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Rasiah, Rasiah, Ansor Putra, Fina Amalia Masri, Arman Arman, and Suci Rahmi Pardilla. "JUST LIKE BLACK, ONLY BETTER: POOR WHITE IN ANTEBELLUM SOUTH OF AMERICA DEPICTED IN SOLOMON NORTHUP’S NOVEL TWELVE YEARS AS A SLAVE." Diksi 29, no. 1 (March 29, 2021): 10–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.21831/diksi.v29i1.33081.
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(Title: Just Like Black, Only Better: Poor White in Antebellum South of America Depicted in Solomon Northup’s Novel “Twelve Years as A Slave”). Antebellum era, the period before the Civil War occured, or before the year 1861, in the United States is used to relate to the enslavement of black American. In fact, the era was not merely about black, but also poor white. This study is purposed to describe the poor whites’ life in antebellum America as reflected in Twelve Years As A Slave (1855), a narrative biography novel written by Solomon Northup. Set up the story in New York, Washingotn DC, and New Orleans, the author (and focalizer at once) told the story based on his own experience as a black who was captivated and sold into slavery for twelve years. Although the novel centered its story on black character, it also reflected the life of poor whites who were also being “enslaved” by their white counterparts. Through sociology of literature perspective, this study reveals that the character of poor white that represented through John M. Tibeats, Armsby, and James H. Burch came from Great Britain especially from Ireland. Mostly, they moved to America as incarcerated people. They lived under the poverty and some of them were the vagrants and petty criminals. Poor white during antebellum era in America was positioned in the lower social level. They were “enslaved” by their white master but more better compared to the black slaves. It can be noticed that poor white were positioned in low social level because of the socio-economic problem, while blacks were race and racism. Keywords: antebellum America, poor white, slavery, social class, American literature
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Newman, Simon P. "Freedom-Seeking Slaves in England and Scotland, 1700–1780*." English Historical Review 134, no. 570 (October 2019): 1136–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ehr/cez292.
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Abstract This essay explores the experiences of enslaved people who sought to escape their bondage in England and Scotland during the first three-quarters of the eighteenth century. It argues that, while the conditions of their servitude in Britain may appear closer to those of white British servants than those of enslaved plantation labourers in the colonies, the experiences of these people were conditioned by the experiences of and the threat of return to colonial enslavement. For some successful Britons an enslaved serving boy was a visible symbol of success, and a great many enslaved men, women, youths and children were brought to Great Britain during the eighteenth century. Some accompanied visiting colonists and ships’ officers, while others came to Britain with merchants, planters, clergymen and physicians who were returning home. Some of the enslaved sought to seize freedom by escaping. Utilising newspaper advertisements placed by owners seeking the capture and return of these runaways (as well as advertisements offering enslaved people for sale), the essay demonstrates that many such people were regarded by their masters and mistresses as enslaved chattel property. Runaways were often traumatised by New World enslavement, and all too aware that they might easily be sold or returned to the horrors of Caribbean and American slavery: improved work conditions in Britain did not lessen the psychological and physical effects of enslavement from which they sought to escape.
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Riall, Lucy. "The Shallow End of History? The Substance and Future of Political Biography." Journal of Interdisciplinary History 40, no. 3 (January 2010): 375–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/jinh.2010.40.3.375.
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The “Great Man” tradition of political life-writing in Britain originated in the Dictionary of National Biography (which commenced publication in 1882) and continues to this day in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. The commercial popularity of the genre has persisted despite the challenges of post-structuralism and the rise of cultural and gender history. Contemporary political biographers who wish to incorporate new methodologies in their work, however, could approach the lives of Great Men through a study of how they acquired their reputations, thereby helping to explicate not only the importance attached to political heroes in history but also the creation of political biography itself. One case in point is my biography of Giuseppe Garibaldi, which analyzes the construction of, and political strategy behind, the remarkable fame and popularity of this revolutionary leader.
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Murphy, Tessa. "Centering Slavery in the Age of Abolition: Insights from the Saint Lucia Register of Plantation Slaves, 1815." William and Mary Quarterly 81, no. 2 (April 2024): 359–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/wmq.2024.a925936.
