African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
160 p, Twentieth-century Black literary and political figures of the United States and the Caribbean related to Africa in complex and ambivalent ways that did not prevent them from denouncing the social, economic, and political oppressions of the West against Blacks of Africa and its Diaspora from slavery through colonialism and neocolonialism.
Prime Minister Baldwin Spencer on Saturday. August 1 urged citizens to ensure that the horrible and dehumanising system of slavery is never allowed to happen again while encouraging closerunity between the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and Africa. "Therefore celebrating our Emancipation should inspire us to unite as citistens of the Caribbean to ensure that we never allow ourselves to be subjected to any form of slavery^'Spencer said in a message marking the 175th anniversary of the end of slavery.
Curry,Dawne Y. (Editor), Duke,Eric D. (Editor), and Smith,Marshanda A. (Editor)
Format:
Book, Edited
Publication Date:
2009
Published:
Urbana: University of Illinois Press
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
Based on conference papers., 306 p., Perspectives on the black diaspora's global histories. Includes John Campbell's "How free is "free"? the limits of manumission for enslaved Africans in eighteenth-century British Caribbean sugar society," Beatriz G. Mamigonian's "A harsh and gloomy fate: liberated Africans in the service of the Brazilian state, 1830s-1860s," Stephen G. Hall's "Envisioning an antislavery war: African American historical constructions of the Haitian Revolution in the 1850s," Micol Seigel's "Comparable or connected? afro-diasporic resistance in the United States and Brazil," and Matthew J. Smith's "Race, color, and the Marxist left in pre-Duvalier Haiti." --
West,Michael O. (Editor), Martin,William G. (Editor), and Wilkins,Fanon Che (Editor)
Format:
Book, Edited
Publication Date:
2009
Published:
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
318 p., Focuses on three moments in global black history: the American and Haitian revolutions, the Garvey movement and the Communist International following World War I, and the Black Power movement of the late twentieth century.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
394 p., Manning begins in 1400 and traces five central themes: the connections that enabled Africans to mutually identify and hold together as a global community; discourses on race; changes in economic circumstance; the character of family life; and the evolution of popular culture. His approach reveals links among seemingly disparate worlds. In the mid-nineteenth century, for example, slavery came under attack in North America, South America, southern Africa, West Africa, the Ottoman Empire, and India, with former slaves rising to positions of political prominence. Yet at the beginning of the twentieth century, the near-elimination of slavery brought new forms of discrimination that removed almost all blacks from government for half a century.
