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Trouble In Paradise: Paul And Virginia‘S Snapshot Of Limited Enlightenment Progressivism, Henna Neilson
Trouble In Paradise: Paul And Virginia‘S Snapshot Of Limited Enlightenment Progressivism, Henna Neilson
CAFE Symposium 2026
This project analyzes the 1788 children's story "Paul and Virginia" by Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre. Written in the pastoral literary genre, it tells the star-crossed love story of Paul and Virginia, childhood friends who live on the French colony Île-de-France (present-day Mauritius). The work exemplifies many highlights of the Enlightenment progressivism, socializing its young readers to criticize the oppressive class systems in Europe. However, the work is limited by the physiocratic view of slavery, which maintained that the slave trade was justified if the enslaved humans were treated "humanely". As a result, Paul and Virginia's slavery plot line includes problematic …
Entry Nr. 487 Kossola, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd
Entry Nr. 487 Kossola, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd
500 African Voices
No abstract provided.
Entry Nr. 134 Isaac Anderson, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd
Entry Nr. 134 Isaac Anderson, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd
500 African Voices
No abstract provided.
Book Review: A Most Perilous World: The True Story Of The Young Abolitionists And Their Crusade Against Slavery, Mercedes Allen
Book Review: A Most Perilous World: The True Story Of The Young Abolitionists And Their Crusade Against Slavery, Mercedes Allen
The Utah English Journal
A Most Perilous World brings the reader into the chaotic, tumultuous, and important days leading into the Civil War, during the war itself, and the Reconstruction Period (1854–1872). The book follows four lesser-known but vital historical figures: Lucy McKim, daughter of generational abolitionists; Lewis Douglass, the son of Frederick Douglass; George Garrison, son of abolitionist and journalist William Lloyd Garrison; and Charlotte Forten, daughter of free Blacks living in the north helping slaves to freedom. Though history remembers their parents more clearly, these young people prove that anyone, regardless of age, can make a difference—even when it seems hopeless.
Review: Poet: The Remarkable Story Of George Moses Horton, Rachel Schwedt
Review: Poet: The Remarkable Story Of George Moses Horton, Rachel Schwedt
Ages 7-9
Fairness, Creativity, Initiative, Perseverance, Self-respect
Review: Cabin In The Snow, Rachel Schwedt
Review: Cabin In The Snow, Rachel Schwedt
Ages 7-9
Caring, Cooperation, Dependability, Endurance, Giving, Neighborliness, Respect, Responsibility, Sharing, Tolerance, Trustworthiness
Review: The Mostly True Adventures Of Homer P. Figg, Janice Delong, Rachel Schwedt
Review: The Mostly True Adventures Of Homer P. Figg, Janice Delong, Rachel Schwedt
Ages 10-12
Boldness, Caring, Cheating ,Cleverness, Courage, Creativity, Determination, Devotion, Diversity, Fairness, Faithfulness, Fear, Fearlessness, Family love, Friendship, Generosity, Hope, Imagination, Independence, Love, Loyalty, Maturity, Perseverance, Passion, Resourcefulness, Responsibility, Sacrifice, Self-reliance, Spunk, Survival
Review: Heart And Sould: The Story Of America And Africa Americans, Rachel Schwedt, Janice Delong
Review: Heart And Sould: The Story Of America And Africa Americans, Rachel Schwedt, Janice Delong
Ages 10-12
Boldness, Citizenship, Coping, Courage, Dedication, Determination, Diversity, Ethnic pride, Fairness, Fearlessness, Inspiration, Leadership, Persistence, Resilience, Resolve, Respect, Strength, Survival (Emotional), Work ethic
Review: Give Me Liberty, Rachel Schwedt, Janice Delong
Review: Give Me Liberty, Rachel Schwedt, Janice Delong
Ages 10-12
Caring, Citizenship, Coping, Devotion, Dignity, Endurance, Fairness, Giving, Hope, Independence, Kindness, Loyalty, Maturity, Music, Patriotism, Responsibility, Selflessness, Self-respect, Survival, Trustworthiness, Citizenship, Coping, Devotion, Dignity, Endurance, Fairness, Giving, Hope, Independence, Kindness, Loyalty, Maturity, Music, Patriotism, Responsibility, Selflessness, Self-respect, Survival, Trustworthiness
Elmar, Aerin, And Aredhel: Female Enslavement In Tolkien’S Legendarium, Clare Moore
Elmar, Aerin, And Aredhel: Female Enslavement In Tolkien’S Legendarium, Clare Moore
Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature
Argues that Elmar, Aerin, and Aredhel’s narratives convey experiences of female enslavement. Understanding these characters as enslaved reveals the violent nature of their experiences, necessitating an interpretation of their relationships with their husbands/enslavers as sexual assault. Their narratives reveal patterns within the legendarium connecting beauty and violence. However, these three stories also demonstrate Tolkien’s interest in portraying this kind of story and its value to the legendarium. These narratives offer a unique female perspective on loss and lived experience within the legendarium.
