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Race, Ethnicity and Post-Colonial Studies

2006

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America's Other Peculiar Institution: Exploring The York County Free Black Register As A Means Of Social Control, 1798-1831, Andrew Jefferson Butts Jan 2006

America's Other Peculiar Institution: Exploring The York County Free Black Register As A Means Of Social Control, 1798-1831, Andrew Jefferson Butts

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

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Breaking With Tradition: Slave Literacy In Early Virginia, 1680--1780, Antonio T. Bly Jan 2006

Breaking With Tradition: Slave Literacy In Early Virginia, 1680--1780, Antonio T. Bly

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

"Breaking with Tradition" is a study of slave literacy in eighteenth-century British North America, the era of the First Great Awakening and the American Revolution. Instead of highlighting the work of a few northern slave authors (the present emphasis in African American literary history), it focuses on the relationship between slave education in colonial Virginia and the social and political circumstances in which slaves acquired a knowledge of letters. A social history of life in the slave quarters, the "great house," and in towns, "Breaking with Tradition" is at once a case study of slaves reading and writing in the …


You Just Had That Gut Feeling': Film, Memory, And The Lynching Of James Byrd, Jr, William Brian Piper Jan 2006

You Just Had That Gut Feeling': Film, Memory, And The Lynching Of James Byrd, Jr, William Brian Piper

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.