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Burks, Andrew Mason. "Roman Slavery: A Study of Roman Society and Its Dependence on slaves." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2008. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/1951.
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Rome's dependence upon slaves has been well established in terms of economics and general society. This paper, however, seeks to demonstrate this dependence, during the end of the Republic and the beginning of the Empire, through detailed examples of slave use in various areas of Roman life. The areas covered include agriculture, industry, domestic life, the state, entertainment, intellectual life, military, religion, and the use of female slaves. A look at manumission demonstrates Rome's growing awareness of this dependence. Through this discussion, it becomes apparent that Roman society existed during this time as it did due to slavery. Rome depended upon slavery to function and maintain its political, social, and economic stranglehold on the Mediterranean area and beyond.
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Mund, Stéphane. "Genèse et développement de la représentation du monde "russe" en Occident (Xe - XVIe siècles)." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/211728.
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Simpson, Tiwanna Michelle. "'She has her country marks very conspicuous in the face' : African culture and community in early Georgia /." The Ohio State University, 2003. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1486549482672375.
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Riley, Jamin P. "Misrepresenting Misery: Slaves, Servants, and Motives in Early Virginia." Wright State University / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wright1332104882.
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Mercer, A. P. "Medicine and slavery : The health of slaves in the Louisiana sugar and South Carolina rice regions 1795-1860." Thesis, University of Manchester, 1985. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.374801.
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Williams, Jan Mark. "Stretching the Chains: Runaway Slaves in South Carolina and Jamaica." W&M ScholarWorks, 1991. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539625689.
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Close, Stacey K. "Elderly slaves of the plantation south : somewhere between heaven and earth /." The Ohio State University, 1992. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487779914824944.
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Geraghty, Mary. "Domestic Management of Woodlawn Plantation: Eleanor Parke Custis Lewis and Her Slaves." W&M ScholarWorks, 1993. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539625788.
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Jarvis, Michael J. "Cedars, Sloops and Slaves: The Development of the Bermuda Shipbuilding Industry, 1680-1750." W&M ScholarWorks, 1992. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539625759.
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Kerr, Laura Lee. "Bondage on the Border: Slaves and Slaveholders in Tazewell County, Virginia." W&M ScholarWorks, 2011. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539626665.
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Jonsson, Alex. "Mörkandet av det svenska slaveriet : En undersökning av översiktsverk om svensk historia och samhällsdebatten om svenskt slaveri." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper (KV), 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-71522.
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There are a lot of Swedish people who are aware of former Swedish colonies. St. Barthélemy in the West Indies, has many streets and towns named after Swedish people, exemplified by the capital Gustavia, named after King Gustav III. What many fail to learn about however, is the fact that slavery and slave trade is a relatively large part of Sweden’s cultural heritage. These are events that Sweden doesn’t seem to want to remember. This study aims to look at Swedish history books to study historical writing about Sweden’s involvement in slavery and slave trade. The study will also analyze the social debate regarding slavery in Swedish newspapers, in an effort to showcase why these historical events have been forgotten and purposely evaded. The study will make use of theoretical standpoints revolving around historiography and use of history. The results show that social debates in Swedish newspapers is largely in agreement regarding the grim nature of slavery and the shameful historical events that transpire. In addition to this, the papers seem to be in agreement regarding the need to address this part of Sweden’s history in an effort to tackle future conflicts facing multicultural countries such as Sweden. In regard to history books, the result is telling. In essence, history outside of Europe has been neglected, and thus Sweden has been allowed to create their own historical narrative, leaving slave trade beyond the horizon.
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Wallace, Shaun. "Fugitive slave advertisements and the rebelliousness of enslaved people in Georgia and Maryland, 1790-1810." Thesis, University of Stirling, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/26591.
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This dissertation is a systematic investigation of fugitive slave advertisements aiming to understand the nature of fugitives’ rebelliousness in Georgia and Maryland between 1790 and 1810. Hitherto, historical inquiry pertaining to slave fugitivity has focused on other states and other times. This study provides a close reading of 5,567 advertisements pertaining to runaway slaves and analyses extracted data pertaining to the prosopography of 1,832 fugitives and their fugitivity. Its main research questions focus on advertisements as manifest records of rebellion. Who were the fugitives? What do the fugitive slave advertisements reveal about enslaved people’s contestation of slaveholders’ authority? The principal findings are as follows. First, the typography and iconography of fugitive slave advertisements were expressly intended to undermine the individualism and agency of enslaved people. Second, with regard to Georgia and Maryland, while there were spikes between 1796 and 1798 and 1800 and 1801, fugitivity was a daily occurrence, and thus a normative act of rebellion distinct from insurrection. Third, quantitative analysis indicated fugitives were typically young males, in their twenties, likely to escape at any time of the year; Georgia fugitives were more likely to escape in groups. Fourth, qualitative analysis of advertisers’ descriptions of fugitives revealed evidence of challenges to their authority. Depictions of fugitives’ character and remarks or notes on their behaviour constitute evidence of observed characteristics. From the advertisers’ perspective slaves were at their most dangerous when they could read and write or when they were skilled in deception. The “artful” fugitive in particular possessed many skills, sometimes including literacy, which could be used to defy the power that kept him or her in subjection. Fifth, further investigation established clear linkages between literacy and fugitives’ rebelliousness. Qualitative studies to date speak of slave literacy’s theoretical liberating and empowering effects but do not provide tangible accounts of who the literate slaves were or consider literacy as a factor in rebelliousness. The dissertation identified 36 literate slaves in Maryland and 9 in Georgia, and statistical analysis suggested 3.6 percent of US fugitive slaves were literate. Finally, it was evident that literacy was part of a larger contest to circumvent slaveholder authority and attain self-empowerment. Fugitivity itself was the outcome of a history of contestation that might be hidden from history were it not for the advertisements themselves.
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Renner, Kimberly Suzanne. "Yorktown, Tobacco, and Slaves: The Rise and Decline of a Colonial Port in Virginia." W&M ScholarWorks, 2006. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539624395.
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Houston, Kelly E. "Slaveholders and Slaves of Hempstead County, Arkansas." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2008. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc6096/.
