No Compromise With Slavery William Lloyd Garrisons Rede Vom 4 Juli 1854

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Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3638510670
Total Pages : 22 pages
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Download or read book No Compromise With Slavery - William Lloyd Garrisons Rede vom 4. Juli 1854 written by and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2006-06-17 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2006 im Fachbereich Geschichte - Amerika, Note: 1,7, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena (Historisches Institut), Veranstaltung: Der Süden der USA von der Kolonialzeit bis zum Bürgerkrieg, 4 Quellen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Der Amerikanische Bürgerkrieg von 1861 bis 1865 stellte für die noch junge amerikanische Nation eine folgenreiche Zäsur dar. Innerhalb der Vereinigten Staaten hatte sich über Jahrzehnte hinweg ein Nebeneinander zweier verschiedener Lebensweisen und Kulturen entwickelt. Der zuletzt unüberwindbar wirkende ideelle Gegensatz zwischen den Nordstaaten und den Südstaaten der USA gipfelte schließlich in einem politischen Antagonismus, der zum Krieg führte. Nach vier Jahren erbitterter Feindschaft und über 600.000 Toten war der Süden geschlagen und die Teilung des Landes überwunden. Die Einheit war gerettet, doch die Nation eine andere als zuvor. Mit Gewalt wurde der Eigenheit des Südens getrotzt und dessen Kultur verändert. Die nachfolgende jahrelang andauernde Besatzung durch nordstaatliche Truppen unterstrich dies deutlich. Eine dieser Eigenheiten und kulturellen Elemente des „Alten Süden“ vor dem Bürgerkrieg war die Sklaverei. An ihr war der Konflikt gebunden, der die Nation zunehmend entzweite. Zerbrach die Einheit des Landes zwar grundsätzlich an der Verteidigung bundesstaatlicher Souveränität seitens des Süden und somit an verfassungsrechtlichen Fragen, so ist die Sklavenfrage doch auslösendes Moment und vorherrschender Streitpunkt gewesen. Die sich im 19. Jahrhundert stark etablierende publizistische Kultur verhalf der Antisklaverei-Bewegung im Norden der USA zu neuer Stärke und vermochte es die Öffentlichkeit mehr denn je zu politisieren und gegen Sklaverei zu mobilisieren. Ihren Ursprung findet sie bereits in der die menschliche Individualität betonenden Philosophie des 18. Jahrhunderts und den damit einhergehenden Antisklaverei-Gesetzen in England. Bereits 1772 verbot der oberste Richter hier den Rechtsstatus des Sklaven. Bis 1833 wurden dann der Sklavenimport und schließlich die Sklavenhaltung selbst im gesamten Empire verboten. Während ebenso die Nordstaaten der USA bis 1804 mit der schrittweisen Freilassung ihrer Sklaven begannen, erhöhte sich die Anzahl der unter Zwang arbeitenden Schwarzen im Süden immer mehr. Der lukrative Baumwollanbau als wichtigster Wirtschaftsfaktor des Südens ließ sich nur mit der Institution der Sklaverei aufrechterhalten, welche nun zum festen Bestandteil der südstaatlichen Gesellschaft geworden war.

Author : Erik Enge
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3668027102
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dehumanization as the Central Prerequisite for Slavery written by Erik Enge and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2015-08-10 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2014 in the subject Sociology - Individual, Groups, Society, grade: 1,7, http://www.uni-jena.de/ (Allgemeine und theoretische Soziologie), course: Sociology of Slavery, language: English, abstract: While attending the seminar on sociology of slavery, one question always came to my mind: What has to happen to a person, that he is able to enslave another person and does not find himself in a position of regarding oneself as immoral. I arrived at the conclusion, that maybe a process of dehumanization is required to make this maltreatment of the same kind possible. If dehumanization is required for slavery, the answer to the question of how anyone could not have sentiments of empathy and compassion towards another human being in a state of exploitation is easy: The slave is not considered human and cannot evoke any of these sensations. That assumption leads to the key hypothesis of this paper, which namely is, that dehumanization is the central prerequisite of slavery. To avoid any misunderstanding, in the following I will try to find out, if dehumanization can be seen as a cornerstone of slavery and not which economical circumstances lead to a slave system. In terms to figure out if my thesis is consistent, I will compare several theories of dehumanization and try to find a definition what it means to be human and what it means to be dehumanized. Afterwards I will introduce three central theories on slavery and will compare them concerning their central aspects. To clarify to what extent the theories of dehumanization can be applied to the theories of dehumanization, I will compare the aspects of dehumanization with the assertions of the three slavery theorists. By the help of this theoretical comparison, I will attempt to show which importance the mechanism of dehumanization has in theories of slavery and in the final analysis test if my thesis is sustainable.

