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208 p., Illustrates the way enslaved Africans lived and helped to shape Jamaican society in the three decades before British abolition of the slave trade. Audra Diptee's in-depth investigations reveal unexpected insights into the demographics of those captured in Africa and legally transported on British slave ships.
Dessalines became a lieutenant in Papillon's army and followed him to Santo Domingo, where at first he enlisted to serve Spain's military forces against the French then he joined the "real" slave rebellion that was inspired by Dutty Boukman, a voodoo priest, and led by Toussaint.
Discusses how ephemeral artifacts of daily material culture, such as marquillas -- the colorful lithographed papers that were used to wrap bundles of cigarettes during the second half of the nineteenth century in Cuba -- partook of the symbolization of emergent forms of racialized governability towards the end of slavery on the island.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title Details:
2012(March 12)
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A Memory of the World project. A searchable register of the archives containing historical information and digital documents. Accessible in English or Spanish.
Benes,Peter (Author), Benes,Jane Montague (Author), Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife (33rd : 2008 : Deerfield, Mass.), and Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife (Author)
Format:
Book, Edited
Publication Date:
2012
Published:
Deerfield, MA: Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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156 p, Contents include: Section I. Extractive and provisioning trades -- Section II. Plantations and business ventures -- Section III. Slavery and piracy -- Section IV. Caribbean immigrants to New England -- Section V. Architecture -- Caribbean--New England bibliography.
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309 p, Using the stories of ordinary people, Block illustrates how engaging with the powerful rhetoric and rituals of Christianity was central to survival. Isobel Criolla was a runaway slave in Cartagena who successfully lobbied the Spanish governor not to return her to an abusive mistress. Nicolas Burundel was a French Calvinist who served as henchman to the Spanish governor of Jamaica before his arrest by the Inquisition for heresy. Henry Whistler was an English sailor sent to the Caribbean under Oliver Cromwell's plan for holy war against Catholic Spain. Yaff and Nell were slaves who served a Quaker plantation owner, Lewis Morris, in Barbados. Seen from their on-the-ground perspective, the development of modern capitalism, race, and Christianity emerges as a story of negotiation, contingency, humanity, and the quest for community.
Ojo,Olatunji (Editor), Lovejoy,Paul E. (Editor), and Hunt,Nadine (Editor)
Format:
Book, Edited
Publication Date:
2012
Published:
London: I.B. Tauris
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Most of the chapters in this book derive from conference papers presented at the Canadian Association for African Studies (CAAS) Annual Meeting and Conference held at Carleton University, Ottawa in May 2010., 224 p, Based on Jamaican and African archival sources, analysis demonstrates how many Africans coped by adopting a flexible identity in order to negotiate the cultural differences in African, European, and Islamic systems of slavery.
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224 p., Analyses the written sources which have survived, demonstrating how many Africans coped by adopting a flexible identity in order to negotiate the cultural differences in African, European, and Islamic systems of slavery. An important work based on Jamaican and African archival sources.
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353 p., Interspersing colonial history with her family's experience, Stuart explores the interconnected themes of settlement, sugar and slavery. In examining how these forces shaped her own family--its genealogy, intimate relationships, circumstances of birth, varying hues of skin--she illuminates how her family, among millions of others like it, in turn transformed the society in which they lived, and how that interchange continues to this day.
