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Volume and Direction of the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1650s-1870s: Appendix 5. Captives recorded and voyages with captives recorded.

open access: yes
This dataset summarizes raw data on captives and voyages from TASTDB 2010 and compares these data with MCMC estimates for captive embarkations and arrivals. One of five appendices to the source article. Table 5A summarizes raw data on captives embarked,
Manning, Patrick
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Distant Voices Then and Now: The Impact of Isolation on the Courtroom Narratives of Slave Ship Captives and Asylum Seekers [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Part I compares the nineteenth century cases of the Antelope and the Amistad to identify why they resulted in different outcomes despite having similar fact patterns.
Patel, Tara, Tara Patel
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Developmental differences in cortical bone structure in chimpanzee and human femora reflect early locomotor independence in humans

open access: yesThe Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
Abstract The cortical bone structure of long bone diaphyses changes throughout growth via skeletal modeling and has important implications for bone strength and structural integrity. Ontogenetic trends in diaphyseal structure have been identified in both chimpanzees and humans but it is not yet clear how these trends compare given notable differences ...
Karen R. Swan   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Captives of Florida [PDF]

open access: yes, 2021
In September 1565, Pedro Menéndez de Avilés of Spain sought out and attacked the Huguenot French in their Florida settlement. When his victory was won, a number of men, women, and children had become captives of the Spanish, while at least two Spaniards
Lyon, Eugene
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Three‐dimensional digital analysis of musteloid masticatory muscle architecture

open access: yesThe Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
Musteloids span an enormous breadth of dietary modes within a single superfamily. In this study, we utilize digital dissection techniques to reconstruct the internal 3D anatomy of muscles within the musteloid feeding apparatus, and explore how dietary specializations might alter the size, orientation, and curvature of fascicles therein.
Cassidy E. Davis   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Evolutionary morphology of the haplorhine hamate

open access: yesThe Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
Abstract Primates adopt a variety of hand postures during an impressive diversity of locomotor and manipulative behaviors. Morphological research has found that elements of the hand skeleton, such as the hamate, hold key information for inferring hand use and locomotor kinematics in extinct species.
Laura E. Hunter   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Review Essay, Gillian Weiss, Captives and Corsairs: France and Slavery in the Early Moderm Mediterranean

open access: yes, 2013
Review of Gillian Weiss, Captives and Corsairs: France and Slavery in the Early Moderm ...
Dobie, Madeleine
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The “costly son” hypothesis: Sons exacerbate obstetrical dilemmas in humans and other mammals

open access: yesThe Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
Abstract Human childbirth has often been considered uniquely difficult among mammals, yet recent evidence suggests that obstructed labor and fetopelvic disproportion are widespread across placental mammals. Here, we propose the “costly son” hypothesis: because male offspring are typically larger at birth, they impose greater obstetric risk on mothers ...
Nicole D. S. Grunstra   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

« Les chiens dévorent nos cadavres. » Quand des esclaves musulmans voulaient enterrer leurs morts dans l’Europe méditerranéenne du xviiie siècle

open access: yesL’Année du Maghreb
This article explores the case North Africans and, more broadly, Ottomans that Christian corsairs enslaved in the Mediterranean during the 18th century.
M’hamed Oualdi
doaj   +1 more source

Minorías prósperas en la economía corsaria literaria

open access: yesRassegna Iberistica, 2018
Spanish literature written by captives or about captivity in North Africa distinguished itself from the majority of Spanish Golden Age works because of its positive portrayal of Jews.
Gordon, Michael
doaj   +1 more source

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