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...Zach Sell Abstract Historians of the United States have often described slavery as guided by the chattel principle. Yet in Black Reconstruction , W. E. B. Du Bois wrote, “No matter how degraded the factory hand, he is not real estate.” This article builds upon Du Bois’s description of slavery’s...

... a week for several years in the shadow of a construction project run by one of the biggest real-estate companies in Morocco. My attendance put me in direct contact with people who have been experiencing displacement and confronting the corruption surrounding communal-land privatization in Morocco...

..., Shefveland tracks a June 1676 law that stated that “all Indians taken in war were slaves for life” ( 61 ). An October 1705 act converted all enslaved people, whether African or Indigenous, into real estate and forbade Africans and Indians from holding public office in Virginia (62). This law validated...

... Etienne de Boré, the administrator of the Destrehan estate. 1 Catharina had found “certain persons” who, in return for her services and good work, promised to pay her purchase price and that of her five-year-old daughter Felicité. As justification for her request, Catharina described being sick at work...

...: the plantation, which was the site of slavery's production.The plantation as both an idea and an object underwent an economic reconstitution and a revitalization in the decades after 1865. While the Civil War caused vast damage to real estate and industry, far worse for planters was abolition itself, which...

... decisions and pursue her own role in stabilizing the nuclear family: Victoria has obtained a job to go into selling Real-Estate. . . . Previously, she was a sickly hypochondriac, she was a retiring person, she was afraid of her responsibility as a mother and a wife. But now she was able to take care...

... the cities, having been set up as kinds of republics under the name communes, and the residents of the communes defined as kinds of aristocrats under the name Franks, gradually acquired great civil importance; and then, under the name of Third Estate, great political importance. In this situation, which I...

... the Haitian Revolution. These parts of the exhibit include informational panels and images from the era as well as a touch-screen monitor upon which patrons can select events from a digital timeline to learn more about, including “The Destruction of Roehampton Estate (1832)” and the Saint-Domingue “major...

... ( Alhindawi and Katz), even as crypto tycoons from the states have bought up prime real estate ( Morales ; Bonilla). Even with the highest vaccination rate in the United States, half a million people got COVID-19—one-sixth of the population. As the award-winning artist ADÁL had it, the people...

... ), their predicament elicited support from a number of prominent contemporaries, including George Washington and Benjamin Franklin ( Taparata 12–13 ). The Treaty of Paris (1783) protected loyalists by recommending to Congress the “restitution of all estates, rights, and properties which have been confiscated belonging...

... capitalism. 2 In the place of a mythical Oedipal scene, then, I begin with a history that juxtaposes two scenes of sexual violence, racialization, language, law, and geography. Scene One : On August 22, 1768, Sally, a fifteen-year-old Congo girl enslaved in Jamaica on an estate owned by Thomas...

... with a petition for state action, not an attempt to work through existing parties or the parliament. Despite its real limitations as an exercise of democracy, the RIC is premised on citizens’ direct assertion of political power, a means of bypassing the oligarchy created by elected representatives. Unlike...

... is said about revolutions in Central America;' he wrote."But the real and tragic revolution in these pastoral countries, for which nobody is to blame and which no amount of good will on either side can stop, is the industrial revolution which came to most of the rest of the Western world a century or so...

...: "The investment in labour, and therefore miscognition of the objective truth of labour as exploitation, which leads people to find an extrinsic profit in labour, irreducible to simple monetaryincome, is part of the real conditions of the performance of labour, and of exploitation: s Bourdieu stressed...

..., the HaitianrevoltsofAugust 1791reactivated Voodoo traditions, which operated as a regenerating energy that"enabled the slaves to break away psychologically from the very real and concrete chains of slavery and to see themselves as independent beings:'41 The reference to those traditions not only brings a particular energy...

... in the future, and exposure to legal proceedings. At stake in retiring them regularly was the solvency ofthe household and the cherished impression, real or imagined, that the home was sufficiently disconnected from the market. Browne took seriously the task ofmanaging these entanglements. She assiduously...