Free Slave Research Articles

Inveterate imperialists: contested imperialisms, North American history, and the coming of the U.S. Civil War

ABSTRACT In the decades preceding the U.S. Civil War, sectional conflict frequently took place in overlapping continental, hemispheric, Atlantic, and international contexts. Within these broader geographies, northern and southern whites used conceptions of empire to construct a hemispheric, Manichean struggle pitting free labour versus slave labour, democracy against aristocracy and monarchy, and popular sovereignty versus slaveholder sovereignty and the Slave Power. Beginning in the 1840s, and deepening in the 1850s, southern whites forged an imperial ideology which called for the creation of a vast empire for slavery in the Americas. Responding directly to the rise of southern pro-slavery imperialism, northern whites created an imperial ideology based on democratic-republican forms of government and free labour. By the late 1850s, Democratic and Republican imperialists advocated the imposition of their particular forms of sovereignty, race, labour, and republican government onto their sectional rivals as well as onto borderland regions in the trans-Mississippi West, Mexico, the Caribbean, and Central America. In the 1850s the United States became an empire increasingly divided by antagonistic imperial visions for the broader Americas; by 1860, Democrats and Republicans had become de facto imperial rivals.

After Reading Just Us

After Reading Just Us Fanny Howe (bio) The spiraling back, the turn of the screw to take it out, to look at what happened, to break apart the cover, to disclose in reverse, recalibrate and recapitulate, to find points of composure and recognition—to view the news as what happened already but left the stain of reportage and evidence of fraud and failure. . . . The time we live in and the way we make use of our “screws” to construct a new stage to play on. All this is wobbly and dangerous because now we look at a group of kids as a throwback to another weather and drama. Five Black guys on a corner are spotted as fugitive slaves. Runaways from history, no matter what they are doing today. We have seen them. Same for women, parading around cities and beaches, with their butts swinging and under-the-breath conversations and laughter: they too are optic throwbacks or salvage from days of chattel and prostitution. You can talk all you want about progress and liberation, but a free slave is only a “slave who is free” and a single female is still open. I think a hyper-awareness of this condition is one of the ones that turn children towards art as they develop, to seek something underlying culture that is a secret truth about who they were before now. There is fear and trepidation behind this uncovering. The hesitation in language, an attention to each word’s vibrations, can come to a form of suspicion. Just Us addresses these issues. [End Page 178] Dear Claudia Rankine, thank you for taking the time to make public as a living thing the history we are hiding. You are a poet in your thinking and so the double-entendre and coding come naturally to you and the line “don’t let me be lonely” is all you need to say after saying everything else. [End Page 179] Fanny Howe Fanny Howe has written many books of prose and poetry. Her two most recent are Night Philosophy and Love and I: Poems. She can be reached at philosophiajcf@gmail.com. Copyright © 2021 State University of New York

Experimental Assessment of Absolute Stability in Bilateral Teleoperation.

Absolute stability analysis of bilateral teleoperation systems are typically model-based. Under borderline conditions of absolute stability, depending on the degree of uncertainty in the dynamic model of the teleoperator and existing noise, the system may behave as potentially unstable when the model-based analysis predicts otherwise. In this article, we propose a methodology to experimentally verify the absolute stability of master-slave teleoperation systems. Since absolute stability demands bounds of all possible environments, we achieve this by conducting only three experiments that are often experienced in teleoperation: free slave, mass-carrying slave and locked slave (rigid environment). We will validate and compare our proposed method with the benchmark Llewellyns absolute stability criterion. Furthermore, we will examine the robustness of the proposed method and will provide guidelines for choosing the mass for the mass-carrying load condition.

Non-Linear Local Force Feedback Control for Haptic Interfaces

Abstract In this paper, a time-continuous, non-linear local force feedback control is proposed which produces low inertia of the haptic interface during free slave motion as well as higher transparency during slave-environment interactions, by modifying the local force gain as a function of the measured forces of the slave-environment interaction. Stability of the system is proven using damping injection based on a model-based passivation approach and a model-free time domain passivity approach. Teleoperation experiments with time-delay on a KUKA light weight robot-based master device show improvements in performance while using the proposed method.