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Abstract: Scholars have used a range of sources, including oral histories, written accounts, and plantation inventories, to reconstruct the lives of people subjected to slavery in the Atlantic world. Yet in contested colonies such as Saint Lucia, the experiences of enslaved people remain little known. Attention to a seemingly static, bureaucratic document—the 1815 Register of Plantation Slaves—provides details about all 12,726 individuals who were enslaved on estates in Saint Lucia just one year after France ceded the island to Great Britain. This, in turn, facilitates the reconstruction of life histories and genealogies of people who labored on the plantation frontier of the British Empire during the age of abolition. As one of 671 such documents created throughout the empire in the decades after Great Britain's 1807 abolition of the transatlantic slave trade, the 1815 Saint Lucia Register of Plantation Slaves illustrates the potential for such documents to significantly enlarge current understandings of slavery. The register testifies to the importance of regional trafficking and the role of reproductive labor in giving rise to a creolized enslaved population in Saint Lucia, and it poignantly illustrates how these phenomena affected enslaved individuals and families.
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Appeltová, Michaela. "Women’s Agency, Catholic Morality, and the Irish State." Radical History Review 2022, no. 143 (May 1, 2022): 212–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/01636545-9566244.
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Abstract The text reviews four new books in Irish women’s history and the history of sexuality: Mary McAuliffe’s biography of the revolutionary Margaret Skinnider; Jennifer Redmond’s Moving Histories, exploring the discourses about Irish women migrants to Great Britain in the first few decades of the Irish state, and their everyday lives in Britain; Lindsey Earner-Byrne and Diane Urquhart’s The Irish Abortion Journey, which documents the repressive discourses and policies surrounding abortion in twentieth-century Ireland and relates stories of traveling to Great Britain to obtain it; and finally, Sonja Tiernan’s book examining the ultimately successful political and legal campaign for marriage equality in Ireland. These highly readable, well-researched books place gender and sexuality at the center of Irish history; provide insight into the contradictory political, religious, and medical discourses about Irish women, gays, and lesbians; and document the lives of women both in and out of Ireland.
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Valdés, Juan Núñez. "WOMEN IN THE EARLY DAYS OF PHARMACY IN GREAT BRITAIN." International Journal Of Multidisciplinary Research And Studies 04, no. 12 (October 1, 2018): 102–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.33826/ijmras/v04i12.1.1.
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This paper deals with the beginnings and historical evolution of Pharmacy studies in Great Britain and on the role played by the first women who practiced the profession there, The circumstances of that time, which made very difficult for a woman to work in that area, the biography of the first English woman licensed in Pharmacy, Fanny Deacon, and the biographies of the women who followed her as graduates in Pharmacy in Great Britain are commented, detailing not only their personal data but also the impact they had on the evolution and development of Pharmacy studies in their country. These women were Alice Vickery, Isabella Skinner Clarke, Margaret Elizabeth Buchanan, Rose Coombes Minshull and Agnes Thompson Borrowman.The main objective of the paper is to reveal the figures of these first women in Pharmacy in Great Britain to society, To do this, the methodology used has been the usual in researches of this type: search of data on these women in bibliographical and computer sources, as well as in historic archives. As the main results, the biographies of these pioneers pharmacist women mentioned above have been elaborated
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Moore, James Ross. "Cole Porter in Britain." New Theatre Quarterly 8, no. 30 (May 1992): 113–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0266464x00006564.
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The place of Cole Porter – the centenary of whose birth fell last June – within the tradition of the American musical has been well documented and fully discussed. Usually, however, this is at the expense of his earliest work, first as an exponent of Gilbertian pastiche, later as a dilettante ex-legionnaire in France – and then, as he grew aware of his own potential as a professional, in his work for the London theatre in the 1920s and early 1930s. Much of this was for revues mounted by the legendary impresario C. B. Cochran, though in 1933 the production of Nymph Errant proved to be his first and last original, full scale book musical for Britain, shortly before Porter's decision to move his home as well as his ambitions to Broadway. James Moore is a Cambridge-based writer, whose current work in progress includes a book on the British–American musical theatre and a full-length biography of Cochran's great rival, André Chariot – with whom Cole Porter finally collaborated in 1934, contributing ‘Miss Otis Regrets’ to the topical revue Hi Diddle Diddle.
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Asp Frederiksen, Lene. "Colonial media ecologies." Nordisk Tidsskrift for Informationsvidenskab og Kulturformidling 8, no. 2 (February 11, 2020): 98–112. http://dx.doi.org/10.7146/ntik.v7i2.118485.