Author : Lea Pfefferle
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3656185263
Total Pages : 33 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Modern Slavery - A Human Tragedy written by Lea Pfefferle and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2012-05 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essay from the year 2011 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: Peace and Conflict Studies, Security, grade: 8, Maastricht University, language: English, abstract: Slavery seems like a long gone practice from the past, but even in our times, people suffer from being bought and sold to strange people. Nowadays, as it is mostly described as a form of human trafficking, an unbelievable amount of 12 to 20 million people are believed to be traded as modern day slaves. This paper investigates how globalization has impacted the trade of modern day slaves and will look at how this problem is tackled by our current policies

Author : Samuel Moyn
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674256522
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Last Utopia written by Samuel Moyn and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2012-03-05 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Human rights offer a vision of international justice that today’s idealistic millions hold dear. Yet the very concept on which the movement is based became familiar only a few decades ago when it profoundly reshaped our hopes for an improved humanity. In this pioneering book, Samuel Moyn elevates that extraordinary transformation to center stage and asks what it reveals about the ideal’s troubled present and uncertain future. For some, human rights stretch back to the dawn of Western civilization, the age of the American and French Revolutions, or the post–World War II moment when the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was framed. Revisiting these episodes in a dramatic tour of humanity’s moral history, The Last Utopia shows that it was in the decade after 1968 that human rights began to make sense to broad communities of people as the proper cause of justice. Across eastern and western Europe, as well as throughout the United States and Latin America, human rights crystallized in a few short years as social activism and political rhetoric moved it from the hallways of the United Nations to the global forefront. It was on the ruins of earlier political utopias, Moyn argues, that human rights achieved contemporary prominence. The morality of individual rights substituted for the soiled political dreams of revolutionary communism and nationalism as international law became an alternative to popular struggle and bloody violence. But as the ideal of human rights enters into rival political agendas, it requires more vigilance and scrutiny than when it became the watchword of our hopes.

Author : Sonja Schasny
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3640543726
Total Pages : 25 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Different Insights Into Slavery Due to Gender-Bound Experiences written by Sonja Schasny and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2010-03 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2009 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 2,0, TU Dortmund (Institut für Anglistik), course: Transatlantic Slavery, language: English, abstract: Although the people from Africa already new slavery on the African continent, they experienced totally new insights into slavery when arriving in the New World in the 19th century. Henceforward, a new era of dehumanization, depersonalization, brutal and dreadful mistreatments of Afro-Americans took place, which still in these days influence the history of the United States. Harriet Ann Jacobs' Incidents in a Life of a Slave Girl (1861) and Frederick Douglass' Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (1845) are two autobiographical slave narratives which show on a very impressive, personal and emotional level the repercussions, the atrocities and effects of slavery on the individual slave as well as on the slaveholders. However, it can be read that under an economy of slavery, both male and female slaves are feminized or "ungenered" and that the denial of subject status is linked to the exclusion of slaves from participation in the gender system that structured the dominant society (cf. Boesenberg 1999: 119). In this paper it will be analyzed and discussed in how far these gender-defining statements made by Boesenberg in particular can mislead the reader. Actually, a lot of gender-bound experiences of slaves will be pointed out in this paper which illuminate that the individual slave acts and lives accordingly to his or her gender. The aim of this paper is to emphasize differences of gender-bound experiences between Douglass' and Jacobs' narratives. Firstly, a depiction of slavery will help the reader to empathetically imagine the conditions of the situation in which the slaves and the slaveholders lived together. In a second part the influences of slavery on the social environment will be analyzed while focus will be given on the one hand to the slave fami

