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Phylogeography of Sub-Saharan Mitochondrial Lineages Outside Africa Highlights the Roles of the Holocene Climate Changes and the Atlantic Slave Trade. [PDF]

open access: yesInt J Mol Sci, 2022
Sá L   +12 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Nacre‐inspired layered composite with excellent mechanical support and osteogenic potential for cervical interbody cage

open access: yesBMEMat, EarlyView.
The cervical interbody cage needs to take both biomechanical and biological requirements into account. Here, a new‐style degradable, multicomponent, and bioinspired nacre‐like cervical interbody cage composite, which exhibits promising mechanical‐support‐related behavior and osteogenesis‐related potential, is designed and prepared.
Xiu‐Wu Guo   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Horde of Foreign Freebooters: The U.S. and the Suppression of the Slave Trade

open access: yesDiacronie. Studi di Storia Contemporanea, 2013
Between 1808 and 1820, the U.S. Congress enacted increasingly punitive laws against slave trading. This paper argues that these acts were used to protect U.S.
Sarah Batterson is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of New Hampshire. Her research analyzes the role of the United States in the suppression of the Atlantic slave trade and the obstacles preventing the effective prohibition of the trade.
doaj  

Norway’s involvement in the transatlantic slave trade: a discourse analysis of media coverage and implications for education

open access: yesCogent Social Sciences
This study explored the Norwegian media’s coverage (2015-2022) of the discovery of the wreck of a slave ship in 1974 and how this coverage related to contemporary antiracist issues such as Black Lives Matter, the Rhodes Must Fall movement, and the murder
Paul Thomas, Jocelyne Von Hof
doaj   +1 more source

(Re)financing the Slave Trade with the Royal African Company in the Boom Markets of 1720 [PDF]

open access: yes
In 1720, subscription finance and its attendant financial policies were highly successful for the Royal African Company. The values of subscription shares are easily understandable using standard elements of derivative security pricing theory ...
Gary S. Shea
core  

The captives are translated, attached at the wrists' : a study of Antillean identities in the works of Édouard Glissant, Maryse Condé and Patrick Chamoiseau [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
This thesis presents a study of the various interpretations of Creole identities in the French Caribbean, with reference to the literary works of three esteemed French Creole authors, namely, Édouard Glissant, Maryse Condé and Patrick Chamoiseau.
Wawn, Amy
core   +1 more source

The Degradation of Access‐Based Business Models: Customer Misbehavior and Shared Mobility

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Access‐based services are considered one of the strategies to embed sustainability in business models. Yet, because the evolution of these business models has been overlooked, we do not know whether their promise to create triple value is sustained.
Andres Camacho, Carmen Valor
wiley   +1 more source

'Shrewd Sirens of Humanity': the changing shape of pro-slavery arguments in the Netherlands (1789-1814)

open access: yesAlmanack
: One of the puzzling questions about the formal Dutch abolition of the slave-trade in 1814 is why a state that was so committed to maintaining slavery in its Empire did not put up any open resistance to the enforced closing of the trade that fed it. The
Pepjin Brandon
doaj   +1 more source

Ancient viral genomes reveal introduction of human pathogenic viruses into Mexico during the transatlantic slave trade. [PDF]

open access: yesElife, 2021
Guzmán-Solís AA   +12 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Paths to Deregulating the Slave Trade in the Spanish Empire, 1748–1789

open access: yes
The War of Jenkins’ Ear (from 1739 to 1748), more accurately known in Spanish as the “Guerra del Asiento,” marked the end of the Spanish Crown’s authorization of the British monopoly of the South Sea Company to deliver captive Africans to the Spanish ...
Borucki, Alex   +1 more
core   +1 more source

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