Slavery on the Frontier

Slavery driven

Most historians and biologists have come to Darwin through his book, On the Origin of Species. They have been curious about his biological life before this ground-breaking book and how he developed his ideas. They have had rich pickings; Darwin was an affluent middle-class Englishman with powerful connections and he was an enthusiastic correspondent. Adrian Desmond and James Moore have publishe...

Durkin , Hannah ( 2013 ) Remembering slavery on screen

This article examines cinematic remembrances of the Atlantic slave trade through the lens of Paul Robeson-starring British film The Song of Freedom (1936). An exceptional visualization of the horrors of the Middle Passage in transatlantic interwar cinema, the production nevertheless recapitulates an abolitionist visual paradigm characterized by lacunae and distortion. Yet, it also serves as an ...

survey on the rule of the due & hindering relying on the sheikh ansaris ideas

قاعده مقتضی و مانع در متون فقهی کم و بیش مستند احکام قرار گرفته و مورد مناقشه فقهاء و اصولیین می باشد و مشهور معتقند مقتضی و مانع، قاعده نیست بلکه یکی از مسائل ذیل استصحاب است لذا نگارنده بر آن شد تا پیرامون این قاعده پژوهش جامعی انجام دهد. به عقیده ما مقتضی دارای حیثیت مستقلی است و هر گاه می گوییم مقتضی احراز شد یعنی با ماهیت مستقل خودش محرز گشته و قطعا اقتضاء خود را خواهد داشت مانند نکاح که ...

Ideology and Imagery in the Law of Slavery - Symposium on the Law of Slavery: Theories of Democracy and the Law of Slavery

Slavery on the Gold Coast and African Resistance to Slavery in Jamaica during the Early Colonial Period

This research demonstrates a diasporic connection between slavery on both sides of the Atlantic, English and African interactions on the Gold Coast, and slave resistance in Jamaica from 1655 to the middle of the eighteenth century. This article transfers the site of ‘seasoning,’ the process by which enslaved peoples became physically and socially acclimatised to slavery, from New World plantati...