To Carry History in One’s Body – Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome in Toni Morrison’s Novel The Bluest Eye. The world in which we live in is dominated by ideology. This essay will explore the ideology of racism and investigates how it operated during and after the slave trade in the USA. The main focus is how the racist ideology has affected the black community in the USA during the first decades of the twentieth century. When the traumatic events of the slave trade ended the black community never got the chance to heal from the several hundred years long trauma. Toni Morrison’s novel The Bluest Eye depicts a community in pain due to the racist society that surrounds them. It is set in a time after the First World War when black families aimed to establish a stable life but were hindered due to various reasons. Therefore, this essay uses Joy DeGruy’s thoughts on the matter of trauma in the black community in the USA. By using her book Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America’s Legacy Of Enduring Injury and Healing along with Frantz Fanon’s iconic text Black Skin, White Masks this essay investigates how the legacy of slavery has affected the black community after the slave trade. This essay looks into the following behavioral patterns, formulated by DeGruy: Vacant Esteem, Ever Present Anger and Racist Socialization. / Världen domineras av ideologier. Denna uppsats utforskar rasismens ideologi både under och efter slavhandeln i USA. Uppsatsens huvudfokus är hur den rasistiska ideologin har påverkat den svarta befolkningen i USA under nittonhundratalets första årtionden. När slaveriets trauma tog slut fick det svarta samhället aldrig chansen att bearbeta och läka det flera hundra år långa traumat. Toni Morrisons roman The Bluest Eye skildrar ett samhälle som präglas av smärta till följd av en rasistisk omgivning. Romanen utspelar sig efter första världskriget, en tid då svarta familjer ämnade etablera ett stabilt liv men som av olika anledningar hindrades. Denna uppsats använder Joy DeGruys tankar om trauma hos det svarta samhället i USA. Hennes bok Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America’s Legacy Of Enduring Injury and Healing tillsammans med Frantz Fanons nyckeltext Black Skin, White Masks används i denna uppsats för att undersöka hur slaveriet påverkat det svarta samhället efter dess avskaffande. Uppsatsen tittar närmare på följande beteendemönster, som formulerats av DeGruy: Vacant Esteem, Ever Present Anger och Racist Socialization.

Rousseau conteste la théorie aristotélicienne de la sociabilité naturelle à laquelle il supplée sa doctrine de l’asociabilité naturelle. Il rejette du même coup la conception hobbesienne de l’homme naturellement insociable et s’oppose également au dogme du péché originel auquel il oppose sa théorie de la bonté originelle qui n’est, en réalité, qu’une apologie de la justice et de la toute-puissance divine ce qui nous a conduit à la question de la théodicée inspirée par Saint-Augustin, théorisée par Leibniz, contestée par Voltaire et par lui défendue. En rejetant le péché originel et en proclamant la bonté naturelle de l’homme, il disculpe Dieu mais aussi l’homme avant son intégration à la vie sociale. C’est donc pour lui, les liens sociaux qui corrompent l’homme et le rendent mauvais. Il fait découler cette corruption de l’inégalité créée par la propriété car à l’état de nature où il n’y avait pas de propriété, où tout était commun à tous, l’homme n’était pas méchant et c’est pour tenter de revenir à l’état d’égalité naturelle qu’il a institué la loi. Mais il a remarqué qu’une fois entré dans la vie sociale, la propriété est devenu un droit sacré, indispensable. Un revirement s’est donc opéré chez lui. De pourfendeur du droit à la propriété, il en est devenu le défenseur. Aussi, certains commentateurs l’ont-ils classé dans la catégorie des individualistes. D’autres le rangent parmi les communistes et d’autres le rattachent à la doctrine socialiste. Afin de mieux pouvoir le situer, nous avons choisi de confronter ses idées et prises de position avec les tenants de ces différents courants idéologiques : Proudhon pour l’individualisme, Baboeuf pour le communisme et Marx pour le socialisme. / Rousseau disputes the Aristotelian theory of natural sociability to which he supplements his doctrine of natural asociability. At the same time, he rejects the Hobbesian conception of man, which is naturally unsociable, and is also opposed to the dogma of original sin to which he contrasts his theory of original goodness which is, in reality, only an apology for justice and The divine omnipotence which led us to the question of the theodicy inspired by St. Augustine, theorized by Leibniz, contested by Voltaire and forbidden. By rejecting original sin and proclaiming the natural goodness of man, he exculpates God but also man before his integration into social life. It is therefore for him that social bonds corrupt man and make him bad. He causes this corruption to flow from the inequality created by property, for in the state of nature, where there was no property, where everything was common to all, man was not wicked and it was for Attempt to return to the state of natural equality that he instituted the law. But he noticed that once he entered social life, property became a sacred right, indispensable. A reversal has thus taken place in him. As a defender of the right to property, he became its defender. Also, some commentators have classified it in the category of individualists. Others rank him among the Communists and others connect him with the socialist doctrine. In order to better situate him, we chose to confront his ideas and positions with the supporters of these different ideological currents: Proudhon for individualism, Baboeuf for communism and Marx for socialism.

