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Africana Studies

City University of New York (CUNY)

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Slavery

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“Sons Of Adam”: Text, Context, And The Early Modern African Subject, Herman L. Bennett Nov 2005

“Sons Of Adam”: Text, Context, And The Early Modern African Subject, Herman L. Bennett

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Seeking to dislodge the prism that a singular political practice—represented as the story from savage to slave—informed the slave trade, this essay points to a distinct genealogy shaping the earliest encounters between Europeans and Africans.


A Research Note: Race, Slavery, And The Ambiguity Of Corporate Consciousness, Herman L. Bennett Jan 1994

A Research Note: Race, Slavery, And The Ambiguity Of Corporate Consciousness, Herman L. Bennett

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In 1769, as he languished in Córdoba's prison, Diego Antonio Macute seethed. He was not alone. Fifteen of his compatriots shared his sentiments as they confronted their re-enslavement. Recent events painfully reminded them that racial consciousness had limits: their maroon allies, after all, had returned them to their former masters.