Author : Peggy Zawadil
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3668110425
Total Pages : 22 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book British Abolitionism in Hannah More's "Slavery, A Poem" written by Peggy Zawadil and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2015-12-15 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2012 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 2,0, University of Potsdam, language: English, abstract: In the following, the author wants to explore in what way the poem "Slavery, A Poem" by Hannah More serves abolitionist means. A quote of Hannah More (1745 - 1833) in a letter to her sister states: “I grieve I did not set about it sooner; as it must now be done in such a hurry... but, good or bad, if it does not come out at the particular moment when the discussion comes on in Parliament, it will not be worth a straw.” (Feldman, 1997, p. 470) This statement is referring to her poem “Slavery, A Poem.” that she wrote in 1788. Reading this quotation one can act on the assumption that the poem and its time of publication served a specific purpose. Knowing that Hannah More was an active member of the British abolitionism and knowing that she wrote the poem for this very reason; we can come to the following study question: In what way is the typical British abolitionism represented in Hannah Mores poem?

Author : Cristin Ellis
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 0823278468
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Antebellum Posthuman written by Cristin Ellis and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2018-01-02 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the eighteenth-century abolitionist motto “Am I Not a Man and a Brother?” to the Civil Rights-era declaration “I AM a Man,” antiracism has engaged in a struggle for the recognition of black humanity. It has done so, however, even as the very definition of the human has been called into question by the biological sciences. While this conflict between liberal humanism and biological materialism animates debates in posthumanism and critical race studies today, Antebellum Posthuman argues that it first emerged as a key question in the antebellum era. In a moment in which the authority of science was increasingly invoked to defend slavery and other racist policies, abolitionist arguments underwent a profound shift, producing a new, materialist strain of antislavery. Engaging the works of Douglass, Thoreau, and Whitman, and Dickinson, Cristin Ellis identifies and traces the emergence of an antislavery materialism in mid-nineteenth century American literature, placing race at the center of the history of posthumanist thought. Turning to contemporary debates now unfolding between posthumanist and critical race theorists, Ellis demonstrates how this antebellum posthumanism highlights the difficulty of reconciling materialist ontologies of the human with the project of social justice.

Author : Svante Fischer
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Total Pages : 270 pages
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Download or read book Roman Imperialism and Runic Literacy written by Svante Fischer and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Anne Mcclintock
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135209103
Total Pages : 544 pages
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Download or read book Imperial Leather written by Anne Mcclintock and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imperial Leather chronicles the dangerous liaisons between gender, race and class that shaped British imperialism and its bloody dismantling. Spanning the century between Victorian Britain and the current struggle for power in South Africa, the book takes up the complex relationships between race and sexuality, fetishism and money, gender and violence, domesticity and the imperial market, and the gendering of nationalism within the zones of imperial and anti-imperial power.

Author : Bendix, Regina
Publisher : Universitätsverlag Göttingen
ISBN 13 : 3863951220
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Heritage Regimes and the State written by Bendix, Regina and published by Universitätsverlag Göttingen. This book was released on 2013-07-02 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happens when UNESCO heritage conventions are ratified by a state? How do UNESCO’s global efforts interact with preexisting local, regional and state efforts to conserve or promote culture? What new institutions emerge to address the mandate? The contributors to this volume focus on the work of translation and interpretation that ensues once heritage conventions are ratified and implemented. With seventeen case studies from Europe, Africa, the Caribbean and China, the volume provides comparative evidence for the divergent heritage regimes generated in states that differ in history and political organization. The cases illustrate how UNESCO’s aspiration to honor and celebrate cultural diversity diversifies itself. The very effort to adopt a global heritage regime forces myriad adaptations to particular state and interstate modalities of building and managing heritage.