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Description:: This dissertation traces the intellectual and social history of slavery in the Lower Congo over the Longue Durée. It examines how Bantu-speaking groups of the Lower Congo inherited, constructed, reconstructed, and passed on to younger generations a vocabulary that framed their shifting slaving practices from their arrival in the region...
Keyword:: Atlantic World, Slavery, and African History
Subject:: African history
Creator:: Abreu Lelitão de Almeida, Marcos
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/01/2021
Date Created:: 2020-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_760202 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15214

Description:: This dissertation provides a socio-spatial account of black anarchism that emerges from a central concern with the practice of slaves’ jumps from the slave ship. It demonstrates how a substantive theoretical attention to these jumps generates possibilities for thinking about black radical politics differently. Through death, mobility, destruction, and escape,...
Keyword:: Black political thought, Black politics, Anarchism, Slavery, and Carceral
Subject:: African-American Studies
Creator:: Sam C Tenorio
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 04/15/2019
Date Modified:: 04/15/2019
Date Created:: 2018-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Description:: This dissertation examines the gradual construction and contested meanings of U.S. slavery’s first western border. According to most historiography, Congress’s Northwest Ordinance of 1787 fixed the meaning of this border at the nation’s inception, constituting the Northwest Territory as the free opposite of slave territories south and west of the...
Keyword:: Northwest Ordinance, Slavery, Illinois, Law and Society, Emancipation,, and Missouri
Subject:: History
Creator:: Jesse Nasta
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 10/09/2018
Date Modified:: 01/29/2019
Date Created:: 2017-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation

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