... enslaved women, had little to no influence in informing historical perspectives on slavery for many years. They were essentially mute in terms of cultivating the greater portion of traditional literature regarding the topic. However, with the development of women's studies as an accredited academic exploration as well as the emergence of minority histories endorsed by democratically-minded historians ... who took part in slavery. In this essay I will study trends in the modern historiographical trajectory of this once scholarly and socially peripheral demographic. Initial literature on e...

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The association between rioting, civil dissent and protest on the one hand, and intersectional and gender politics on the other, is something which has been noted in the literature (White, 2007). Where there is mass civil protest such as was seen in London in 2011 and Ferguson in 2014, questions of race, class, gender and other intersectional socio-political ... August. The killing of Mark Duggan, a black man, on the 4th of August in Tottenham was seen as the trigger for these protests. Likewise in Ferguson, the fatal shooting of African American Michael Brown by a white police officer on t...

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