This paper is an archival and ethnographic case study of community contestation and abolitionist refusal of carceral expansion in Sacramento County, California. Tracing recent carceral histories through legal, economic, and ideological geographies, I reveal how grassroots abolit…
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Constructing Abolition: Theaters of Protest in American Antislavery Movements provides a comparative historical analysis of the political and social process behind organized movements for change. I trace the historical evolution of the American antislavery movement from the begi…
This thesis examines material culture and female participation in the British and American anti-slavery campaigns from the 1780s to 1865. It explores the production, distribution and use of abolitionist material culture, within a female transatlantic framework. It considers the …
Born into a gentry family with roots in the Society of Friends, the evangelical social conscience of Thomas Fowell Buxton (1786-1845) was developed as he operated a brewery in Spitalfields, perhaps London's poorest parish. He was instrumental in raising funds for poor relief and…
This dissertation examines the trans-Saharan slave trade in relation to the economic and political transformations occurring in the late 18th and early 19th centuries in the Regency of Tunis. Specifically, it documents the shifting trends of the slave trade within broader patter…
This study examines the impact of transformations in Atlantic commerce on Africans living in southern Sierra Leone between 1790 and 1861. Extant studies of 19th century Africa have outlined a linear progression from the suppression of the slave trade to the rise of "legitimate c…
Slavery was a long-standing institution in Iran, as it was in other Muslim states and societies. The subject of this thesis is the history of slavery in Iran and its slow course toward abolition in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The thesis examines the sources and…
The following analysis of slavery and abolition in the British Straits Settlements looks at the British East India Company's efforts to implement anti-slavery ordinances in their eastern territories from the first ordinance passed in 1795 at Prince of Wales' Island to 1843, when…
Centering a concept that cuts across categories of analysis and experience, “For Conscience' Sake” looks to the notion of the conscience as a new hermeneutic tool for understanding religious belief, ethical reasoning, and political action. The role of individual moral judgment w…
Shortly after the conclusion of the American Civil War, American artist Thomas Satterwhite Noble created a group of paintings dealing with themes of abolition and slavery. One of these, John Brown’s Blessing (1867) was in commemoration of the eighth anniversary of the well-known…
This project explains the conditions under which American social movements that begin their mobilization through peaceful, lawful acts of protest become politically violent. To do so, I propose and develop a new, unifying framework called the state legitimacy framework. The stat…
My thesis describes the propaganda on the Kansas/Missouri border the year before Kansas’ legislative election in 1855. Furthermore, it covers the influential men whose orchestrated efforts reflected their desires for a free or slave state in the Kansas Territory. It is well esta…
Flowers Grew Out of the Asphalt” addresses how the treatment of Black women in the afterlife of slavery, under the guise of whitening ideologies, contributed to the formations of regional identity and Black women’s geographies in the city of São Paulo. The lives and presence of …
This work focuses on the case of a single French slave-trading ship intercepted by the British Navy in the early 1830s off the coast of Sierra Leone, utilizing this case study to examine the broader themes of abolition, emancipation, labor, and identity in the context of early n…
The American Civil War is usually attributed to the secession of the southern states or slavery in general. These reasons were promulgated by the Republicans to avoid the onus of the terrible destruction and loss of life involved. An important source of information is the pletho…
The abolitionists’ radical commitment to principle over expediency prompted a split from conventional methods and institutions. Major abolitionist figures such as William Lloyd Garrison distanced themselves from established, centralized religions. The presence of abolitionists w…
Previous scholarship has mostly left the story of recolonization of former slaves and Free People of Color to West Africa in the dustbin of history. These studies also have artificially separated the multiple failed attempts into the story of either Sierra Leone or Liberia. This…
This project studies abolitionist fiction from the first half of the nineteenth-century and its use of sexual narratives. I am interested in exploring the role of sexual narratives in untraditional domestic novels by which I mean novels that take up the structures and themes of …
This dissertation examines core themes of the developing women’s movement in the United States from 1820 to 1920—the abolition of slavery, women’s property ownership, education, political identity, motherhood, and the franchise—through the lens of decorative needlework. I read t…