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Orientador: Hélio Rebello Cardoso Junior / Banca: Lúcia Helena Oliveira Silva / Banca: Karina Anhezini de Araujo / Banca: Fabio Franzini / Banca: Igor Guedes Ramos / Resumo: Com a implantação dos cursos de pós-graduação no Brasil, a partir dos anos 1970, a historiografia brasileira passou por algumas transformações que implicaram mudanças tanto de ordem institucional quanto teórico-metodológica. Nas últimas décadas, vários estudiosos veem se dedicando a compreender os reais contornos das mudanças historiográficas ocorridas a partir deste período. Esta tese faz parte desse conjunto de trabalhos e teve como objetivo principal refletir como tais transformações historiográficas se deram dentro do campo específico da história da escravidão no Brasil. Para isso, o estudo dividiu-se em duas partes complementares. A primeira buscou identificar e analisar os principais enunciados até então emitidos sobre a historiografia da escravidão durante os anos 1980, momento em que os cursos de pós-graduação apresentavam sinais de amadurecimento e as mudanças historiográficas mostravam-se mais nítidas. Três enunciados principais foram identificados. O primeiro, encabeçado por Jacob Gorender, afirmava ser a renovação historiográfica dos anos 1980 um movimento de retorno às teses de Gilberto Freyre. O segundo enunciado, por sua vez, emitido sobretudo por Ciro Flamarion Cardoso, entendia que a produção do período sinalizava a autenticação e o aprofundamento de sua tese que compreendia a existência de um modo de produção escravista colonial regendo a sociedade escravista. Por fim, identificou-se um terceiro enunciado... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo) / Abstract: With the implementation of postgraduate courses in Brazil, emerged from 1970, Brazilian historiography underwent some transformations that implied the change in both institutional and theoretical-methodological form. In the last decades, several scholars have been devoting themselves to a knowledge of the historiographic changes that have occurred since this period. This research is part of this research group and its purpose is to analyze the historiography of slavery. On this, the study is divided into two complementary parts. The first part sought to identify and analyze the statements issued about the history of slavery during the 1980s. Three statements were identified. The first, issued by Jacob Gorender, says that the historiographical renewal of the 1980s is a movement that takes up again the Gilberto Freyre arguments. The second statement, in turn, issued mainly by Ciro Flamarion Cardoso, understood that the production of the period signaled the authentication and deepening of his thesis that included the existence of a colonial slave production mode governing slave society. Finally, a third statement was identified, emitted by S. Chalhoub, Silvia H. Lara and Maria H. Machado, who understood as an essential characteristic of the historiography of the 1980s the affirmation of the enslaved as historical agent. The second part, in turn, sought to analyze the set of works that were disregarded in the process of formulating the statements identified in the first part of the thesis. This source group, composed of articles, theses and dissertations, was given the name of eclipsed historiography which presented expressive numerical superiority when compared to non-eclipsed historiography. The second part of the thesis then devoted itself to understanding the main directives of eclipsed historiography... (Complete abstract click electronic access below) / Doutor

This proposed qualitative study examined the donor behavior of six Black American alumni from a predominantly white institution (PWI) associated with slavery. The site selected for this study was assigned the pseudonym Anonymous University, which enrolls approximately 46,000 students with 9% of total enrolled students identifying as Black or African American. Using critical race theory (CRT) as a theoretical framework and portraiture as a research design, the purpose of this study was to explore how Black American alumni perceive their undergraduate or graduate student experiences, examine what experiences helped form their racial identity during college at a PWI associated with slavery, and how those experiences influence their alumni giving. The findings indicate that while racial identity development had no influence on the donor behavior of Black American alumni from a PWI associated with slavery, student experiences were highly influential in this alumni population participating in alumni giving. This study offers recommendations to higher education administrators, student affairs and development offices to enhance Black student experiences and strategies to increase participation of Black American alumni giving. / Includes bibliography. / Dissertation (Ph.D.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2021. / FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection

