O presente trabalho procura analisar um tema cuja visibilidade permanece algo reduzida. Esta ‘nova’ forma de abuso apropria-se das vulnerabilidades tradicionais e locais, mas também das ferramentas que, enquanto sociedade, agora nos encontramos altamente dependentes. Nomeadament…
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Within the confines of slavery, nearly every aspect of an individual is controlled: their movement, their speech, their appearance. Expressing elements of identity through material culture was one form of rebellion practiced by enslaved people in the Americas, as messages of per…
As a kid, I was growing up in an era of celebration of the Civil War centennial, with a lot of “Lost Cause” emphasis on the Confederacy. I used to play Civil War soldiers with my brothers as a child, and my older brother always insisted that he got to be Lee, and I got to be Gra…
The media has played a critical role in reproducing anti-Black violence in the United States, which has often harmed African American communities. Historically, the white press has depicted graphic imagery and descriptions of Black people being brutalized, with little ethical re…
I, most broadly, set out in this dissertation to interrogate the tight-knit relationships between American antislavery literature—from the late 1820s until the Civil War—and its intense preoccupation with the problem of evil and black doubt. I am keenly interested in a literary …
In July 1832, seventeen enslaved individuals and one free black man stole a whaleboat and sailed from Virginia’s Eastern Shore to New York City in search of freedom. This escape occurred months after Nat Turner’s revolt, and coincided with the rise of abolitionist ideologies and…
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 explores the Ex-Slave Pension Movement, a social crusade that pressed the federal government for redress for uncompensated labor from the 1890s into the early 20th century. Freedpeople, along with their families and friends, joined the movement to petition Cong…
This dissertation examines the geography of the slave trade, the role of slavery in the household, and the lives of domestic slave women in the Egyptian Jewish community under the rule of the Fatimid caliphate and Ayyubid sultanate. I juxtapose Hebrew and Judaeo- Arabic document…
The prevailing scholarship on the Syrian-Lebanese in Brazil argues that the economic success of these immigrants is mainly the product of merit and hard work—the tenet of exceptional social mobility thesis. This dissertation contends that a key missing aspect of the precept is t…
Enslaved persons were ubiquitous in the first- and second- century CE Roman Empire, and early Christian texts, in particular, reflect this fact. Nevertheless the implications of enslaved presence in religious practices are under-examined in early Christian and Roman history. Mor…
This dissertation explores how the Atlantic slave trade integrated the Cape Verde archipelago into the cultural, economic, and political milieu of Upper Guinea Coast between 1500 and 1879. The archipelago is about 300 miles off the coast of Senegal, West Africa. The Portuguese c…
This study presents a new approach to comparative legal study between the biblical and the ANE slave laws. It adopts a multidimensional examination that compares not only analogous laws with similar subject matter of slavery, but also their rhetorical techniques, methods of law …
This study investigates the practice of slavery in Mauritania. As a practice that is still strongly racially-based, slavery in Mauritania is an anachronism in a time where racial and hereditary bondage have died out in almost every country in the world. The victims are often tho…
Scholars have disputed the interpretation of Amos 2:6b.The majority of scholars stress the connection between the action of selling people and the fact of their poverty and indebtedness. They use this connection to link the verb 'to sell' of the poor in Amos 2:6, and 'to purchas…
This thesis focuses on the connections between warfare, slavery and their impacts on Eastern Yorubaland during the nineteenth century. To the extent that slavery became an integral part of the society, the connections resulted in fundamental changes in political, economic, demog…
In the mid-nineteenth-century United States and Europe the idea arose that "race" is a matter of biology, internal "essence," a thing having real existence and permanence. Fifty years earlier, the Enlightenment had seen race as an ephemeral function of climate, geography, and mo…
Readers of scripture, from antiquity to modernity, have acknowledged the significance of circumcision. The Rabbis averred “Great is circumcision, for it is of equal weight to all the commandments in the Torah” ( b. Ned. 32a). More than a millennium later, Gunkel (1997:365) echoe…
In 1846 Virginia courts freed 383 slaves of Roanoke plantation by ruling which will of John Randolph of Roanoke's was valid. Sent to found a free black colony in Mercer County, Ohio, these "Randolph Slaves" were refused entry by a mob of Mercer County whites. The freed people in…