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / This essay analyzes the social experiences of autonomy, freedom and survival of the captives a region characterized by European immigration, Germans and Italians. Contemplating the captive as an agent within the slave system, emphasis will be given to moments of conflict and crime, with the valuation of judiciary and police documents produced, in which they appear as defendants, victims or witnesses, interpreting the existing social relations between different subjects inhabited the central region of the former province of Rio Grande de São Pedro, the current Rio Grande do Sul, mainly in the town of Cachoeira, in the late nineteenth century (1870- 1888), demonstrating their longings, their ties of solidarity and conflicts with free men and free, in a constant struggle between slavery and freedom. For both processes will resort to crime in pursuit of understanding the history of slavery. These sources used in a qualitative offer us the possibility of contact with the daily life of slaves in the slave society, contributing to the debate on the line of research, Frontier, Integration and Policy in History from the Federal University of Santa Maria. / O presente trabalho analisa as experiências sociais de autonomia, sobrevivência e liberdade dos cativos, numa região caracterizada pela imigração europeia, alemães e italianos. Contemplando o cativo como agente dentro do sistema escravista, o destaque será dado aos momentos de conflito e crime, com a valorização dos documentos judiciários e policiais gerados, nos quais aparecem como réus, ofendidos ou testemunhas, interpretando as relações sociais existentes entre diferentes sujeitos que habitaram a região central da Antiga Província do Rio Grande de São Pedro, atual Rio Grande do Sul, sobretudo, no município de Cachoeira, no final século XIX (1870-1888), demonstrando seus anseios, seus laços de solidariedades e conflitos com homens livres e libertos, numa constante luta entre a escravidão e a liberdade. Para tanto recorreremos aos processos crime na busca de entendermos a história da escravidão. Essas fontes utilizadas de forma qualitativa nos oferecem a possibilidade de um contato com o cotidiano dos cativos dentro da sociedade escravista, contribuindo para o debate na linha de pesquisa Fronteira, Integração e Política do Mestrado em História da Universidade Federal de Santa Maria.

1 Abstract Slavery and its modern aspects This diploma thesis deals with the current and controversial topic. Aim of this thesis is to put attention to the speeches, forms and incredible frequency of modern slavery - phenomenon that would be at first glance wrongly seen as just historical issue. First chapter of the thesis speaks about historical excursion of slavery. Because of the limited scope is history focused on the main areas of ancient Greece and Rome, the area of the American continent with its huge business of African slaves, the period of Second World War and finally on the brief history at Czech territory. After the historical chapter is focus stressed on theoretical presentation of the problem - the nature of this phenomenon. Slavery is especially considered as part of International Guardianship of Human Rights. Theoretical part is followed by examples of most frequent real forms of modern slavery. These forms include sexual slavery and human trafficking, forced labor, forced marriage and child slavery as probably the most serious form of modern slavery. Chapter about international regulation of slavery is divided into few parts. After a brief history of the international perception of the slavery is attention paid to the general international law, then the law concerning the protection of...

Philosophiae Doctor - PhD / This research focuses on the displacement of families in the Western Cape during apartheid within the context of its slave past.The transmission of intergenerational trauma has been based on research on holocaust survivors. Aboriginal academic writers in Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the US found that initial studies of intergenerational trauma did not take into the account the historical trauma of colonialism which they believe has left its mark on aboriginal communities today. In South Africa writers from the Apartheid Archives Project have started to focus on the intergenerational trauma of apartheid. These are mainly academics from psychology and not social work. The Apartheid Archives Project and social work discourse do not focus on the historical trauma of slavery. Historians believe that slavery has still left a mark on its descendants in the Western Cape. The families in this research are descendants of slaves and they were also displaced as a result of the Group Areas Act during apartheid. Qualitative research using a postcolonial indigenous paradigm was adopted in this study. Life histories, semi-structured interviews and focus groups were the primary sources of data collection. The research design was a multiple case study which consisted of 7 families where each family was a case and 3 generations in each family were interviewed. The families had typical slave surnames and at least one generation was displaced as a result of the forced removals when the Group Areas Act (1950-1985) was implemented during apartheid. Thematic analysis, narrative thematic analysis and case study analysis was adopted .In addition narrative therapy theory and collective narrative practice was used to decolonise the conceptual framework and methodology. The trauma of displacement and historical trauma of slavery was not acknowledged as traumatic by the dominant society because South African society was based on institutional racism. The grief and loss of the trauma therefore became unresolved and disenfranchised. The findings indicate that disenfranchised grief, silence, socialisation in institutional racism and shame have been the main mechanisms in which the historical trauma of slavery and trauma of displacement has been transmitted within the families. The effects such as intimate partner violence and substance abuse and community violence in the form of gang violence are forms of internalised oppression which has also been transmitted intergenerationally. In addition overcrowding, poor housing and poverty has been transmitted via socialisation which is a societal mechanism of trauma transmission. vi The research findings indicate that the trauma of displacement and historical trauma of slavery was transmitted because the trauma was not included in the social discourse of society. In order to prevent the transmission of the historical trauma of slavery and displacement, the real effects of institutional , cultural and interpersonal racism need to be understood and the counter-memories and counter-histories of slaves and their descendants need to be included in social discourse. A framework to assist social workers in engaging with trauma transmission in families has been proposed in order to interrupt the trauma transmission in families.

