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Robert Monroe Harrison, British Abolition, Southern Anglophobia and Texas Annexation.
Rugemer, EdwardB.
Academic Journal Academic Journal | Slavery Aug2007, Vol. 28 Issue 2, p169-191, 23p Please log in to see more details
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Robert Monroe Harrison, British Abolition, Southern Anglophobia and Texas Annexation.
Slavery Aug2007, Vol. 28 Issue 2, p169-191, 23p
This article contributes to the larger project of situating the United States' struggle over slavery within the Atlantic World. Based on the public and private writings of Southern political leaders and the diplomatic correspondence of Robert Monroe Harrison, consul to Kingston, Jamaica, from 1831 until 1855, the article argues that Southern Anglophobia was a dominant factor in the movement to annex Texas to the United States. Britain's abolition of colonial slavery in her West Indian colonies was a seminal event for the American South. This was especially true for Harrison, a 'native born Virginian', who had a fearful personal experience with the abolition of slavery in Jamaica. Harrison came to believe that British abolitionism would be turned against American slavery and he shared his views with the State Department. He even feared that the British would use the West Indies as a staging ground for an attack on America with an emancipated black army that would sow insurrection in the South. Moreover, when several American ships involved in the coastal slave trade wrecked in the Bahamas, British colonial authorities freed the slaves, validating Harrison's central accusation. In 1842, on the slave ship Creole, a group of young men to be sold in New Orleans rebelled, seized control of the ship and made their way to the Bahamas. They had heard through the grapevine of the freedom to be gained there. The white South was outraged. From their perspective, Britain had not only expropriated American property, but now had also instigated violent rebellion. Southern political leaders within the Tyler Administration, especially the Secretaries of State Abel Upshur and then John Calhoun, were deeply concerned with British intentions. They believed that the Republic of Texas was the next target of British abolitionism, and in order to defend civilisation as they knew it, they launched the movement to annex Texas to the United States to protect and expand American slavery. They succeeded in 1845. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Cascades of Violence : War, Crime and Peacebuilding Across South Asia
John Braithwaite;Ms Bina D'Costa;John Braithwaite;Ms Bina D'Costa
War and crime are cascade phenomena. War cascades across space and time to more war; c... more
Cascades of Violence : War, Crime and Peacebuilding Across South Asia
2018
War and crime are cascade phenomena. War cascades across space and time to more war; crime to more crime; crime cascades to war; and war to crime. As a result, war and crime become complex phenomena. That does not mean we cannot understand how to prevent crime and war simultaneously. This book shows, for example, how a cascade analysis leads to an understanding of how refugee camps are nodes of both targeted attack and targeted recruitment into violence. Hence, humanitarian prevention also must target such nodes of risk. This book shows how nonviolence and nondomination can also be made to cascade, shunting cascades of violence into reverse. Complexity theory implies a conclusion that the pursuit of strategies for preventing crime and war is less important than understanding meta strategies. These are meta strategies for how to sequence and escalate many redundant prevention strategies. These themes were explored across seven South Asian societies during eight years of fieldwork.

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Peace-building--South Asia - Peace-building--Pakistan - Peace-building--India - Peace-building--Bangladesh - Peace-building--Sri Lanka

