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Rape victims and victimisers in Herbstein's Ama, a Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade

open access: yesTydskrif vir Letterkunde, 2017
This paper examines how Manu Herbstein employs his fictionalised neo-slave narrative entitled Ama, a Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade to address the issue of sexual violence against women and to foreground the trans-Atlantic rape identities of victims ...
Oluyomi Oduwobi
doaj   +1 more source

Slavery, Institutional Development and Long-Run Growth in Africa [PDF]

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Slave trade; Institutions; Africa ...
Nathan Nunn
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Fascicle measurement methods do result in lengths that are significantly different

open access: yesThe Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
A recent comparison of the most prevalent methods for measuring fascicles, in situ measurement versus chemical digestion, concluded that the measurements are indistinguishable based on data from different conspecific individuals. However, our study of contralateral muscles of the same individuals shows that the methods clearly result in statistically ...
Katherine M. Clark   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

South Carolina Slave Prices, 1722-1809 [PDF]

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Based on data from several samples of probate inventories we construct and analyze a time series of slave prices for South Carolina from 1722 to 1809. These estimates reveal that prices fluctuated without trend prior to the 1760s and then began to rise ...
Peter C. Mancall   +2 more
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Body donor programs in Australia and New Zealand: Current status and future opportunities

open access: yesAnatomical Sciences Education, Volume 18, Issue 3, Page 301-328, March 2025.
Abstract Body donation is critical to anatomy study in Australia and New Zealand. Annually, more than 10,000 students, anatomists, researchers, and clinicians access tissue donated by local consented donors through university‐based body donation programs. However, little research has been published about their operations.
Rebekah A. Jenkin, Kevin A. Keay
wiley   +1 more source

Slavery, Institutional Development, and Long-Run Growth in Africa, 1400--2000 [PDF]

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Can Africa's current state of under-development be partially attributed to the large trade in slaves that occurred during the Atlantic, Saharan, Red Sea and Indian Ocean slave trades?
Nathan Nunn
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Histories in bone: Navigating the ethical landscape of human skeletal collections in South Africa

open access: yesAnatomical Sciences Education, EarlyView.
Abstract Provenance is at the center of addressing the complicated ethical stewardship of legacy human skeletal collections. Many South African (SA) health science institutions have skeletal collections. While the history of the collections and the demographics of the skeletons have been reported, the provenance of the individuals within the ...
Quenth Chinenere   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Root Causes of African Underdevelopment [PDF]

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What is the root cause of Africa’s current state of under-development? Is it the long history of slave trade, or the legacy of extractive colonial institutions, or the fallout of malaria? A precise answer still eludes us.
Sambit Bhattacharyya
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Insuring the Transatlantic Slave Trade [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Copyright © 2019 The Economic History Association. One important, but overlooked, risk mitigation device that facilitated the growth of the slave trade in the eighteenth century was the increasing availability of insurance for ships and their human ...
Richardson, David, Pearson, Robin
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