This essay researches how slave women on the rice plantations of the lowcountry; South Carolina and Georgia, balanced their slave life with their domestic life. Women as slaves in the lowcountry...Show moreThis essay researches how slave women on the rice plantations of the lowcountry; South Carolina and Georgia, balanced their slave life with their domestic life. Women as slaves in the lowcountry were mostly responsible to work in the fields to cultivate rice. They were forced to risk multiple diseases and the harsh conditions of the lowcountry. But besides their slave life they also had a domestic life. Their domestic life included how women acted as wives, mothers and how they fit in their slave community. They took on multiple responsibilities. Slave women took care of their husbands and homes, they carried and raised their children and they looked after every member of their slave community. Slave women of the lowcountry were able to survive their lives as slaves, because they focused their lives around the joys and love their domestic lives could provide for them. That is how they balanced their slave life with their domestic life.Show less
Dit werkstuk kijkt naar de doelen van The American Missionary Association en The American Freedmen's and Union commission wat betreft het opzetten van een onderwijssysteem voor Afro-Amerikanen...Show moreDit werkstuk kijkt naar de doelen van The American Missionary Association en The American Freedmen's and Union commission wat betreft het opzetten van een onderwijssysteem voor Afro-Amerikanen tijdens de Reconstructie. De doelen worden met elkaar vergeleken.Show less
In dit stuk wordt de controversiele term paternalisme onderzocht door in te gaan op de Fugitive Slave Law uit 1850, om uiteindelijk te beoordelen op welke manier paternalisme gebruikt werd in de...Show moreIn dit stuk wordt de controversiele term paternalisme onderzocht door in te gaan op de Fugitive Slave Law uit 1850, om uiteindelijk te beoordelen op welke manier paternalisme gebruikt werd in de politiek van de zuidelijke slavenhouders van de Verenigde Staten.Show less
NATO’s relevance has been disputed since its founding and this dispute increased severely after 1991. Questions concerning NATO’s possible overstretch arose after its intervention in former...Show moreNATO’s relevance has been disputed since its founding and this dispute increased severely after 1991. Questions concerning NATO’s possible overstretch arose after its intervention in former Yugoslavia and its involvement in Afghanistan and Iraq. How did NATO leaders deal with these questions indicating NATO was in an existential identity crisis?Show less
The main question of this thesis is how marronage can be conceptualized in the context of Colonial Virginia and to what extent a runaway’s social network and location can enable a further...Show moreThe main question of this thesis is how marronage can be conceptualized in the context of Colonial Virginia and to what extent a runaway’s social network and location can enable a further subdivision of marronage. It will be argued that by considering marronage as a relationship characterized by liminality; a relationship between slave and society that bordered between freedom and slavery, one can distinguish rooted marronage from wilderness marronage without losing the underlying similarities. The first chapter will set up a theoretical framework by giving an overview of current conceptualizations of marronage. Furthermore, it will explain why this thesis considers marronage as a type of relationship that can be divided into rooted marronage and wilderness marronage. The second chapter will explore the concept of rooted marronage; the appropriation by a runaway of a liminal identity on the basis of a runaway’s social network. The third chapter will then compare this concept with wilderness marronage; the appropriation of a liminal space at a inaccessible location by either a group or an individual runaway that depended on remaining unseen.Show less
Binnen de binnenlandse slavenhandel die vooral floreerde tijdens de antbellum periode in de Verenigde Staten vond er commodificatie van slavinnen plaats. Dit werd gedaan aan de hand van hun...Show moreBinnen de binnenlandse slavenhandel die vooral floreerde tijdens de antbellum periode in de Verenigde Staten vond er commodificatie van slavinnen plaats. Dit werd gedaan aan de hand van hun karakteristieken en vaardigheden. Daarnaast werden slavinnen geobjectiveerd. Ze werden gezien als seksobjecten, werkbeesten en dienaars binnen het huishouden. Deze objectivering wordt aan de hand van de objectiveringstypes van Nussbaum onderzocht. Met behulp van verschillende primaire bronnen, zoals slavenverhalen, advertenties en reisverslagen worden de verschillende manieren van objectivering en commodificatie van slavinnen geanalyseerd. Slavinnen gingen op verschillende manieren om met hun behandeling en verzetten zich soms hevig. Hun behandeling was verder onderhevig aan verschillende denkbeelden en mythes die in het Zuiden actief waren.Show less