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Dictionary of World Biography
Barry Jones;Barry Jones
Jones, Barry Owen (1932–). Australian politician, writer and lawyer, born in Geelong. ... more
Dictionary of World Biography
2018
Jones, Barry Owen (1932–). Australian politician, writer and lawyer, born in Geelong. Educated at Melbourne High School and Melbourne University, he was a public servant, high school teacher, television and radio performer, university lecturer and lawyer before serving as a Labor MP in the Victorian Parliament 1972–77 and the Australian House of Representatives 1977–98. He took a leading role in reviving the Australian film industry and abolishing the death penalty in Australia, and was the first politician to raise public awareness of global warming, the'post‑industrial'society, the IT revolution, biotechnology, the rise of ‘the Third Age'and the need to preserve Antarctica as a wilderness. In the •Hawke Government, he was Minister for Science 1983–90, Prices and Consumer Affairs 1987, Small Business 1987–90 and Customs 1988–90. He became a member of the Executive Board of UNESCO, Paris 1991–95 and National President of the Australian Labor Party 1992–2000, 2005–06. He was Deputy Chairman of the Constitutional Convention 1998. His books include Decades of Decision 1860– (1965), Joseph II (1968) and Age of Apocalypse (1975), and he edited The Penalty Is Death (1968, revised and expanded 2022). Sleepers, Wake! Technology and the Future of Work was published by Oxford University Press in 1982, became a bestseller and has been translated into Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Swedish and braille. The fourth edition was published in 1995. Knowledge Courage Leadership: Insights & Reflections, a collection of speeches and essays, appeared in 2016.He received a DSc in 1988 for his services to science and a DLitt in 1993 for his work on information theory. Elected FTSE (1992), FAHA (1993), FAA (1996) and FASSA (2003), he is the only person to have become a Fellow of four of Australia's five learned Academies. Awarded an AO in 1993, named as one of Australia's 100 ‘living national treasures'in 1997, he was elected a Visiting Fellow Commoner of Trinity College, Cambridge in 1999. His autobiography, A Thinking Reed, was published in 2006 and The Shock of Recognition, about music and literature, in 2016. In 2014 he received an AC for services ‘as a leading intellectual in Australian public life'. What Is to Be Done was published by Scribe in 2020.

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Jones, Barry Owen (1932–). Australian politician, writer and lawyer, born in Geelong. ... more
Dictionary of World Biography
2020
Jones, Barry Owen (1932–). Australian politician, writer and lawyer, born in Geelong. Educated at Melbourne High School and Melbourne University, he was a public servant, high school teacher, television and radio performer, university lecturer and lawyer before serving as a Labor MP in the Victorian Parliament 1972–77 and the Australian House of Representatives 1977–98. He took a leading role in reviving the Australian film industry and abolishing the death penalty in Australia, and was the first politician to raise public awareness of global warming, the'post‑industrial'society, the IT revolution, biotechnology, the rise of ‘the Third Age'and the need to preserve Antarctica as a wilderness. In the •Hawke Government, he was Minister for Science 1983–90, Prices and Consumer Affairs 1987, Small Business 1987–90 and Customs 1988–90. He became a member of the Executive Board of UNESCO, Paris 1991–95 and National President of the Australian Labor Party 1992–2000, 2005–06. He was Deputy Chairman of the Constitutional Convention 1998. His books include Decades of Decision 1860– (1965), Joseph II (1968) and Age of Apocalypse (1975), and he edited The Penalty Is Death (1968, revised and expanded 2022). Sleepers, Wake! Technology and the Future of Work was published by Oxford University Press in 1982, became a bestseller and has been translated into Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Swedish and braille. The fourth edition was published in 1995. Knowledge Courage Leadership: Insights & Reflections, a collection of speeches and essays, appeared in 2016.He received a DSc in 1988 for his services to science and a DLitt in 1993 for his work on information theory. Elected FTSE (1992), FAHA (1993), FAA (1996) and FASSA (2003), he is the only person to have become a Fellow of four of Australia's five learned Academies. Awarded an AO in 1993, named as one of Australia's 100 ‘living national treasures'in 1997, he was elected a Visiting Fellow Commoner of Trinity College, Cambridge in 1999. His autobiography, A Thinking Reed, was published in 2006 and The Shock of Recognition, about music and literature, in 2016. In 2014 he received an AC for services ‘as a leading intellectual in Australian public life'. What Is to Be Done was published by Scribe in 2020.

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The Routledge History of Fashion and Dress, 1800 to the Present
Veronique Pouillard;Vincent Dubé-Senécal;Veronique Pouillard;Vincent Dubé-S...
The time span covered by The Routledge History of Fashion and Dress starts in the nine... more
The Routledge History of Fashion and Dress, 1800 to the Present
2024
The time span covered by The Routledge History of Fashion and Dress starts in the nineteenth century, with the aftermath of the consumers'revolution, and reaches all the way to the present. The fashion and garment industries have been international from the beginning and, as such, this volume looks at the history of fashion and dress through the lenses of both international and global history. Because fashion is also a multifaceted subject with humanagency at its core, at the confluence of thematerial (fabrics, clothing, dyes, tools, and machines) and the immaterial (savoir-faire, identities, images, and brands), this volume adopts a transdisciplinary perspective, opening its pages to researchers from a variety of complementary fields. The chapters in this volume are organized based on their relationship to five fields of study: economics and commerce, politics, business, identities, and historical sources. Paying particular attention to change, the book goes beyond the great fashion capitals and well-known fashion centers and points to the broader geographies of fashion. Particular geographical areas focus on the emergence of new fashion systems and business models, whether they be in Sweden, Bangladesh, or Spain, or on the African continent, considered to be the “new frontier” of the industry. Covering myriad aspects of the subject this is the perfect companion for all those interested in history of dress and fashion in the modern world.