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In this mixed-media essay I document a field trip to Ghana where I, so to say, travel in the footsteps of the Danish colonizers to the Gold Coast in a bid to dialogically challenge the genre of the monologizing colonial traveloguei. My methodological retracing of the slave route is inspired by Danish author Thorkild Hansen’s book trilogy Coast of Slaves, Ships of Slaves and Islands of Slaves from the 1960s in which he visits the former Danish West Indies and the Gold Coast (in the, at the time of his visit, still very young Ghanaian nation, which had gained its independence from Great Britain in 1957). Hansen was one of the first Danish authors to voice a strong critique of the Danish colonial past and of a neglectful historiography through his docu-fiction. I was curious to explore in a parallel movement to Hansen’s the landscape as prism and archive today. Hence, the ‘reenactment’ of the travelogue in this essay functions as an attempt to recast and refracture colonial narratives of past and present. My own documentary audio recordings from the field trip are presented here along with methodological reflections on how to voice dialogical narratives about colonialism in new digital media.
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Zernetska, O. "The Rethinking of Great Britain’s Role: From the World Empire to the Nation State." Problems of World History, no. 9 (November 26, 2019): 129–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.46869/2707-6776-2019-9-6.
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In the article, it is stated that Great Britain had been the biggest empire in the world in the course of many centuries. Due to synchronic and diachronic approaches it was detected time simultaneousness of the British Empire’s development in the different parts of the world. Different forms of its ruling (colonies, dominions, other territories under her auspice) manifested this phenomenon.The British Empire went through evolution from the First British Empire which was developed on the count mostly of the trade of slaves and slavery as a whole to the Second British Empire when itcolonized one of the biggest states of the world India and some other countries of the East; to the Third British Empire where it colonized countries practically on all the continents of the world. TheForth British Empire signifies the stage of its decomposition and almost total down fall in the second half of the 20th century. It is shown how the national liberation moments starting in India and endingin Africa undermined the British Empire’s power, which couldn’t control the territories, no more. The foundation of the independent nation state of Great Britain free of colonies did not lead to lossof the imperial spirit of its establishment, which is manifested in its practical deeds – Organization of the British Commonwealth of Nations, which later on was called the Commonwealth, Brexit and so on.The conclusions are drawn that Great Britain makes certain efforts to become a global state again.
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Valdés, Juan Núñez Valdés. "International Journal of Multidisciplinary Research and Studies." International Journal of Multidisciplinary Research and Studies 04, no. 12 (December 24, 2021): 102–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.33826/ijmras/v04i12.1.
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This paper deals with the beginnings and historical evolution of Pharmacy studies in Great Britain and on the role played by the first women who practiced the profession there, The circumstances of that time, which made it very difficult for a woman to work in that area, the biography of the first English woman licensed in Pharmacy, Fanny Deacon, and the biographies of the women who followed her as graduates in Pharmacy in Great Britain are commented, detailing not only their personal data but also the impact they had on the evolution and development of Pharmacy studies in their country. These women were Alice Vickery, Isabella Skinner Clarke, Margaret Elizabeth Buchanan, Rose Coombes Minshull, and Agnes Thompson Borrowman. The main objective of the paper is to reveal the figures of these first women in Pharmacy in Great Britain to society, To do this, the methodology used has been usual in researches of this type: search of data on these women in bibliographical and computer sources, as well as in historic archives. As the main results, the biographies of these pioneers pharmacist women mentioned above have been elaborated.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Slaves – great britain – biography"
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Vaughan, Jacqueline D. "Secretaries, statesmen and spies : the clerks of the Tudor Privy Council, c. 1540-c.1603 /." Thesis, St Andrews, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/440.
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Whiteley, Joanna. "Lives and limbs : re-membering Robert Jones : a biography." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/1986.
