Suicide, Slavery, and Memory in North America

Snyder, Terri L.

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“…For instance, the earlier-than-expected TMRCA for the Bight of Biafra may be due to the high suicide rates documented in enslaved Igbo people. 73 , 74 Most documented suicides, such as the Igbo Landing mass suicide of 1803 in the United States, were recorded later in the slave trade. If suicide by means of revolt became more common in enslaved people from the Bight of Biafra as the slave trade continued, that TMRCA estimate would appear older than expected given recorded shipping of enslaved people from the Bight of Biafra.…”

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Genetic Consequences of the Transatlantic Slave Trade in the Americas

Micheletti

Bryc

Esselmann

et al. 2020

The American Journal of Human Genetics

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According to historical records of transatlantic slavery, traders forcibly deported an estimated 12.5 million people from ports along the Atlantic coastline of Africa between the 16th and 19th centuries, with global impacts reaching to the present day, more than a century and a half after slavery’s abolition. Such records have fueled a broad understanding of the forced migration from Africa to the Americas yet remain underexplored in concert with genetic data. Here, we analyzed genotype array data from 50,281 research participants, which—combined with historical shipping documents—illustrate that the current genetic landscape of the Americas is largely concordant with expectations derived from documentation of slave voyages. For instance, genetic connections between people in slave trading regions of Africa and disembarkation regions of the Americas generally mirror the proportion of individuals forcibly moved between those regions. While some discordances can be explained by additional records of deportations within the Americas, other discordances yield insights into variable survival rates and timing of arrival of enslaved people from specific regions of Africa. Furthermore, the greater contribution of African women to the gene pool compared to African men varies across the Americas, consistent with literature documenting regional differences in slavery practices. This investigation of the transatlantic slave trade, which is broad in scope in terms of both datasets and analyses, establishes genetic links between individuals in the Americas and populations across Atlantic Africa, yielding a more comprehensive understanding of the African roots of peoples of the Americas.

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Genetic Consequences of the Transatlantic Slave Trade in the Americas

Micheletti

Bryc

Esselmann

et al. 2020

The American Journal of Human Genetics

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“…A further illustration of the belief in the soul's afterlife can be drawn from the North American environment. The anthropologists' records show that many black slaves, who could not stand the life away from their homeland and who suffered from hard labor, fled or committed suicide so that their souls could return to their homeland and reincarnate again (Snyder, 2010). However, their white masters ordered the servants to injure those who were captured, destroying the bodies of those who died before burial, such as cutting off their heads or limbs.…”

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Magic in healing practice: a case study in Vietnam and its philosophical assessment

Nguyen¹,

Prokopyev²,

Lapidus³

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The use of magic and religion in healing practices in Vietnam is relatively popular. In the folklore and folk religion of Vietnam, it is often said that “In case of sickness, follow any feasible cures [co benh thi vai tu phuong]” in the sense that all means, including using religious beliefs and rituals, will be used to get healing for oneself or one’s relatives. When people or their relatives get sick, besides going to medical facilities, they will look for a shaman, necromancer, monks, even priests, bishops, and pastors to cure the illness they or their relatives are suffering from. Based on Mircea Eliade’s theory published in The Sacred and the Profane (Eliade, 2016), the article has the ambition to offer a different perspective on the use of magic (sometimes considered as a religious ritual by the subject) to cure disease. We employ both the comparative and analytical methods of study as we explore concrete cases of treatment of patients with different religious beliefs (Ms. T’s case of treatment, following Buddhist practices in comparison with the healing cases of the Mother Goddess Worship and the Catholic Church). The authors propose that a uniquely Vietnamese philosophy of life (Life-philosophy) serves as a constitutive basis for the adaptation of magic in healing practices, being itself formed and influenced by these practices.

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“…Earlier suicides committed by either free or enslaved persons were typically seen as acts of cowardice or as a means of avoiding work. See TerriSnyder (2010Snyder ( , 2015 for a more in-depth account of the evolution of Anglo-American attitudes towards the self-destruction of enslaved persons than can be provided here.…”

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The Gallows Alien: Extending the Concept <Person> to Non-Human Organisms

Hamblin-Yule

2022

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Immanuel Kant maintained throughout his life that non-human persons likely exist but he failed to specify how we could recognise them. In this article, I argue (a) that non-human organisms can be considered non-human persons if they can be judged as belonging to a species with a moral vocation, and (b) a species can be judged as having a moral vocation if at least one of its members is able to make what I will call a “moral sacrifice” in which that member sacrifices its physical life for the sake of its moral life.

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Suicide, Slavery, and Memory in North America

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Genetic Consequences of the Transatlantic Slave Trade in the Americas

Genetic Consequences of the Transatlantic Slave Trade in the Americas

Magic in healing practice: a case study in Vietnam and its philosophical assessment

The Gallows Alien: Extending the Concept <Person> to Non-Human Organisms

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