The Ghost Of The Neo-Slave Narrative : Jesmyn Ward’S Sing, Unburied, Sing And The Evolution Of The Black Gothic, Kabria Wimbush
The Ghost Of The Neo-Slave Narrative : Jesmyn Ward’S Sing, Unburied, Sing And The Evolution Of The Black Gothic, Kabria Wimbush
Theses, Dissertations and Culminating Projects
Beloved by Toni Morrison, while clearly a neo-slave narrative, functions as a transition between the neo-slave narrative and the Black Gothic genre. Jesmyn Ward expands upon the Gothic elements in Beloved in her novel Sing, Unburied, Sing. When examined together, the two novels demonstrate how the Black Gothic was influenced by the neo-slave narrative. Where Beloved examines the effects of slavery on those who were directly victimized by it, Sing, Unburied, Sing shows how the lingering effects of slavery still exist in modern times. Ultimately, Ward offers possible courses of action to make the future more inclusive and diverse without …
The Black Wanderer: Reading The Black Diaspora, Resistance, And Becoming In The History Of Mary Prince In The Classroom, Nicole Carr
ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640–1830
This paper examines The History of Mary Prince as a pedagogical tool for exploring complexities within the Black Diaspora. As Paul Gilroy’s articulations of the Black Atlantic inform my approach, Prince’s circuitous journey through the West Indies and England situates her process of becoming as one mired in longing and loss. Encouraging students to consider Prince as a wandering soul in search of not only freedom, but also solid familiar connections lays the foundation for merging her narrative with other enslaved Black people traversing countries and regions on ships against their will. Ample research material available on the survivors of …
Black Lives, White Witnesses: An Argument For A Presentist Approach To Teaching Aphra Behn's Oroonoko, Sharon Smith
Black Lives, White Witnesses: An Argument For A Presentist Approach To Teaching Aphra Behn's Oroonoko, Sharon Smith
ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640–1830
This essay outlines a presentist approach to teaching Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko (1688), in which a white woman witnesses a Black man’s brutal execution at the hands of enslavers. This approach explores the capacity of Behn’s novel—a colonialist narrative scholars frequently identify as troubling or frustrating—to generate discussions about “white witnessing,” particularly white people’s consumption of images of Black people in peril. This includes recent videos of Black people killed by police or white citizen vigilantes. Many Black individuals identify these videos as traumatizing, frequently noting how they have failed to spur structural reform. Of central concern in the classroom discussion …
The Impact Of Slavery And Colonialism On The Black Consciousness: Narrative Of The Life Of Frederick Douglass, The Confessions Of Nat Turner, And Incidents In The Life Of A Slave Girl, Mariam Badawi
Theses and Dissertations
According to the German author, essayist, and empirical psychologist Karl Philipp Moritz, to be able to analyze someone psychologically, we have to be able to analyze ourselves as one would know oneself better than one would know anyone else. Therefore, he proposed the study of autobiographies to be able to delve into a writer's "innermost soul"; through their knowledge of themselves" (qtd. in Schlumbohm 32). Moreover, "the psychological effect that the ideology of white supremacy and European imperialism, in the form of slavery and colonialism, has had on Africa and her people has never been fully addressed and understood" (Nobles …
Emancipatory And Retributive Labor: Conflicting Representations Of Enslaved Labor In Us And Caribbean Literature, 1830–1855, Michael Druffel
Emancipatory And Retributive Labor: Conflicting Representations Of Enslaved Labor In Us And Caribbean Literature, 1830–1855, Michael Druffel
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
Emancipatory and Retributive Labor follows the development of a concept that I call emancipatory labor as it appeared in the US and Caribbean during the period 1830 to 1855. Emancipatory labor is a subversive tactic in which enslaved people in the United States and Caribbean redefined a portion of their labor in capitalist terms. Re-theorizing a portion of enslaved labor stakes a claim to agency and humanity according to Western, humanistic logic. Examples of the types of labor being redefined include selling commodities, hiring time, and working “extras” for wages. I use enslaved person Lunsford Lane’s 1842 narrative as a …
