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Published: 18 May 2005
DOI: 10.1215/9780822386476-005
EISBN: 978-0-8223-8647-6
Published: 18 May 2005
DOI: 10.1215/9780822386476-006
EISBN: 978-0-8223-8647-6
Series: a John Hope Franklin Center Book
Published: 21 June 2006
DOI: 10.1215/9780822387701-002
EISBN: 978-0-8223-8770-1
Book Chapter

By Sora Y. Han
Series: Black Outdoors: Innovations in the Poetics of Study
Published: 22 February 2024
EISBN: 978-1-4780-9414-2
... Betty consent nonperformance law of slavery promise ...
Series: Black Outdoors: Innovations in the Poetics of Study
Published: 22 February 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478025719-003
EISBN: 978-1-4780-9414-2
... future of the fugitive of slavery and freedom. Betty consent nonperformance law of slavery promise ...
Published: 21 May 2021
DOI: 10.1215/9781478021452-001
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2145-2
... Beginning with a discussion of the 1662 Virginia law concerning the heritability of enslavement, this introduction, “Refusing Demography,” considers the connections among slavery, race, gender, and commodification in the early modern Atlantic world. Despite the ways in which women are frequently...
Published: 17 March 2017
DOI: 10.1215/9780822372721-015
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7272-1
... John Hope Franklin (1915–2009), the distinguished historian, major contributor to the Brown v. Board of Education case, and author of the groundbreaking work From Slavery to Freedom , had taught history and law at Duke as the James B. Duke Professor of History. These remarks were delivered...
Published: 29 April 2016
DOI: 10.1215/9780822374558-002
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7455-8
... for survival. The chapter shows that slaves had expectations about the end of captivity in this period. The political debates about the end of slavery, the passage of emancipatory laws, and the growth and radicalization of the abolitionist movement had repercussions in the attitudes and choices of when slaves...
Series: Narrating Native Histories
Published: 08 April 2015
DOI: 10.1215/9780822375692-004
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7569-2
... The formation of a colonial bureaucracy and legal apparatus in Castile was key to dealing with indigenous slavery in the 1540s. An analysis of two inspections carried out by two jurists on the Council of the Indies, Gregorio López in 1543 and Hernán López in 1549, considers the perspectives...
Published: 23 February 2015
DOI: 10.1215/9780822375890-010
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7589-0
... This chapter examines the sequencing and depth of reforms intended to abolish flogging, capital punishment, and slavery in relation to different categories of the intractable poor in Brazil and abroad. It delves deeper into the national and international context to highlight how these three...
Series: Narrating Native Histories
Published: 08 April 2015
DOI: 10.1215/9780822375692-001
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7569-2
... This chapter explains the rationales for indigenous slavery in the sixteenth century and why it continued despite laws to the contrary. It also reflects on what it meant to be an indio, including the construct’s precariousness and its associations with the unfree labor of slaves from other parts...
Published: 23 February 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478059257-007
EISBN: 978-1-4780-5925-7
... Chapter 4 supplies an in-depth analysis of abolition as a process of erasure after the Manumission Law of 1929. During the Pahlavi era (1925–79), erasure guided abolition to the extent that entire palace wings were demolished, dictionary definitions of slavery were carefully rewritten...
Published: 24 June 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478059561-015
EISBN: 978-1-4780-5956-1
... The disturbing case of the 1997 torture and rape of Haitian immigrant Abner Louima by NYPD officers is taken up as a focal point in this chapter. It examines the interplay between police brutality, Black religions, and the enduring legacy of slavery in everyday police practices. The chapter...
Series: Visual Arts of Africa and its Diasporas
Published: 01 March 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478059165-002
EISBN: 978-1-4780-5916-5
... of this portrait for women's representation in an age of revolution. portraiture poetry slavery ekphrasis Revolutionary War This essay considers the life and work of Moses Williams (1777 – ca. 1825) within the historical context of the early republic, and by discussing the profile-making process...
Published: 25 June 2007
DOI: 10.1215/9780822389811-005
EISBN: 978-0-8223-8981-1
...Law, Citizenship, and the State ...
Published: 11 November 2015
DOI: 10.1215/9780822375050-003
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7505-0
... in the context of British amelioration, which in 1823 sought to improve colonial slavery by extending material concessions to slaves while requiring their Christian devotion. This chapter investigates why slaves regarded their free time to market, which legislators saw as an unofficial courtesy extended by slave...
Published: 24 June 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478059479-006
EISBN: 978-1-4780-5947-9
... This chapter examines art property in its digital manifestation. It interrogates Harvard's refusal to repatriate objects acquired through chattel slavery and looks at the differing approaches artists Carrie Mae Weems and Sasha Huber have taken in transfiguring daguerreotypes of enslaved persons...
Published: 17 March 2017
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7339-1
... there, patiently awaiting its vindication in contemporary thought. unpolitical impersonal third person law philosophy of immanence This chapter opens by addressing a blind spot in Hardt and Negri’s concept of the multitude and in Marx’s view of history and class struggle: the knot between war...
Published: 01 January 2025
DOI: 10.1215/9781478060314-004
EISBN: 978-1-4780-6031-4
... law. This chapter juxtaposes these two histories to demonstrate how an urban ideal of citizenship was built from constructing an immaterial oceanic space, a phenomenon that structured ideas of citizenship and noncitizenship that would come to be embodied in the Dutch naval monument. naval...
Book Chapter

By Beeta Baghoolizadeh
Published: 23 February 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478059257-006
EISBN: 978-1-4780-5925-7
... of abolition as a process of erasure after the Manumission Law of 1929. During the Pahlavi era (1925–79), erasure guided abolition to the extent that entire palace wings were demolished, dictionary definitions of slavery were carefully rewritten, and ancient Iranian history was reframed entirely. Iranians...