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This dissertation brings together the history of slavery and environmental history to explore the legacy of slavery on Texas’ Trinity River from the 1820s to the 1970s. Many southern rivers, including the Trinity, experienced few sustained efforts to transform or control them until well into the twentieth century, and these environments were just as likely to diffuse rather than consolidate any particular group’s power over people. Unlike elites in the older regions of the slave South, no one assumed that they controlled the environment in places such as Texas’s Trinity River. Drawing on nearly fifty different archives, my dissertation explains the surprising ways in which slavery, urbanization, and environmentalism were connected. Environmental racism changed the Trinity into a more flood prone and polluted place, but it also meant that its mostly black residents were rarely mentioned in official engineering reports or newspaper articles. This invisibility served as a temporary advantage during the racist violence of the post-emancipation decades and people squatted on land for which they did not hold titles. However, because so many people were not included in official records such as census reports, I have relied on qualitative sources to analyze this history. Freedpeople incurred plantation slavery’s environmental debts of erosion and disease, but they also seized the opportunity to avoid crop-liens and other forms of usury by living in an overlooked landscape. Upstream cities on the Trinity gave little consideration to the effects of using the river as a sewer, and they ignored the black families who called the river home. In the early twentieth century, a novel class of elites on the lower half of the river began to issue bonds to build levees that pushed out many longtime residents. As prisons replaced plantations and subsistence-oriented farmers could no longer endure the worsened floods, pollution, and enclosure of its common lands, the lower Trinity lost most of its remaining residents. Yet as debates raged along the entire river about remaking it into a canal and the proper use of state and federal resources, the memory of an unruly river contributed to the political outcomes despite slavery’s legacy of inequality.

As one of antebellum Tidewater's most prominent planters, Hill Carter and the world he and his slaves made at Shirley occupy an important place in Virginia history. Few scholars, however, have analyzed their roles adequately. Previous studies' overwhelming concentration on the architectural and material culture history of the plantation has left Carter's role as one of Virginia's preeminent agricultural reformers virtually unexplored. Assuming ownership of Shirley in 1816, Carter quickly established himself as a leading proponent of agricultural improvement, both embracing and building on the ideas of other reformers like John Taylor and Edmund Ruffin. He diversified his crops and changed their rotations, used new equipment and improved methods of cultivation, reclaimed poor or unproductive lands, and employed a variety of fertilizers and manures to resuscitate his soils. Significantly, Carter efforts to improve Shirley transformed not only the physical landscape of the plantation. The changes produced in the work and lives of his slaves also were considerable. This study, then, investigates the relationship between agricultural reform and slavery. Instead of looking at reform in terms of how slavery affected (or inhibited) it, this work argues that reform must also be understood in relation to how it affected slavery, for changes manifested in attempts to improve lands had important ramifications on slave work routines, which, in turn, affected slave life in important ways. / Master of Arts

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Assumption is the story of a slave named Nathan living in a racially hostile environment in antebellum and post-Civil War Louisiana. Assumption Parish was the kind of place where slaves were whipped frequently, where disease and rustic living were the normal course of life, where the swamp, with all its savage foreboding, loomed nearby. It was a place, Nathan discovered, that traded in men's spirits, breaking them little by little for purposes that were difficult for him to comprehend. Like many slaves of his time, Nathan is raised without biological parents. His surrogate mother, Abbie, longs for the day when slavery ended. But she is too conservative in nature, too aware of her powerlessness, to do anything to force change. Nathan's surrogate fathers, on the other hand, are only too willing to rebel against the plantation system. Nefs, in fact, covertly plots revolt. He hopes Nathan will join him in this crusade. But even after being brutally whipped for a petty, accidental infraction of the plantation's unspoken code of conduct, Nathan does not fight back but instead opts to run from the plantation. This illusion of leaving the harshest of the Old South's conditions was fomented by Nathan's other surrogate father, Pinder Beauregard, who dreamed Nathan would become a New Orleans musician as Pinder once had been. Eventually, the plantation's slaves revolted and Nathan escaped, though not before witnessing Pinder death in battle. Nathan wanders the swamp where he discovers freedom is not what he'd expected. Every institution, from the military to religion to marriage, is closed off to him. Nathan falls into a deep fever, like the kind that killed his parents. He is returned to the plantation where he grew up, recovering to find the plantation has changed little since he's been away. The biggest shock is the fate of Nefs, who has been rendered into a catatonic, bootlicking, house servant. Nathan sees in Nefs his future self, a strange alien puppet with barely a mind of his own. He decides his musical life can wait until he can begin a campaign to topple the post-Civil War society.

The political history of antebellum Florida has long been overlooked in southern historiography. Florida was a state for just sixteen years before secession set it apart from the rest of the Union, but Florida’s road to secession was as unique as any of its southern counterparts. From the territorial days in the early nineteenth century, Florida’s political culture centered on the development and protection of slavery throughout the state. The bank wars in the pre-statehood and early statehood periods reflected differing views on how best to support the spread of the plantation economy, and the sectional strife of the 1850s instigated Floridians to find the best way to protect it. By the end of the antebellum period amidst increasing sectional strife and a sense that secession and disunion were acceptable courses of action, Florida’s population pulled together under the banner of protecting slavery – and by extension, their way of life – by whatever means necessary. Northern infringement into slavery affected not just the planters, but every free man who called Florida his home.