A history of corporal punishment in the Brazilian navy and the four-day mutiny that took Rio hostage and put an end to t
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Aisha Khan examines two cultural phenomena of colonized laborers in the West Indies: the “African” supernatural practice
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The transatlantic slave trade forced millions of Africans into bondage. Until the early nineteenth century, African slav
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Throughout the nineteenth century the idyllic island of Fernando de Noronha, which lies two hundred miles off Brazil
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Anglo-Saxon authorities often punished lawbreakers with harsh corporal penalties, such as execution, mutilation and impr
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Warren Dean chronicles the chaotic path to what could be one of the greatest natural disasters of modern times: the disa
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Could slaves become Christian? If so, did their conversion lead to freedom? If not, then how could perpetual enslavement
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