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Georgia State University

Theses/Dissertations

2009

Slavery

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Representations Of Labor In The Slave Narrative, Agnel Natasha Barron Jul 2009

Representations Of Labor In The Slave Narrative, Agnel Natasha Barron

English Theses

This study examines the slave narratives The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, The History of Mary Prince, A West Indian Slave, Related by Herself and The Bondwoman’s Narrative to determine the way in which these texts depict the economics of labor in slave society. Taking into account the specific socio-historical contexts in which these narratives were written, this study analyzes the way in which the representations of labor in these narratives interrogate slavery and address issues relating to the social relations and power dynamics of their respective societies. Emphasis is given to the way in which the …


A Small Place In Georgia: Yeoman Cultural Persistance, Terrence Lee Kersey May 2009

A Small Place In Georgia: Yeoman Cultural Persistance, Terrence Lee Kersey

History Theses

In antebellum Upcounty Georgia, the Southern yeomanry developed a society independent of the planter class. Many of the studies of the pre-Civil War Southern yeomanry describe a class that is living within the cracks of a planter-dominated society, using, and subject to those institutions that served the planter class. Yet in Forsyth County, a yeomanry-dominated society created and nurtured institutions that met their class needs, not parasitically using those developed by the planter class for their own needs.