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Fashion--History - Clothing and dress--History

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The Oxford Handbook of Islam and Politics
John L. Esposito;Emad El-Din Shahin;John L. Esposito;Emad El-Din Shahin
Over the past three decades, scholars, government analysts and terrorism experts have ... more
The Oxford Handbook of Islam and Politics
2016
Over the past three decades, scholars, government analysts and terrorism experts have examined the relationship between Islam and politics. But specialists have tended to limit their analysis to a specific country or focus. Few works have provided a geographically comprehensive, in-depth analysis. Since 9/11, another wave of literature on political Islam and global terrorism has appeared, much of it superficial and sensationalist. This situation underscores the need for a comprehensive, analytical, and in-depth examination of Islam and politics in the post-9/11 era and in an increasingly globalizing world. The Oxford Handbook of Islam and Politics, with contributions from prominent scholars and specialists, provides a comprehensive analysis of what we know and where we are in the study of political Islam. It enables scholars, students, and policymakers to understand the interaction of Islam and politics and the multiple and diverse roles of Islamic movements, as well as issues of authoritarianism and democratization, religious extremism and terrorism regionally and globally.

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Islam and politics

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Barry Jones;Barry Jones
Jones, Barry Owen (1932–). Australian politician, writer and lawyer, born in Geelong. ... more
Dictionary of World Biography
2021
Jones, Barry Owen (1932–). Australian politician, writer and lawyer, born in Geelong. Educated at Melbourne University, he was a public servant, high school teacher, television and radio performer, university lecturer and lawyer before serving as a Labor MP in the Victorian Parliament 1972–77 and the Australian House of Representatives 1977–98. He took a leading role in reviving the Australian film industry, abolishing the death penalty in Australia, and was the first politician to raise public awareness of global warming, the'post-industrial'society, the IT revolution, biotechnology, the rise of ‘the Third Age'and the need to preserve Antarctica as a wilderness. In the Hawke Government, he was Minister for Science 1983–90, Prices and Consumer Affairs 1987, Small Business 1987–90 and Customs 1988–90. He became a member of the Executive Board of UNESCO, Paris 1991–95 and National President of the Australian Labor Party 1992–2000, 2005–06. He was Deputy Chairman of the Constitutional Convention 1998. His books include Decades of Decision 1860– (1965), Joseph II (1968), Age of Apocalypse (1975), and he edited The Penalty is Death (1968). Sleepers, Wake!: Technology and the Future of Work was published by Oxford University Press in 1982, became a bestseller and has been translated into Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Swedish and braille. The fourth edition was published in 1995. Knowledge Courage Leadership, a collection of speeches and essays, appeared in 2016.He received a DSc for his services to science in 1988 and a DLitt in 1993 for his work on information theory. Elected FTSE (1992), FAHA (1993), FAA (1996) and FASSA (2003), he is the only person to have become a Fellow of four of Australia's five learned Academies. Awarded an AO in 1993, named as one of Australia's 100 ‘living national treasures'in 1997, he was elected a Visiting Fellow Commoner of Trinity College, Cambridge in 1999. His autobiography, A Thinking Reed, was published in 2006 and The Shock of Recognition, about music and literature, in 2016. In 2014 he received an AC for services ‘as a leading intellectual in Australian public life'. What Is to Be Done was published by Scribe in 2020.

