Story Of Emancipation Research Articles

Bilal's Journey, a Story of Emancipation

Abstract Bilal's story traces the journey of migrant youths who abandon European reception projects while remaining undocumented. Based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork and inquiry into Bilal's lived experience, evidence is presented on how the Italian reception system fails to address the migrants’ needs and vulnerabilities. Labour is a central element in the life stories of migrant youths, although access to the labour market is constrained by laws on protection of minors and asylum bureaucracies. This fact collides with the youths’ aspirations, in which mobility and economic independence are seen as fundamental elements of ‘adulthood’. Against this backdrop, steps should be made in both legal and humanitarian approaches to youth migration to promote a regular and dignifying access to labour as a possible form of emancipation and citizenship.

Zofia Kulik. The Splendor of Myself

Narratives about women artists usually point to the obstacles they face in the development of their artistic careers. In her article, the author proposes an analysis that concentrates on how a woman artist – Zofia Kulik – presented herself as the heroine of a successful story of emancipation in the series of works titled The Splendor of Myself (1997, 2015, 2017). The self-image she presents is paradoxical: we deal with both her ostentatious presence and her absence as her physical presence is hidden behind the gorgeous but extremely stiff dress. It corresponds with Kulik’s understanding of her success as directly related with the wealth of images and the mastery of composition.

The Second Slavery, Capitalism, and Emancipation in Civil War America

The historiography of slavery in the nineteenth century has undergone a dramatic shift over the past few years. The “second slavery” as well as work on the relationship between American slavery and capitalism, have altered some of the basic paradigms which have propped up thinking about the institution in the history of the United States. This essay surveys the intellectual origins and development of both projects. It offers a critique of the assumptions which undergird this new work, while at the same time pointing up how these two projects might engage with and be challenged by the history and historiography of American emancipation. In particular, a history of coerced labor in the United States and around the world in the nineteenth century, counters the often insular way in which the story of emancipation and Reconstruction is traditionally cast.

Alice: Overcoming the Border Motto: “I Am No Longer Afraid of the World”

In our paper, we present the story of emancipation of a Roma woman, who works as a social outreach worker. Our method is based on ethnographic approach and our paper focuses on the study the emic perspective of participants in our research. The aim of the paper is to show the tension arising between the actions and expectations of Alice and the actions and expectations of those who are the important others in relation to her. There are two planes present in the personal story of Alice’s emancipation: the plane of Alice’s agency, which is represented by actions, decisions, self-determined will, versus the plane of cultural models, schemata, roles, status positions, images that are in some way offered to Alice or even forced upon her or with which she herself identifies. We will follow the contradictory process of establishment of personal identity of a woman who takes endeavours in several social fields constantly trying to maintain the permeability of these fields and their meanings, which is not an entirely trivial matter.

Douglass and Lincoln: How a Revolutionary Black Leader and a Reluctant Liberator Struggled to End Slavery and Save the Union. By Paul Kendrick and Stephen Kendrick. (New York: Walker, 2008. x, 306 pp. $26.95, ISBN 978-0-8027-1523-4.)

In Douglass and Lincoln, Paul Kendrick and Stephen Kendrick attempt to tell the story of emancipation during the American Civil War through the eyes of two of its most compelling figures. The interaction between the two is largely imagined, as Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln only met face to face three times. In essence, this is a parallel study of two prominent figures that stand in for the wider debate over emancipation between abolitionist and political communities during the Civil War. The book does little to change the prevailing view of the two men; nor is it the sole study of Lincoln and Douglass's relationship over slavery to come out in recent years. Despite its lack of originality, Douglass and Lincoln is a compelling read that can be strongly recommended for popular audiences of history. The narrative structure of Douglass and Lincoln is straightforward. Kendrick and Kendrick introduce the reader to Douglass and Lincoln briefly and then take a more extensive, year-by-year approach from 1861 to 1865. In tracing the dissimilar roads that we might expect an African American radical abolitionist editor born in the slave South and a white Republican politician from Illinois to have traveled in reaching their respective views on slavery and emancipation by the Civil War, the authors seem keen to stress the similarities between the two, rather than their quite obvious differences. For example, they argue that Douglass's much delivered speech on the “Self-Made Man” “applied extraordinarily well to Abraham Lincoln,” and they reinforce that point several times throughout the narrative (p. 37). Each meeting between the two men is described in vivid and lively prose, relying heavily on Douglass's recollections to reconstruct settings and dialogues in great detail. The link between the two sometimes takes spiritual overtones, such as the idea that “Lincoln and Douglass grasped that powers beyond human comprehension were somehow guiding this war's end” (p. 182). Whether divinely ordained or not, Lincoln and Douglass became kindred spirits as the war evolved from a narrowly defined fight in the summer of 1861 into a revolutionary conflict that tested the merits of emancipation, African American military service, and the very notion of “equality” in nineteenth-century America. By 1865, the finality of slavery's end and Lincoln's assassination provide the closing for the narrative, although Kendrick and Kendrick also offer insights on Douglass's family beyond the end of the Civil War.

Lincoln and freedom: slavery, emancipation, and the Thirteenth Amendment

Lincoln's re-election in 1864 was a pivotal moment in the history of the United States. The Emancipation Proclamation had officially gone into effect on January 1, 1863, and the proposed Thirteenth had become a campaign issue. and Freedom: Slavery, Emancipation, and the Thirteenth Amendment captures these historic times, profiling the individuals, events, and enactments that led to slavery's abolition. Fifteen of the nation's leading Lincoln scholars contribute to the collection, covering slavery from its roots in 1619 Jamestown through the adoption of the Constitution, to Abraham Lincoln's presidency. This comprehensive volume, edited by Harold Holzer and Sara Vaughn Gabbard, presents Abraham Lincoln's response to the issue of slavery as politician, president, writer, orator, and commander-in-chief. The topics include the history of slavery in North America, the Supreme Court's Dred Scott decision, the evolution of Lincoln's view of presidential powers, the influence of religion on Lincoln, and the effects of the Emancipation Proclamation. This volume effectively explores slavery as a Constitutional issue, both from the viewpoint of the original intent of the nation's founders as they failed to deal with slavery, and as a study of the Constitutional authority of the commander-in-chief as Lincoln interpreted it. Addressed is the timing of Lincoln's decision for emancipation, and its effect on the public, the military, and the slaves themselves. The collection also covers the role of the U.S. Colored Troops, the election campaign of 1864, and the legislative debate over the Thirteenth Amendment. The editors include an essay on the role that iconography played in forming and informing public opinion about emancipation and the amendments that officially granted freedom and civil rights to African Americans. and Freedom, which includes nineteen illustrations, provides a comprehensive study of slavery in America and offers a rare look at how Lincoln's views, statements, and actions played a vital role in the story of emancipation.

Forever Free: The Story of Emancipation and Reconstruction (review)

Forever Free: The Story of Emancipation and Reconstruction (review)

Forever free: the story of emancipation and Reconstruction

Forever free: the story of emancipation and Reconstruction

Forever Free: The Story of Emancipation and Reconstruction

Forever Free: The Story of Emancipation and Reconstruction

Doàn thi Diêm's ‘Story of the Vân Cát Goddess’ as a Story of Emancipation

Most of the stories we know about the Vietnamese goddess Liêu Hanh derive from Doàn thi Diêm's story Vân Cát Thân Nũ Truyên. This article analyses the story, arguing that in fact it is a piece of fiction which reflects the author's views, experiences and aspirations for greater freedom for women.

The Never-Ending Story of Emancipation

The Never-Ending Story of Emancipation