Browsing Master's Theses by Author "Perry, Kennetta Hammond, 1979-"
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Friends in the Meetinghouse and Masters in the Fields: Seventeenth Century Quakers in the Slave Society of Barbados
Winchester, Jonathan (East Carolina University, 2016-04-26)The Religious Society of Friends, also known as the Quakers, are well known for their antislavery philosophy in the United States prior to the Civil War. During the 17th century, however, many Quakers owned plantations in ... -
The False Dichotomy: Jamaican Maroons as Resistance Fighters and Colonial Enforcers
Pierce, Morgan (East Carolina University, 2017-01-03)Over the course of the eighteenth century, the maroons of Jamaica developed an independent identity that was separate both from the slave community from which they originated and from the colonial community. The maroons ...