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The Influence of Negro Slavery on Emerson's Concept of FreedomMatthis, Leon Cashiel 08 1900 (has links)
A study of the influence of Negro slavery on Emerson's concept of freedom.
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James K. Polk and SlaveryMarsh, Richard Dean 08 1900 (has links)
As a plantation owner, James K. Polk had economic interests which were bound to that peculiar institution. Consequently, many of his decisions as a politician were influenced by his southern background. Although his partiality toward"southern rights" was evident, he did not let his personal bias interfere with his determination to preserve the nation. Throughout his public career, he maintained that slavery was being exploited as a "political question" to divide the United States. Even though his opponents branded him a "sectionalist" for his position on the issues of Texas annexation, the Mexican War, and slavery in the territories, he still remained a staunch nationalist. This study proves that James K. Polk's "southern convictions" were secondary in importance compared to his concern for the preservation of the Union.
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Slaves, Ships, and Citizenship: Congressional Response to the Coastwise Slave Trade and Status of Slaves on the High Seas, 1830-1842Green, Barbara Layenette, 1950- 05 1900 (has links)
Between 1830 and 1842, the United States coastwise slave trade raised several issues and provoked numerous debates in Congress. The purpose of this study is to determine the role of the coastwise slave trade and its effect upon attitudes toward slavery in Congress during this period. The primary sources used include official government documents, unpublished and published papers, correspondence, diaries, speeches, and memoirs. This study concludes that the issues raised by the coastwise slave trade crisis and debated in Congress between 1830 and 1842 contributed to the decline of southern dominance in national politics and provided abolitionists with a vital motivation of antislavery agitation in the United States Congress.
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Representations of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade in selected contemporary narrativesOduwobi, Oluyomi Abayoni 05 1900 (has links)
PhD (English) / Department of English / See the attached abstract below
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Symbolism in Afro-American Slave Songs in the Pre-Civil War SouthSebastian, Jeannie Chaney 12 1900 (has links)
This thesis examines the symbolism of thirty-five slave songs that existed in the pre-Civil War South in the United States in order to gain a more profound insight into the values of the slaves. The songs chosen were representative of the 300 songs reviewed. The methodology used in the analysis was adapted from Ralph K. White's "Value Analysis: The Nature and Use of the Method." The slave songs provided the slaves with an opportunity to express their feelings on matters they deemed important, often by using Biblical symbols to "mask" the true meanings of their songs from whites. The major values of the slaves as found in their songs were independence, justice, determination, religion, hope, family love, and group unity.
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Deadweight loss and the American civil war : the political economy of slavery, secession, and emancipationHummel, Jeffrey Rogers 21 March 2011 (has links)
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A study of the Afro-American oral tradition with special reference to the formal aspects of the poetry of spirituals.Nobin, Brian Edward. January 1991 (has links)
This dissertation is a study of the Afro-American oral tradition with special reference to the formal aspects of the poetry of spirituals. In the introduction. an attempt has been made to take a look at the value of oral tradition; the interplay between oral and written tradition; the use made of orality in a society that was denied conventional literacy; the concept and the definition of the term, “spiritual". The organization of the rest of the essay is as follows: The sections are divided into four chapters. The first chapter concerns the origins of Afro-American spirituals and the
anthropological foundations of the Afro-American oral style (anthropology of gesture). In addition, an attempt has been made to place the Afro-American oral tradition vis-a-vis the African oral tradition. The second chapter deals with key characteristics in the expressive phase of the Afro-American slave community with special reference to the dynamics of
language usage. In the third chapter, there is consideration in some detail on the Afro-American oral composer and the transmission of the spirituals in an oral style milieu. The fourth chapter investigates stylized expression and is devoted to analyses of mnemotechnical devices within the spirituals.
In the concluding chapter, an attempt has been made to take an overall look at Afro-American sacred poetic achievement. I must point out that it is not my intention to embark on any technical analysis of the music form and configuration of the spirituals - that is beyond the scope of this essay. In
including "representative" samples of spirituals (and portions of spirituals), I do not intend them to be seen as "islands unto themselves" but rather, each spiritual must be seen as part of the whole corpus of Afro-American sacred oral composition. The question may arise: "Why a study of the Afro-American spirituals when there is so much to be studied on the oral traditions of Southern Africa? My response would be that the spirituals fascinate me for I see in them their widespread influence on the Pentecostal and Charismatic movements in South Africa. The Gospel song, so beloved of Pentecostal congregations, is an heir to the Spiritual. An enquiry on the sacred music and performance styles (improvisation, extemporization, dance, handclapping, shouts, etc.) of Pentecostalism will reveal that much of the Afro-American oral style still exists within the fellowship of Black and, venture to say, all Pentecostal churches in South Africa with obvious nuances that vary from denomination to denomination. But, the spirited and lively sacred music is encouraged and preserved. / Thesis (M.A.)-University of Natal, Durban, 1991.
