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The Effects of "Cloth Politics" in the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade: Cause, Cash, Commodity and Comfort
(Vanderbilt University, 2009-04)
Singing for Strength: Enslaved Africans and Community Building in the Transatlantic Slave Trade
(Vanderbilt University, 2009-04)
Throughout the Transatlantic slave trade enslaved Africans sang. In holding pens called barracoons awaiting shipment, aboard slave ships crossing the Atlantic, and in the transatlantic colonies, singing was a common feature ...
Lure: shoes
(Vanderbilt University, 2009-08-27)
Sneaking a peek into the construction zone
(Vanderbilt University, 2009-08-27)
Vandopoly board
(Vanderbilt University, 2009-08-27)
Inside Vandy
(Vanderbilt University, 2009-08-27)
Harriett Powers and her Eternal Cloth Bible
(Vanderbilt University, 2009-10-15)
Art and images serve as cultural memories for many diaspora groups, from early Judaic to African American communities. Religion is one of the strongest cultural beliefs subject to creolization when art attempts to preserve ...
The Importation, Adaptation, and Creolization of Slave Leisure Forms in the Americas: 1600 to 1865
(Vanderbilt University, 2009)
Leisure, the escape from the tedium of everyday existence, is found in all cultures including those in which slavery exists. At first glance the terms "slavery" and "leisure" may seem to be contradictory, mutually exclusive ...
Sllt - Seven Musings on a Great Book
(Vanderbilt University, 2009-12-17)