A hedonic price index and a quality-adjusted quantity index are constructed in order to provide a clearer picture of how slave quality evolved. Controlling for slave quality, slave prices did not rise as much as previously thought. This is due to an increase in slave quality, especially during the earlier 1800s. Properly accounting for the effect of the 1808 prohibition of slave importation, th...

the present project is an attempt to give a model of african-american subjectivity by applying different theories of subjectivity to toni morrison's representation of african-american people in beloved. since beloved represents a group of ex-slaves, who remember harsh memories of slavery, their subjectivities can be analyzed from a post-colonial perspective within the framework of the rela...

In this paper we discussed Ursula Le Guin's story "A Woman's Liberation. science fiction the author chronicles a slave society on far-away planet in distant future. She describes relationships between slaves and owners but also position of women such an unjust which female are inferior to everyone, including male slaves. Since aim is make us think about our present, draws parallels fictional fr...

Tetanus and other widespread endemic diseases of Brazil's early national period speak to intimate details of common life and give clues to big, vexing questions, such as why Brazil's population expanded dramatically at the turn of the twentieth century. Tetanus was for a long time one of Brazil's deadliest afflictions, especially among infants, but historians know very little about it. Using ar...

Autonomy remains a central yet contested concept for contemporary feminism. In part, this results from tension which is definitional to the of autonomy. Simply put, how can autonomy, choice, explain choice not choose? paper, I argue that consideration procedural, content-neutral conditions autonomy at work in past, present and future an agent allows insight into oppressive socialization without...