By Grace Rozembajgier ’23 On November 14, 1816, Marie Pourciau entered the courtroom in Pointe Coupée Parish, Louisiana, seeking to divorce her husband and reclaim the property she had brought to the marriage. The case, lasting just over a year, mysteriously ended with Pourciau withdrawing her claim. Nonetheless, the nearly three handwritten pages of courtContinue reading “Coverture in the Courts: Marie Pourciau’s Legal Battle for Divorce “
Category Archives: Spring 2023 Essays
“Little Abolitionists”: The Role of Children in the Fight to End Slavery Throughout the Antebellum Era
Meg Beuter Upon discovering that his wife Sophia was teaching their young enslaved boy the alphabet, Baltimore slaveholder Hugh Auld scolded her, claiming that this education would “forever unfit [the boy] to be a slave ” (4). The young enslaved boy in question was Frederick Douglass, the renowned abolitionist and orator (8). Despite Auld’s opposition,Continue reading ““Little Abolitionists”: The Role of Children in the Fight to End Slavery Throughout the Antebellum Era”
Cultural Portrayals of American Fast Food in China
By Clark Doman ’23 In the late 1980s and early 1990s, a decade after Deng Xiaoping introduced his “Open Door” policy that opened China to the rest of the world, American fast-food chains such as Kentucky Fried Chicken, Pizza Hut, and McDonald’s established their first restaurants in China. These restaurants in Beijing and other largeContinue reading “Cultural Portrayals of American Fast Food in China”
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