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... surnames after slavery’s abolition—such as such as Santana, Jesus, Nascimento, Conceição. The results on surnames in Bahians reinforced the arguments of the mixed character of that population, and denote the racialist point of view of these genetic researchers. Azevêdo Eliane Bahian population biological...

...The narrative of President Lincoln as the “Great Emancipator” has undergone scrutiny in the midst of the Black Lives Matter protests that enveloped the nation after the death of George Floyd. A national reckoning of slavery has taken place that has led to reassessments of Confederate and other...

..., and a mystical otherworldliness without any self-evident or self-contained world. black sacred J. Kameron Carter M. NourbeSe Philip slavery Zong (slave ship) Zong! (poem) As such, she is a referent to that which is without determination … not because she was excluded, but because her non-value does...

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... been widely recognized. Southern partisans, both in literature and politics, tended to view both slavery and the tightly controlled republican government that protected it as extensions of the patriarchal family. What has been less recognized is that for many southern apologists, this “medievalist...

... of the right to revolution and social contract theory. In so doing he rejected the Southern claim of peaceable secession as an illegitimate constitutional construction, and led the Republican party's defense of the Constitution as anti-slavery and the Union as indivisible. While the construction...

.... It was eminently fitting, then, that the first shot fired at slavery by Negro soldiers should be aimed by the ex-slaves of the haughty South Carolina rebels. It was poetic justice that South Carolina Negroes should have the priority of obtaining the Union uniform, and enjoy the distinction of being the first Negro...

... into receptacles that grant sanctuary to racialized forms of punishment prevalent during slavery. It advances a concept of semiotic transfer to explain how the institution of the prison became a functional substitute for the plantation, and how the discourse of “criminality” became racialized. It argues...

... presented here, the author reflects on the practical and theoretical implications of his analysis in conversation with Lisa Guenther, author of Solitary Confinement: Social Death and its Afterlives (2013). Shoatz's life and work attest to the legacy of not just slavery but also...

... Dutch and British systems of slavery in Cape Colony, coincides with the transformation of certain animal species into “Game.” The chapter examines how the figurative play on seagulls (and bird-shit) articulates, as postcolonial critique, the interrelation between discourses of slavery and Big Game...

.... It also highlights problems experienced by only these initial agents and those endemic to all who followed. Continuation of slavery, procuring supplies and quarters, and implementation of contract labor were some of the few problems experienced by these initial agents. They also experienced something all...

... of historical relations between slavery and the death penalty, as well as lynching and the persistence of racism in the application of capital punishment. Furthermore, the sovereign secrecy of drone attacks produces a structural space shared by the U.S. president and the terrorist s/he attacks. drone...

...This book addresses images of nineteenth-century slavery in several twentieth-century, modernist novels and photographs. The texts under discussion here are not direct literary testimony to historical violence; rather, they evince the “overlap,” at once temporal and textual, between writing...

... really worked through,” to “old racial wounds,” and to African Americans' crippling “memories of humiliation and doubt and fear,” define contemporary racial politics in the United States in terms of a multigenerational, psychological trauma. This trauma was instantiated by African slavery, and continues...

... with the primary aim of achieving racial justice. Rather, they entered Reconstruction expecting to see the emergence of a speedily restored, prosperous, and culturally homogeneous Union, a Union strengthened by God through the defeat of secession and the removal of slavery as secession’s cause. That restored Union...

... or African American, but something else altogether - in relation to the abolition of slavery and the recognition of the humanity of Negro American slaves. The death of John Brown “proper” should be understood to have marked the opening toward the possibility of a new relation to the future, for America...

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... that despite Oroonoko's equivocal message about both slavery and Christianity, “the historical fate of the text was emancipationist” (Weller 68). It is in the context of the Christian emancipationist discourse of the latter eighteenth century that the most profound implications of Behn's...