Research has shown that historical levels of slavery have an adverse impact on contemporary economic development in the U.S., including income inequality and education. This paper assesses the relationship between slavery and intergenerational mobility, both in the past and at present. We first use the IPUMS Linked Representative Samples between 1860-1910 to show two things: 1) intergenerationa...

Enemy combatants captured in wartime are both a potential resource for their captors and logistical security nightmare. This has long been reflected treatment. Over the centuries, enemy have sold as slaves (or simply used slave labour), forced to switch sides, ransomed money, swapped other prisoners, physically maimed ensure they could no longer fight, starved death, imprisoned under abysmal co...

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...