This essay examines Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861) in light of new archival findings on the medical practices of Dr. James Norcom (Dr. Flint in the narrative). While critics have sharply defined the feminist politics of Jacobs's sexual victimization and resistance, they have overlooked her medical experience in slavery and her participation in reform after escape....

The “staples thesis” argues that institutions in a given region could be explained by the nature of production of its prevailing staples, whereby slavery is likely to emerge in “slave-conducive” crops, such as cotton, rice, and sugarcane. This paper evaluates the thesis using a unique natural experiment from nineteenth-century rural Egypt, the cotton boom that occurred because of the American C...

in his 1853 chapter " The nature of Gothic, " John ruskin famously aligns different visual styles with different ethical connotations. The crude, unpolished style of Gothic ornament symbolizes a free and autonomous art production, while the perfect symmetry of modern english ornaments signifies the arduous, mechanical labor typical of the victorian factory. While ruskin's essay has stood as the...

This article examines the influence of slavery and race on medical education, practice and research in the American South. Drawing on the published autobiography, case-histories, and correspondence of American slave surgeon and 'pioneer' gynaecologist, James Marion Sims, the contribution highlights a lesser known episode from his early career, namely his surgical treatment of enslaved infants s...

John Wesley’s influential booklet, Thoughts upon Slavery, argues that slavery is inherently evil and ought to be abolished, largely using the non-religious language of justice, mercy, natural liberty, law. In key places in his argument Wesley alludes theological concepts. This article contends these allusions are not random but refer components core theology. It relates expositions concepts oth...

Much of the information for educating students and public about human trafficking only involves survivors’ direct experiences as brief excerpts from more complex detailed narratives. In this paper, I draw on a postcolonial framework to argue that sidelining voices can bolster anti-slavery stakeholders’ agendas by selectively using narratives illustrate narrow constructions slavery forced labour...

The main purpose of this essay is to draw a line between slavery and untouchability clearly show the difference how Institutions are exploitative .The different in nature Ambedkar start Which Worse? Slavery or Untouchability? He states beginning that very ancient institution Hinduism. Lala Lajpat Rai was asked question by Miss Mayo Hindu society about Untouchability replied much worse than Unto...

The so-called Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) used the hadith mentioning that “the slave-girl will give birth to her master” to justify its renewal of sexual slavery. This hadith is talking about signs before the end of the world, so it could be interpreted by the same Temple theology technique that has been used in the biblical book of Revelation, which is also about the end of the world. “...