Larry Eugene River\u27s Slavery in Florida : A Review Essay

Serious scholarly invetigation of slavery in Florida began with the 1973 publication of Julia Floyd Smith\u27s Slavery and Plantation Growth in Antebellum Florida, 1821-1860. In her own way Smith was a pioneer. She was the first to lay out the basic contours of slavery\u27s history in Florida, and she grounded her narrative on extensive use of archival records, census data, traveler\u27s accounts, legislation, and even slave narratives. Her focus was restricted to the American slaveholders who poured into middle Florida after 1821 and who thereafter extended the southern frontier of the cotton belt. She framed her book within the literature of the time, which meant-among other things-the ongoing debate over the relative brutality of slavery in Brazil and the American South and, more importantly, the question of slavery\u27s efficiency and profitability. Smith emphasized the entrepreneurial orientation of the slaveholders, arguing that they succeeded in building efficient plantation bureaucracies that became more productive over time. And although she included an entire chapter on the slave trade within Florida, she was inclined to view the masters as rather more benevolent than cruel

Cwbr Author Interview: Freedom National: The Destruction Of Slavery In The United States, 1861-1865

Interview with James Oakes, Distinguished Professor of History and Graduate School Humanities Professor at the City University of New York Graduate Center Interviewed by Michael Frawley Civil War Book Review (CWBR): Today, I\u27m discussing with Professor James Oakes his new published Freedom National: The Destruction of slavery in the United States, 1861-1865, which was recently awarded the 2013 Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize. Congratulations Dr. Oakes and thank you for joining us today. James Oakes (JO): Thank you very much. It\u27s a pleasure to be here

Extended Discussion On: The Scorpion\u27s Sting

James Oakes: I try to write as clearly as I can, to make my points as sharply as possible, but inevitably even the best writers—those far more adept with words than I—experience the frustration of having failed to make ourselves as clear as we ought. Having failed to make myself understood ...

Intelligent Management of Virtualised Computer Based Workloads and Systems

Managing the complexity within virtualised IT infrastructure platforms is a common problem for many organisations today. Computer systems are often highly consolidated into a relatively small physical footprint compared with previous decades prior to late 2000s, so much thought, planning and control is necessary to effectively operate such systems within the enterprise computing space. With the development of private, hybrid and public cloud utility computing this has become even more relevant; this work examines how such cloud systems are using virtualisation technology and embedded software to leverage advantages, and it uses a fresh approach of developing and creating an Intelligent decision engine (expert system). Its aim is to help reduce the complexity of managing virtualised computer-based platforms, through tight integration, high-levels of automation to minimise human inputs, errors, and enforce standards and consistency, in order to achieve better management and control. The thesis investigates whether an expert system known as the Intelligent Decision Engine (IDE) could aid the management of virtualised computer-based platforms. Through conducting a series of mixed quantitative and qualitative experiments in the areas of research, the initial findings and evaluation are presented in detail, using repeatable and observable processes and provide detailed analysis on the recorded outputs. The results of the investigation establish the advantages of using the IDE (expert system) to achieve the goal of reducing the complexity of managing virtualised computer-based platforms. In each detailed area examined, it is demonstrated how using a global management approach in combination with VM provisioning, migration, failover, and system resource controls can create a powerful autonomous system

On The Craft and Philosophy of Judging

A Review of The Ways of a Judge: Reflections from the Federal Appellate Bench by Frank M. Coffi

Property Rights in Constitutional Analysis Today

The concept of property rights in Supreme Court constitutional analysis today is in flux. It has been and is undergoing change—a change more rapid than those of us who have concentrated our attention on other personal rights can imagine. That this process of change raises anew some fundamental issues of justice is not surprising; the institution of property has always done so. Perhaps the change is simply a swing of the pendulum, as the quote from Justice Frankfurter suggests: individual property rights assume greater importance as a state moves toward a laissez-faire economy or away from a regulated one; they tend to have less significance when the state takes on a welfare cast. Perhaps change in viewing property rights under the Constitution is inevitable since the very philosophical concepts underlying property rights, if they are not mutually conflicting, at least constitute a spectrum of relationships between the individual and the state which secures those rights. This spectrum inevitably reflects political ebb and flow. From the Washington Law Review Jurisprudential Lecture Series

The Doctrine of Prior Restraint Since the Pentagon Papers

The purpose of this speech is to examine how the doctrine against prior restraint has evolved since the Pentagon Papers case. I intend to demonstrate that while traditional antipathy to prior restraint has for the most part remained strong, several recent cases foreshadow a dangerous expansion of well-established exceptions to the doctrine. To understand fully the significance of these recent cases, I will begin this lecture with a general discussion of the historical origins of the doctrine against prior restraint. I will then proceed with a critical overview of the landmark Pentagon Papers case, more formally called New York Times Co. v. United States. The remainder of the discussion will focus on five Supreme Court cases decided since the Pentagon Papers decision - Pittsburgh Press Co. v. Pittsburgh Commission on Human Relations, Southeastern Promotions, Ltd. v. Conrad, Young v. American Mini Theatres, Nebraska Press Association v. Stuart, and Snepp v. United States - as well as three recent lower court decisions involving national security considerations: United States v. Marchetti, Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. v. Colby, and United States v. The Progressive