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Item "Artful, Smart, And Of A Smiling Countenance": Delaware's Enslaved Women, 1760-1820(2009) Antezana, Darlene Spitzer; Terborg-Penn, Rosalyn; History and Geography; Doctor of PhilosophyThis dissertation analyzed the lives of Delaware's enslaved women from 1760-1820. Delaware's slavery history received little scholarly attention and its enslaved women received even less. During the sixty years examined, Delaware created a body of law that separated it from the rest of slave-owning America. These laws prohibited slave owners from importing or exporting slaves in or out of the state without an act of the legislature. Enslaved women seized the opportunity to petition for freedom if they were illegally moved from or into the state, an opportunity unavailable to enslaved women elsewhere. De facto gradual emancipation separated enslaved women and children, hindering stable marital relations and family security. Delaware's small size and the nearness of free Pennsylvania encouraged enslaved women to escape; however, Delaware's enslaved women fled with large amounts of clothing, personal property, husbands or other men, and children. Some fled while pregnant. They engaged in several forms of resistance, embraced the new Methodist religion, and participated in dance and song. Delaware's enslaved women bore children when young, had large families, and were victims of nonconsenual interracial relationships. Enslaved women performed both domestic and agricultural work; gender lines were blurred or nonexistent. They endured floggings or sometimes death for perceived non-performance in assigned work.Delaware's enslaved women were human beings who persevered to maintain families and, possibly, attain freedom. Primary data include: deed and will books of Delaware's three counties, Quaker manumission records, coroner's inquests, court cases, legislative papers, and county slavery files, all in the Delaware Public Archives. Other data include runaway and sale advertisements in contemporary newspapers, slave narratives, and memoirs of white Delawareans. Analysis of the sources created a narrative of the lives of Delaware's enslaved women.Item Interpreting And Incorporating African- American History At A Nineteenth Century Historic House Museum In The Twenty-First Century(2017) Thompson, Angel J.; Terry, David T.; History and Geography; Master of ArtsRiversdale Historic House Museum in Maryland, and Arlington House, The Robert E. Lee Memorial in Virginia, two sites of America's slave past, are actively incorporating and interpreting nineteenth-century African American history in the twenty-first century. Such an approach conforms with contemporary best-practice, for as the scholar Jessica Foy Donnelly writes, “Expanding and focusing on those that have long been untold or understated will bring greater accuracy and enrichment to any historic house museum.”1 This thesis examines how Riversdale House and Arlington House, respectively, interpret and incorporate the history of their nineteenth-century African-American inhabitants for twenty-first-century visitors. Although Riversdale and Arlington House take different interpretation approaches in presenting African-American history, and one site performs better than the other, both sites utilize their exhibitions, gallery spaces, collections, public programming, and other resources to convey the histories of their African American residents. 1 AltaMira Press, 2002), 7. Jessica Foy Donnelly, Interpreting Historic House Museums (Walnut Creek, CA:Item Joseph T. Mitchell: Life of a Maryland Slaveholder(2012-11-14) Richardson, Athena; Hood College History; History SeminarItem "Let No Irreverent Hand Change It": The Interpretation of Slavery at George Washington's Mount Vernon, 1853 to Present(2021-01-01) Burroughs, Eric; Meringolo, Denise; History; Historical StudiesThis theses explores how the interpretation of slavery at Mount Vernon has changed over time, tracing moments of change from the formation of the MVLA in 1853 until the present day. Often, audience reluctance or bigotry are blamed for the absence or weakness of slavery interpretation at historic sites, or curators and administrators claim that visitors do not want to hear about the difficult and uncomfortable history of slavery. However, in analyzing the influence the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association has exerted on efforts to develop a more inclusive narrative at the site, I argue that it is not the audience, but the stewards and donors who play the biggest role in limiting or advancing the interpretation of slavery. This theses ultimately contributes to justice-oriented conversations about racial injustice, and ways that public history sites can maintain – or hopefully, disrupt – them.Item The Life of a Slave in Frederick, MD(2010-04-28) Channing, Tiffany; Hood College History; History SeminarItem The Life of Allen Quynn 1724 - 1803(1979-05-01) Quynn, Rachel; Hood College History; History SeminarItem Overlooking The Law: The Practices Against Blacks In Texas From 1821-1872(2012) Ekong, Enimini Imoh; Ham, Debra Newman; History and Geography; Master of ArtsThis study of slavery in Texas concerns how various social practices harmful to blacks was accomplished by overlooking the law between 1680 and 1872 , as demonstrated in slave narratives collected by the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in 1939. What began as an examination of slave codes in the state of Texas ultimately evolved into a much greater fascination with the creation and implementation of various laws for enslaved and freed African Americans. This work thus addresses the a range of practices adopted by slaveholders and white