Before standing out as the author of early Colombia’s free womb and gradual slave manumission law, Félix José de Restrepo owned and legally represented slaves in colonial Popayán. This article analyzes Restrepo’s ambiguous relationship with slavery, as well as his intellectual formation and legal practice over the last colonial years in the New Kin...
The case concerned the slavery-like working conditions of 85 workers, some of them children, in a privately-owned estate “Hacienda Brasil Verde”, a cattle ranch in Brazil. This is the first judgment on slavery and human trafficking (Article 6 of the American Convention on Human Rights) issued by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (hereafter ‘...
Published in Romanian Journal of English Studies
There is a growing interest in cognitive approaches to literature in recent years; undoubtedly conceptual metaphor has become one of the favourite topics for analysis. George Lakoff and Mark Johnson in Metaphors We Live By (1980), assert that metaphor is not just a matter of words; rather it is inherently conceptual and conceptual metaphors help us...
This short piece traces the development in Brathwaite's writing and stresses the turning point that occurs in this 1987 collection X/Self.
Published in Journal of medical biography
Frank Utten Purchas was born into a family which had a long history of benefitting from slavery. He was born in Jamaica where both his paternal and maternal lines owned slaves who were forced to work on their sugar plantations. Purchas left this life behind him, however, trained in medicine in Edinburgh and became a respected and committed physicia...
Published in The Journal of Ethics
Huck Finn’s struggles with his conscience, as depicted in Mark Twain’s famous novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (AHF) (1884), have been much discussed by philosophers; and various philosophical lessons have been extracted from Twain’s depiction of those struggles. Two of these philosophers stand out, in terms of influence: Jonathan Bennett a...
The essay offers a reflection on memories of traumatic histories, including African American slavery, Native American genocide, and the Holocaust. I weave personal memories together with a consideration of poetry, monuments, and other representations that sometimes tend to efface, sometimes come to grips, as best they can, with these appalling even...
Published in psychologie clinique
L’objectif de cet article vise à introduire une nouvelle réflexion sur la violence intergénérationnelle à partir du traumatisme historique de l’esclavage à la Réunion et son impact psychologique sur une partie de la population locale. Dans une perspective psychodynamique et anthropologique, il s’agit de confronter notre hypothèse de travail, à trav...
Published in Journal of Ancient Near Eastern History
The article provides a historical analysis of cuneiform records concerning the circulation of unfree humans among the political-cultic elite in southern Mesopotamia and the Persian Gulf during the Early Dynastic IIIb period, ca. 2475–2300 BCE. The analysis of the written data from the Adab city-state demonstrates that the royal house used the unfre...
This paper deploys narrative inquiry and analysis to capture the oral history of two families&rsquo / intergenerational memory of an African American woman named Celia who was hanged in 1855 for killing her owner Robert Newsom. It is the first scholarly investigation into the intergenerational memory of both black and white descendants of Robert Ne...
