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    1. Back to Africa: Afro-Brazilian returnees and their communities

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Prah,K. K. (Author)
    Format:
    Book, Whole
    Publication Date:
    2009
    Published:
    Rondebosch: CASAS
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Notes:
    Based on a conference which took place in Sandton, Johannesburg from 14-15 July 2008., 346 p., This conference is the first of three conferences on the African diaspora with respect to the returnee phenomenon of 'Back to Africa'. Contents: volume 1. Afro-Brazilian returnees and their communities -- volume 2. The ideology and practice of the African returnee phenomenon from the Caribbean and North-America to Africa.

    2. More than chattel: Black women and slavery in the Americas

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Gaspar,David Barry (Author) and Hine,Darlene Clark (Author)
    Format:
    Book, Whole
    Publication Date:
    1996
    Published:
    Bloomington: Indiana University Press
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Notes:
    341 p, Includes Mary Karasch's "Slave women on the Brazilian frontier in the nineteenth century," Hilary Beckles' "Black female slaves and white households in Barbados," Robert W. Slenes' "Black homes, white homilies: perceptions of the slave family and of slave women in nineteenth-century Brazil," Barbara Bush's "Hard labor : women, childbirth, and resistance in British Caribbean slave societies," David Barry Gaspar's "From 'the sense of their slavery' : slave women and resistance in Antigua, 1632-1763," Bernard Moitt's "Slave women and resistance in the French Caribbean,"David P. Geggus' "Slave and free colored women in Saint Domingue," and Susan M. Socolow's "Economic roles of the free women of color of Cap Francais."

    3. Shaping the New World : African slavery in the Americas, 1500-1888

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Nellis,Eric Guest (Author) and Canadian Historical Association (Author)
    Format:
    Book, Whole
    Publication Date:
    2013
    Published:
    Projected Pub Date: 1307
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Notes:
    About the origins, growth, and consolidation of African slavery in the Americas and race-based slavery's impact on the economic, social, and cultural development of the New World. While the book explores the idea of the African slave as a tool in the formation of new American societies, it also acknowledges the culture, humanity, and importance of the slave as a person and highlights the role of women in slave societies.