lawmakers in Texas against African Americans, both free and enslaved, that resulted in overlooking the law. Three topics surveyed in this study are family and marriage, labor, and the efforts of the Freedmen's Bureau.Item "The Papists. . . have shewn a laudable Care and Concern": Catholicism, Anglicanism, and Slave Religion in Colonial Maryland(2003) Hardy, BeatrizThis article addresses the longstanding historiographical debate over the conditions of slave life in the Americas, especially the treatment of slaves in Protestant Anglo America versus Catholic Latin America, by comparing the treatment of slaves by Catholics and Anglicans in colonial Maryland, an area where other factors--ethnicity, economy, climate, laws--were the same for both religious groups. It compares the attitudes of Anglican and Catholic clergy and laity about instructing the enslaved population in religion and providing access to sacraments and rites. It then looks at why slaves might have found one church more appealing than the other.Item Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: Textual Trauma Within Beloved and Citizen(2022-04-25) Wade, Talia; Gottfried, Amy; Mitchell-Buck, Heather; Tamelyn, Tucker-Worgs; Hood College Department of English and Communication Arts; Departmental HonorsThis paper will explore Toni Morrison’s 1987 novel Beloved and Claudia Rankine’s 2014 book-length poem Citizen to examine the parallelism between trauma within African American Literature and American history as these texts highlight the experiences that many African Americans have endured in slavery and post-slavery America.Item Reparations are overdue: "Confronting the truth" about slavery means paying for it(Salon.com, LLC., 2019-03-20) Watkins, Dwight; Communications Design; Communications Design"Not if it means just a cash payment or a check," says Bernie Sanders. Why on earth not?Item A Short History of the Maryland Slave Trade(1988-04-20) Grumbine, Alicia; Hood College History; History SeminarItem Slavery in Washington County Maryland(1978) Jacobs, Gary; Hood College History; History SeminarItem The Mississippi State Colonization Society And The Key Figures In The Mississippi Colonization Scheme(2010) Bradford, Antuian Rivarius; Newman-Ham, Debra Newman; History and Geography; Master of ArtsThe colonization of free blacks to the Liberian coast by the American Colonization Society was one of the most interesting historical events of the 19th century. Many states took part in the colonization scheme and Mississippi was no different. In 1831, the Mississippi State Colonization Society saw the colonization of free blacks as a necessity for the preservation of the slave society in the state; however, this would not be the only reason the colonization society became important in the state. The key members of the Mississippi State Colonization Society supported colonization for other reasons and because of those differing motives, the society went through several stages from acclaim and support to disapproval by slaveholders and citizens alike. The influence of Dr. Stephen Duncan, Dr. John Ker and Reverend William Winans was vital to the success of the colonization society in the state but the publicity that they garnered also worked against them when the colonization society was criticized because of their actions. The successes of the Mississippi State Colonization Society were largely overshadowed by their failure to convince slaveholders that colonization would work in their favor to alleviate the worry of insurrection by slaves from the influence of free blacks and that the society was largely set up for the emancipation of slaves. The scheme of colonization became as hated as the cause of abolition in the state and, eventually, the Mississippi State Colonization Society ended with no applause for its success in transporting more than 570 emancipated and free blacks to Liberia and the creation of their own colony known as, "Mississippi in Africa," on the coast of Liberia in 1837. Duncan, Ker and Winans also suffered as their scheme of colonization in Mississippi made them outsiders in the state and placed a blemish on their reputations.Item War of Memory: The Civil War Continues in School Textbooks(2018-05-01) Shepherd, Sarah H.; Hale, Matthew; Center for Humanities - History; Bachelor's DegreeThe piece I submitted titled, “War of Memory: The Civil War Continues in School Textbooks,” examines four 1890s history textbooks in order to demonstrate the evolution of the Lost Cause and how it was created out of the political, economic, and social anxieties of its time periods. This fact is crucial as the Lost Cause organizations and proponents were so successful at spreading their message that it can still be seen today in many people’s certainty that the Civil War was fought over states’ rights not slavery. Understanding that this belief was purposefully manipulated into the national narrative is key to unraveling the confusion that surrounds our modern debate around the Civil War. It also looks at how the Lost Cause was challenged during its creation, but the dominance of the Lost Cause caused its challengers to sometimes reinforce what they were fighting against. Nevertheless, they built a foundation of which later civil rights activists built upon.Item Women and the Catholic Church in Maryland, 1689-1776Hardy, BeatrizThis article looks at the experiences of Catholic women in Maryland, 1689-1776, by focusing on two very different women: Jane Mathews Doyne, a gentlewoman in St. Mary's County who died in 1738, and Jenny, an enslaved woman on the Eastern Shore who died in the late 1700s. Both took their faith seriously and passed it on to their offspring, but race and class deeply affected their experience of religion.