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141 p, Reprints an 1830s text that was central to the transatlantic campaign to fully abolish slavery in Britain’s colonies. James Williams, an eighteen-year-old Jamaican “apprentice” (former slave), came to Britain in 1837 at the instigation of the abolitionist Joseph Sturge. The Narrative he produced there, one of very few autobiographical texts by Caribbean slaves or former slaves, became one of the most powerful abolitionist tools for effecting the immediate end to the system of apprenticeship that had replaced slavery
Buenos Aires, Argentina: Editores de América Latina
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510 p, Contents: I. LOS ESTUDIOS AFRICANISTICOS EN LA ARGENTINA. Hebe Clementi, "La negritud y la historia americana," p 41-48; Maria Elena Vela, "Historia y actualidad de los estudios," p 49-62; Marisa Pinau, "La ensenanza de historia de Africa subsahariana en la Argentina," p 63-70; M.V. Pereyra de Findanza, "Los que son demsiado negro...", p 71-86. II. LA TRATA DE ESCLAVOS. LA PBLACION AFROARGENTINA. Florencia Guzman, "El destino de los esclavos de la Compania," p 87-108; Silvia C. Mallo, "Mujeres esclavas en America a fines de siglo XVIII," p 109-126; Liliana Crespi, "Utilizacion de mano de obra esclava en areas mineras y subsidarias," p 127-162. III. LA PRESENCIA LINGUISTICA Y LITERARIA. Mario Corcuera Ibanez, "La presencia linguistica y literaria," p 163-168; Dina V. Picotti, "Un modo de pensar y de lenguaje," p 169-198; Beatriz Seibel, "La presencia afroargentina en el espectaculo," p 199-208; Jose Curbelo, "Los payadores negros en el Rio de la Plata," p 209-214.
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238 p., Study of the relations between Haiti and black America from the colonial period to the present, the author shows how historical ties between these two communities of the African diaspora have affected their respective histories, cultures and community lives. R
