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Slavery in Rhode Island: Awakening a Forgotten Past (poster) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
This map serves to raise awareness about the history of slavery in Rhode Island. Despite having played an active role in the Trans-Atlantic slave trade, Rhode Island’s involvement is often overlooked or omitted from what we are traditionally taught in ...
Adeboye, Abudu   +4 more
core   +1 more source

Building Community Amidst the Institutional Whiteness of Graduate Study: Black Joy and Maroon Moves in an Academic Marronage

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article reflects on the construction of a supportive community of Black Afro‐diasporic graduate students and their supervisors researching issues relating to race in the field of education in Australia. It draws on the concept of marronage—a term rooted in the fugitive act of becoming a maroon, where enslaved people enacted an escape in ...
Hellen Magoi   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Evolution of the Racial Gap in Education and the Legacy of Slavery [PDF]

open access: yes
We study the evolution of racial educational inequality across US states from 1940 to 2000. We show that throughout this period, despite evidence of convergence, the racial gap in attainment between blacks and whites has been persistently determined by ...
Arcangelo Dimico, Graziella Bertocchi
core   +6 more sources

Vulnerability and Dependence in Slavery and Post-Slavery Societies: A Historicisation of the Enslaved Children (Pon Pekpen) from the Bamum Kingdom (West Cameroon)

open access: yesGenealogy
This article is a reflection on the history of enslaved children (Pon pekpen) in African slavery and post-slavery societies, such as the Bamum Kingdom.
Mbohou Sylvain
doaj   +1 more source

Géographies du travail esclave rural contemporain

open access: yesBrésil(s), 2017
This article examines slavery in the Brazilian countryside by mapping available data on the liberation of slaves and denunciations of slave cases. It analyzes the distribution of rural slavery in Brazil, identifies situations related to slavery, and ...
Hervé Théry   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Maquiladora Slavery [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
This article is part of the collection of writings of Marshall (Mike) Westfall, retired autoworker from General Motors in Flint, Michigan (1964-1994) and activist critic of the auto industry restructuring that led to devastating job losses. It originally
Westfall, Marshall (Mike)
core   +1 more source

On the Prospects for African Philosophy in Australia

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper grapples with the situation of people of African descent in Australia by working through the constitution of the body of academic philosophy in the country. It contends with the parochialism of the Australian philosophical community and the prospects for the cultivation of greater pluralism. Taking African philosophy as one possible
Bryan Mukandi
wiley   +1 more source

Global Perspectives on Modern Slavery: A Reflective Narrative on John Wesley’s Thoughts Upon Slavery and Social Justice [PDF]

open access: yesE-Journal of Religious and Theological Studies
This paper delves into the worldwide views on modern slavery, with a particular focus on the reflective narrative presented in John Wesley’s thoughts on slavery and social justice.
Mwansa Claude Kimpinde
doaj   +1 more source

Slavery and the Family

open access: yes, 2020
From the earliest historical studies on Atlantic slavery to the present day, historians have been interested in the development of family ties among enslaved people. They have debated, denied, questioned, and celebrated the ability of enslaved people to forge meaningful family relationships and kinship networks in the face of the traumas and violence ...
openaire   +1 more source

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