The Rhetoric of Inferiority of African Slaves in John Fawcett’s Obi; or, Three-Fingered Jack (1800) Re-evaluated in Charlie Haffner’s Amistad Kata-Kata (1987) [PDF]
Coolabah, 2014 John Fawcett’s Obi; or, Three-Finger’d Jack (1800) draws a distorted picture of the life of slaves in Jamaica. This paper investigates the ambivalence in this distortion as Fawcett creates two kinds of slaves by pitting them against each other: the loyal
Ulrich Pallua
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Memory and nostalgia: pre-reform Russia in the minds of the Russian nobility of the second half of the 19th century [PDF]
University of Bucharest Review. Literary and Cultural Studies Series, 2021 This article is devoted to the study of the perception of the pre-reform era by the upper class in the second half of the 19th century, after several years thereof, then decades after the abolition of serfdom. Initial assessments of the peasant reform
Natalia Seliverstova
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Historicizing black associativism: contributions and paths of historiography
Revista Mundos do Trabalho, 2019 This article sought to make a brief balance of research on black associativism in the post-abolition period, pointing out the various advances of research with special emphasis on the work of historian Beatriz Loner.
Lúcia Helena Oliveira Silva +1 more
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Coffee, cash, and consumption: rethinking commodity production in the global south [PDF]
, 2018 This essay reflects on the study of coffee production in Angola, following research in business and missionary archives in the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. After observing that African coffee farmers were consumers of foreign goods as much as they
Vos, Jelmer
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Brazil: Modernity and Mobility [PDF]
, 2015 This essay examines the field of Brazilian mobility studies, concentrating mainly on recent (2010-2013) scholarship by Portuguese-speaking Brazilian academics published in English-language journals. The mass demonstrations and violent protests that have
Cooper, Martin
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Albert Pierrepoint and the cultural persona of the twentieth-century hangman [PDF]
, 2016 Albert Pierrepoint was Britain’s most famous 20th-century hangman. This article utilises diverse sources in order to chart his public representation, or cultural persona, as hangman from his rise to prominence in the mid-1940s to his portrayal in the ...
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Revista Mundos do Trabalho, 2019 Through the trajectory of Tácito Pires and some of his writings, this research seeks to connect issues of the labor history with the post-abolition studies.
Melina Kleinert Perussatto
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"Open the Gates Mek We Repatriate": Caribbean slavery, constructivism, and hermeneutic tensions [PDF]
, 2014 This is a post-peer-review, pre-copy edit version of an article published in International Theory. The definitive publisher-authenticated version: Shilliam, Robbie.
Shilliam, R
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Stockreiter Elke E. — Islamic Law, Gender and Social Change in Post-Abolition Zanzibar [PDF]
Cahiers d’études africaines, 2021 Le depouillement systematique des archives des tribunaux de cadi a joue un role decisif dans le renouveau de la recherche sur l’histoire sociale de l’islam moderne qui s’est engage depuis les annees 1970. L’exploration des sijill-s ottomans, tout comme l’analyse de la riche documentation produite par l’activite des cadis dans les differents contextes ...
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The black workers in 3x4: photography, work history and post-abolition. Pelotas-RS, 1933-1944
Revista Mundos do Trabalho, 2019 The purpose of this article is to analyze a set of information and the 3x4 photographs of Black workers who applied for the professional portfolio in the city of Pelotas/RS, between 1933 and 1944.
Aristeu Elisandro Machado Lopes
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