Browsing by Subject "Slavery"
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The Horrors of Capital: Violence and Commodities in Edgar Allan Poe's Short Stories
(2023-08-28)This paper analyzes four of Edgar Allan Poe's short stories, "Berenice," "The Tell Tale Heart," "The Black Cat" and "The Imp of the Perverse," in which a first-person narrator commits acts of violence against others. The ... -
THE MARK OF CANE: A MICROECONOMIC CASE STUDY OF PROFITABILITY, ACCOUNTING AND PLANTATION MANAGEMENT ON THREE BARBADIAN SUGAR PLANTATIONS, 1763-1815
(2014-08-22)This microeconomic case study of sugarcane plantation management, accounting and profitability examines three Barbadian plantations, Newton, Seawell and Mount Alleyne from 1763 to 1815, with an econometric methodology. ... -
Medicine & Power: Authority and British Caribbean Medical Practitioners, 1750-1823
(2019-05-01)In the late eighteenth-century on British Caribbean Plantations, there were dynamic groups of medical practitioners operating within the same physical space. The plantation healthcare system was made up of white doctors ... -
Protestantism in the Origins of Seventeenth-Century Barbadian Servitude and Slavery
(2017-09-08)Seventeenth-century Barbados drew on centuries of Christian tradition to help develop its reliance on plantation slavery and servitude. The majority of its indentured servants were “cordially loathed” Irish Roman Catholics, ... -
“REFORM IS BECOME OUR ENEMY:” ANGLO-JAMAICAN PLANTERS AND BRITISH IDENTITIES, 1765-1786
(2014-12-16)This is a case study of the imperial identity an elite resident planter in late-eighteenth century Jamaica named Simon Taylor from 1765 to 1786. By analyzing sections of Simon Taylor’s correspondence with his business ... -
SAMUEL RINGGOLD WARD’S EXAMINATION DAY: THE EDUCATION OF A BLACK ABOLITIONIST
(2021-04-09)This thesis examines the life of Samuel Ringgold Ward, one of the greatest orators and spokesmen for abolition in the nineteenth century. This work specifically examines how Ward’s early life and education at the New York ... -
"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, ... -
The Virginia Height Increase: The Effects of Climate, Diet, and Labour on the Health of Enslaved Men in the Cold South, 1815-1835
(2022-08-24)From 1815 to 1835, the height average of enslaved Virginian men increased while the average of European and North American men decreased. This thesis argues that climate should be considered a major influence on the skeletal ...