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Additions And Correction No. 2, Lynnita Brown, Murdo Maclennan

MacLennon, Murdo

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History @ Eiu (October 2008), History

History at Eastern

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“Many Middle Passages: Forced Migration And The Making Of The Modern World”, Charles R. Foy

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This anthology of essay provides a persuasive basis for widening our geographic Emma Christopher et. al. (eds.), “Many Middle Passages: Forced Migration and the Making of the Modern World,” Journal of the Early Republic 28:3 (Fall 2008): 474-477. lens when considering coerced voyages across the Atlantic. It offers as a useful framing tool to consider the social and cultural transformations of a variety of people coercively transported that middle passages were ‘‘the structuring link between expropriation in one geographic setting and exploitation in another.” Additionally, the editors consider a variety of ‘‘prisons’’ central to these middle passages, and claim that …

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Additions And Corrections, Lynnita Brown, Murdo Maclennan

MacLennon, Murdo

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Interview 19 Clarifications, Lynnita Brown, Murdo Maclennan

MacLennon, Murdo

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Interview 19 Three More Questions, Lynnita Brown, Murdo Maclennan

MacLennon, Murdo

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A Comment On "Pedagogical "In Loco Parentis": Reflecting On Power And Parental Authority In The Writing Classroom", Tim Taylor

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Eighteenth Century 'Prize Negroes': From Britain To America, Charles R. Foy

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Eighteenth-century Anglo-American prize systems were highly organized enterprises for the provision of coerced labour. Offering whites opportunities to participate in a lucrative market, they extended the reach of American slavery beyond the shores of the Americas, reinforced slavery in North America and greatly limited opportunities for freedom for black seamen. Although Americans desired that their new nation provide greater individual liberty, the American prize system applied the same presumption – that captured black mariners were slaves – as had its British predecessor, resulting in the sale of hundreds of black seamen into slavery.

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