Browsing by Subject "Slavery"
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"Capitalizing Subjects: Free African-Descended Women of Means in Xalapa, Veracruz during the Long Seventeenth Century
(2013)"Capitalizing Subjects: Free African-Descended Women of Means in Xalapa, Veracruz during the Long Seventeenth Century" explores the socioeconomic worlds of free women of means. I find that they owned slaves, engaged in ... -
Ethics in the Afterlife of Slavery: Race, Augustinian Politics, and the Enduring Problem of the Christian Master
(2019)This project rereads the political thought of Augustine of Hippo in the Black Lives Matter era. In the last two decades, scholars of religion and politics made a striking return to the constructive resources of the Augustinian ... -
Free to Be a Slave: Slavery as Metaphor in the Afro-Atlantic Religions
(Journal of Religion in Africa, 2007-01-01)Scholars tend to regard enslavement as a form of disability inflicted upon the enslaved. This paper confronts the irony that not all black Atlantic peoples and religions conceive of slavery as an equally deficient condition ... -
Geographies of Freedom: Black Women's Mobility and the Making of the Western River World, 1814-1865
(2018)Geographies of Freedom explores the ways in which free and enslaved black women pursued freedom for themselves and their families in the middle Mississippi River Valley using the law and uniquely gendered access to forms ... -
Laboratories of Consent: Vaccine Science in the Spanish Atlantic World, 1779-1840
(2020)This dissertation examines the colonial history of medical rights in Latin America through a study of the world’s first vaccine. The Spanish introduced the smallpox vaccine to their empire in 1804, along with royal orders ... -
Narrating Infanticide: Constructing the Modern Gendered State in Nineteenth-Century America
(2010)<italic>Narrating Infanticide: Constructing the Modern Gendered State in Nineteenth-Century America</italic> traces how modern ideas about gender and race became embedded in the institutions of law and government between ... -
Observer Effects: the Power and Vulnerability of the Slaveholder's Surveillance Network
(2019-04-15)This micro-study of the Cameron and Bennehan families, who owned plantations in North Carolina, Mississippi, and Alabama, demonstrates that plantation operations would have unraveled without the efforts of surveillors, a ... -
Sonic Records: Listening to Early Afro-Atlantic Literature and Music, 1650-1850
(2017)“Sonic Records” explores representations of early African diasporic musical life in literature. Rooted in an effort to recover the early history of an influential arts movement, the project also examines literature and sound ... -
The Kongolese Atlantic: Central African Slavery & Culture from Mayombe to Haiti
(2015)In my dissertation, "The Kongolese Atlantic: Central African Slavery & Culture from Mayombe to Haiti," I investigate the cultural history of West Central African slavery at the height of the trans-Atlantic slave trade, the ... -
The Rule of the Lash and the Rule of Law: Amelioration, Enslaved People's Politics and the Courts in Jamaica, 1780-1834
(2021)This dissertation examines amelioration – the effort to create a more “humane” or reformed version of slavery – as it intertwined with enslaved people’s everyday conflicts and the legal system of the Jamaican colonial state. ... -
‘To Restore Peace and Tranquility to the Neighborhood’: Violence, Legal Culture and Community in New York City, 1799-1827
(2019)“‘To Restore Peace and Tranquility to the Neighborhood’: Violence, Legal Culture and Community in New York City, 1799-1827” examines the various ways ordinary people, legal officials, lawmakers, and editors negotiated the ...
