Browsing MLAS Student Research by Author "Landers, Jane G."
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Harmer, Crickett (Vanderbilt University, 2009-04)
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The Importation, Adaptation, and Creolization of Slave Leisure Forms in the Americas: 1600 to 1865 Doster, Stephen (Vanderbilt University, 2009)Leisure, the escape from the tedium of everyday existence, is found in all cultures including those in which slavery exists. At first glance the terms "slavery" and "leisure" may seem to be contradictory, mutually exclusive ...
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Moore, J. Hunter (Vanderbilt Universityhttp://www.vanderbilt.edu/, 2009-04)Throughout the Transatlantic slave trade enslaved Africans sang. In holding pens called barracoons awaiting shipment, aboard slave ships crossing the Atlantic, and in the transatlantic colonies, singing was a common feature ...