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A largely quantitative view of the institution of slavery in Hempstead County, Arkansas, this work does not describe the everyday lives of slaveholders and slaves. Chapters examine the origins, expansion, economics, and demise of slavery in the county. Slavery was established as an important institution in Hempstead County at an early date. The institution grew and expanded quickly as slaveholders moved into the area and focused the economy on cotton production. Slavery as an economic institution was profitable to masters, but it may have detracted from the overall economic development of the county. Hempstead County slaveholders sought to protect their slave property by supporting the Confederacy and housing Arkansas's Confederate government through the last half of the war.
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Swan, Philip George. "To Separate the Tares from the Corn: Debts and Slaves in Post-Revolutionary Virginia." W&M ScholarWorks, 1993. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539625837.
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Yellen, Bailey. "Using Words to Break the Chains of Bondage: Examining the Political Narratives of American Slaves." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2016. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/1397.
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The purpose of this thesis is to examine the narratives of five formerly enslaved men and women in order to understand how they used this literary form to insert their voices into the anti-slavery discourse. These slave narratives were important for the advancement of the anti-slavery movement, both because they provided glimpse into the realities of the system of slavery from individuals who experienced it, and because these texts questioned the very ideologies they were meant to uphold by highlighting their inherent racial prejudices. Ultimately, the slave narrative allowed these formerly enslaved authors to demonstrate their autonomy through the act of authorship.
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Zernich, Nicole M. "Physicians, Women, and Slaves: The Professionalization of Medicine in the Long Nineteenth Century." Youngstown State University / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ysu1409821393.
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Sorensen, Leni Ashmore. "Absconded: Fugitive slaves in the "Daybook of the Richmond Police Guard, 1834--1844"." W&M ScholarWorks, 2005. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539623486.
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In the antebellum period Richmond, Virginia newspapers ran advertisements for runaway slaves. Most of the ads concerned individuals absconded from outlying counties, distant regions of the state, or nearby states. These short notices have been used frequently to describe and discuss runaways and the link between flight and freedom in Virginia. In contrast to the brief newspaper entries the Daybook of the Richmond Police Guard, 1834--1844 provides names and detailed descriptions of nine hundred-thirty-five runaways all of whom lived in the city and were reported within the city precincts during one ten year period. The Daybook is a hand written record consisting of entries made by the Watchmen on duty each day. its pages are "A Memorandum of Robberies and Runaways" for the whole city and in addition to fugitive slaves list lost and stolen clothing, food, textiles, bank notes, fires and murder. Chapter 1 discusses the historiography of runaway slaves and the ways that the Daybook data allows a close examination of African American resistance in an urban setting. Chapter 2 explores the geography and look of the city of Richmond in the 1830s and early 40s. Chapter 3 closely examines the fugitives themselves, and Chapter 4 explores the context of laws and restrictions under which the black population, slave and free, lived. Chapter 5 describes the varied strategies the enslaved population, bound in kinship and friendship to the free black population, used to successfully hide within the city and segues into the transcribed complete text of the Daybook of the Richmond Police Guard. 1834--1844.
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Altaleb, Amal Mehemed. "The social and economic history of slavery in Libya (1800-1950)." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2016. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/the-social-and-economic-history-of-slavery-in-libya1800-1950(1d524d51-14ac-44f1-ba1f-0ece1557979f).html.
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This thesis investigates the social and economic history of slavery in Libya in the period between 1800 and 1950. Focusing on Tripoli and the trading centres of Ghadames and Fezzan, it uses a combination of sources including legal records, travel accounts, commercial correspondence, memoirs and oral interviews to examine the impact of the slave trade, the economic and social lives of the enslaved, and their experiences of emancipation. Examining the trading of slaves in Ghadames, the thesis reveals how merchants considered slaves one commodity among others. It analyses how the slave trade continued until the Italian occupation of Libya in 1911, long after the formal prohibition of the trans-Saharan slave trade in 1856. Despite a long-term decline, caravan trading networks remained somewhat resilient and continued with alternative commodities such as ivory and ostrich feathers. This thesis then moves to analyse the social and economic lives of the enslaved, and the legal status of slavery in Libya. It explores the dynamics of employment, resistance by slaves and master-slave relations by analysing two major categories of slaves, who were treated considerably differently; those who worked in the caravan trade in Ghadames, and those slaves who worked as domestic servants in Tripoli. Many existing sources showed the differences in social relationship between slaves and masters. Different occupational categories, such as caravan workers and domestic servants, had different access to patronage, or experiences of abuse and violence. Oral interviews reveal that slaves in Tripoli experienced less violence compared to those in Ghadames and Fezzan in the nineteenth century. However, mistreated slaves had the right to a court hearing. The court provided a platform for slaves to challenge abuse, with some slaves seeking to push these boundaries further by going to court to assert their rights to better treatment by their owners. The third chapter explores the patterns of religious and economic manumission that existed in Libya before the abolition of slavery, It also traces changes of policies of emancipation that pursued by Ottoman and Italian governments. Finally, the thesis explores the social history of emancipation through examining the economic and social lives of communities of freed slaves. Through surveying a large number of legal cases, the thesis argues that slavery in Libya was marked more by continuities than change across the period of study. The legacy of slavery has persisted over time as relations of clientship between ex-slaves and ex-masters replaced direct relations of ownership. This thesis shows the difficulties faced by slaves in negotiating for clientship (al-wala’) from their former masters. Some ex-slaves unquestionably improved their status with a substantial minority experiencing social mobility as caravan workers and agents, while others remained ill-treated, with irregular work and subsistence wage labour; living on the margins of Libyan society.
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Sobers-Khan, Nur Anna Helene. "Slaves without shackles : forced labour and manumission in the Galata court registers, 1560-1572." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2013. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.608134.
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Mahan, IV Francis E. "The whiteman's Seminole white manhood, Indians and slaves, and the Second Seminole War." Master's thesis, University of Central Florida, 2011. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/4973.