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Reform in the land of Serf and Slave, 1825-1861Murray, Robert Paul 06 June 2008 (has links)
This thesis argues that the significance of pre-Civil War southern opposition to slavery has been largely marginalized and mischaracterized by previous historiography. By contextualizing southern antislavery activism as but a single wing within a broader reformist movement, historians can move beyond simplistic interpretations of these antislavery advocates as fool-hardy and tangential "losers." While opposition to slavery constituted a key goal for these reformers, it was not their only aspiration, and they secured considerable success in other aspects of reform. Nineteenth-century Russians, simultaneously struggling with their own system of bonded labor, offer excellent counterpoints to reorient the role of antebellum southern reformers. Through their shared commitment to reforming liberalism, a preference for gradualism as the vehicle of change, and a shared intellectual framework based upon new theories of political economy, the Russian and southerners' histories highlight a transatlantic intellectual community in which southern reformers were full members. Adapting multiple theories from this transnational exchange of ideas, southern reformers were remarkably liminal figures useful for contemporary scholarly exploration into the nineteenth-century culture of reform. Ultimately, it was this liminality coupled with the inegalitarian nature of their movement that ensured that the southern antislavery movement would fail to secure a gradual demise to slavery. / Master of Arts
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The Apologist Tradition: A Transitional Period in Southern Proslavery Thought, 1831-1845Austin, Clara 12 1900 (has links)
Early antebellum defenders of slavery acknowledged that slavery created problems for southern society. They contended, however, that slave society was better and more natural than other forms of social organization. Thomas R. Dew, William Harper, and James Henry Hammond each expressed a social philosophy in which slavery had a crucial role in preserving social order. They argued from the basis of social organicism, the idea that society should have an elite that controlled the masses. For all three men, slavery represented a system of order that helped balance the dangers of democracy. Significantly, however, all three men recognized that the slave system was not perfect, and despite their defense of slavery, argued that it was a human institution and therefore corruptible.
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Scratching where it itches in the autobiographies of Harriet Jacob's incidents in the life of a slave girl and Bhanu Kapil's SchizophreneThango, Linda Thokozile January 2017 (has links)
A research report submitted to the Faculty of Humanities, University of the Witwatersrand in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts, Johannesburg, 2017 / Set within a revisionist and feminist context, this thesis seeks to draw parallels in the
autobiographical texts of Harriet Jacobs’ Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861) written by
an African American ex-enslaved and Schizophrene (2011) penned by Bhanu Kapil, a British
born Asian American, a descendant of a generation that live (d) through/with ‘what happened in
a particular country on a particular day in August 14th 1947’ (Quaid). These literary
representations will constitute the corpus of this research paper as it attempts to examine how
these autobiographies draw attention to and break the notion of prevailing dominant geographies
of oppression. In both texts, the authors juxtapose appropriation and hegemony with an
alternative literary geographic narrative that seeks to recuperate the liminal (black) body and
psyche. This research paper will seek to explore the multiple and interrelated ways in which
both authors employ certain strategic mechanisms to re-appropriate tools of social power, thus
exposing the frailties of their respective oppressive histories by disrupting their continued, albeit
imagined stronghold on them. In employing their autobiographies as anthropological arsenals,
these authors seem to demonstrate the manner in which history has attempted through its
numerous sites of oppression not only to construct black victims and mere black bodies but also to un-write and evacuate its untidiness. These autobiographies will be employed to reconstruct
and re-imagine the authors but symbolically the collective black body as more than objects but
rather as humans with subjectivities and self-assertion. The paper further seeks to understand
how these autobiographies tend to a vicious past of slavery and partition and how they translate
these memories, remembering the depth of their experiences whilst also being haunted by their
contemporary echoes. An accent will be given to the ambivalence, perversions and anxieties of
these autobiographies. / XL2018
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