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Play Among Books : A Symposium on Architecture and Information Spelt in Atom-Letters
Miro Roman;Alice _ch3n81;Ludger Hovestadt;Vera Bühlmann;Miro Roman;Alice _c...
eBook eBook | 2022; Vol. 00017 Please log in to see more details
Wie verändert Codierung unser Denken über Architektur? Eine Frage, die in der Forschun... more
Play Among Books : A Symposium on Architecture and Information Spelt in Atom-Letters
2022; Vol. 00017
Wie verändert Codierung unser Denken über Architektur? Eine Frage, die in der Forschung eine wichtige Perspektive eröffnet. Miro Roman und seine KI Alice_ch3n81 entfalten in diesem Buch ein wahrhaft spielerisches Szenario, in dem sie Codierung als neue Alphabetisierung für Informationen vorschlagen. Erkenntnis vermittelt es in Form eines Projektmodells, das die Bereiche Architektur und Information durch zwei verflochtene Erzählstränge in einem „unendlichen Fluss'realer Bücher miteinander verknüpft. Mit dem Fokus auf der Schnittmenge von Informationstechnologie und architektonischer Formulierung entsteht so eine immer weiterführende intellektuelle Reflexion zu digitaler Architektur und Computerwissenschaft.

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Computer-aided design - Architecture--Data processing - Computer architecture

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Understanding Global Cultures: Metaphorical Journeys Through 29 Nations, Clusters of Nations, Continents, and Diversity.
Gannon, Martin;Pillai, Rajnandini
Book Book | Understanding Global Cultures: Metaphorical Journeys Through 29 Nations, Clusters of Nations, Continents 2010, p1-582, 582p Please log in to see more details

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SLAVERY: ANNUAL BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SUPPLEMENT (2007).
Thurston, Thomas
Academic Journal Academic Journal | Slavery Dec2008, Vol. 29 Issue 4, p543-713, 171p Please log in to see more details
The sources cited within this issue are presented, including "Writing into a Void: Rep... more
SLAVERY: ANNUAL BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SUPPLEMENT (2007).
Slavery Dec2008, Vol. 29 Issue 4, p543-713, 171p
The sources cited within this issue are presented, including "Writing into a Void: Representing Slavery and Freedom in the Narrative of Colonial Spanish America," by Herman L. Bennett, "A Peculiar Version of a Peculiar Institution in the Spanish-Indian Borderlands," Juliana Barr, and "Where is Africa? Negotiating Creole/Black Diasporic Identities in Contemporary Nicaragua," by Juliet Hooker.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY - CRIMES against humanity

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Book reviews.
Appleby, John C.;Carter, Marina;Frost, Alan;Williams, Glyndwr;Havemann, Pau...
Review Review | Journal of Imperial & Commonwealth History. Jun2006, Vol. 34 Issue 2, p263-317. 55p. Please log in to see more details

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Moby Word Lists.
Ward, Grady
Thumbnail | Moby Word Lists; 3/1/2006, p1, 999p Please log in to see more details
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Moby Word Lists.
Moby Word Lists; 3/1/2006, p1, 999p
Presents the complete text of "Moby Word Lists" by Ward, Grady.

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PROJECT Gutenberg (Organization) - REFERENCE books - ELECTRONIC publications - ELECTRONIC books - OPEN access publishing

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BOOK REVIEWS.
Barbir, Karl K.;Fetter, Bruce;Clark, Andrew F.;Kasson, John F.;Schmidt, Hen...
Review Review | Historian. Winter2003, Vol. 65 Issue 6, p1397-1488. 92p. Please log in to see more details

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Popular History of Ireland: From the Earliest Period to the Emancipation of the Catholics -- Complete.
McGee, Thomas D'Arcy
Book Book | Popular History of Ireland: From the Earliest Period to the Emancipation of the Catholics -- Complete; 3/1/2006, p1, 532p Please log in to see more details
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Popular History of Ireland: From the Earliest Period to the Emancipation of the Catholics -- Complete.
Popular History of Ireland: From the Earliest Period to the Emancipation of the Catholics -- Complete; 3/1/2006, p1, 532p
Presents the complete text of "Popular History of Ireland: From the Earliest Period to the Emancipation of the Catholics -- Complete" by McGee, Thomas D'Arcy, 1825-1868.

