… feel pleasure in addressing them. I am anxious that all people should understand, and I am come here to impart … to burst asunder the strong fetters by which you, the people of England, are bound? I am not the man to speak … his body, his soul, his all, to any man. Three millions of people are at this moment writhing under the tortures of the …
Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition
… Araujo’s book is a corrective to the notion that enslaved people were exchanged for trinkets and things of little … she remarked. “It is not a static object, other people can have it. And the object changes, it could be … with the other tangible objects Europeans used to buy people. It demonstrates how objects of luxury helped …
… that needs to be reckoned with and understood, not just by people who think they understand – and we all have our own preconceptions of the region – but also by people who are unfamiliar with the region. RV: You’ve used … in Mumbai, researching the industry and speaking to people there. After graduating, I worked in McKenzie for a …
… history for several years. It was fascinating to see these people in Mexico City, of all places, and I wanted to chart … at Yale. I loved the opportunity to engage with other people’s work. I learned so much from my colleagues in the … university provides that opportunity. And of course, many people commit to living in and around New Haven, which …
Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition
… damnation (loud cheering). Mr. Douglass mentioned that Thomas Hall [Auld], who claimed him as a chattel, and … Charleston Courier of Feb. 12, 1835;—”Field Negroes, by Thomas Gadsden. On Tuesday, the 17th inst., will be sold, at …
Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition
… Nell Irvin Painter – author of The History of White People and Sojourner Truth, A Life, A Symbol, among her seven … Brilliant Women: 18th Century Bluestockings (2008) and Thomas Lawrence: Regency Power and Brilliance (2010). She is … in India were simultaneous events, involving the same people, same policies, and overlapping institutions. It is a …
… Essay – Translation Concentration (FREN 492) Instructor: Thomas Connolly A one-term research project completed under … Major – Translation Concentration (FREN 496) Instructor: Thomas Connolly Second term of a yearlong research project … 1100). Emphasis on the diversity of ways the early English people approached, preserved, and appreciated the written …
Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition
… acknowledged the force of Mr. Quincy’s remark, that the people of Great Britain could run away, that they were at … that there was no law expressly passed to prevent the people from learning to read; but, by a tax of eight cents on … them limited to the higher and middle classes of the people. Let his audience imagine books kept at a high price, …
Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition
… proceedings and liabilities that faced several enslaved people who entered into Southern legal proceedings in life or … at some deep and obvious level, that the enslaved were people and not objects. The ensuing difficulty of reconciling … In what specific ways does the law treat the enslaved as people and in what ways as property? What circumstances would …
… says that this ancient graffiti was created for other people who would visit the site or who might pass along the … suggest a cultural mix and demonstrate that desert people were almost certainly interacting with Nile Valley people. “It shows a greater complexity and a little bit more …
… Wisconsin and Stanford, respectively. Nearly 3.8 billion people around the world live in rural areas and rely on … there’s a really rich set of informal institutions that people use to plug the gap.” Many households send members to … long-term welfare. “ If your policy is to introduce people to migration by a one-off subsidy, insurance allows …