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This is a biography of Robert Jones, 1857-1933. He was a surgeon, and is credited with bringing orthopaedics from its quack past into its scientific present. This work explores Jones’ life and times, and examines whether he is entitled to the epithet ‘father of orthopaedics’. It looks at the history of bonesetting, the influences on Jones’ development and medical training, and some key moments in his career – notably his involvement in the building of the Manchester Ship Canal, the planning of Heswall Children’s Hospital, and the Great War. It argues that although there are other medical men who could have been credited with fathering orthopaedics, he is indeed the father – at least of orthopaedics in Britain, if not internationally. This version of Jones’ life begins with something of his biographer’s journey, before it explores what and who influenced Jones, and in turn what his legacy has been to the medical profession. The accompanying Critical Commentary explores whether or not it is possible to offer a definition of biography as a genre in the light of its history and purpose. It examines critical views, considers the mythology that grows up around historical figures, and also explains the rationale for the structure chosen for organising the material presented in this new biography of Robert Jones, Live and Limbs: Re-membering Robert Jones.
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Li, Boting, and 李博婷. "Leonard Woolf: towards a literarybiography." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2010. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B45697735.
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Karginoff, Simon P. "The parliamentary career of Michael Thomas Sadler, 1829-1833." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 1995. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/1185.
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The thesis seeks to combine an historiographical reappraisal of Michael Thomas Sadler, 1780-1835, with an account of his political thought and actions during his parliamentary career, 1829-1833. Sadler was an Ultra-Tory, although he has also been called a Radical Tory. Central to Ultra-Tory philosophy was the defence of the Revolution Settlement, or Protestant Constitution. This thesis opens with an explanation as to why Sadler was chosen as a research subject. Section one gives a general background to Sadler. The thesis begins with a brief biographical sketch followed by a detailed historiographical assessment. Sadler’s basic philosophy is outlined and his opposition to Catholic emancipation and parliamentary reform is examined. The second section finds Sadler’s social and economic reforming activities the focus of attention. Although we move away from strictly constitutional issues the section explores Sadler’s concern for the downtrodden in England and Ireland. Indeed, for Sadler, the ‘aristocratic ideal’ – the need to look after the material well- being of British subjects – was as important as preserving the political framework of the Constitution. The question of a poor law for Ireland and factory legislation in England are two key areas under examination. Another chapter in the section examines Sadler’s attempts at reform on behalf of the agricultural labourers of Britain. The thesis concludes with a reappraisal of Sadler’s contribution to social reform in the early nineteenth century together with a reassessment of his position within the Tory party.
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Strasdin, Kate. "Fashioning Alexandra : a sartorial biography of Queen Alexandra 1844-1925." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2014. https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/366831/.
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In the second half of the 19th century, Alexandra Princess of Wales and later Queen Consort to her husband Edward VII became one of the most recognizable women of the period. Her image was circulated around the globe by the million and her every movement recorded daily in The Times. Despite her contemporary celebrity, she has become a lesser-known figure in modern history. With little in the way of political influence, Alexandra recognized that her ppearance in public was powerful. She used clothes throughout her life to both display and disguise herself. despite the centrality of dress in her life, no other study has ever examined her remaining items of clothing until now. This thesis considers in detail those garments that have survived from Queen Alexandra’s wardrobe, most of which, owing to their geographic spread, have never been studied before. This object-led approach allows an analysis of a life, which has been considered before in more traditional biographies. However, the close examination of the garments and of Alexandra’s approach to her clothing reveals aspects never before considered. It has also prompted the consideration of previously under researched areas such as royal laundry, the role of the dresser and the logistics of 19th century royal travel. As a multi-disciplinary project it has shed new light onto Alexandra’s life and dispelled certain apocryphal stories which only the material culture itself could reveal.
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Akel, Regina. "The journals of Maria Graham (1785-1842)." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2007. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/2585/.
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Maria Graham is known as a travel writer, but she also translated works from French and German into English, wrote on history, painting, stories for children, and kept personal journals. My thesis centres on her travel journals and memoirs, published and unpublished. Graham is one of the first female travel writers to acquire fame as a writer shortly after publication, or to provoke controversy; in the cases of Brazil and Chile she actually is the first woman to write about those emerging states. She is outstanding as well for the authority of her narrative voice, her disregard of restrictions imposed on women’s text during her time, her complex approach to gender issues and for the changes experienced by her narrating persona. She begins by constructing a well informed but detached observer who reports her visit to India and the first visit to Brazil in a cold and distant voice, but who later allows another voice to filter through her text, an event that turns the narrator into a mere shadow in parts of the journal on Chile. It is in this journal that Graham begins to build up a contradictory persona who can be superior, ironic, and scathing when describing other women, but who can portray herself as a helpless heroine in a traditional romance when her script so demands it. In the second visit to Brazil this complex narrator becomes warmly eulogising of the country and its ruler, but this attitude does not last. The position is reversed in the third journal, which has elements of a spy thriller at times. The last chapter concerns the journals written in and about Europe regardless of chronology; they illustrate one of the main postulates of the thesis: that Graham evolved as narrator from detached observer to heroine up to the journals written at the end of her life, which become explorations into the narrator’s inner self.