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This study demonstrates that both government officials' and the settlers' perceptions of the Seminoles and Black Seminoles in Florida were highly influenced by their paternalistic and Jeffersonian world views. These perceptions also informed their policies concerning the Seminoles and Black Seminoles. The study is separated into three sections. The first chapter covers the years of 1820-1823. This section argues that until 1823, most settlers and government officials viewed the Seminoles as noble savages that were dependent on the U.S. Furthermore, most of these individuals saw the Black Seminoles as being secure among the Seminole Indians and as no threat to white authority. The second chapter covers the years of 1823-1828 and demonstrates that during this time most settlers began to view Seminoles outside of the reservation as threats to the frontier in Florida. This reflected the Jeffersonian world view of the settlers. Government officials, on the contrary, continued to believe that the Seminole Indians were noble savages that were no threat to the frontier because of their paternal world view. Both groups by 1828 wanted the Seminoles and Black Seminoles separated. The final chapter covers the years of 1829-1836. It argues that by 1835 both settlers and government officials believed that the Seminoles and Black Seminoles were clear threats to the frontier because of the fear of a slave revolt and the beginning of Seminole resistance to removal. Most of the shifts in the perception of the Seminoles and Black Seminoles by government officials and the settlers were the result of their white gender and racial world views that then in turn affected their policies towards the Seminoles and Black Seminoles.ID: 029810333; System requirements: World Wide Web browser and PDF reader.; Mode of access: World Wide Web.; Thesis (M.A.)--University of Central Florida, 2011.; Includes bibliographical references (p. 107-114).
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Fortney, Jeffrey L. Jr. "Slaves and Slaveholders in the Choctaw Nation: 1830-1866." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2009. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc28371/.
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Racial slavery was a critical element in the cultural development of the Choctaws and was a derivative of the peculiar institution in southern states. The idea of genial and hospitable slave owners can no more be conclusively demonstrated for the Choctaws than for the antebellum South. The participation of Choctaws in the Civil War and formal alliance with the Confederacy was dominantly influenced by the slaveholding and a connection with southern identity, but was also influenced by financial concerns and an inability to remain neutral than a protection of the peculiar institution. Had the Civil War not taken place, the rate of Choctaw slave ownership possibly would have reached the level of southern states and the Choctaws would be considered part of the South.
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Palladino, Brian David. ""From a Determined Resolution to Get Liberty": Slaves and the British in Revolutionary Norfolk County, Virginia, 1775-1781." W&M ScholarWorks, 2000. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539626267.
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Abbott, Sherry L. "My Mother Could Send up the Most Powerful Prayer: The Role of African American Slave Women in Evangelical Christianity." Fogler Library, University of Maine, 2003. http://www.library.umaine.edu/theses/pdf/AbbottSL2003.pdf.
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Cooper, Carrie Elizabeth. "On the Explanation of the Wealthy Slave in Classical Athens." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/19802.
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This paper seeks to explain the existence of wealthy and socially influential slaves in the fourth century BCE at Athens, Greece. I describe what went on at Athens from the late seventh century until the early third century and show that transformation in the land to labor ratio combined with cultural, legal and political changes led to a period of time where slaves acquired wealth and power. First, changes in the land to labor ratio at a time when Athens was going through vast political change led to a culture where it was socially unacceptable for a free Athenian to work for another free Athenian. Slaves could then work in sectors unavailable to free Athenians, which led them to gain wealth and eventually societal power.
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Speckart, Amy. "The Colonial History of Wye Plantation, the Lloyd Family, and their Slaves on Maryland's Eastern Shore: Family, Property, and Power." W&M ScholarWorks, 2011. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539623580.
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The history of the Lloyd family at Wye Plantation in Talbot County, Maryland, from the 1650s to the early 1770s refines and complicates the dominant historical narrative of the rise of a native-born Protestant planter elite in colonial Chesapeake scholarship. First, the Lloyds were a wealthy and politically prominent Protestant family that benefited from close ties to Catholics up to the end of the colonial period. Second, in contrast to traditional histories of the colonial Chesapeake that emphasize the raising and marketing of tobacco, Wye Plantation's history attests to the importance of grain and livestock farming on a commercial scale, in addition to tobacco production, on the upper Eastern Shore since the seventeenth century.;This study examines the strategies of the Lloyd family to build their wealth and influence in Maryland in the context of the colony's political, economic, and social development. In the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, the Lloyds forged kinship ties to Maryland's Catholic gentry, to Quakers, and to the Bennetts of Virginia and Maryland. With these connections, the plantation's trade with London and the West Indies expanded. In the mid- eighteenth century, Edward Lloyd III used his status as a trusted client within Lord Baltimore's patronage network to develop Wye Plantation as a locus of power. Upon his death in 1770, his son moved aggressively to preserve assets that would be the basis of his own independence.;This dissertation uses an interdisciplinary approach to document Wye Plantation's history. Sources include probate records, government proceedings, the Lloyd Papers and the Calvert Papers at the Maryland Historical Society, the Cadwalader Collection at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, and portraits by Charles Willson Peale.;While plantation ownership remained the basis of social and political authority in the colony, each generation of the Lloyd family made use of the home plantation in context- specific ways. This thesis examines change in the uses of a Chesapeake plantation, and the meanings attached to plantation ownership, from the point of view of each generation of the Lloyd family during the colonial period.
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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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Hummel, Jeffrey Rogers. "Deadweight loss and the American civil war the political economy of slavery, secession, and emancipation /." Access restricted to users with UT Austin EID Full text (PDF) from UMI/Dissertation Abstracts International, 2001. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/fullcit?p3035952.
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Muhlestein, Robert M. "Utah Indians and the Indian Slave Trade: The Mormon Adoption Program and its Effect on the Indian Slaves." Diss., CLICK HERE for online access, 1991. http://patriot.lib.byu.edu/u?/MTGM,33282.
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Piecuch, James R. "Three peoples, one king: Loyalists, Indians, slaves and the American Revolution in the Deep South, 1775-1782." W&M ScholarWorks, 2005. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539623485.