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Book Reviews.
Zaborney, John J.;Adelson, Roger;Russell, Mona L.;Yoder, John C.;Wiltse, Je...
Review Review | Historian. Fall2005, Vol. 67 Issue 3, p507-593. 87p. Please log in to see more details

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Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics.
Preminger, Alex;Warnke, Frank J.;Hardison Jr., O. B.
Book Book | Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry 1974, p3-906, 904p Please log in to see more details

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Emancipation and Empire: Reconstructing the Worldwide Web of Cotton Production in the Age of the American Civil War.
Beckert, Sven
Academic Journal Academic Journal | American Historical Review. Dec2004, Vol. 109 Issue 5, p1405-1438. 34p. 2 Black and White Photographs, 2 Charts, 1 Graph. Please log in to see more details

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Change and the Politics of Certainty
Jenny Edkins;Jenny Edkins
This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) op... more
Change and the Politics of Certainty
2019
This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. How do we transform the world when we are ourselves inescapably part of it? If we cannot know what makes the world the way it is, or what impact our actions will have, where do we begin? Renowned politics scholar Jenny Edkins explores the imperative for change in a world filled with inequality, violence, persecution, and injustice - and the difficulties faced in bringing it about. Over the course of ten chapters Change and the politics of certainty examines our varied responses to questions such as aid in times of famine; opposition to the Iraq War; humanitarian intervention; the memorialisation of 9/11; enforced disappearance; and calls for justice after the Grenfell Tower fire. Drawing on insights from the author's life and on the work of playwrights and filmmakers, the book interrogates the ideas of thinkers including Lauren Berlant, Judith Butler, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Stuart Hall, Eric Santner, Elaine Scarry, Carolyn Steedman and Slavoj Žižek. Tackling themes such as the fantasy of security, contemporary notions of time and space, and ideas of humanity and sentience, this accessible book is essential reading for all who strive for a better world.

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Social change--Political aspects - Change--Social aspects - Political science

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A Day in the Life of an American Worker : 200 Trades and Professions Through History [2 Volumes]
Nancy Quam-Wickham;Ben Tyler Elliott;Nancy Quam-Wickham;Ben Tyler Elliott
This introduction to the history of work in America illuminates the many important rol... more
A Day in the Life of an American Worker : 200 Trades and Professions Through History [2 Volumes]
2020
This introduction to the history of work in America illuminates the many important roles that men and women of all backgrounds have played in the formation of the United States.A Day in the Life of an American Worker: 200 Trades and Professions through History allows readers to imagine the daily lives of ordinary workers, from the beginnings of colonial America to the present. It presents the stories of millions of Americans—from the enslaved field hands in antebellum America to the astronauts of the modern'space age'—as they contributed to the formation of the modern and culturally diverse United States.Readers will learn about individual occupations and discover the untold histories of those women and men who too often have remained anonymous to historians but whose stories are just as important as those of leaders whose lives we study in our classrooms. This book provides specific details to enable comprehensive understanding of the benefits and downsides of each trade and profession discussed. Selected accompanying documents further bring history to life by offering vivid testimonies from people who actually worked in these occupations or interacted with those in that field.

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Employees--United States--History - Labor--United States--History - Occupations--United States--History

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Slavery: Annual Bibliographical Supplement (2014).
Thurston, Thomas
Academic Journal Academic Journal | Slavery Dec2015, Vol. 36 Issue 4, p759-873, 115p Please log in to see more details
Slavery: Annual Bibliographical Supplement (2014).
Slavery Dec2015, Vol. 36 Issue 4, p759-873, 115p

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SLAVERY - SLAVE trade - SCHOLARLY publishing - BIBLIOGRAPHY

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Lincoln's Personal Life.
Stephenson, Nathaniel W. (Nathaniel Wright)
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Presents the complete text of "Lincoln's Personal Life" by Stephenson, Nathaniel W. (Nathaniel Wright), 1867-1935.