Please read the abstract (Summary) in the section, 20summary of this document Copyright 2002, University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. Please cite as follows: Bauermeester, EM 2002, Die Kaapse slawe in kultuurhistoriese perspektief - 1652-1838 (Afrikaans), MA dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd < http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-11082007-092819 / > / Dissertation (MA (Cultural History))--University of Pretoria, 2007. / Historical and Heritage Studies / Unrestricted

My dissertation explores the development of policing and slavery in two early nineteenth-century Atlantic cities. This project engages regionally distinct histories through an examination of legislative and police records in New Orleans, Louisiana, and Salvador, Bahia. Through these sources, my dissertation holds that the development of the theories and practices that guided “public order” emerged in similar ways in these Atlantic slaveholding cities. Enslaved people and their actions played an integral role in the evolution of “good order” and its policing. Legislators created laws and institutions to police enslaved people and promote order. In these instances, local government policed slavery through the surveilling and arresting of enslaved people. By mid-century, the prerogative of policing slavery created a comprehensive bureaucratic structure that policed many individuals within the community, not just slaves. In New Orleans and Salvador, slavery was an important part of policing, but not just in the sense we sometimes assume: as a panicked reaction to real or imagined slave rebellions. As the commercial and demographic development of cities created opportunities for enslaved people, local legislation and institutions formed an important part of policing slavery in New Orleans and Salvador. Local government officials—regional and municipal legislators—responded by passing laws that restricted not only where and how enslaved people worked and lived, but also the police that enforced these laws. Police forces, once created, interpreted and applied the laws passed by legislators. They surveilled and arrested individuals, and their actions sometimes triggered further legislative reforms. Thusly, police forces became representations of public well-being, particularly in relation to slavery. By mid-century, new conceptions of public order made the police an accepted part of urban slavery and urban life more generally in New Orleans and Salvador. At the same time, the police surveilled and arrested free people, not just enslaved people, in the name of promoting orderly slavery.

L'interdiction de l'esclavage constitue une norme fondamentale du droit international contemporain: figurant dans les principaux instruments de protection des droits de l'homme, elle est souvent citée comme l'exemple-type d'une obligation dont le respect intéresse la communauté internationale dans son ensemble et revêt un caractère impératif. La présente étude s'intéresse aux origines de cette interdiction, telle que reflétée par la pratique étatique et discutée par la doctrine, avant l'émergence d'un droit international des droits de l'homme à la suite de la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Elle soutient qu'au XIXe siècle et pendant la première moitié du XXe siècle, l'affirmation d'un droit international antiesclavagiste et la définition du cadre conceptuel dans lequel celui-ci s'effectuait était étroitement dépendante de la capacité des États occidentaux de se définir eux-mêmes, par rapport au reste du monde, comme des« nations civilisées ». Nos recherches démontrent qu'une question récurrente à cette époque fut de savoir si une« nation civilisée» ayant formellement aboli l'institution esclavagiste pouvait être accusée, en tolérant ou en imposant certaines formes de travail forcé non fondées sur la reconnaissance formelle d'un droit de propriété sur des êtres humains, de s'être livrée à des actes illicites au regard du droit international antiesclavagiste. Or ce n'est finalement qu'en 1945, au terme d'une remise en cause sans précédent de la notion même de« civilisation », que les signataires du Statut de Nuremberg adoptèrent le premier instrument conventionnel y apportant une réponse positive. / The prohibition of slavery is a fundamental rule of contemporary international law. It has been incorporated into all major international human rights conventions. The International Court of Justice cited it as an international obligation in whose protection all states have a legal interest. Most international law scholars refer to it as the very example of a peremptory norm. The present study examines the origins of the international prohibition of slavery, as reflected by state practice and scholarly writings. It focuses on the period prior to the emergence of international human rights law in the aftermath of the Second World War. Its main argument is that during the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century, the emergence of international anti-slavery law and the definition of its conceptual framework was closely dependent on the capacity of Western states to define themselves, when compared to the rest of the world, as “civilized nations.” My research shows that a recurring question during that period was whether a “civilized nation” which had formally abolished slavery could still be accused of breaching international anti-slavery law by tolerating or exacting certain forms of forced labour not based on the recognition of property rights over human beings. It is only in 1945, after a period during which the very notion of “civilization” had largely fallen into disrepute, that the signatories of the Nuremberg Charter adopted the first treaty positively recognizing that this could indeed be the case.