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This study examines the roles of white loyalists, Indians and African-Americans in the British effort to regain control of South Carolina and Georgia during the American Revolution, 1775--1782.;British officials believed that support from these three groups would make the conquest of the Deep South colonies a relatively easy task. But when the British launched a major effort to regain first Georgia and then South Carolina, the attempt ultimately ended in failure. Most historians have explained this outcome by arguing that British planning was faulty in its conception, and that officials overestimated both the numbers of southern loyalists and the effectiveness of Indian support.;A detailed account of the contributions loyalists, Indians and slaves made to British operations in the South demonstrates the scope and effectiveness of this support, and concludes that neither a lack of assistance from these three groups nor poorly conceived plans were responsible for British failure to regain control of Georgia and South Carolina. Rather, British leaders failed to coordinate effectively the efforts of their supporters in the Deep South, largely because they did not recognize that the peoples on whom they counted for aid had disparate interests and a history of mutual animosity that needed to be overcome to achieve their full cooperation. Furthermore, the British never provided their supporters with adequate protection from regular troops, which allowed the American rebels to undertake a brutal campaign of suppression against all who favored the royal cause. Although loyalists, Indians, and slaves strove valiantly to aid the British in the face of such persecution, the violence eventually took its toll and enabled the rebels to overcome their opponents.
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Rashid, Ismail O. D. "Patterns of rural protest : chiefs, slaves and peasants in northwestern Sierra Leone, 1896-1956." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape11/PQDD_0018/NQ44562.pdf.
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Murray, Roy James. ""The man that says slaves be quite happy in slavery ... is either ignorant or a lying person ... " an account of slavery in the marginal colonies of the British West Indies /." Thesis, Connect to e-thesis, 2001. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/653/.
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Thesis (Ph.D.) - University of Glasgow, 2001.Ph.D. thesis submitted to the Department of Economic and Social History, University of Glasgow, 2001. Includes bibliographical references. Print version also available.
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Cepero, Laura. "The Afro-American Slave Music Project: Building a Case for Digital History." Master's thesis, University of Central Florida, 2013. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/5615.
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This public history thesis project experimented with the application of new technology in creating an educational resource aimed at twenty-first century public audiences. The project presents the history, musicology, and historiography of Afro-American slave music in the United States. In doing so, the project utilizes two digital media tools: VuVox, to create interactive collages; and VisualEyes, to create digital visualizations. The purpose of this thesis is to assess how the project balances the goals of digital history, public history, and academic history. During the production of the Afro-American Slave Music Project, a number of the promises of digital history were highlighted, along with several of the potential challenges of digital history. In designing the project, compensations had to be made in order to minimize the challenges while maximizing the benefits. In effect, this thesis argues for the utility of digital history in a public setting as an alternative to traditional, prose-based academic history.M.A.
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Weissman-Galler, Nancy. "Scarlett's Sisters: The Privileged Negotiations of Plantation Women." Oberlin College Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 1995. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=oberlin1374238688.
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Greenfield-Liebst, Michelle. "Livelihood and status struggles in the mission stations of the Universities' Mission to Central Africa (UMCA), north-eastern Tanzania and Zanzibar, 1864-1926." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2017. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/270105.
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This thesis is about the social, political, and economic interactions that took place in and around the Universities’ Mission to Central Africa (UMCA) in two very different regions: north-eastern Tanzania and Zanzibar. The mission was for much of the period a space in which people could – often inventively – make a living through education, employment, and patronage. Indeed, particularly in the period preceding British colonial rule, most Christians were mission employees (usually teachers) and their families. Being Christian was, in one sense, a livelihood. In this era before the British altered the political economy, education had only limited appeal, while the teaching profession was not highly esteemed by Africans, although it offered some teachers the security and status of a regular income. From the 1860s to the 1910s, the UMCA did not offer clear trajectories for most of the Africans interacting with it in search of a better life. Markers of coastal sophistication, such as clothing or Swahili fluency, had greater social currency, while the coast remained a prime source of paid employment, often preferable to conditions offered by the mission. By the end of the period, Christians were at a social and economic advantage by virtue of their access to formal institutional education. This was a major shift and schooling became an obvious trajectory for future employment and economic mobility. Converts, many of whom came from marginal social backgrounds, sought to overcome a heritage of exploitative social relations and to redraw the field for the negotiation of dependency to their advantage. However, as this thesis shows, the mission also contributed to new sets of exploitative social relations in a hierarchy of work and education.
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Elam, Richard L. (Richard Lee). "Behold the Fields: Texas Baptists and the Problem of Slavery." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1993. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc277972/.
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The relationship between Texas Baptists and slavery is studied with an emphasis on the official statements made about the institution in denominational sources combined with a statistical analysis of the extent of slaveholding among Baptists. A data list of over 5,000 names was pared to 1100 names of Baptists in Texas prior to 1865 and then cross-referenced on slaveownership through the use of federal censuses and county tax rolls. Although Texas Baptists participated economically in the slave system, they always maintained that blacks were children of God worthy of religious instruction and salvation. The result of these disparate views was a paradox between treating slaves as chattels while welcoming them into mixed congregations and allowing them some measure of activity within those bodies. Attitudes expressed by white Baptists during the antebellum period were continued into the post-war years as well. Meanwhile, African-American Baptists gradually withdrew from white dominated congregations, forming their own local, regional, and state organizations. In the end, whites had no choice but to accept the new-found status of the Freedmen, cooperating with black institutions on occasion. Major sources for this study include church, associational, and state Baptist minutes; county and denominational histories; and government documents. The four appendices list associations, churches, and counties with extant records. Finally, private accounts of former slaves provide valuable insight into the interaction between white and black Baptists.
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Murray, G. N. "Sparta en Athene: ’n studie in altérité." Thesis, Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/1799.
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Thesis (MPhil (Ancient Studies)--University of Stellenbosch, 2007.The main purpose of this study is to investigate and describe the differences between the fifth-century city states of Athens and Sparta. The approach I use is that of altérité (“otherness”). I look in particular at four of the most important social phenomena: women, slaves, the army and the political structures. In these respects there are extensive differences between the two city states: Athens acquired its slaves through buying them or as spoils of war over time and on an individual basis; Sparta conquered and enslaved a whole nation, the Messenians, early on to serve permanently as their slaves. Athenian women enjoyed no social or legal freedom or rights; Spartan women enjoyed all these rights and could own and inherit property and goods. In Athens, since the time of Themistocles the fleet was regarded as much more important than the infantry; Sparta had very early on developed a professional infantry which was regarded as the best right through the Greek-speaking world. Athens started changing its constitution at a relatively late stage, but once started, continued to work on it until they attained an early form of democracy; Sparta never developed beyond the monarchical stage, but did adapt it to suit their needs. The second purpose of this study is to discover and attempt to explain why the above-mentioned differences are so great. The point here is not so much that Athens was the model city state which everybody tried to emulate, but rather that Sparta was the city state which was significantly different from any of the others.