Revisiting History: Anti-Racialist Afrofuturism In Octavia Butler's Kindred, Brad C. Kelly
Revisiting History: Anti-Racialist Afrofuturism In Octavia Butler's Kindred, Brad C. Kelly
Graduate Theses/Dissertations
Popular understanding of history is dominated by racial binaries that suggest the Black past and the white past are wholly antithetical to one another. In Kindred, Octavia Butler uncovers interconnections between Black and white Americans that complicate this understanding by having her characters travel to the antebellum period. By uncovering these interconnections, Butler is able to envision a future in which Black and white Americans are reunited through the recognition of their shared, yet vastly differing, sufferings under white supremacy. I have termed this idea anti-racialist Afrofuturism because Butler seeks to dismantle the social construct of race through her illumination …
Unmasking Polly: Race And Disguise In Eighteenth-Century Plantation Space, Kristen Hanley Cardozo
Unmasking Polly: Race And Disguise In Eighteenth-Century Plantation Space, Kristen Hanley Cardozo
ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640–1830
John Gay’s The Beggar’s Opera has influenced popular culture since its debut. Its 1729 sequel, Polly, has been understudied by literary critics, perhaps because of its suppression in Gay’s lifetime. However, Polly offers scholars new views on British imperialism before an active abolition movement in Britain. Gay confronts the evils of colonialism through his theatrical use of disguise. While other Caribbean plays of the period allow white characters to reinvent themselves abroad, in Polly disguise only intensifies the self, while the higher stakes of plantation space are where the characters meet the fates originally designated for them in The …
Entry Nr. 042 Un-Named Amina Merchant, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd
Entry Nr. 042 Un-Named Amina Merchant, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd
500 African Voices
No abstract provided.
Entry Nr. 072 Un-Named Moko Woman, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd
Entry Nr. 072 Un-Named Moko Woman, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd
500 African Voices
No abstract provided.
Entry Nr. 093 Un-Named Carabali Man, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd
Entry Nr. 093 Un-Named Carabali Man, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd
500 African Voices
No abstract provided.
Entry Nr. 335 William Henry Pratt, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd
Entry Nr. 335 William Henry Pratt, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd
500 African Voices
No abstract provided.
Entry Nr. 407 N Gonga, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd
Entry Nr. 407 N Gonga, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd
500 African Voices
No abstract provided.
Entry Nr. 425 Otsétse, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd
Entry Nr. 425 Otsétse, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd
500 African Voices
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Entry Nr. 397 Nyámse, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd
Entry Nr. 397 Nyámse, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd
500 African Voices
No abstract provided.
Entry Nr. 055 First Un-Named Sokko Or Asokko Man, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd
Entry Nr. 055 First Un-Named Sokko Or Asokko Man, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd
500 African Voices
No abstract provided.
Entry Nr. 036 Johannes, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd
Entry Nr. 036 Johannes, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd
500 African Voices
No abstract provided.
Entry Nr. 092 Un-Named Okwoi Man, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd
Entry Nr. 092 Un-Named Okwoi Man, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd
500 African Voices
No abstract provided.
Entry Nr. 064 First Un-Named Watje Man, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd
Entry Nr. 064 First Un-Named Watje Man, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd
500 African Voices
No abstract provided.
Entry Nr. 081 Fourth Un-Named Kanga Man, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd
Entry Nr. 081 Fourth Un-Named Kanga Man, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd
500 African Voices
No abstract provided.
Entry Nr. 105 Anna Margaretha, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd
Entry Nr. 105 Anna Margaretha, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd
500 African Voices
No abstract provided.