Miles,Tiya (Author) and Holland,Sharon Patricia (Author)
Format:
Book, Whole
Publication Date:
2006
Published:
Durham, NC: Duke University Press
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
364 p, "These essays explore the complex cultures, identities, and politics that arise in the space where black and native experiences converge." (Google)
Addresses change and continuity in mortuary practices from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries within enslaved and free populations on the former Danish and current US Virgin Island of St. John. St. John's former residents created diverse burial sites for practical and symbolic reasons related to environment, kinship, socio-cultural politics, and religion. Reveals how people historically transformed identities of selves and communities as they perceived and commemorated the dead through meaningful mortuary sites and practices within dynamic local and regional contexts.
Cohen,David William (Author) and Greene,Jack P. (Author)
Format:
Book, Whole
Publication Date:
1972
Published:
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
344 p, Contents: Colonial Spanish America / Frederick P. Bowser -- Surinam and Curaçao / H. Hoetink -- Colonial Brazil / A.J.R. Russell-Wood -- The French Antilles / Léo Elisabeth -- Saint Domingue / Gwendolyn Midlo Hall -- Jamaica / Douglas Hall -- Barbados / Jerome S. Handler and Arnold A. Sio -- The slave states of North America / Eugene D. Genovese -- Cuba / Franklin W. Knight -- Nineteenth-century Brazil / Herbert S. Klein
The author discusses the use of slavery reparations as a strategy for economic development. Particular focus is given to the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Reparations Commission, which was formed in 2013 in order to address the damages caused to Caribbean nations by slavery and racism. The author argues for the creation of a reparations commission in the U.S. The book "Britain's Black Debt" by Hilary Beckles is also discussed.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
161 p, Contents: Introduction : Who were the masters in the Americas? / Alexandra Isfahani-Hammond -- The sugar daddy : Gilberto Freyre and the white man's love for Blacks / César Braga-Pinto -- Writing Brazilian culture / Alexandra Isfahani-Hammond -- Authority's shadowy double : Thomas Jefferson and the architecture of illegitimacy / Helena Holgersson-Shorter -- Race, nation, and the symbolics of servitude in Haitian noirisme / Valerie Kaussen -- Fanon as "metrocolonial" flaneur in the Caribbean post-plantation/Algerian colonial city / Nalini Natarajan -- From the tropics : cultural subjectivity and politics in Gilberto Freyre / Jossianna Arroyo -- Hybridity and mestizaje : sincretism or subversive complicity? Subalternity from the perspective of the coloniality of power / Ramón Grosfoguel -- The rhythm of Macumba : Lívio Abramo's engagement with Afro-Brazilian culture / Luiza Franco Moreira -- Blood, memory, and nation : massacre and mourning in Edwidge Danticat's The farming of bones / Shreerekha Subramanian.
The article discusses the history of Santo Domingo (which was renamed the Dominican Republic) under the French General Jean-Louis Ferrand from 1804 through 1809. Particular focus is given to Ferrand's efforts, under the direction of the French Emperor Napoleon I, to re-enslave Santo Domingo and overthrow Haiti's ruler Toussaint Louverture. An overview of the slavery laws in Santo Domingo is provided. Ferrand's use of black Haitian captives as slaves, including the Haitians captured by the French who lived near the border with Santo Domingo, is provided.
Paquette,Robert L. (Author) and Engerman,Stanley L. (Author)
Format:
Monograph
Publication Date:
1996
Published:
Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
383 p, Essays that show how the Antilles emerged among the most densely populated & advanced economic zones in the world and how they served as stepping stones for the expansion of the slave-based plantation system in the Americas. (Google)
The Caribbean island of Carriacou was ceded to the British by the French after the Seven Years’War (1763). Carriacou’s population of Englishmen, Frenchmen, Scots, and free people of color, along with their enslaved workers, comprised a distinctive slaveholding society in comparison to that of the old British colonies.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
362 p, Contents: Sugar production and British Caribbean dependence on external markets, 1769-1776 -- The American war and the British Caribbean economy -- British policy, Canadian preference, and the West Indian economy, 1783-1810 -- The sugar market after 1775 -- Debt, decline, and the sugar industry, 1775-1810 -- New management techniques and planter reforms -- Hired slave labour -- British Caribbean slavery and abolition -- The sugar industry and eighteenth-century revolutions -- War, trade, and planter survival, 1793-1810 -- Profitability and decline: issues and concepts, an epilogue
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
370p, Embodies research in England and the West Indies. Author states that slavery was the most important cause of the decline of West Indian agriculture in the eighteenth century. (JSTOR)