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Fraccaro, Laura Candian 1986. "Vidas em liberdade : pequenosagricultores e comerciantes em Campinas, 1800-1850." [s.n.], 2012. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/279296.
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Orientador: Robert Wayne Andrew SlenesDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas
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Resumo: A Vila de São Carlos, atualmente Campinas, passou por transformações intensas durante todo o século XIX. Em menos de meio século, a economia da Vila de São Carlos passou de um modo doméstico de produção para uma economia baseada no valor de mercado. Já na década de 1830, conseguiu se estabelecer como produtora de um terço da produção de açúcar da província de São Paulo. As terras passaram a ser disputadas por grandes produtores que, de diversas maneiras, buscavam retirar os pequenos agricultores de suas propriedades. Os libertos que na terra trabalhavam conviviam com a ameaça de perder sua produção e de se endividar. O comércio feito por libertas passou a ser regulado, fiscalizado e perseguido tanto pelas autoridades como por outros comerciantes. Como trabalhadores livres, os egressos da escravidão e seus descendentes viram a precariedade se instalar em suas vidas. Na busca para entender como esse processo do capitalismo afetou diretamente a trajetória dessas pessoas, analiso os diferentes padrões de acumulação alcançados por diferentes gerações e as suas respectivas estratégias para garantir a subsistência. A metodologia estabelecida foi o cruzamento nominativo, no qual cruzo os nomes de pessoas relacionadas como pardas encontradas nas Listas de Habitantes da Vila de São Carlos de 1801 e 1829 com os processos da base de dados do Tribunal de Justiça de Campinas
Abstract: The township of San Carlos, now Campinas, went through intense changes during the 19th century. In less than 50 years, it went from a domestic mode of production to an economy based on exchange and market value. In the 1830s, it produced one-third of the production of sugar of the province of Sao Paulo. The land began to be disputed by large producers who sought in various ways to remove small farmers from their properties. The freedmen who worked the land, lived with the threat of losing their means of production, and of falling into debt. In this process of social and economic expropriation of the lower classes, the freedwomen engaged in commerce were subjected to increasing regulation and supervision and were harassed by the authorities as well as by other merchants. As free workers, freed slaves and their descendants saw their lives become more and more precarious. Seeking to understand how the advance of capitalism directly affected the trajectory of these people, I analyze the different patterns of accumulation and strategies for survival that characterized different generations The methodology applied was that of nominative record linkage names of people identified as "pardos" in the Lists of Inhabitants of the township of San Carlos, between 1801 and 1829 were cross-referenced with the names of the principal judicial and probate documents
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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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Rocha, Ilana Peliciari. "\"Escravos da Nação\": o público e o privado na escravidão brasileira, 1760-1876." Universidade de São Paulo, 2012. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8137/tde-31082012-100444/.
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Esta pesquisa apresenta a caracterização dos espaços públicos e privados na relação da escravidão brasileira a partir da análise de escravos públicos existentes no final da Colônia e no Império. Estes escravos eram chamados escravos da nação ou escravos nacionais, e forneciam mão de obra para estabelecimentos públicos e obras públicas. As hipóteses levantadas decorrem da possibilidade de tratamento diferenciado em decorrência da condição de escravos estatais, e a sua associação às características do Estado apontadas pela historiografia para este período. Delimitou-se entre os anos de 1760 até 1876, quando o Império Português expulsa a Companhia de Jesus confiscando os seus bens, entre eles os escravos, e quando se encerra o prazo de cinco anos determinado pela Lei do Ventre Livre (1871), para que os escravos saiam da supervisão do Estado e alcancem a liberdade. Estes escravos eram utilizados em fazendas, fábricas e repartições públicas em diversas regiões do Império. Nesta pesquisa examinou-se a existência ou não de uma política estatal em relação aos escravos públicos no século XIX. À título de exemplo se estendeu na análise pormenorizada da Imperial Fazenda de Santa Cruz (Rio de Janeiro) e da Fábrica de Ferro de São João de Ipanema (São Paulo).This research presents the characterization of public spaces and private in the relationship of Brazilian slavery from the analysis of existing public slaves at the end of the Colony and Empire. These slaves were called slaves in the nation or national, and provided slave labour for public establishments and public works. The raised hypotheses arise from the possibility of differential treatment because of the condition of State-owned slaves, and their association with the characteristics of the State pointed out by historiography for this period. Set limits between the years 1760 until 1876, when the Portuguese Empire expelled the society of Jesus by confiscating their property, including slaves, and when it ends the period of five years determined by the law of the Free Womb (1871), to which the slaves leave the State supervision and achieve freedom. These slaves were used on farms, factories and Government offices in various regions of the Empire. This research examined the existence or absence of a State policy in respect of public slaves in the 19th century. The example was extended in the detailed analysis of the Imperial Fazenda de Santa Cruz (Rio de Janeiro) and Fábrica de Ferro São João de Ipanema (São Paulo).
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Smith, Carolyn F. "The Origin of African American Christianity in the English North American Colonies to the Rise of the Black Independent Church." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1250628526.
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Sandeen, Loucynda Elayne. "Who Owns This Body? Enslaved Women's Claim on Themselves." PDXScholar, 2013. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/1492.
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During the antebellum period of U.S. slavery (1830-1861), many people claimed ownership of the enslaved woman's body, both legally and figuratively. The assumption that they were merely property, however, belies the unstable, shifting truths about bodily ownership. This thesis inquires into the gendered specifics and ambiguities of the law, the body, and women under slavery. By examining the particular bodily regulation and exploitation of enslaved women, especially around their reproductive labor, I suggest that new operations of oppression and also of resistance come into focus.
