Browsing Faculty of Graduate Studies Online Theses by Subject "Atlantic History"
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The Collins Farm: Grassland Management, Shepherding, and Textile Production in Nova Scotia, 1767-1829
(2023-07-27)Louisa Collins, the daughter of a farmer living in rural Nova Scotia at the turn of the 19th-century, kept a diary during the summer, fall and winter of 1815 to 1816, which gives a window into the world of pre-industrial, ... -
Power & Profit: Slave Traders in Parliament & The Life of Humphrey Morice, 1690-1730
(2018-12-21)This thesis explores the rise in prominence of the merchant class in England within the commercial, political, and financial spheres using London slave-trader and MP, Humphry Morice (c. 1671-1731), as a case study. It ... -
"To Be Sold:" The Commodification of Black Bodies and the Dehumanization of Enslaved Africans in Jamaican Slave Sale Advertisements, 1780-1800
(2018-08-28)The dehumanization and commodification of enslaved Africans was predicated on eighteenth century constructions of Africans as categorically different and naturally inferior. By the closing decades of the eighteenth century, ...