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Published: 01 September 2024
Figure 1 Stowage of the British Slave Ship Brookes under the Regulated Slave Trade Act of 1788. Credit: Plymouth Chapter of the Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade. Library of Congress.
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differences (2020) 31 (3): 156–168.
Published: 01 December 2020
...Anthony Bogues Arguing that racial slavery was a foundation of the modern world and of capitalism, this essay details the historical ways in which the organization of debt and credit networks were integral to the Atlantic slave trade. The author contends that the enslaved body of the African...
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differences (2007) 18 (2): 72–102.
Published: 01 September 2007
... . Durham, nc: Duke up, 1997 . Berlin, Ira. Slaves without Masters: The Free Negro in the Antebellum South . New York: New Press, 1974 . Bethel, Elizabeth Rauh. The Roots of African American Identity: Memory and History in Free Antebellum Communities . New York: St. Martin's, 1997 . The Black...
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Published: 01 September 2024
Figure 2 Diagram of the Decks of a Slave Ship, 1814. Credit: Slavery Images: A Visual Record of the African Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Early African Diaspora.
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differences (2021) 32 (2): 69–93.
Published: 01 September 2021
...Sara-Maria Sorentino Recent texts in the historiography of slavery have focused on slave-owning women in an attempt to overturn the paradigm of the benevolent mistress. While “benevolence” has silenced and exceptionalized mistresses’ violence, newer interpretations draw from slave testimony...
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differences (2018) 29 (2): 21–67.
Published: 01 September 2018
...Ann duCille Marriage , like family , has been a contested term in African American historical, sociological, and cultural studies. This essay surveys and interrogates the dominant literature on black intimacy, coupling, and family life in the slave community from the publication of E. Franklin...
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differences (2021) 32 (3): 85–113.
Published: 01 December 2021
.... From the slave ship, the plantation, the reservation, the prison, the detention center, the penal colony, and the concentration camp to the ways in which injurious signifiers fix the body and arrest its mobility, ontological difference should be unthinkable outside a confrontation with its material...
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differences (2009) 20 (2-3): 194–223.
Published: 01 December 2009
... conjoins modes of cultural subjection to an absolute devaluation of life itself. This reading of the film foregrounds the arena of the mass commodification of material bodies, resituating the foundations of capitalism within the slave trade, in contexts ranging from the sale of human organs to prostitution...
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differences (2018) 29 (2): 1–5.
Published: 01 September 2018
...Ann duCille The introduction to this special issue of difference s uses the examples of Antoney and Isabella, the first Africans to marry in the new world, and Dred and Harriet Scott, slaves whose legal marriage is at the heart of arguably the most infamous Supreme Court decision of all time...
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differences (2008) 19 (1): 32–70.
Published: 01 May 2008
... and tools of historically specific injustices such as the Inquisition, the Holocaust, and especially the transatlantic slave trade. Rather than condemning this kind of role playing--especially as it takes place between black and white men--Julien offers sadomasochism as an embodied way to feel historical...
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differences (2024) 35 (2): 109–131.
Published: 01 September 2024
...Figure 1 Stowage of the British Slave Ship Brookes under the Regulated Slave Trade Act of 1788. Credit: Plymouth Chapter of the Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade. Library of Congress. ...
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differences (2019) 30 (2): 1–29.
Published: 01 September 2019
... as insidious tools of epistemic violence. In naming three archetypes that reincarnate “ruth”— the rebellious slave, the lady of society, and the raped whore—this article interrogates the white, patriarchal, imperialist imaginary behind the massacre. Redactive reading is a strategy for reading femininity...
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differences (1996) 8 (1): 31–56.
Published: 01 April 1996
... of the White, Coloured, and Negro Population of the West Indies . 2 vols. 1833 . New York : Negro UP , 1969 . Cooper Thomas . Facts Illustrative of the Condition of the Negro Slaves in Jamaica . London : J. Hatchard & Son , 1824 . Davies Charles T. and Gates Henry Louis Jr...
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differences (1989) 1 (3): 108–136.
Published: 01 November 1989
... . Douglass Frederick . Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave. Written by Himself . Ed. Baker Houston A. Jr. New York : Viking , 1982 . Du Bois W. E. B. The Souls of Black Folk: Essays and Sketches . Chicago : McClurg , 1903 . Derrida Jacques...
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differences (2023) 34 (2): 27–57.
Published: 01 September 2023
... Studies 2023 abolition afropessimism carceral studies historiography slave narrative slavery Abolition is the interminable radicalization of every radical movement, but a radicalization through the perverse affirmation of deracination, an uprooting of the natal, the nation, and the notion...
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differences (2008) 19 (2): 54–81.
Published: 01 September 2008
.... Avengers of the New World: The Story of the Haitian Revolution . Cambridge: Harvard up, 2004 . ———. A Colony of Citizens: Revolution and Slave Emancipation in the French Caribbean, 1787–1804 . Chapel Hill: u of North Carolina p, 2004 . Elmer, Jonathan. “Torture and Hyperbole.” Law, Culture...
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differences (1991) 3 (1): 144–158.
Published: 01 April 1991
... suppression of political relations between masters and slaves through their rearticulation in psychotherapeutic terms as the relations between victims and victimizers. Incontestably in the Confessions, Augustine condemns a sensuous love of the world for the world's own sake. Incontestably too, he condemns...
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differences (1996) 8 (2): 101–126.
Published: 01 July 1996
... ): 181 – 92 . Cary Lorene . The Price of a Child . New York : Vintage , 1995 . “ Childhood Trauma: Memory or Invention .” New York Times 21 July 1992 : C17 . “ The Cincinnati Slaves—Another Thrilling Scene in the Tragedy .” The Liberator 21 Mar. 1856 : 47 . Coffin...
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differences (2006) 17 (3): 107–125.
Published: 01 December 2006
... Work: Sites in Literary and Cultural Studies . Ed. Marjorie Garber, Paul B. Franklin, and Rebecca L. Walkowitz. New York: Routledge, 1996 . Mistler, Jean, François Blaudez, and André Jacquemain. Epinal et l'imagerie populaire . Paris: Hachette, 1961 . Peabody, Sue. There Are No Slaves...
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differences (2007) 18 (3): 128–151.
Published: 01 December 2007
... . New York: New York up, 1979 . Bartkowski, John. The Promise Keepers: Servants, Soldiers, and Godly Men . New Brunswick, nj: Rutgers up, 2004 . Batstone, David. “Cry Freedom: The Modern Slave Trade and Those Who Fight It.” Sojourners (Mar. 2007 ): 12 . ———. Not for Sale: The Return...
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