Ewing, James (1775–1853), West India merchant, slave owner, and civic leader

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Mullen
Keyword(s):  
Slave Owner ◽  
Civic Leader

scholarly journals African American Women and Domestic Violence: Addressing their Voice of Silence

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bernice Kennedy ◽  
Chalice Rhodes (Former Jenkins)
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Domestic Violence ◽  
African American ◽  
Black Women ◽  
African American Women ◽  
White Women ◽  
The United States ◽  
Slave Owner ◽  
American Women ◽  
Strong Black Women

Abstract Historically, during slavery, the international slave trade promoted normalization of violence against African American women. During slavery, African American women endured inhuman conditions because of the majority race views of them as being over-sexualized, physically strong, and immoral. This perception of the African American women as being highly sexual and more sexual than white women results in slave owner justifying their sexual violation and degrading of the African American women. The stereotypical representations of African American women as strong, controlling, dangerous, fearless, and invulnerable may interfere with the African American women receiving the needed services for domestic violence in the community. The Strong Black Women Archetype has been dated back to slavery describing their coping mechanism in dealing with oppression by developing a strong, less traditionally female role. The authors developed a model: The Multidimensional Perspectives of Factors Contributing to Domestic Violence of African American Women in the United States. This model depicts historically, the factors contributing to domestic violence of African American women in the United States. Also, this model addressed the African American women subscribing to the Strong Black Women Archetype to cope with domestic violence. Despite the increase in domestic violence in African American women, they focused more on the issue of racism instead of sexism in America. African American women have experienced the two obstacles of racism and sexism in America. However, African American women and men believe racism is more critical than sexism. Therefore, domestic violence in the African American population may remain silent because of cultural loyalty. However, the voice of silence of African American females is gradually changing with the upcoming generations.

Pens, Planes, and Politics

2018 ◽  
pp. 223-238
Author(s):  
Joseph M. Thompson
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
African American ◽  
African American Women ◽  
Cultural History ◽  
Industrial Complex ◽  
Geographical Proximity ◽  
Military Industrial Complex ◽  
Civic Leader ◽  
Defense Contracts ◽  
The Cold War

This chapter combines political, labor, and cultural history methodologies to compare the Lockheed aircraft factory in Marietta, Georgia, and the Scripto pen and pencil factory in nearby Atlanta. While the mostly male employees at Lockheed, a majority-white plant, enjoyed the job security delivered by defense contracts at the height of the Cold War military-industrial complex, the Scripto workers, the majority of whom were African American women, faced the more capricious turns of the market. Many of the disparities between these factories stemmed from their common management history found in the career of attorney, businessman, and civic leader, James V. Carmichael. Although situated within close geographical proximity, Lockheed and Scripto helped create disparate racial, political, and cultural worlds in the mid-twentieth century. The tale of these two factories uncovers the stark contrasts between the ways race, gender, and government intervention shaped different sectors of the postwar southern economy.

The Barrister

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kurt X. Metzmeier
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
Court Of Appeals ◽  
First Case ◽  
Civic Leader

As a legislator, James Hughes drafted laws to reform the muddled property laws inherited from Virginia; as an attorney, he litigated the myriad land cases that clogged the new commonwealth’s courts. While waiting to have his many cases heard in the Kentucky Court of Appeals, he took detailed notes on the cases he observed. To these accounts he added notes from his own arguments and those of his friends and fashioned the first case reporter for the state of Kentucky. Hughes was also a Lexington civic leader.

Lord Seaforth: Highland Proprietor, Caribbean Governor and Slave Owner

2011 ◽  
Vol 90 (2) ◽  
pp. 204-235 ◽  
Author(s):  
Finlay McKichan
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
British Empire ◽  
Slave Trade ◽  
World View ◽  
Sensitive Period ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Slave Owner ◽  
Public Figure ◽  
Profound Deafness ◽  
The Right

Historians have recently investigated the inter-relationship between Scotland and various parts of the British Empire. Francis Humberston Mackenzie of Seaforth (1754–1815) was a Highland proprietor in what has become known as ‘The First Phase of Clearance’, was governor of Barbados (1801–6) in the sensitive period immediately before the abolition of the British slave trade and was himself a plantation owner in Berbice (Guiana). He overcame his profound deafness to become an energetic public figure. The article compares his attitudes and actions to establish how far there was a consistency of approach in each of his capacities. It is suggested that his concern for his Highland small tenants was paralleled by his ambition in Barbados to make the killing of a slave by a white a capital offence, by his attempts to give free coloureds the right to testify against whites and by his aim to provide good conditions for his own enslaved labourers in Berbice. It is argued that he had a conservative world view which led him to support slavery and the slave trade (for which he can be criticised), but which also gave him a concern for the welfare of people for whom he felt responsible. The balance between humanitarianism and more pragmatic considerations in his decision-making is considered. Another parallel between the Highlands, Barbados and Berbice is that his good intentions were often of short-term or limited advantage to the intended beneficiaries. The reasons for this are investigated. A comparison is also made between Seaforth's authority and influence as a Highland proprietor and the restrictions and the frustrations he experienced as an active Caribbean governor.

Fernandis, Sarah A. Collins

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wilma Peebles-Wilkins
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
United States ◽  
Venereal Disease ◽  
Health Department ◽  
The United States ◽  
Black Communities ◽  
Disease Clinic ◽  
Social Settlement ◽  
Civic Leader ◽  
The City

Sarah Fernandis (1863–1951) was a civic leader and organizer of public health activities in Black communities. She founded the first black social settlement in the United States. In 1920, she became the first Black social worker employed in the City Venereal Disease Clinic of the Baltimore Health Department.

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