This dissertation looks at the concept of “trafficking in persons” and how it has been created, interpreted and utilized in the international sphere and in Canada. Using the approach of Critical Legal Pluralism (CLP), it examines the legal regulation of trafficking as being created through a bi-directional constitutive process, with paradigmatic conceptions of trafficking having a hand in creating regulation as well as being influenced by it. Through a review of data retrieved using a variety of qualitative methods as well as classic legal analysis, this dissertation explores the operation of various social actors and their effect on the determination of what trafficking is, and who is worthy of protection from it. In Part One the international framework is outlined through a discussion of the creation of the dominant paradigm of trafficking and implementations of it. Chapter One traces the history of the anti-trafficking movement by looking at the development of the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, and by examining the creation of dominant discourses around trafficking. Chapter 2 uses CLP to examine the influences of a variety of actors on the creation of these discourses and the repercussions the discourses have had on the implementation of anti-trafficking policies. Part Two then turns to the Canadian context. In Chapter Three, classical legal methodologies are employed to discuss Canada’s obligations under international law with respect to trafficking, as well as the creation of definitions of trafficking in the Canadian legal regulatory context. Chapter Four then reviews data from Canada to discuss the ways in which various actors have been involved in the creation and operation of the dominant paradigm and how it in turn affects the operation of trafficking-related legal constructs. Ultimately, it is found that due to the influence of the dominant paradigm and the motivations that aid in its operation, programs and policies framed under the rubric of “trafficking” necessarily fail to achieve meaningful redress for the groups they purport to benefit. On this basis, an alternative approach is suggested to address phenomena currently being dealt with through anti-trafficking frameworks. A move is suggested away from a focus on “trafficking” to a sectoral approach, accounting for the complexities and histories of individuals subject to exploitative circumstances.

Cette thèse se propose d'interroger l'écriture littéraire de l'esclavage dans une perspective diachronique et comparée entre la France et ses colonies et les États-Unis, et en regard de la construction de la mémoire de l'esclavage transatlantique et de sa transmission. La dimension diachronique vise à éclairer l'écriture contemporaine de l'esclavage, notamment à partir d'un constat initial : plusieurs centaines de témoignages d'esclaves – regroupés sous le terme générique "slave's narrative" – ont été publiés aux États-Unis, plus rarement en Angleterre, à partir du XVIIIe siècle ; aucun texte de ce type n'a été recensé dans la sphère francophone. Une disparité saisissante qui a semblé un signe fort à analyser, posant la question des causes ou de l'origine de cette disparité, mais aussi de ses conséquences sur la mémoire et surtout sur l'écriture de l'esclavage. En effet, la littérature africaine américaine est souvent présentée comme une héritière de ces témoignages. Sous la désignation de « neo-slave narratives », la critique américaine a même réuni et analysé nombre de romans africains-américains portant sur l'esclavage depuis la fin des années 60. Point d'aboutissement de ce travail, l'écriture caribéenne francophone de l'esclavage est ainsi appréhendée au regard de la production africaine-américaine et de sa différence notable quant à l'héritage mémoriel et discursif des slaves' narratives. Constatant leur absence dans le champ critique francophone, il s'agit également de proposer les premiers jalons d'un appareil critique et d'une analyse de l'écriture caribéenne francophone contemporaine de l'esclavage ainsi qu'une terminologie générique : récit d'esclave francophone. / This thesis proposes a two-fold examination of the literary writing of slavery in France and its former colonies, and in the United States, using both a diachronic and comparative approach. It also takes into account the perspective of the construction and transmission of the memory of transatlantic slavery. The diachronic dimension adopted in this work aims to enlighten on the contemporary writing of slavery. Indeed, several hundreds accounts of slaves– known as “slave narratives” – had been published in the United States, more rarely in England, as early as the 18th century, but there were no such narratives in the francophone world. This striking disparity turned out to be a case worth analyzing to find out about its causes, its origins and its consequences on both the memory and the writing of slavery. As a matter of fact, African American literature bears the direct influence of these testimonies. Identified as “neo-slave narratives”, African American novels dealing with slavery have been collected and analyzed by critics since the 1960's. The last part of this dissertation focuses on the Francophone Caribbean writing of slavery. It is examined in comparison with the African American production and the striking difference noted in the historic and discursive heritage of the slave narratives. This lack in the francophone critical field led us to prepare the ground for the analysis and the review of the contemporary Francophone Caribbean writing of slavery, and for a generic expression: francophone slave narratives.