The legal structure recognized enslaved women in the interest of owners, and this limitation was defining, meaning that justice flowed in one direction. If married white women were "civilly dead," as famously evoked by the Declaration of Sentiments (1848) then enslaved women were civilly non-existent. The law controlled, but did not protect slaves, and a number of opponents to slavery denounced this contradictory scenario during the antebellum era (and before). Literally, enslaved women were claimed by their masters, purchased and sold as chattel. Physically, they were claimed by those men (both white and black) who sought to have power over them. Symbolically, they were claimed by anti-slavers and pro-slavers alike when it suited their purposes, often in the domains of news and literature, for the sake of advancing their ideas, a rich record of which fills court cases, newsprint, and propaganda touching the slavery issue before the civil war.
Due to the numerous ways that enslaved women's bodies have been claimed, owned, or circulated in markets, it may have been considered implicit to many that others owned their bodies. I believe that this is an oversimplified historical supposition that needs to be re-theorized. Indeed, enslaved women lived in a time when they were often led to believe that their bodies were not truly their own, and yet, many of them resisted their particular forms of oppression by claiming ownership of their bodies and those of their children; sometimes using rather extreme methods to keep from contributing to their oppression. In other words, slave owners' monopoly of the legal, economic, and logistical meanings of ownership of slaves had to be constantly reaffirmed and negotiated. This thesis asks: who owned the enslaved woman's body? I seek to emphasize that enslaved women were valid claimants of themselves as can seen in primary sources that today have only been given limited expression in the historiography.
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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.
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Barbosa, Keith Valéria de Oliveira. "Escravidão, saúde e doenças nas plantations cafeeiras do Vale do Paraíba Fluminense, Cantagalo (1815-1888)." reponame:Repositório Institucional da FIOCRUZ, 2014. http://www.arca.fiocruz.br/handle/icict/16231.
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O presente estudo analisa a experiência escrava relativa à saúde e à doença em uma importante região de plantation cafeeira do Vale do Paraíba fluminense, a região de Cantagalo, entre os anos 1815 e 1888. Por meio de diversos ângulos, muitos pesquisadores debruçaram-se sobre as múltiplas características dos universos sociais escravistas em variados contextos atlânticos, examinando o cotidiano daqueles escravos, seus arranjos familiares e suas sociabilidades diversas. Os debates sobre a saúde e as causas das doenças dos cativos têm se constituído como objeto de estudos de pesquisadores de diferentes campos de conhecimento, revelando novas perspectivas a respeito de historicidades muito mais complexas do que até então se entendia. Com a análise das doenças e das condições de saúde dos cativos que viviam nas referidas plantations, pretendemos examinar suas experiências como enfermos e as respectivas ações dos senhores acionadas para o seu tratamento. Por meio da análise dos processos de inventários post-mortem e de outros envolvendo a cobrança de honorários médicos, além de manuais e relatórios médicos, investiga-se o conjunto de conhecimentos produzidos, sistematizados e disponibilizados para os cuidados da população escrava inserida em um cenário social de rápida expansão da economia cafeeira, que se caracterizou pelo crescimento demográfico e o incremento do tráfico atlântico de africanos. Nesse sentido, mundos da escravidão são revelados nessa importante paisagem social do Rio de Janeiro imperial, de cujas mudanças o trabalho escravo era peça-chave, permeando as experiências e as relações sociais tecidas entre esses trabalhadores e seus senhores.
This study is an analysis of the slave experience, with particular focus on the multiple characteristics of health and disease, in the Cantagalo region of the Rio de Janeiro Paraíba Valley, an important coffee plantation area, between the years 1815 and 1888. Historiography has approached the topic from various perspectives, examining the multiple characteristics of slaves’ social universes in different Atlantic contexts through study of slaves’ daily lives, family arrangements and their different social universes. Researchers from various fields of knowledge have studied debates on slave health and the causes of diseases particular to slaves, revealing new perspectives on a historicity much more complex than previously thought. Through an analysis of the diseases and health conditions of slaves that lived on the coffee plantations in the Cantagalo region of the Rio de Janeiro Paraíba Valley, this study examines the slaves’ experience with regard to diseases and the respective actions taken by slave owners to treat sick slaves. Through the analyses of postmortem inventory documents, medical fees, manuals and medical reports, this thesis investigates the knowledge produced, systematized, and made available for the care of the slave population within the social context of the rapid expansion of the coffee economy, characterized by demographic growth and the increase of the Atlantic slave trade. In this sense, this study reveals worlds of slavery within the important social landscape of Imperial Rio de Janeiro, in which slave labor was a key part of numerous changes permeating the experiences and social relations between slaves and their owners.
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Bellamy, Louis. "George Mason: Slave Owning Virginia Planter as Slavery Opponent?" TopSCHOLAR®, 2004. http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/521.
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The present work investigates the often cited, but poorly supported, notion that Founding Father George Mason was a wealthy, slave-owning Virginian who vehemently opposed slavery. Utilizing Mason's state papers, letters, and other documents, as well as contemporaries' accounts of his speeches, this work will analyze those records' contextual construction, and it will deconstruct both Mason's written and spoken words and his actions and inactions relative to slavery. The goal of this effort is to determine whether Mason, who ostensibly played such an instrumental role in the development of the "rights" of Americans, and who remained a slaveholder—thereby trampling the rights of others—was truly opposed to slavery. Included in this work are chapters relating to the development of chattel slavery in the Tidewater, Virginia region from its inception and to the Mason family's mounting economic and political prominence, particularly the role of slaves in their attainment of that prominence. Two chapters analyze Mason's state papers, his writings on public matters, his public speeches, and other related material with a view towards determining their nexus with slavery and his role in their development. The final chapter focuses narrowly on Mason's personal relationship with slavery, and it includes both Mason's documents and his personal actions, with his documented actions concerning his own slaves meriting special attention. A portion of the chapter compares and contrasts Mason, Washington, and Jefferson on the matter of slave manumission. The argument is made that despite his consequential role in the development of some of America's revered founding documents, relative to his more prominent Virginia political peers, George Mason has garnered on rudimentary evaluation from the collective pens of more than two centuries of historians. Not only has Mason largely missed the genuine accolades befitting a Founding Father, some historians have simply ignored the contradictions of Mason's slave owning and his presumed abhorrence of slavery. Others have offered little more than a passing mention of Mason's slaveryrelated conundrum. Some have noted his slave-holding status, but then mistakenly considered anti-slavery and anti-slave trade as fungible positions and then proceeded to extol Mason's abhorrence of, and fight against, chattel slavery. Still others have claimed the institution was simply an unwelcome legacy entailed upon him. Mason, as an historical subject, stands under-reported, under-analyzed, often embellished, and generally carelessly considered. In spite of the effusive hyperbole of some Mason historians, this thesis argues Mason's apparently strong condemnations of the slave trade and of slavery were themselves strongly nuanced, and his actions (and, perhaps more importantly, his inactions) toward his own slaves run counter to the conclusive judgment of Mason as a slavery opponent. Nevertheless, Mason's statements and political actions—however tepid, and however nuanced—represent important work against the pernicious problem of slavery by a thoughtful, respected, and politically well-positioned Founding Father. This work will demonstrate Mason was likely neither the prescient anti-slavery advocate, as he is generally regarded among historians, nor fully a self-serving demagogue. Indeed, the definitive judgment of George Mason as a slave owning, Virginia planter, and Founding Father who served as a slavery opponent remains elusive.
