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A Brief History of Piracy in the Caribbean: 1500-1730
(Vanderbilt University, 2007-05)
Piracy in the Caribbean can be segmented into five distinct overlapping eras, which this paper will examine:
the French Corsairs, 1500-1559
the Elizabethans, 1558-1603
the Dutch Sea Rovers, 1570-1648
the Buccaneers ...
Forgotten at the Fair: Quilts at Chicago's World's Columbia Exposition
(Vanderbilt University, 2007)
At the first World's Fair with it's own women's pavillion, chaired by a woman, designed by a woman, and decorated by a woman at a time when sewing was the predominate activitiy for women, why were no quilts in the Women's ...
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)