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Dunster, Sandra. "Women of the Nottinghamshire elite, c. 1720-1820." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2003. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/12083/.
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This thesis explores the lives of women in a small group of families in the Nottinghamshire elite between 1720 and 1820. A close reading of family papers, gives access to the minutiae of female life and it is from these small details that the attitudes, activities and responsibilities of elite women are constructed. Drawing on the distinct historiographies of women and gender, and of the elite, the evidence produced by this sharply-focused approach is used to explore women's formal and informal roles, and the specific ways in which they were fulfilled, in the domestic, social, economic and political life of the elite. Consideration is first given to attitudes towards girls within the family and to how childhood experience contributed to the construction of elite womanhood. An assessment of the level of convergence between family and individual interests in the matter of marital choices is followed by an exploration of the weight of domestic responsibility experienced by women within the family, as wives, mothers and housekeepers. Attention turns to assessing the extent of female engagement with political, economic and social life, in the pursuit of personal and family interests. The narratives of women and their families illuminate how the female elite balanced the particular mix of subordination and privilege conferred upon them by gender and status. The range of activities in which they engaged and the multifaceted nature of that engagement demonstrate that throughout the eighteenth century women at all levels of the Nottinghamshire elite worked to support the ethos of elite pre-eminence in many small but cumulatively significant ways.
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Lebreux, Marie-Pascale. "William Palmer of Magdalen College : an ecclesiastical Don Quixote." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape11/PQDD_0007/MQ43900.pdf.
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Yates, Valerie (Valerie Ida). "Unusual Victorians : the personal and political unorthodoxy of Lord and Lady Amberley." Thesis, McGill University, 1986. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=65530.
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Gobin, Anuradha. "Leaving a bittersweet taste : classifying, cultivating and consuming sugar in seventeenth and eighteenth century British West Indian visual culture." Thesis, McGill University, 2007. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=112338.
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This thesis explores visual representations of British West Indian sugar in relation to the African slave trade practiced during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. During this time, sugar played a vital role to the lives of both European and non-Europeans as it was a source of great wealth for many and became transformed into one of the most demanded and widely consumed commodity. From the earliest days of British colonization, the cultivation and production of sugar in the Caribbean has been inextricably linked with the trade in African slaves to provide free labor for plantation owners and planters. This thesis considers how European artists visually represented sugar in its various forms---as an object for botanical study, as landscape and as consumable commodity---and in so doing, constructed specific ideas about the African slave body and the use of African slave labor that reflected personal and imperial agendas and ideologies.
Books on the topic "Slaves – great britain – biography"
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Ahmed Iqbal Ullah Race Relations Resource Centre, ed. Olaudah Equiano: Son of Africa. Manchester: Ahmed Iqbal Ullah Race Relations Resource Centre, 2006.
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William, Hague. William Wilberforce: The life of the great anti-slave trade campaigner. Orlando: Harcourt, 2007.
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William, Hague. William Wilberforce: The life of the great anti-slave trade campaigner. Orlando: Harcourt, 2007.
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William, Hague. William Wilberforce: The life of the great anti-slave trade campaigner. Orlando: Harcourt, 2007.
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Deirdre, Coleman, ed. Maiden voyages and infant colonies: Two women's travel narratives of the 1790s. London: Leicester University Press, 1999.
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Equiano, Olaudah. The life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa the African. Harlow: Longman, 1994.
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Equiano, Olaudah. The interesting narrative and other writings. New York: Penguin Books, 1995.
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Equiano, Olaudah. The interesting narrative of the life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African: An authoritative text. New York: Norton, 2001.
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Equiano, Olaudah. Equiano's travels: The interesting narrative of the life of Olaudah Equiano or Gustavus Vassa, the African. London: Heinemann, 1996.
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Equiano, Olaudah. The life of Olaudah Equiano: The interesting narrative of the life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African. [Chicago, Ill.]: Lakeside Press, 2004.
