This article begins with a brief introduction to some of the past research conducted on slave names and a discussion of some of the practices surrounding the naming of African- American slaves in 18th Century America. This is followed by a classification of the collection of fugitive slave names...
Names and Naming of African American Slaves They also converted some English adjectives and even abstract nouns to names, hoping their children realize the meanings in their Lives. They even used ... Park,Eun-jin - 《Journal of the Korean Association of African Studies》 被引量: 0发表: 2008...
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One of the ways that the institution of slavery attempted to dehumanize African slaves was through the denial of naming rights to slaves and their offspring. Paradoxically, at times this was done through providing Christian names in order to "civilize" them. Other methods by slave own...
For American slaves,as for their African ancestors,names were culturally significant. 美国黑人奴隶同他们的非洲祖先一样赋予名字以重要的文化内涵,因此,虽然奴隶主试图剥夺黑人奴隶的姓名权和他们为子女命名的权利,使他们与自己的过去割裂开来,但是黑人并非消极地屈从于主人的意志,而是努力为自己争取这项做人的基本...
Samantha is a relatively modern name. It was first used by African slaves in the USA. It is based on the name Samuel and other names like Iantha. It could be considered a feminine form of Samuel, a name which rarely has a feminine form in any language. However, if you want to grasp...
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However, the area had been commonly called “Algiers Point” long before the name became official. Given the fact that it once was a prominent slave trade depot, the large presence of African slaves gave off the impression of it being like Africa itself. Algiers is the capital city of Alger...
We want to ignore, or explain away, the complicity of our cultural heritage—I mean, white, Euro-American art, poetry, music, theater, how it has served, directly and indirectly, the Masters of our history. And their wars, their slave holding, their misogyny—kings and empire, and after...
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