized studies of the slave wars, allowing discussion only within the confines of Roman slavery studies. Since the rebel armies in each war were composed principally of agricultural laborers, a profitable comparison can be drawn from peasant uprisings and other manifestations of collective violence that occurred in throughout the Roman world. This study offers a new context for analyzing the slave wars, which re-integrates them into the broader sweep of Roman history and understands them as one manifestation of a broader pattern of social and cultural transformation.
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Mullins, Melissa Ann. "Born into Slavery: The American Slave Child Experience." W&M ScholarWorks, 1997. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539626128.
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Holland, Duane Lee Jr. "Saved, by becoming a slave to the rhythm!" Thesis, University of Iowa, 2015. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/1630.
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Saved, By Becoming a Slave to the Rhythm!, is a choreographic work that demonstrates how an individual finds purpose through a rite of passage filled with freedom, music, and movement of the House dancing scene. Saved, reveals how DJ Larry Levan gained recognition from the community of the Paradise Garage Club, as one of the best DJs of his time.
The work is split into three sections community, individual, and movement. The community section highlights the universal love, freedom, and multiculturalism of Paradise Garage that was generated by the charismatic control of Larry Levan's DJ mastery. Levan's charismatic mastery is what moved the Paradise Garage community to deem him one of the best DJs in House music history.
The community section transitions into the individual section. The individual section showcases the demons of Levan's life. A solo, performed to the words of Levan's best friend, Frankie Knuckles, displays how his excessive lifestyle of drugs and sex became the key to his demise.
The third section is an homage to Larry Levan, and members of the Paradise Garage community whom have passed on. I title this section the movement section, because it unveils the progression and stability of the House dance community. In addition to this cultural stability, the movement terminology of House dance is solidified.
I want the audience to leave Saved, By Becoming a Slave to the Rhythm!, inspired to search for their purpose in life, find it, and live it lovingly, joyfully, and peacefully.
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Rottino, Lorenzo Antonio <1987>. "ANALISI STORICA DELLA CATEGORIA DELL'ANIMATEZZA NELLE LINGUE SLAVE." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/2471.
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Alexander, Andrew. "Commercial diplomacy, cultural encounter and slave resistance : episodes from three VOC slave trading voyages from the Cape to Madagascar, 1760-1780." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/6736.
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The intention of this dissertation is to fill a gap in a rich and yet under-represented aspect of Indian Ocean slave history. A number of historians have devoted their attention to the history of slave trading on the island of Madagascar; however, most of these focus on either the 17th or the 19th centuries, leaving the 18th century relatively neglected. In addition, these studies are largely in the form of historical surveys, encompassing a temporal span of many decades. Thus, my purpose has been to adopt a different approach to the study of European-initiated slave trading expeditions to Madagascar to those that have preceded it. I have elected to found this study on a close reading of two journals from slave trading vessels that sought slaves for the Cape in Madagascar in the 1760s and the 1770s. In addition, I have incorporated material from my research on a third vessel that I completed for the purposes of my Honours degree. The first two vessels are De Neptunus , which sailed from 1760-1761, and De Zan, which sailed from 1775-1776. The third vessel is the Meermin, which sailed from 1765-1766. I have undertaken a close reading of the journals maintained by the merchants of De Neptunus and De Zan, so as to write a history sensitive to the daily experiences of the slave traders in Madagascar, as well as to the codes and discourse through which this experience was filtered. Regarding the Meermin, I have not examined its actual voyage to Madagascar as such, but have investigated a slave uprising that occurred on the vessel on its return home in 1766. I have organised this dissertation into three chapters, systematised thematically. The first is concerned with the experience of negotiation and trading as it was recorded by the VOC merchants on the vessels, and is drawn predominantly from the first trading encounter of the crew of De Zan when they arrived in Madagascar in 1775. The second explores the predicaments that the European slave traders encountered on the island, predicaments that arose both from cultural misunderstandings and from personal conflict with the Malagasy. I have drawn on episodes from De Zon and De Neptunus to illustrate this theme. In the third and final chapter, I analyse the phenomenon of slave resistance on board slave ships, using a slave uprising that occurred on De Zan while it was still on the coast of Madagascar, and that of the Meermin when it was approaching Cape Agulhas, as two distinct and yet mutually informative examples of this phenomenon. In contrast to the surveys that comprise the majority of the English-language scholarship on slave trading in Madagascar, this dissertation is founded on a close reading of particular episodes, some relatively peaceful, some fraught with tension, some even violent, all of them revealing. In a sense, it is an attempt at a series of micro-narratives that illustrate and detail the historical experience of VOC-slave trading on the island at a particular juncture and from a variety of perspectives. As such, there is more of a focus on character and incident that there is on the economics and materiality of the trade; and it is in this emphasis that this study seeks to find itself a place in the scholarship on this fascinating and multi-layered cultural encounter.
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Radburn, Nicholas James. "William Davenport, the slave trade, and merchant enterprise in eighteenth-century Liverpool : a thesis submitted to the Victoria University of Wellington in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in History /." ResearchArchive@Victoria e-Thesis, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10063/1187.
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Alexander, Andrew. "The mutiny on the Meermin." Bachelor's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/11794.
