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South Carolina’s Grand Jury Presentments: The Eighteenth-Century Experience (Book Section)Title: South Carolina’s Grand Jury Presentments: The Eighteenth-Century Experience
Author: Sally Hadden
Editor: Sally Hadden
Editor: Patricia Minter
Abstract: This study of South Carolina presentments, the grand jury's critiques and accusations against their fellow community members, reveals that complaints about slave behaviors gradually declined during the eighteenth century. Meanwhile, their complaints about badly maintained roads, bridges, and causeways continued to be aired with regularity. Urbanization slowly changed what the Charleston grand jurors demanded, as calls for incorporation rose in the 1770s, while backcountry grand jurors continued making presentments about inadequate roads and misbehaving slaves to the end of the century.
Year: 2013
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Book Title: Signposts: New Directions in Southern Legal History
Migration and Loss of Spiritual Community: The Case of Daniel Falckner and Anna Maria Schubart (Book Section)Title: Migration and Loss of Spiritual Community: The Case of Daniel Falckner and Anna Maria Schubart
Author: Rosalind Beiler
Editor: Lynne Tatlock
Abstract: Essays from papers presented at fifth triennial conference of Fruhe Neuzeit Interdisziplinar (FNI), held at Duke University, March 27-29, 2008.
Year: 2010
Publisher: Brill
Book Title: Enduring Loss in Early Modern Germany
Information Networks and the Dynamics of Migration: Swiss Anabaptist Exiles and Their Host Communities (Book Section)Title: Information Networks and the Dynamics of Migration: Swiss Anabaptist Exiles and Their Host Communities
Author: Rosalind Beiler
Editor: Susanne Lachenicht
Abstract: Chiefly papers presented at the Religious Refugees in Europe, Asia and the Americas Conference hosted by the Moore Institute for Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences, held at the National University of Ireland, Galway, on June 16-18, 2005.
Year: 2007
Publisher: Lit. Verlag
Book Title: Religious Refugees in Europe, Asia and North America (6th - 21st Centuries)
Slave Trading Entrepôts and Their Hinterlands: Continued Forced Migrations after the Middle Passage to North America (Book Section)Title: Slave Trading Entrepôts and Their Hinterlands: Continued Forced Migrations after the Middle Passage to North America
Author: Gregory E. O’Malley
Editor: David T. Gleeson
Editor: Simon Lewis
Abstract: Proscription by degrees: the ending of the African slave trade to the United States / Kenneth Morgan --
"Most contemptible in the Union": South Carolina, slavery, and the constitution / Jonathan Mercantini --
African children and the transatlantic slave trade across time and place / Wilma King --
"Madda, Madda, yiera, yiera": African women slaves and the abolition of the British transatlantic slave trade / Inge Dornan --
Slave trading entrepôts and their hinterlands: continued forced migrations after the middle passage to North America / Gregory E. O'Malley --
The M-factor in southern history / Louis M. Kyriakoudes and Peter A. Coclanis --
An ambiguous legacy: the closing of the African slave trade and America's own middle passage / Steven Deyle --
Blackness without ethnicity: some hypotheses on the end of the African slave trade in 1808, race, and the search for slave identity in early American Louisiana / Jean-Pierre Le Glaunec --
Irish American identity and the reopening of the Atlantic slave trade / David T. Gleeson --
2007 revisited: commemoration, ritual, and British transatlantic slavery / John Oldfield.
