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Escaping Slavery by Sea in Antebellum America: A Labor History
This article explores a relatively neglected topic in the histories of slavery and abolitionism in the antebellum United States: how enslaved people escaped by sea and more specifically how the waterfront was a zone of struggle over slavery from roughly ...
Marcus Rediker
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Sister Ruth’s Stories, or, Evenings with John Woolman (1865) and Juvenile Literature of Domestic Abolitionism [PDF]
Juvenile literature of “domestic abolitionism” seems to be one of the most interesting, yet under-researched branches of American abolitionist literature.
Daria V. Abdurakhmanova-Pavlova
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Why do prison studies not explain notorious phenomena such as institutional violence in the most secure places in the world, the very different criminalization of sexes and social classes, the declared and unfulfilled intentions of states of respect of ...
António Pedro Dores
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The contemporary social moment in the United States has affirmed the critical importance of racial justice, and especially claims to justice informed by the contributions of structural and institutional forces connected with the nation’s original sin of ...
Joseph Prud'homme
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This article tells about the life and ideological and political views of one of the most influential representatives of the abolitionist movement and African-American socio-political thought of the XIX century.
Shumakov A.A.
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Analytic metaphysics of gender has taken an ameliorative turn towards ethical and political questions regarding what our concept of gender ought to be, and how gendered society should be structured.
Matthew J Cull
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John Woolman’s image in the English non-fi ction in the 1850–1940s: Hagiographical motives [PDF]
John Woolman, an 18th century Quaker preacher, is known in the history of American literature for his spiritual autobiography titled The Journal (1774).
Abdurakhmanova-Pavlova , Daria V.
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QUESTIONS OF EARLY BIOGRAPHY OF NAT TURNER
This article tells about the life of the famous leader of the Southampton uprising of 1831, Nat Turner. In the course of the research, the author analyzes the main milestones of his early biography, dwelling in detail on the problems of origin, education,
Shumakov A.A.
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Child labor is a controversial aspect in modern societies, yet not entirely visible. In this article we reveal two competing positions in this debate, reviewing 1) the notion of child labor and its implication in the development of abolitionist policy, 2)
Natalia Sepúlveda Kattan
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Assemblage Point: Uncle Tom’s Cabin and the American Racial / Cultural Identity Model [PDF]
Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel Uncle Tom's Cabin, or Life Among the Lowly (1852) being the most powerful statement on the racial issue in the 19th century American literature, succeeded to incorporate and rethink everything that the national tradition had
Olga Yu. Panova
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