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Garner, Bryan A. "Lindley Murray." In Invisible Giants, 209–13. Oxford University PressNew York, NY, 2003. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195168839.003.0037.
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Abstract Be the conser,.,ati,.,e estimate of his most recent biographer (Charles Monaghan), Lindley Murray was once a blockbuster author the likes of which the literary world has ne,.,er again seen. From 1800 to 1840, some 15.5 million copies of his literacy books sold in the United States and Great Britain-at a time when the reading population was a small fraction of what it is today. The most popular was his English Grammar,for which he earned the moniker “the father of English grammar.” Murray might The become famous for other extraordinary feet about his life. He was a major landowner in New York City; in feet, he owned an estate called ‘‘Belle,.,ue,” where a famous hospital now operates. He was a prosperous New York lawyer who, after the American Re,.,olution, was forced into exile for trading with the British. (The idea that he left for the milder clime inYork was, in Monaghan s words, a “diplomatic white lie.’) He bequeathed a substantial sum of money for an American fund to be used in liberating slaves, educating them and their descendants, and benefiting American Indians; the fund still operates in New York.
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Thonfeld, Christoph. "25. Former Forced Labourers as Immigrants in Great Britain after 1945." In Hitler's Slaves, 324–37. Berghahn Books, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9781845459901-028.
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Loadman, John. "Slaves to Rubber." In Tears of the Tree, 143–63. Oxford University PressOxford, 2005. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198568407.003.0008.
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Abstract At the turn of the twentieth century the rubber plantation industry in Asia was getting off to a slow and shaky start (Ridley claimed that disruptive actions by Sir Frank Swettenham, the first Resident-General of the Federated Malay States, had set it back by at least ten years), whilst the African rubber industry was extremely small. Nevertheless, the industrialised countries, particularly America and Great Britain, were crying out for rubber and had to rely on the Amazonian basin to meet their demands.
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Ng, Su Fang. "Millennial Alexander in the Making of Aceh." In Alexander the Great from Britain to Southeast Asia, 243–76. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198777687.003.0009.
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This chapter examines how the Acehnese appropriated Alexander the Great as a model of kingship and imitated Melaka in fashioning a royal mythic genealogy going back to Iskandar Zulkarnain. The discussion focuses on one Acehnese sultan, Sultan Iskandar Muda (r. 1607–36), whose name means Alexander the Younger and whose reign is considered Aceh’s golden age. The chapter explores Aceh’s parallel literary allusions to Alexander, incorporated into local literary genres, through an analysis of Iskandar Muda’s biography, Hikayat Aceh. It shows how Hikayat Aceh employs tropes of Timurid-Alexandrian kingship that are also found in diplomatic letters to European kings, including James I of England. It also describes Hikayat Aceh’s understanding of diplomatic relations as a complex entanglement and how the Acehnese turned to the global tradition of Alexander to reflect on intercultural relations with foreign others.
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Hingley, Richard. "Julius Caesar in Britain." In Conquering the Ocean, 17–42. Oxford University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190937416.003.0002.
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This chapter is an exploration of the two campaigns led by the great Roman commander in 55 and 54 BCE. Caesar left a vitally important account of his invasions of south-eastern Britain which provides information about his campaigns and addresses the Iron Age peoples of Britain. Significant archaeological discoveries have supplemented, and often challenged, this narrative. These include the recent discovery of Caesar’s probable landing site from his second campaign (at Ebbsfleet, Kent) and the uncovering of a high-status Iron Age warrior burial at North Bersted (West Sussex). Caesar brought around 20,000 soldiers to Britain during his second campaign and forced the surrender of several of the kings of south-eastern Britain, including a great warrior named Cassivellaunus, who attempted to unite the opposition to Rome. Caesar described the martial valour of the Britons he fought, including their use of slingshots and chariots. Departing from Britain to return to Gaul, he took hostages and slaves, imposing a tribute on the kings of Britain. Commius was a Gallic ally of Caesar who assisted him during his invasions of Britain and eventually appears to have settled to rule over a people living to the south of the Thames. He was the first of a series of friendly kings established by Roman rulers in Britain. The North Bersted warrior may have been a member of a retinue of cavalry soldiers who accompanied Commius to Britain after Caesar had withdrawn.