Year: 2012
Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
Book Title: Ambiguous Anniversary: The Bicentennial of the International Slave Trade Bans
Beyond the Middle Passage: Slave Migration from the Caribbean to North America, 1619-1807 (Article)Title: Beyond the Middle Passage: Slave Migration from the Caribbean to North America, 1619-1807
Author: Gregory E. O’Malley
Abstract: -
Year: 2009
Format: Journal
Periodical Title: William & Mary Quarterly
Publisher: Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture
Philadelphia and Its Peoples in Maps: 1790s (Web Resource)Title: Philadelphia and Its Peoples in Maps: 1790s
Author: Billy Gordon Smith
Abstract: -
Year: 2012
Primary URL:
http://philadelphiaencyclopedia.org/archive/philadelphia-and-its-people-in-maps-the-1790s/Incarcerated Innocents: Inmates, Conditions, & Survival Strategies in Philadelphia’s Almshouse and Workhouse (Book Section)Title: Incarcerated Innocents: Inmates, Conditions, & Survival Strategies in Philadelphia’s Almshouse and Workhouse
Author: Billy Gordon Smith
Editor: Richard Bell
Editor: Michele Lise Tartar
Abstract: Buried Lives offers the first critical examination of the experience of imprisonment in early America. These interdisciplinary essays investigate several carceral institutions to show how confinement shaped identity, politics, and the social imaginary both in the colonies and in the new nation. The historians and literary scholars included in this volume offer a complement and corrective to conventional understandings of incarceration that privilege the intentions of those in power over the experiences of prisoners.
Considering such varied settings as jails, penitentiaries, almshouses, workhouses, floating prison ships, and plantations, the contributors reconstruct the struggles of people imprisoned in locations from Antigua to Boston. The essays draw upon a rich array of archival sources from the seventeenth century to the eve of the Civil War, including warden logs, petitions, execution sermons, physicians’ clinical notes, private letters, newspaper articles, runaway slave advertisements, and legal documents. Through the voices, bodies, and texts of the incarcerated, Buried Lives reveals the largely ignored experiences of inmates who contested their subjection to regimes of power.
Year: 2012
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Book Title: Buried Lives: Incarcerated in Early America
First Person Nautical: Poetry and Play at Sea (Article)Title: First Person Nautical: Poetry and Play at Sea
Author: Hester Blum
Abstract: -
Year: 2013
Format: Journal
Periodical Title: J19: The Journal of Nineteenth-Century Americanists
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
John Cleves Symmes and the Planetary Reach of Polar Exploration (Article)Title: John Cleves Symmes and the Planetary Reach of Polar Exploration
Author: Hester Blum
Abstract: -
Year: 2012
Format: Journal
Periodical Title: American Literature
Publisher: Duke University Press
Introduction: Oceanic Studies (Article)Title: Introduction: Oceanic Studies
Author: Hester Blum
Abstract: -
Year: 2013
Format: Journal
Periodical Title: Atlantic Studies
Publisher: Routledge
A Double Life: Personifying the Corporation from Dartmouth College to Poe (Article)Title: A Double Life: Personifying the Corporation from Dartmouth College to Poe
Author: Peter Jaros
Abstract: This essay pursues the prehistory of contemporary debates over corporate personality by investigating the early nineteenth-century American corporate imaginary. In 1819, Dartmouth College v. Woodward enshrined the common-law defi nition of the corporation—an artifi cial person, immortal and invisible—in American jurisprudence. In contrast, contemporaneous satirical poems on failing banks personifi ed corporations as strikingly visible and mortal. In subsequent decades, Poe drew on the legal doctrine of artificial personhood in a number of works—the sonnet “Silence” and the tales “William Wilson” and “Peter Pendulum, the Business Man”— and juxtaposed it unsettlingly with the so-called natural personhood of human beings. Whereas literary scholarship on antebellum legal personhood has principally explored the contested status of African Americans, this essay argues that the early corporation confronted both jurists and lay writers with an idea of personhood irreducible to the human being. It shows how Poe’s work, in particular, articulates the challenges posed by the complex ontology and ghostly genealogy of the corporation to the logic of human identity.
Year: 2014
Format: Journal
Periodical Title: Poe Studies 47: 4-35
Incarcerated Innocents: Inmates, Conditions, & Survival Strategies in Philadelphia’s (Book Section)Title: Incarcerated Innocents: Inmates, Conditions, & Survival Strategies in Philadelphia’s
Author: Billy Gordon Smith
Editor: Michele Lise Tartar
Editor: Richard Bell
Abstract: Buried Lives offers the first critical examination of the experience of imprisonment in early America. These interdisciplinary essays investigate several carceral institutions to show how confinement shaped identity, politics, and the social imaginary both in the colonies and in the new nation. The historians and literary scholars included in this volume offer a complement and corrective to conventional understandings of incarceration that privilege the intentions of those in power over the experiences of prisoners.
