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This thesis argues that members of the white, elite planter class of Barbados used punitive violence against European servants and African slaves to assert their masculinity—through which they gained their authority. In doing so, they further solidified class differences in Barb…

This dissertation traces the intellectual and social history of slavery in the Lower Congo over the Longue Durée. It examines how Bantu-speaking groups of the Lower Congo inherited, constructed, reconstructed, and passed on to younger generations a vocabulary that framed their s…

“Self Defense and Sea Power: The Provincial Navies of the British Atlantic World, 1689–1763,” explores the ways in which Anglo-American colonial governments in North America and the West Indies managed naval defense during imperial and border conflicts between the late seventeen…

This dissertation demonstrates how the concept of edibility as it pertained to animals was both culturally constructed and changed over time as settler colonialism took root in the early modern Atlantic World. In the first phases of Atlantic World colonization, Europeans travele…