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PROJECT Gutenberg (Organization) - ELECTRONIC publications - ELECTRONIC books - OPEN access publishing

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Migration and Emancipation in West Africa's Labour History: The Missing Links.
Rossi, Benedetta
Academic Journal Academic Journal | Slavery Jan2014, Vol. 35 Issue 1, p23-46, 24p Please log in to see more details
Strategies of emancipation included projects of migration conceived and unfolded by mi... more
Migration and Emancipation in West Africa's Labour History: The Missing Links.
Slavery Jan2014, Vol. 35 Issue 1, p23-46, 24p
Strategies of emancipation included projects of migration conceived and unfolded by migrants of slave descent. This article suggests that looking at how these migrants chose to move when they could control their mobility, and at the obstacles they faced, reveals aspects of the experience of enslavement and emancipation that have not yet been fully explored in the relevant historiography. While historians of African slavery have described the large-scale movements of ex-slaves that followed legal status abolition in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, only few studies provide detailed analyses of these trajectories from the perspective of the enslaved. Outside the field of slavery studies, both West African labour history and migration studies have been emphasising ethnicity over status, thereby underestimating how slave descent shaped the practices and aspirations of a large proportion of labour migrants. The autobiographic testimonies of migrants of slave descent provide insights into their strategies and expose differences across gender, age and location. Through an analysis of these sources, this article highlights the missing links in our reconstructions of the history of West African workers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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WEST Africa - SLAVERY - HISTORY of enslaved persons - HISTORY of the emancipation of slaves - FREEDMEN - AFRICAN migrations - HISTORY of labor - LABOR mobility - NIGERIAN history - NINETEENTH century - HISTORY

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Webster's Unabridged Dictionary.
Webster, Noah
Book Book | Webster's Unabridged Dictionary. 3/1/2006, p1. 432p. Please log in to see more details
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Webster's Unabridged Dictionary.
Webster's Unabridged Dictionary. 3/1/2006, p1. 432p.
Presents the complete text of "Webster's Unabridged Dictionary" by Webster, Noah, 1758-1843.

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Early nineteenth-century parliamentary debates for the abolition of slavery in the British Empire and the contribution of the colonial judge Sir John Jeremie in the period 1824–41.
Alibrandi, Rosamaria
Academic Journal Academic Journal | Parliaments, Estates Apr2015, Vol. 35 Issue 1, p21-45, 25p Please log in to see more details
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Early nineteenth-century parliamentary debates for the abolition of slavery in the British Empire and the contribution of the colonial judge Sir John Jeremie in the period 1824–41.
Parliaments, Estates Apr2015, Vol. 35 Issue 1, p21-45, 25p
In the early nineteenth century, English common law did not recognize absolute slavery within Britain's borders. Nevertheless, slavery did exist in a number of British colonies. In 1807, thanks to the impassioned efforts of the Anti-Slavery Society, the British Parliament made the slave trade illegal. The Slavery Abolition Bill was passed by both Houses of Parliament and it received royal assent on 29 August 1833, but it did not come into force until 1 August 1834. On that date slavery was abolished throughout the British Empire. Yet, despite this ban, there were many exceptions to its automatic application throughout the imperial possessions. A loyal servant of the Crown, the colonial judge Sir John Jeremie (1795–1841), conducted a personal campaign against slavery and racism in the colonies of the British Empire. His reflections, based on the reality of daily colonial life, offered a technical rather than doctrinaire contribution to the success of the anti-slavery cause. Jeremie was to pay a high price for his ideas, however, owing to deep-rooted prejudices and the strong economic influence of the powerful caste of slave traders. HisFour Essays on Colonial Slaverywas published in 1831. This work had considerable influence on British parliamentary debates, and it was strongly attacked by supporters of slavery. As a jurist and legal practitioner, during hiscursus honorum(as lawyer, colonial judge and ultimately his appointment as Governor of Sierra Leone), Jeremie brought a practical perspective in writings to the debates which animated the Westminster Parliament, even after the approval of the Abolition Act. Despite the slave trade being abolished in the British Empire, slavery per se continued to be legal in some form for many decades to come. Hence, the issue of slavery continued to be a subject with which Jeremie was associated for the remainder of his life. Another interesting historical source is Jeremie's correspondence with Members of Parliament and the British government. This constitutes a lively exchange with London and testifies to the enlightened and progressive foreign policy vision of this active member of the Anti-Slavery Society. Sir John Jeremie was also interested in migration and integration-related issues, as can be seen from primary sources such as letters and dispatches. The wide variety of his correspondence bears testament to the battle he fought until his death. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

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