Year: 2012
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Book Title: Buried Lives: Incarcerated in Early America
Irving's Astoria and the Forms of Enterprise (Article)Title: Irving's Astoria and the Forms of Enterprise
Author: Peter Jaros
Abstract: n/a
Year: 2018
Format: Journal
Periodical Title: American Literary History 30:1
Social Mobility and Satire in the American Plantations (Article)Title: Social Mobility and Satire in the American Plantations
Author: Edward Cahill
Abstract: n/a
Year: 2019
Format: Journal
Periodical Title: Early American Studies 17:2
Print (Article)Title: Print
Author: Marcy Dinius
Abstract: n/a
Year: 2018
Format: Journal
Periodical Title: Early American Studies special issue: Keywords in Early American Literature and Material Texts 16.4
David Walker and Frederick Douglass (Book Section)Title: David Walker and Frederick Douglass
Author: Marcy J. Dinius
Editor: Justine S. Murison
Abstract: n/a
Year: 2022
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Book Title: Nineteenth-Century American Literature in Transition, vol. 2
Empire, Incorporated: The Corporations That Built British Colonialism (Book)Title: Empire, Incorporated: The Corporations That Built British Colonialism
Author: Philip Stern
Abstract: Across four centuries, from Ireland to India, the Americas to Africa and Australia, British colonialism was above all the business of corporations. Corporations conceived, promoted, financed, and governed overseas expansion, making claims over territory and peoples while ensuring that British and colonial society were invested, quite literally, in their ventures. Colonial companies were also relentlessly controversial, frequently in debt, and prone to failure. The corporation was well-suited to overseas expansion not because it was an inevitable juggernaut but because, like empire itself, it was an elusive contradiction: public and private; person and society; subordinate and autonomous; centralized and diffuse; immortal and precarious; national and cosmopolitan—a legal fiction with very real power.
Breaking from traditional histories in which corporations take a supporting role by doing the dirty work of sovereign states in exchange for commercial monopolies, Philip Stern argues that corporations took the lead in global expansion and administration. Whether in sixteenth-century Ireland and North America or the Falklands in the early 1980s, corporations were key players. And, as Empire, Incorporated makes clear, venture colonialism did not cease with the end of empire. Its legacies continue to raise questions about corporate power that are just as relevant today as they were 400 years ago.
Year: 2023
Primary URL:
https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674988125Primary URL Description: publisher's website
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 9780674988125
London’s Middle Temple and Law Students from the New World (Book Section)Title: London’s Middle Temple and Law Students from the New World
Author: Sally E. Hadden
Editor: Cerian Griffiths and Łukasz Jan Korporowicz
Abstract: n/a
Year: 2023
Publisher: Routledge
Book Title: English Law, the Legal Profession, and Colonialism: Histories, Parallels, and Influences
Staging Haiti in Nineteenth-Century America: Revolution, Race and Popular Performance (Book)Title: Staging Haiti in Nineteenth-Century America: Revolution, Race and Popular Performance
Author: Peter Reed
Abstract: American culture maintained a complicated relationship with Haiti from its revolutionary beginnings onward. In this study, Peter P. Reed reveals how Americans embodied and re-enacted their connections to Haiti through a wide array of performance forms. In the wake of Haiti's slave revolts in the 1790s, generations of actors, theatre professionals, spectators, and commentators looked to Haiti as a source of both inspiring freedom and vexing disorder. French colonial refugees, university students, Black theatre stars, blackface minstrels, abolitionists, and even writers such as Herman Melville all reinvented and restaged Haiti in distinctive ways. Reed demonstrates how Haiti's example of Black freedom and national independence helped redefine American popular culture, as actors and audiences repeatedly invoked and suppressed Haiti's revolutionary narratives, characters, and themes. Ultimately, Haiti shaped generations of performances, transforming America's understandings of race, power, freedom, and violence in ways that still reverberate today.
Year: 2022
Primary URL:
https://www.cambridge.org/us/universitypress/subjects/arts-theatre-culture/american-theatre/staging-haiti-nineteenth-century-america-revolution-race-and-popular-performance?format=HB&isbn=9781009100526Primary URL Description: publisher's website
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 9781009100526