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2018
The moral, economic and political value of slavery has been hotly disputed by philosophers from ancient times. It was defended as an institution by Plato and Aristotle, but became increasingly subject to attack in the modern period, until its general abolition in the Western world in the nineteenth century.
Stephen L. Esquith, Nicholas D. Smith
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The moral, economic and political value of slavery has been hotly disputed by philosophers from ancient times. It was defended as an institution by Plato and Aristotle, but became increasingly subject to attack in the modern period, until its general abolition in the Western world in the nineteenth century.
Stephen L. Esquith, Nicholas D. Smith
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2019
This chapter insists that films are the most visible monuments to slavery in the United States and that memories of slavery crucially shape African American identity formation. Miniseries like Roots and The Book of Negroes also demonstrate the possibilities of capturing the complexity of slavery from the perspective of enslaved Africans rather than ...
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This chapter insists that films are the most visible monuments to slavery in the United States and that memories of slavery crucially shape African American identity formation. Miniseries like Roots and The Book of Negroes also demonstrate the possibilities of capturing the complexity of slavery from the perspective of enslaved Africans rather than ...
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Slavery Represented or Slavery Illustrated?
Oxford Art Journal, 2008Baghdad's treasures is a veritable blindspot for the 'global community'. Dutta and Mathur are currently researching the problem of contemporary artistic practice in relation to the postcolonial museum and the liberalised art sphere in India. Their criticism is directed against the McGuggen heim effect (mega museums' blockbuster design shows) and the ...
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1997
Abstract Of all American institutions, Negro slavery has probably been the one most frequently compared with historical antecedents and foreign counterparts, and with the least benefit to systematic knowledge. Quite understandably, modern scholars have been so impressed by the long submission and degradation of southern Negroes, as well ...
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Abstract Of all American institutions, Negro slavery has probably been the one most frequently compared with historical antecedents and foreign counterparts, and with the least benefit to systematic knowledge. Quite understandably, modern scholars have been so impressed by the long submission and degradation of southern Negroes, as well ...
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2001
Abstract Every southern state had a slave code, or, as it was referred to in the 1857 digest of the Laws of the State of Mississippi, “An Act in Relation to Slaves, Free Negroes and Mulattoes.” Most of the ninety-three articles in the Mississippi act were concerned with defining the property rights of slaveholders and designating ...
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Abstract Every southern state had a slave code, or, as it was referred to in the 1857 digest of the Laws of the State of Mississippi, “An Act in Relation to Slaves, Free Negroes and Mulattoes.” Most of the ninety-three articles in the Mississippi act were concerned with defining the property rights of slaveholders and designating ...
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