Thesis (M.A.)--University of Notre Dame, 2003. / Thesis directed by Antonette Irving for the Department of English. "September 2003." Includes bibliographical references (leaves 36-37).

Texte remanié de: Diss.--Philosophische Fakultät I--Berlin--Humboldt-Universität, 1997. / Bibliogr. p. 291-317.

Texte remanié de: Thesis Ph. D.--Deakin University, Australia, 2000. Titre de soutenance : Identity and marginality amongst Slavic Baptists in Victoria. / Bibliogr. p. 309-317.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of North Texas, May, 2008. / Title from title page display. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 2005. / Abstract available online via OhioLINK's ETD Center; full text release delayed at author's request until 2009 Dec. 30.

Thesis (M.A.)--Humboldt State University, 2005. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 73-77). Also available via the Internet from the Humboldt eScholar web site.

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In the second and first centuries BCE a series of three large-scale slave revolts erupted in Sicily and central Italy, each of which ravaged wide swathes of territory and were suppressed only after serious loss of life. These slave rebellions, which were unprecedented in Roman experience to that point, provoked horrified reactions from most ancient authors. Modern scholars have generally treated the late-Republican uprisings as isolated events, the unexpected consequence of military expansion. A focus on the label "slave," however, instead of on the social and economic roles of the specific rebels, has compartmentalized studies of the slave wars, allowing discussion only within the confines of Roman slavery studies. Since the rebel armies in each war were composed principally of agricultural laborers, a profitable comparison can be drawn from peasant uprisings and other manifestations of collective violence that occurred in throughout the Roman world. This study offers a new context for analyzing the slave wars, which re-integrates them into the broader sweep of Roman history and understands them as one manifestation of a broader pattern of social and cultural transformation.

Entre o fim do século XVIII e ao longo da primeira metade do XIX a África Centro-oriental contribuiu, de forma significativa, com mão-de-obra escrava para o desenvolvimento do capitalismo mundial. A maior parte dos africanos daí procedentes, vindos com destino ao Brasil, concentrou-se nas áreas cafeeiras da região sudeste, onde no final do século XVIII desenvolveu-se o núcleo cafeicultor inicial da capitania e, posteriormente, província de São Paulo. Durante as três primeiras décadas do século XIX, com a introdução maciça de escravos e o deslanche da produção cafeeira, a região do Vale do Paraíba paulista se transformou em uma típica zona de plantation cuja importância econômica se estendeu até o final da escravidão. O objeto central deste trabalho são os africanos oriundos da costa Centro-oriental. Por meio de um estudo demográfico procuramos rastrear estes indivíduos nas fazendas cafeeiras de Bananal buscando examinar como se deu a inserção destes africanos nas senzalas da região. Utilizamos diferentes fontes documentais do período, tais como: inventários post-mortem de proprietários da região, registros eclesiásticos de casamentos escravos e relatos de viajantes. / Between the late eighteenth century and throughout the first half of the nineteenth century East-Central Africa contributed significantly to supply slave labor to the development of world capitalism. Most Africans coming from there to Brazil was leaded to the coffee areas in the southeast, where, in the late eighteenth century, developed the initial core of coffee production of the captaincy, and the province, of São Paulo. During the first three decades of the nineteenth century, with the massive introduction of slaves and the growth of coffee production, the Paraíba Valley turned into a typical plantation zone, whose economic importance persisted until the end of slavery. The central object of this work are Africans slaves from the central-eastern coast. Through a demographic study we tried to trace theses individuals in the coffee farms of Bananal, we try to examine how was the inclusion of Africans in the slave plantations of the region. We use different documentary sources of the period, such as postmortem inventories of slave owners of the region, church records of marriages and travelers accounts.

This dissertation tells the story of the abolition of chattel slavery in Colombia, currently the country with the third largest population of African descent in the Western Hemisphere (after the United States and Brazil). In Colombia, as in the vast majority of Latin American nations and the northern United States, the abolition of slavery occurred through a gradual emancipation law. Enacted in 1821 in the aftermath of the Wars of Independence against Spanish colonial rule, this law banned the international slave trade, established local civic councils to manumit “deserving” slaves, and included a Free Womb law that declared the children of slave mothers to be born free, yet bonded them to their mothers’ masters until the age of adulthood. My project unravels the struggles over freedom and bondage during this protracted process of gradual emancipation in the households, courtrooms, streets, and gold mines of the Pacific Coast of Colombia, the region with the highest concentration of slaves and the gold mining center of the former Spanish Empire. "To The Mine I Will Not Go" fundamentally rethinks the nineteenth century project of emancipation by arguing that the freedom generated through the gradual abolition of slavery constituted a modern form of rule that paradoxically birthed new forms of racial domination while consolidating de facto slavery.