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Includes bibliographical references (leaves 83-85).During February and March of the year 1766, Dutch slaving vessel, the Meermin, be the site of an act of violent resistance, murder and an abortive bid for freedom. Approximately 140 Madagascan slaves revolted against the VOC crew manning the vessel and assume control of the ship; they were subsequently deceived by a Dutch crew desperate for their lives, transported to a region far from the island kingdoms that they regarded as home, and ultimately violently defeated on the coast of a foreign land, a land where many were to remain and die, recaptured by those over whom they had, for a brief moment, won such a devastating victory. Their grasp for liberty thwarted by an almost fantastic mixture of cunning, firepower and luck, they were ultimately to submit to the authority of the cause of their oppression, and to remain in the land from which their attempts at flight had been directed.
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LaFantasie, Glenn Warren. "William C. Oates : a biography /." View online version; access limited to Brown University users, 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:3174631.
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McVeigh, Jane. "Literary biography and its critics." Thesis, University of Roehampton, 2013. https://pure.roehampton.ac.uk/portal/en/studentthesis/literary-biography-and-its-critics(a8f5e71a-c008-4fe2-b56b-2f3ab633e6d7).html.
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This thesis analyses Anglo-American criticism of biography, during the late twentieth century from within and outside the academy. It moves on to discuss the work of three contemporary British biographers, Claire Tomalin, Richard Holmes and Hermione Lee, in the context of recent debate about the genre. Claire Tomalin, is an independent freelance biographer; Hermione Lee, is a lifelong academic who writes biography for the general and academic reader; and Richard Holmes has had a foot in both camps in his experience both as an independent biographer and an academic. The aim is to make the case that contemporary British biography since 1970, literary biography in particular, has not only responded to objections from some academics critics but, at least in the biographies by Tomalin, Holmes and Lee, embraces aspects of recent academic literary theory, New Historicism and Feminism in particular. It is not within the remit of my thesis to provide an overview of literary theory or weigh up its arguments. It is rather the intention to argue that objections to the genre have been influenced by aspects of recent theory, and that critics have not acknowledged the extent to which biographers have also been aware of, and have responded to comparable influences. I will also consider the extent to which objections to the genre are reflected in reviews of biographies by Tomalin, Holmes and Lee, as well as recent developments in the academic study of the genre. The first chapter will identify major objections to biography influenced by academic theory, drawing on both British and American sources. The next chapter will discuss how biographers, within and outside the academy, have responded to these objections. A study of Claire Tomalin’s biographies in Chapter Three will explore the extent to which she considers ‘truth’ as mediated and provisional; how she approaches autobiographical evidence; her use of anecdotes and chronology; and the use she makes of speculation. Richard Holmes, the subject of Chapter Four, is often associated with debates about identification in biography and the chapter devoted to him will explore the extent to which his approach can be seen as ‘Romantic’ in its treatment of the subject as an isolated individual, a great i man or autonomous genius; the extent to which he places his biographical subjects within their social, political and cultural contexts; and his approach to historiography, influenced by the ontological and fictional focus important to Ira Nadel. Hermione Lee, the subject of Chapter Five, is a distinguished academic whose biographical writing negotiates the balance between fact and fiction and ontological and historical knowledge differently from that of Holmes, in ways more congruent with academic practice. Chapter Six will consider the critical reception of biographies by Hermione Lee, Claire Tomalin, and Richard Holmes in academic journals and the reviews of academics in the quality press. Chapter Seven will discusses the extent to which biography as a written narrative has been subsumed within the academy into the wider field of life-writing, and how this subsuming has affected its status and character as a literary genre.
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au, TLindsey@aapt net, and Travis Barton Lindsey. "Arthur William Upfield: A Biography." Murdoch University, 2005. http://wwwlib.murdoch.edu.au/adt/browse/view/adt-MU20051003.113934.
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This dissertation is an exhaustive account of the life and work of Arthur William Upfield (1890-1964). It is presented as a critical biography and narrates the life of the writer, in his socio-cultural milieu, from birth. It also positions Upfield as a writer who dealt with issues of Aboriginality at a time when this was a singularly polemical subject. My work is informed by the theory of Zygmunt Bauman and others and is posited in the context of late-modern biography theory.
English-born, Upfield arrived in Australia in 1911 and took work in the bush, serving overseas with the Australian army at the outbreak of World War I and marrying an Australian army nurse in Egypt. Returning with his wife and son to Australia in 1921 he intermittently carried his swag until he was employed patrolling the Western Australian number 1 rabbit-proof fence for three years to 1931. By that time he had published four novels, including two crime novels featuring his fictional creation, the part-Aboriginal, part-European, Detective-Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte (Bony), arguably the first fully-developed character in Australian popular fiction.
Leaving the fence, Upfield settled with his family in Perth and wrote full-time until joining the Melbourne Herald in 1933. Retrenched, he resumed career writing to be further interrupted by a war-time intelligence posting in 1939. In 1943 the first Bony mysteries were published in America, where Upfields critical success was maintained until his death. In 1945 he left his wife for Jessica Uren, to whom he remained devoted.
Upfields in all twenty-nine Bony novels, many of which have been translated across eleven languages, afforded him notable success both at home and abroad, in good part due to his descriptive gifts and the uniqueness of his fictional character, the part-Aboriginal Bony.
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Killinger, Margaret O'Neal. "Helen Knothe Nearing: A Biography." Fogler Library, University of Maine, 2004. http://www.library.umaine.edu/theses/pdf/KillingerMON2004.pdf.
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