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Marques, Danilo Luiz. "Sob a “sombra” de Palmares: escravidão, memória e resistência na Alagoas oitocentista." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2018. https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/20982.
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Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES
Fundação São Paulo - FUNDASP
This research inquires how the slaves resisted and, in different ways, struggled against the institution of slavery in nineteenth century‟s Alagoas. As point of departure, this work seeks to represent the experiences of the enslaved as historical subjects, emphasizing their dissonant voices, but also, considering the networks of solidarity and sociability that they established with freedmen and the free poor. Therefore, the priority is to study the resistance to slavery carried out by this population that reinvented itself and developed, within existing possibilities, various strategies to obtain their means of subsistence and to gain greater autonomy, always having freedom in their horizons. The thesis treated the Alagoas slave revolt of 1815, the Cabanos War (1832-35) and the mutinies against the "Law of the Captivity" (1851-52). The decade of the abolition of slavery in Brazil (1880) was also analyzed, through the statements of farmers and other members of local elites who complained about the "lack of slave arms", the gangs of horse thieves and the "quilombizacão" of the city of Maceió due to the constant escapes of slaves from the farms. Prior to treating these questions, it is reflected on how the memory of Palmares was constituted in 19th-century Alagoan society. The African ethnic groups present in Alagoas and the importance of orality and the body in their cultures are also discussed as factors in the process of the recovery their memory in the diaspora. Through this, we seek to contribute to a better understanding of the history of slavery and freedom in the nineteenth century and the tensions and pressures that triggered abolition, focusing on a region that, despite the many studies on the “Quilombo dos Palmares”, lacks historiographic research on the protagonism of the enslaved, freed and poor free in the process of destabilization of the institution of slavery
Esta pesquisa investiga o modo como os escravizados resistiram e procuraram, de diferentes formas, combater a instituição escravista na Alagoas oitocentista. Para tanto, toma como eixo norteador as experiências de vida desses sujeitos históricos, dando ênfase às vozes dissonantes dos escravizados, mas também atentando para as redes de solidariedade e sociabilidade estabelecidas com libertos e livres pobres. Desse modo, procura-se estudar episódios de resistência à escravidão protagonizados por essa população que se reinventou e desenvolveu, dentro das possibilidades existentes, variadas estratégias para conseguir seus meios de subsistência e se opor à instituição escrava, tendo sempre a liberdade em seu horizonte. A tese aborda a revolta escrava de 1815 em Alagoas, a Guerra dos Cabanos (1832-35) e os motins contrários à “Lei do Cativeiro” (1851-52). Também se atém à década da abolição da escravidão no Brasil (1880), analisando as queixas de agricultores e outros membros das elites locais que reclamavam da “falta de braços escravos”, dos bandos de ladrões de cavalos e da “quilombizacão” da cidade de Maceió devido às constantes fugas de escravizados das fazendas. Antes de analisar essas questões, reflete-se sobre como se constituiu, na sociedade alagoana do século XIX, a representação da memória em torno do episódio de Palmares, e discorre-se sobre os grupos étnicos dos africanos presentes em Alagoas e a importância da cultura oral e do corpo no processo de reavivamento de suas memórias na diáspora. Com isso, busca-se contribuir para um melhor entendimento da história da escravidão e da liberdade, a partir do recorte temporal oitocentista, e das tensões e pressões que desencadearam a abolição. Focando uma região que, apesar dos muitos estudos sobre o Quilombo dos Palmares, possui uma lacuna de pesquisas historiográficas sobre o protagonismo de escravizados, libertos e livres pobres no processo de desestabilização da instituição escrava
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Washington, Clare Johnson. "Women and Resistance in the African Diaspora, with Special Focus on the Caribbean (Trinidad and Tobago) and U.S.A." PDXScholar, 2010. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/137.
