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Review Of Afro-Dog: Blackness And The Animal Question, By Bénédicte Boisseron, Thomas Aiello
Review Of Afro-Dog: Blackness And The Animal Question, By Bénédicte Boisseron, Thomas Aiello
Between the Species
This review evaluates Bénédicte Boisseron's Afro-Dog: Blackness and the Animal Question. In the process, it tracks the development of the academic relation between Blackness and animality.
Catching Babies: Helping Students Understand Reproductive Justice Through Black Maternal Health, Jillian A. Tullis
Catching Babies: Helping Students Understand Reproductive Justice Through Black Maternal Health, Jillian A. Tullis
Feminist Pedagogy
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The Ill-Treatment Of Their Countrywoman: Liberated African Women, Violence, And Power In Tortola, 1807–1834, Arianna Browne
The Ill-Treatment Of Their Countrywoman: Liberated African Women, Violence, And Power In Tortola, 1807–1834, Arianna Browne
Master's Theses
In 1807, Parliament passed an Act to abolish the slave trade, leading to the Royal Navy’s campaign of policing international waters and seizing ships suspected of illegal trading. As the Royal Navy captured slave ships as prizes of war and condemned enslaved Africans to Vice-Admiralty courts, formerly enslaved Africans became “captured negroes” or “liberated Africans,” making the subjects in the British colonies. This work, which takes a microhistorical approach to investigate the everyday experiences of liberated Africans in Tortola during the early nineteenth century, focuses on the violent conditions of liberated African women, demonstrating that abolition consisted of violent contradictions …