A reading of Thomas Higginson's account of Nat Turner's 1832 anti-slavery uprising and Thomas Hobbes's account of political resistance in his Leviathan
Thomas Hobbes was a English philosopher, born 1588 and died 1679. He was considered to be one of the...
Slavery thrust America into a moral and legal dilemma. The Constitution and Declaration of Independe...
Thomas Jefferson is famous for his advocacy of equal rights of men, religious freedom, and democracy...
Although Thomas Hobbes’s critics have often accused him of espousing a form of extreme subjection th...
This paper has two main sections. First, I argue that Hobbes was capable of providing a convincing m...
Nat Turner was hanged 30 years before the firing on Fort Sumter, but the slave rebellion that bears ...
When coming to the study of Hobbes’s political philosophy one is confronted by several puzzling elem...
The Nat Turner uprising in Virginia in August 1831 was, in its consequences if not in the actual num...
Towards the end of the second part of Leviathan, there is a short passage in which Hobbes describes ...
While the image of the slave as the antithesis of the freeman is central to republican freedom, it i...
Hobbes, in his political writing, is generally understood to be arguing for absolutism. I argue that...
Can the concepts and ideas concerning freedom and bondage found within African American Slave narrat...
This thesis explores how Shakespeare was used by Antebellum American writers to frame slave revolts ...
"A bold new interpretation of Nat Turner and the slave rebellion that stunned the American South. In...
Thesis advisor: Richard Cobb-StevensThe right of revolution in the social contract theories of Thoma...
Thomas Hobbes was a English philosopher, born 1588 and died 1679. He was considered to be one of the...
Slavery thrust America into a moral and legal dilemma. The Constitution and Declaration of Independe...
Thomas Jefferson is famous for his advocacy of equal rights of men, religious freedom, and democracy...
Although Thomas Hobbes’s critics have often accused him of espousing a form of extreme subjection th...
This paper has two main sections. First, I argue that Hobbes was capable of providing a convincing m...
Nat Turner was hanged 30 years before the firing on Fort Sumter, but the slave rebellion that bears ...
When coming to the study of Hobbes’s political philosophy one is confronted by several puzzling elem...
The Nat Turner uprising in Virginia in August 1831 was, in its consequences if not in the actual num...
Towards the end of the second part of Leviathan, there is a short passage in which Hobbes describes ...
While the image of the slave as the antithesis of the freeman is central to republican freedom, it i...
Hobbes, in his political writing, is generally understood to be arguing for absolutism. I argue that...
Can the concepts and ideas concerning freedom and bondage found within African American Slave narrat...
This thesis explores how Shakespeare was used by Antebellum American writers to frame slave revolts ...
"A bold new interpretation of Nat Turner and the slave rebellion that stunned the American South. In...
Thesis advisor: Richard Cobb-StevensThe right of revolution in the social contract theories of Thoma...
Thomas Hobbes was a English philosopher, born 1588 and died 1679. He was considered to be one of the...
Slavery thrust America into a moral and legal dilemma. The Constitution and Declaration of Independe...
Thomas Jefferson is famous for his advocacy of equal rights of men, religious freedom, and democracy...