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American history has celebrated the involvement of black women in the "underground railroad," but little is said about women's everyday resistance to the institutional constraints and abuses of slavery. Many Americans have probably heard of and know about Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth - two very prominent black female resistance leaders and abolitionists-- but this thesis addresses the lives of some of the less-celebrated and lesser-known (more obscure) women; part of the focus is on the common tasks, relationships, burdens, and leadership roles of these very brave enslaved women. Resistance history in the Caribbean and Americas in its various forms has always emphasized the role of men as leaders and heroes. Studies in the last two decades Momsen 1996, Mintz 1996, Bush 1990, Beckles and Shepherd, Ellis 1985, 1996, Hart 1980, 1985) however, are beginning to suggest the enormous contributions of women to the successes of many of the resistance events. Also, research revelations are being made correcting the negative impressions and images of enslaved women as depicted in colonial writings (Mathis 2001, Beckles and Shepherd 1996, Cooper 1994, Campbell 1986, Price 1996, Campbell 1987). Some of these new findings portray women as not only actively at the forefront of colonial military and political resistance operations but performed those activities in addition to their roles as the bearers of their individual original cultures. Their goal was achievement of freedom for their people. Freedom can be seen as a magic word that politicians, propagandists, psychologists and priests throw around with ease. Yet, to others freedom has a different meaning which varies with the individual's sense of associated values. Freedom without qualification is an abstract noun meaning, "not restricted, unimpeded", or simply, "liberty"; but when it is concretized in individual situations its meaning is narrowed, and it becomes clear that no one can be fully free. Yet the love of freedom is one of our deepest feelings, a truly heartfelt cry, freedom of wide open spaces, liberty to enjoy the taste, in unrestricted fashion, of the joys of nature, to live a life free from external anxieties and internal fears; freedom to be truly ourselves. All living creatures, even animals seem to value their freedom above all else. Enslaved people were not submissive towards their oppressors; attempts were made both subtly, overtly and violently to resist their so-called "masters" and slavery conditions. Violent and non-violent resistance were carried out by the enslaved throughout colonial history on both sides of the Atlantic, and modern historical literature shows that women oftentimes displayed more resistance than men. Enslaved Africans started to fight the transatlantic slave trade as soon as it began. Their struggles were multifaceted and covered four continents over four centuries. Still, they have often been underestimated, overlooked, or forgotten. African resistance was reported in European sources only when it concerned attacks on slave ships and company barracoons, but acts of resistance also took place far from the coast and thus escaped the slavers' attention. To discover them, oral history, archaeology, and autobiographies and biographies of African victims of the slave trade have to be probed. Taken together, these various sources offer a detailed image of the varied strategies Africans used to defend themselves and mount attacks against the slave trade in various ways. The Africans' resistance continued in the Americas, by running away, establishing Maroon communities, sabotage, conspiracy, and open uprising against those who held them in captivity. Freed people petitioned the authorities, led information campaigns, and worked actively to abolish the slave trade and slavery. In Europe, black abolitionists launched or participated in civic movements to end the deportation and enslavement of Africans. They too delivered speeches, provided information, wrote newspaper articles and books. Using violent as well as nonviolent means, Africans in Africa, the Americas, and Europe were constantly involved in the fight against the slave trade and slavery. Women are half the human race and they're half of history, as well. Until recent years, Black women's history has been even less than that. Much work has been done studying the lives of slaves in the United States and the slave system. From elementary school in the USA on through college we are taught the evils of slavery that took place right here in the Land of the Free. However, how much do we know about the enslaved in other places, namely the Caribbean? The Caribbean was the doorway to slavery here in the New World, and so it is important that we study the hardships that enslaved people suffered in that area. Slaves regularly resisted their masters in any way they could. Female slaves, in particular, are reported to have had a very strong sense of independence and they regularly resisted slavery using both violent and non-violent means. The focus of my research is on the lives of enslaved women in the Caribbean and their brave resistance to bondage. Caribbean enslaved women exhibited their strong character, independence and exceptional self worth through their opposition to the tasks they performed in the fields on plantations. Resistance was expressed in many different rebellious ways including not getting married, refusing to reproduce, and through various other forms as part of their open physical resistance. The purpose of this project is to identify the role enslaved women in both the Caribbean and the USA played in some of the major uprisings, revolts, and rebellions during their enslavement period. The research identifies individual female personalities, who played key roles in not only the everyday work on plantations, but also in planning resistance movements in the slave communities. This study utilizes plantations records, archival material, and official sources. Archival records from plantations located in archives and county clerks' offices; interviews with sources such as researchers and experts familiar with the plantations of slave communities in designated areas; and research in libraries, as well as other sources, oral histories, written and oral folklore, and personal interviews were used as well.
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Matthews, Gelien. "Slave rebellions in the discourse of British anti-slavery." Thesis, University of Hull, 2002. http://hydra.hull.ac.uk/resources/hull:3558.
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Vicente, Roberto Ravena. "Classificar, comprar e emancipar : a liberdade como politica de Estado (São Paulo, 19th Century)." [s.n.], 2008. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/281953.
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Orientador: Fernando Antonio LourençoDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas
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Resumo: A presente pesquisa analisa determinadas políticas governamentais que, no processo de desagregação da ordem escravocrata no Brasil, visavam promover a emancipação gradual da população cativa. A emancipação de africanos livres, ainda na década de 1860, as alforrias indenizadas, a partir da década de 1870, e a libertação dos sexagenários, em 1885, servem aqui como referência para a compreensão da atuação do Estado - na figura de seu corpo burocrático emergente - no que dizia respeito à "questão servil". A partir da análise dos trabalhos das Juntas de Classificação de Escravos e da aplicação do Fundo de Emancipação de Escravos (especificamente na Província de São Paulo), é possível também perceber certas tensões que surgiam entre a dinâmica de relações pessoais locais e a ordem de relações jurídico-legais que custosamente se fazia implementar. As próprias possibilidades discursivas aparentes nas fontes analisadas permitem, por um lado, vislumbrar os limites de plausibilidade e legitimidade que orientavam o sentido da ação daqueles indivíduos (escravos, libertos, senhores, juízes, oficiais), e, por outro, reconhecer as ambigüidades e tensões que a todo momento punham em questão as categorias identitárias e sua legitimidade - ambigüidades e tensões que, de certa forma, marcam a própria figura do liberto. Embora proporcionalmente pouco representativas, essas ações abriram espaços legítimos de embate entre escravos, senhores e o próprio Estado, a partir dos quais a estrutura de relações sociais se reproduzia mas também era transformada
Abstract: This research analyzes certain Brazilian State policies that aimed at gradually emancipating the slave population during the process of disintegration of the slavery order in Brazil. The emancipation of free Africans, as early as in the 1860 decade, the refunded manumission from 1871 onward, and the manumission of sexagenaries in 1885 are references to understand the role of the State, represented by the emerging bureaucratic body, on the slavery issue. Based on analyses of reports issued by Slave Classification Committees and by the Slave Emancipation Fund, particularly in the São Paulo Province, it is possible to notice the evolving strain among interpersonal relations and the painful slowly-imposing legal-judicial order. Even the phrasing peculiarities of those written records provide clues, on the one hand, to the plausibleness and legitimacy that guided the sense of action of those individuals ¿ slaves, freed slaves, masters, justice officials, and judges ¿ and on the other hand, to the ambiguities and tensions that stained the freed slaves¿ life itself. Although proportionally less effective, those actions opened legitimate fields of struggle between slaves and masters, and between the State and them, reproducing social relation structures, also by means of their re-creation
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