Grégoire,Henri (Author), Hermon-Belot,Rita (Editor), and Little,Roger (Editor)
Format:
Book, Edited
Language:
French
Publication Date:
2009
Published:
Paris: Harmattan
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
2 vols., Henri Grégoire, often referred to as Abbé Grégoire, was a French Roman Catholic priest, constitutional bishop of Blois and a revolutionary leader. He was an ardent abolitionist.
Engerman,Stanley L. (Author) and Genovese,Eugene D. (Author)
Format:
Book, Whole
Publication Date:
1975
Published:
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
556 p, Includes Michael J. Craton's "Jamaican slavery," pp. 249-284;and Frederick P. Bowser's "The free persons of color in Mexico City and Lima: manumission and opportunity, 1580-1650," pp. 331-368;
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
951 p., Story of an elderly African, blind and dying, traveling from Africa to Brazil in search of the lost son for decades. Along the journey, she will tell her life, marked by killings, rape, violence and slavery. Set in an important historical context in the formation of the Brazilian people and narrated in a way in which the historical facts are immersed in daily life and in the lives of the characters.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
951 p., A story of an African elderly who is blind, and on the verge of death, travels to from African to Brazil in a hunt for the lost child for decades.
