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Powerful Subjects: The Duplicity of Slave Owners in Nineteenth-Century Cuba
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Traversing Two Cultures: A Portrait of William McIntosh, Southern Slave Owner and Lower Creek Chief
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“Mes dernières volontés”: Testaments to the Life of Marie Couvent, a Former Slave in New Orleans
Published 2013-05-01“…Through a close reading of Couvent’s testaments, this article will explore the life of a woman who was born in Africa, enslaved in Saint-Domingue, and died a free and wealthy slave owner in New Orleans. As catalogs of material accumulation, acts of autobiography, and maps of social networks these wills suggest the ways Couvent and other former slaves created identities as free people through property ownership and personal relationships.…”
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The Metaphors “Human-Animal”, “Animal-Human” in T. Morrison’s Novel “Beloved”
Published 2022-11-01“…The disenfranchised position of a human slave, his “animal” dependence on the slave owner forms the conceptual basis of most metaphorical transfers within this lexical and semantic field. …”
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La política llamada del “buen tratamiento”: reformismo criollo y reacción esclavista en Cuba (1789-1845)
Published 2009-11-01“…The slave-owners decided to better feed their slaves, to accommodate them better, to look after them better, all this in order to make them work better. …”
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Contra Horowitz: A Case for Reparations to Blacks for Slavery
Published 2022-01-01“…We demonstrate that their heirs are entitled to the property illegitimately obtained by the slave owners. When we operate under the libertarian homesteading principle, the land should be redistributed back to the people who worked and tilled it first. …”
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Magical Hero and Systemic Racism: An Investigation of Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained (2012)
Published 2022-06-01“…The story revolves around the life of a slave family, and Django is the central protagonist, a runaway slave, who had suffered at the hands of the slave owners. The methodology used for the investigation of the portrayal of Django is the textual analysis, given the qualitative nature of the research. …”
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Speaking for the slave: Britain and the Cape, 1751-1838
Published 1999-04-01“…Anti-slavery campaigners were rarely in favour of the slave's being consulted: they preferred to condemn their political rivals, the slave-owners. Abolition found many of them searching for arguments to maintain the inequalities of society, and especially to prevent former serfs from securing a hearing.…”
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Moral dilemmas in slave-owning societies: evidence from early legal texts
Published 2021“…They also, in many cases, hint at moral discomfort, suggesting that the act of lawmaking forced slave-owners to face up to the fact that they were treating other people as property. …”
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Magical Hero and Systemic Racism: An Investigation of Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained (2012)
Published 2022-06-01“…The story revolves around the life of a slave family, and Django is the central protagonist, a runaway slave, who had suffered at the hands of the slave owners. The methodology used for the investigation of the portrayal of Django is the textual analysis, given the qualitative nature of the research. …”
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Un concurso de síntomas o la enfermedad como categoría plástica: la esclavitud negra en Santiago de Chile, 1740-1823
Published 2020-04-01“…Conclusions: I argue that disease has a double plasticity, or two ways in which this particularity is revealed: one is the result of its elusive character, and the other is the product of how it was used in a particular judicial context by enslaved people, slave owners, and participants in related litigation. …”
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Geo-political vampirism: how and why has Western literary scholarship appropriated and then re-mythologised the socio-historical origins of the vampire?
Published 2024-02-01“…The article reviews Anatol’s (2022) challenge to the dominant position of Dracula in vampire criticism, Anatol identifying a literary tradition pre-dating Stoker, that tradition seeing the documenting of Caribbean vampire folklore by British colonialists/slave owners, travel writers and journalists. In sympathy with Anatol’s non-Eurocentric consideration, the article re-examines/disputes Western academia’s ‘mythology’ concerning the Villa Diodati (1816), when Lord Byron’s reading from the German Fantasmagoriana apparently inspired Polidori and Mary Shelley to write their novels. …”
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Thorny Evolution Path of the US Society: Slavery and the Abolitionist Movement
Published 2020-04-01“…Thanks to it, the slave owners were resisted, the proper laws were adopted and slavery was eventually abolished. …”
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Slavery, banks and the ambivalent legacies of Compensation in South Africa, Mauritius and the Caribbean
Published 2021“…The grant of £20 million to slave-owners in compensation was intended to aid this process by enabling planters to clear their debts and retool their plantations to meet the new conditions of free labour. …”
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Blackness in America and the Presumption of Innocence: How the American Police and Mass Media Poisoned Everything
Published 2020-10-01“…The abolition of slavery some 150 years ago is still fairly recent compared to the 400 years it was practiced: thus some of the heinous treatments by slave owners were carried over into the criminal justice system, causing the police, jury, judges, etc., to treat Black people unequally and unfairly compared to their White counterparts. …”
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Sociological Analysis of Social Interactions from the perspective of Game Theory
Published 2023-08-01“…As an example, Aristotle studied the optimal solutions for effective management of slave owners’ real estate, which aimed to reduce the tension between slave owners and slaves and increase productivity, [26]. …”
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Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (Helsinki Commission): Briefing on Truth, Reconciliation, and Healing Toward a Unified Future Thursday, July 18, 2019
Published 2021-09-01“…1865 and officially ended because of the Civil War and the 13th Amendment to the U.S. constitution. However, former slave owners, state and local governments, and corporations created new ways to maintain the system of racial hierarchy. …”
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