Category: Slavery

  • The Afro-Mexican presence in Guadalajara at the dawn of independence Purdue University December 2010 85 pages Publication Number: AAT 1490649 ISBN: 9781124557854 Beau D. J. Gaitors A Thesis Submitted to the Faculty of Purdue University by Beau D. J. Gaitors In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts Scholars often…

  • Black or White? The New York Times 2011-05-14 Daniel J. Sharfstein, Professor of Law Vanderbilt University Daniel J. Sharfstein is the author of “The Invisible Line: Three American Families and the Secret Journey from Black to White.” In February 1861, just weeks after Louisiana seceded from the Union, Randall Lee Gibson enlisted as a private…

  • From the Curse of Ham to the Curse of Nature The British Journal for the History of Science Volume 40, Issue 3 (2007) pages 367-388 DOI: 10.1017/S0007087407009788 Robert Kenny, ARC Research Fellow The Australian Centre, School of Historical Studies La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia This paper examines the debate engendered in ethnological and anthropological circles…

  • The Creolizing Subject: Race, Reason, and the Politics of Purity Fordham University Press May 2011 256 pages Paperback ISBN: 9780823234509; Hardback ISBN: 9780823234493 Michael J. Monahan, Associate Professor of Philosophy Marquette University How does our understanding of the reality (or lack thereof ) of race as a category of being affect our understanding of racism…

  • ‘The offspring of infidelity’: Polygenesis and the defense of slavery Emory University 2008 506 pages Publication Number: AAT 3332327 ISBN: 9780549849544 Christopher Luse, Instructional Assistant Professor of History University of Mississippi This dissertation examines an internal debate within the antebellum South over the nature of slavery and race. Focusing on the printed materials of the…

  • Negro History, Part X: Miscegenation in America Ebony Magazine October 1962 pages 94-104 (Digitized by Google) Lerone Bennett, Jr., Executive Editor The material in this chapter on miscegenation during the slavery period is based largely on James Hugo Johnston’s doctorial dissertation at the University of Chicago, Race Relations in Virginia and Miscegenation in the South,…

  • A Transnational Temperance Discourse? William Wells Brown, Creole Civilization, and Temperate Manners The Journal of Transnational American Studies Volume 3, Issue 1 (2011) Article 16 27 pages Carole Lynn Stewart, Assistant Professor of English University of Maryland, Baltimore County In the nineteenth century, temperance movements provided the occasion for a transnational discourse. These conversations possessed…

  • The Mule as Metaphor in the Fiction of Charles Waddell Chesnutt Theory and Practice in English Studies Volume 4 (2005): Proceedings from the Eighth Conference of British, American and Canadian Studies. Brno: Masarykova univerzita Christopher E. Koy, Faculty of Arts University of West Bohemia, Plzen The term “mulatto,” meaning the offspring of one black parent…

  • The Modern Mulatto: A Comparative Analysis of the Social and Legal Positions of Mulattoes in the Antebellum South and the Intersex in Contemporary America Columbia Journal of Gender and Law Volume 15, Number 3 (September 2006) Marie-Amélie George, Associate Lawyer Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP Recognizing new social forces working against the “correction”…

  • The Octoroon: A Play, In Four Acts First Performed at the Winter Garden Theatre New York, New York December, 1859 Dion Boucicault, ESQ (1820-1890) Text from James A. Cannavino Library, Marist University, Poughkeepsie, New York Characters Original Cast GEORGE PEYTON (Mrs. Peyton’s Nephew, educated in Europe, and just returned home) Mr. A. H. Davenport.        JACOB…