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Rethinking Our Outlines/ Redrawing Our Maps: Representing African Agency in the Antebellum South 1783-1829 The lenses through which our common perceptions of African/Black agency in the antebellum period are viewed, synthetic textbooks and maps, rarely reveal the tremendous number of liberating acts that characterized the movements of Black people in the South from 1783 to 1829. During the American Revolution, 80,000 to 100,000 such enslaved Africans threw off their yokes and escaped their bondage. Subsequently, large numbers embarked on British ships as part of the Loyalist exodus from the United States, while others fled to the deep South, to Native lands, to the North, or held their ground right where they were, attempting, as maroons, to establish themselves and survive as free persons. While recent historical scholarship has identified many of the primary sources and themes that characterize such massive levels of proactivity, few have tried to present them as a synthetic whole. This applies to maps used to illustrate the African American history of those regions and times as well. Illustrating these movements defines the scope of this scholarly work entitled Rethinking Our Outlines/ Redrawing Our Maps: Representing African Agency in the Antebellum South 1783-1829. This work also critically looks at several contemporary maps of this period published in authoritative atlases or textbooks and subsequently creates three original maps to represent the proactive movements and relationships of Africans during this period. / African American Studies

This dissertation interprets how two antebellum American works of fiction, Herman Melville’s Benito Cereno and Martin R. Delany’s Blake, represent the relationship between conjuring and resistance to oppression. It is unclear how we should conceive of this relationship: on the one hand, historical slave conspiracies and revolts in the Atlantic world demonstrated the unequivocal power of conjuring for assembling collectives; on the other hand, many slaves who turned to conjuring to ease their suffering later dismissed the practice as nonsense in their autobiographies. My close-readings of these two texts are supported by a wide-range of historical and cultural materials, including the vast literature on conjuring, the Peruvian discourse on the saya y manto, and the discourse on fetishism. I conclude that acts of conjuring drive plot and explain a character’s actions or inactions under circumstances in which resistance to oppression involves obtaining or preserving freedom for presently or formerly enslaved people. In addition, this dissertation provides a method for reading conjuring in Benito Cereno and interprets a form of conjuring in Blake that readers have neglected.

La présente thèse a pour objectif de comprendre les motifs qui ont été à la base de l’apparition dans l'archéologie soviétique moldave de deux discours sur la place des peuples slaves dans l’histoire du territoire de Moldavie et du rôle qu’elles ont joué dans la genèse des Moldaves et de leur culture. Le premier discours réserve aux Slaves un rôle très important dans l’histoire médiévale de ce territoire ainsi que dans la genèse de l’ethnie moldave et de sa culture, tandis que le deuxième a tenté de minimaliser ce rôle en mettant l’accent sur l’importance d’une peuplade romanisée (néo-latine). Pour atteindre notre but, nous nous sommes inspirés de la sociologie de sciences. Nous avons donc interrogé les contextes sociopolitiques et culturels dans lesquels deux discours sont apparus, l’histoire du champ archéologique moldave, ses paradigmes, les profils personnels des archéologues, leur formation, leur attachement théorique et idéologique, leurs relations et leurs interactions à l’intérieur et à l’extérieur de ce champ. Les sources que nous avons employées sont les textes publiés (articles, monographies) et les documents d'archives. / This thesis’s main goal is to understand the reasons behind the emergence of two separate discourses in Soviet Moldavian archeology. These discourses explained the place of Slavic peoples in the history of the Moldavian territory, as well as the role they played in the master narrative of the genesis of Moldavian people and their culture. While the first discourse attributed the Slavic peoples a very important role in the medieval history of this territory, and the birth of the Moldavian ethnic group and its culture, the second discourse minimized this role and focused on the importance of Romanized peoples. The present analysis used as a frame the sociology of sciences. We have therefore questioned the socio political and cultural contexts that led to the emergence of the two discourses, the history of the Moldavian archeological field, its paradigms, the personal profiles of the archeologists, their professional training, their theoretical and ideological background, their relations and interactions inside and outside their field. The sources used for this thesis were published texts such as articles and monographs, as well as archival documents.

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The content of this thesis is the description the various component of the linear feed axis, which are used in heavy duty machine tools. This describes their features, advantages and disadvantages and on these basics, are selected different appropriate design variants. In the second part of this thesis has been drawn up constructional design of these variants. They were subsequently compared and then was chosen the most ideal one for the designed machine, which is heavy machine tool upper gantry type. The work also includes the 3D CAD model of the final version and drawing documentation.