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2. An archaeology of Black markets: local ceramics and economies in eighteenth-century Jamaica
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Hauser,Mark W. (Author) and Florida museum of natural history (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 2008
- Published:
- Gainesville: University Press of Florida
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 269 p., In 18th-century Jamaica, an informal, underground economy existed among enslaved laborers. Utilizes both documentary and archaeological evidence to reveal how slaves practiced their own systematic forms of economic production, exchange, and consumption. Hauser compares the findings from a number of previously excavated sites and presents new analyses that reinterpret these collections in the context of island-wide trading networks
3. Black townsmen: urban slavery and freedom in eighteenth-century Americas
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Dantas,Mariana L. R. (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 2008
- Published:
- New York: Palgrave Macmillan
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 280 p., Compares the experiences of persons of African origin and descent in the towns of Baltimore and Sabara, Black Townsmen reconsiders their relationship to eighteenth-century urban environments in the Americas. Following Africans and their descendants through their struggle with slavery, manumission, and life in freedom, Dantas explains how these men and women's efforts and choices helped to define the trajectory of these two towns.
4. Slavery and protestant missions in imperial Brazil: the black does not enter the church, he peeks in from outside
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Barbosa,José Carlos (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 2008
- Published:
- Lanham, MD: University Press of America
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 168 p., Explains why Protestant missionaries stationed in Brazil during the nineteenth century remained silent on the issue of abolition, even after the end of the American Civil War. Barbosa asserts that the missionaries' first priority was to secure a toehold for Protestantism and that meant not alienating the political and landowning elites of Brazilian society.
5. The children of Africa in the colonies: free people of color in Barbados in the age of emancipation
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Newton,Melanie J. (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 2008
- Published:
- Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 322 p., When a small group of free men of color gathered in 1838 to celebrate the end of apprenticeship in Barbados, they spoke of emancipation as the moment of freedom for all colored people, not just the former slaves. The fact that many of these men had owned slaves themselves gives a hollow ring to their lofty pronouncements. Newton demonstrates that simply dismissing these men as hypocrites ignores the complexity of their relationship to slavery. Exploring the role of free blacks in Barbados from 1790 to 1860, Newton argues that the emancipation process transformed social relations between Afro-Barbadians and slaves and ex-slaves.
6. The free negress Elisabeth
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- McLeod,Cynthia (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 2008
- Published:
- London: Arcadia Books Ltd
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 316 p., She was an 18th century black Suriname woman with millions of dollars. But she sought the forbidden: to marry a white man. Why, when she already had so much? Elisabeth Samson's immense wealth puzzled many early historians who concluded that it could only have been the result of an inheritance from a master with whom she had lived and by whom she had been set free.
7. The gaulin and the dove: rainbirds of the Caribbean
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Henry,Lewis (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 2008
- Published:
- Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 114 p., The adventures of a group of seven boys, known as the Mau-Mau Raiders, coming of age in a rural village in pre-independence Barbados.
8. This spot of ground : Spiritual Baptists in Toronto
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Duncan,Carol B. (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 2008
- Published:
- Waterloo, Ont: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 275 p, Research Setting -- Study as a "Talking Book" -- Travessao -- Book Overview -- 1. "A Passport to Heaven's Gate" -- "Heaven's Gate": Canada in the North American and Caribbean Black Imaginary -- Church-Ship: Spiritual Voyaging -- Spiritual Baptists in Multicultural Canada: Considering Religious and National Identities in Migration -- Countercultures of Modernity and the Problem of Multiculturalism -- Historical Overview of Multiculturalism in Canada -- Multiculturalism in the Spiritual Baptist Church -- Spiritual Baptist Perceptions and Experiences of Multiculturalism in Canada -- 2. "This Spot of Ground": The Emergence of Spiritual Baptists in Toronto -- Origins of the Spiritual Baptist Church in the Caribbean -- "This Spot of Ground": The Spiritual Baptist Church as "Homeplace" in Toronto -- Founding of the First Spiritual Baptist Church in Toronto (1975-1980) -- Toronto Spiritual Baptist Church Organization -- 3. "So Spiritually, So Carnally": Spiritual Baptist Ritual, Theology, and the Everyday World in Toronto -- "So Carnally, So Spiritually" -- Ritual as Performance and Social Commentary -- Joining the Spiritual Baptist Church in Toronto -- Coming to Canada -- Work Experiences -- "It Hurt Me Feelings": Naming Racism -- "I Say You Can Call Me 'Damn Bitch' ... Just Don't Call Me 'Madam'!": Challenging Sexist Racism -- Church as Community: Support Networks in the Spiritual Baptist Church -- 4. "Africaland": "Africa" In Toronto Spiritual Baptist Experience -- Africaland -- Sacred Space and Place in the Spiritual Baptist Church -- Sacred Time in the Spiritual Baptist Church -- Travelling to Africaland -- Africa as Eden -- Africaland and the African Diaspora -- 5. "Dey Give Me a House to Gather in Di Chil'ren": Mothers and Daughters in the Spiritual Baptist Church -- Overview of Domestic Service in Canada -- Mothers of the Church -- Family in the Spirit: Extended Family in the Spiritual Baptist Church -- "If You Don't Come to Me, I'm Coming to You": Ancestral Mother -- "Dey Give Me a House to Gather in di Chil'ren": Spiritual Mother/Carnal Mother -- "God Has Work for You to Do": Nation Mother -- "It Makes You Feel Like Home": Spiritual Daughter -- 6. Aunt(Y) Jemima in Toronto Spiritual Baptist Experiences: Spiritual Mother Or Servile Woman? -- "Seeing" Aunt Jemima -- (Re)Turning the Gaze on Aunt(y) Jemima -- Re-reading Aunt(y) Jemima and the Creole Woman -- Tie-head Woman -- Head-ties and the Social Construction of Identity -- "To Pick It Up and Take It Forward''.