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Schnakenbourg, Éric. "War in the Caribbean." In The Oxford Handbook of the Seven Years' War, 453–70. Oxford University Press, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197622605.013.17.
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Abstract The Caribbean became a theatre of war from 1758 onward. The British conquered Guadeloupe in 1759 and Martinique in 1762. When peace negotiations began, the Great Britain domestic lobbies struggled to decide which conquest had to be kept: Guadeloupe or Canada. Finally, French recovered Guadeloupe and won Saint Lucia, whereas the British acquired the other former neutral islands and kept Canada. The Seven Years’ War in the Caribbean must also be considered from the point of view of the populations. The enslaved people experienced a hard time during the war. The Macandal poisoning affair in Saint Domingue, and Tacky’s Revolt in Jamaica led to a worsening of the living conditions of slaves in following decades. Finally, whether in terms of relations between the great imperial powers or between masters and slaves, the Seven Years’ War in the Caribbean Indies was a time of implementation of new balances of power.
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Helg, Aline. "The Shock Waves of the Haitian Revolution." In Slave No More, translated by Lara Vergnaud, 164–96. University of North Carolina Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469649634.003.0008.
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This chapter explores the shock waves caused by the Haitian Revolution and the massive slave insurrection that took both the Americas and Europe by surprise. Despite the rarity of large-scale revolts after 1794, the Saint Domingue insurrection did have a lasting impact on the slaves. The greatest lesson they retained from Haiti was that the institution of slavery was neither unchangeable nor invincible. Amid the troubled backdrop of the age of revolutions, many attentively followed the legal changes upsetting their owners, like the Spanish Códigno Negro, the French abolition of slavery, gradual emancipation laws in the northern United States, and the ban of the slave trade by Great Britain and the United States. Furthermore, after 1794, protests during which slaves claimed freedom they believed to have been decreed by the king or the government, but hidden by their masters, multiplied.
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"The New America/The New World." In Advances in Religious and Cultural Studies, 35–58. IGI Global, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-6684-8541-5.ch003.
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This chapter will explore the establishing of the New America also known as the New World. This “New America” or “New World” was eventually established (i.e., colonized) by Great Britain (i.e., more specifically England), and then African slaves were brought to work the land. An overview will take place of this historical reality. Myriad questions will be answered, like What happened when settlers first interacted with Native Americans or the indigenous people of the land? What happened when slaves arrived? What were the conditions like for “the other”? Myriad terms will be defined and discussed such as slave codes and a term the author has coined, “slave initiation,” within their/its historical context. Other historical incidents and occurrences will be discussed and analyzed such as the establishment of Jamestown, Virginia. Then solutions and recommendations will be discussed.
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Fitzpatrick, D., and M. Anderson. "Liberia." In Seafarers’ Rights, 331–3565. Oxford University PressOxford, 2005. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199277520.003.0011.
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Abstract Liberia boasts of being amongst the world’s leading marmme nations.1 Located on the West Coast of Africa, and having a population estimated atmillion,2 Liberia was founded in 1822 by freed black American slaves whose repatriation to Africa was funded primarily by the American Colonization Society. Originally a conglomerate of independent isolated colonies, greater co-operation developed among the colonies and by 1839, Liberia was a self-governing commonwealth. When the colonial powers, primarily Great Britain, refused to recognize the sovereign status and rights of the commonwealth, in 1947 the people of Liberia proclaimed the territory an independent republic, making it the first independent republic in Africa.
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Tyler, Amanda L. "Introduction." In Habeas Corpus: A Very Short Introduction, 1–6. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/actrade/9780190918989.003.0001.
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The Introduction provides an overview of the history of the writ of habeas corpus and an overview of the book, which tells the story of what is sometimes known as “the Great Writ” as it has unfolded in Anglo-American law. The primary jurisdictions explored are Great Britain and the United States, yet many aspects of this story will ring familiar to those in other countries with a robust habeas tradition. The book chronicles the longstanding role of the common law writ of habeas corpus as a vehicle for reviewing detentions for conformity with underlying law, as well as the profound influence of the English Habeas Corpus Act of 1679 on Anglo-American law. The Introduction highlights how the writ has at times failed to live up to its glorification by Blackstone and others, while noting that at other times it has proven invaluable to protection of liberty, including as a vehicle for freeing slaves and persons confined solely based on a King’s whim.