Santa Teresa de Jesús como modelo de vida para las místicas novohispanas. La obra de Alonso Ramos sobre Catarina de San Juan

The life and work of Santa Teresa of Jesus had a great influence on the New Spain spiritual atmosphere by enabling a more intimate and direct relationship of women with God and contribute to the proliferation of nuns and beatified. In the Wonders of the Omnipotence and Miracles of the Grace in the life of the Venerable Servant of God Catharina of San Joan , Alonso Ramos writes the biography of Catarina of San Juan, a free slave considered saint, to whom in many passages compares with Santa Teresa. The purpose of Ramos was to create a female life model based on Teresian spirituality and values.

The free slave paradox

AbstractTo the extent that “runaway slave” and “free slave” express the same content, yet one is readily understood and the other is not, the difference exposes a cultural blindness to some of the outdated ways in which oppressive language still operates. This article processes the expression “runaway slave” through several semiotic models to examine its structural incoherence and then explores the ways in which it is paradoxically understood, even so, as functions of racist cognitive frames issuing from white investments in the language. By exposing how the expression presents interdisciplinary issues, the article thereby advances an argument against its unexamined use and proposes an alternative.

Anticipating spike synchronization in nonidentical chaotic neurons

Anticipating synchronization is investigated in nonidentical chaotic systems unidirectionally coupled in a master-slave configuration without a time-delay feedback. We show that if the parameters of chaotic master and slave systems are mismatched in such a way that the mean frequency of a free slave system is greater than the mean frequency of a master system, then the phase synchronization regime can be achieved with the advanced phase of the slave system. In chaotic neural systems, this leads to the anticipating spike synchronization: unidirectionally coupled neurons synchronize in such a way that the slave neuron anticipates the chaotic spikes of the master neuron. We demonstrate our findings with coupled Rossler systems as well as with two different models of coupled neurons, namely, the Hindmarsh–Rose neurons and the adaptive exponential integrate-and-fire neurons.

Gain change and threshold reduction of diode laser by injection locking

Injected optical signals change many of the characteristics of diode lasers. The frequency and the intensity of the injected signal determine the effect. We present a systematic study of the change in laser gain and hence threshold when the injected signal frequency is such that the locking point appears slightly below or above the threshold of the free running slave laser. Our results support the recent theoretical predictions where it was seen that spontaneous emission plays an important role near the threshold and the gain change due to injection locking is maximum at the threshold.

The free slave and slavish free

this letter talk about the free slave and slavish free :athenian soucity in fifth century B.C andtalk about the athenian soucity or the political in this soucityat the fifth century .

The relative efficiency of slave agriculture: a comment

In their book Time on the Cross, Fogel and Engerman (FE) present evidence that average factor productivity was greater for larger Southern slave farms in 1860 than for both free farms and smaller slave farms. In a recent article, Field (1988) lends support to the FE theory by finding that an upward shift in the production function occurs for slave farms at 15 slaves, the size at which FE propose that gang labour became feasible. In a more recent article, Grabowski and Pasurka (GP) contradict both FE and Field by finding that there was no relationship between the size of slave farms and their efficiency. The present paper extends both GP's and Field's work and refines a point made by FE. We distinguish between a technological advantage due to the gang labour system and revenue inefficiency due both to the incentive structure of slavery and the repugnance of gang labour, two factors which foster rational shirking and resistance by slaves. That is, we propose that relative to small slave farms, large slave f...

Leg. Gort. I. 35–55

Seizure before trial is forbidden in an impending dispute about a free man or slave. But if a claimant anticipates judgement he is to be fined ten staters for seizing a free man, five for a slave, and he is ordered to release the seized person within three days (1. 1–7).If this order for release is not obeyed, the offending party incurs another fine of a stater for a free man, a drachma for a slave, for each day until the order is obeyed, the judge deciding on oath about the time involved. If this offence is denied, the judge is to decide on oath, where there is no witness (ib 7–14).

Evolution of the Free Slave Trade Principle in Spanish Colonial Administration

Evolution of the Free Slave Trade Principle in Spanish Colonial Administration

Evolution of the Free Slave Trade Principle in Spanish Colonial Administration

Evolution of the Free Slave Trade Principle in Spanish Colonial Administration