Browsing by Subject "Slavery"
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(2021-07-09)Department: HistoryDuring the past three decades or so both national and international scholars have placed a great deal of attention on the history and lived experiences of peoples of African descent in Mexico. Researchers initially showed ...
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(2015-03-24)Department: HistoryThis dissertation examines the role that children of color played in Brazil’s transition from slavery into the post-emancipation era. I explore the themes of law, family, gender, race, and labor using tutelage legal documents ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2010-04-16)
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(2014-07-26)Department: HistoryThis dissertation explores the contest for the Lower Mississippi Valley from 1765 to 1800. During this era, Spain held Louisiana. Conflict over the Lower Mississippi Valley has been characterized as a competition among ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2006)We utilize a previously untapped data source, Gwendolyn Hall (1999), to examine the market for slaves in Louisiana, both in New Orleans and outside of New Orleans. We are able to study the process of price determination ...
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(2012-08-10)Department: EnglishThis thesis maps the conflation of Cuban authors Juan Francisco Manzano and Placido in John Greenleaf Whittier's The Stranger in Lowell. Through an inadvertent synthesis of the lived experiences of the two poets, the ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2008-04-07)
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(Vanderbilt University, 2007-10-30)
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(Vanderbilt University, 2007-09-11)
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(2016-08-01)Department: EnglishDrawing on writings from the US, Cuba, Trinidad, Venezuela, Nicaragua, and Liberia, my dissertation examines how ideas and experiences of racial categorization changed as Black individuals voluntarily crossed national ...
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(Vanderbilt University Special Collections, 2012-03-21)
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(Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities, 2008-04-03)
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(2022-05-17)Department: Spanish & PortugueseThis dissertation is the most comprehensive survey of slavery in Afro-Latin American literary narrative to date. Of the approximately 12.5 million Africans trafficked in the Trans-Atlantic slave trade, an estimated 7 million ...