Reviews several books about Cuban history. The Social Transformation of Eighteenth-Century Cuba, by Sherry Johnson; Winds of Change: Hurricanes and the Transformation of Nineteenth-Century Cuba, by Louis A. Pérez Jr; Wizards and Scientists: Explorations in Afro-Cuban Modernity and Tradition, by Stephan Palmié; Espacios, Silencios Y Los Sentidos De La Libertad: Cuba Entre 1878 Y 1912, edited by Fernando Martínez Heredia, Rebecca J. Scott and Orlando F. García Martínez.;
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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280 p, Contents: Introduction: Family, Frontier, and the Colonization of the Americas --; Indians, Portuguese, and Mamelucos: The Sixteenth-Century Colonization of Sao Vicente --; Town, Kingdom, and Wilderness --; The Origins of Social Class --; Families of Planters --; Families of Peasants --; Families of Slaves --; Conclusion: Family and Frontier at Independence --; Town of Santana de Parnaiba --; Sao Vicente in the Age of the Bandeiras --; Sao Paulo and the Gold Rush --; Towns of Colonial Sao Paulo --; Population of Principal Towns of Sao Vicente, 1676 --; Deaths among Social Groups, Parish of Aracariguama, 1720-1731 --; Two Agricultural Economies: Income from Crops by Class of Farmer, 1798 --; Landownership by Class of Farmer, 1775 --; The Town Center in 1798 --; Race and Class in Parnaiba, 1820 --; Division of Mariana Pais's Estate, 1740 --; Composition of Planter Family Estates, Eighteenth Century --; Settlement Patterns of the Descendants of the Original Founders of Parnaiba --; Settlement Patterns of the Descendants of Mariana Pais, Great-Great-Granddaughter of the Original Founders of Parnaiba --; The Planters of Parnaiba --; Land Use Patterns of the Peasantry, 1775 --; Godparents of Peasant Children --; Households Headed by Men and Women, Peasant Population, 1820 --; Urban and Rural Family Structure, Peasant Population, 1820 --; Female-headed Households, Peasant Population, 1775 and 1820 --; African and Creole Slaves, 1820 --; Crude Marriage Rates, Slave and Free Populations --; Slave Marriages, Santana Parish, 1726-1820 --; Slave Families on Three Large Estates, 1740s
Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, University of Copenhagen
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African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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352 p., In the first half of the 19th century, the safeguarding of the health of the enslaved workers became a central concern for plantation owners and colonial administrators in the Danish West Indies. This title explores the health conditions of the enslaved workers and the health policies initiated by planters and the colonial government.
East Lansing Mich.: Michigan State University Press
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African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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260 p., “They offer insights into in demographic, diplomatic, economic, medical, military, and political history, containing the latest research and revising ideas about the French presence overseas. Among the subject areas explored are: the French Revolution in Martinique, eighteenth-century medical practice along the Mississippi River, a family plantation on St-Domingue, Anglo-French diplomatic problems over Newfoundland fishery, and French trading posts on the Great Lakes in the eighteenth century.” (Alibris)
The article discusses discrimination against free blacks and colored (mixed-race) people in the justice system of 18th-century Curaçao, then a colony of the Netherlands run by the Dutch West India Company. Two examples are examined, that of the Dutch prosecutor Hubertus Coerman, who complained of the situation to company directors in 1766, and the Curaçaoan free black woman Mariana Franko, who complained to the directors in the same year after being falsely accused of theft and banished from the colony. Differences between the administration of justice in the Netherlands and in the Dutch West Indies are then discussed.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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360 p, "Traces the ways in which negative attitudes toward blacks became deeply embedded in French culture. Reveals the persistent inequality of French interactions with blacks in Africa, in the slave colonies of the West Indies, and in France." (Powells.com)
Kelly,Kenneth G. (Author) and Hardy,Meredith D. (Author)
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Book, Whole
Publication Date:
2011
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Gainesville: University Press of Florida
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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250 p, Introduction /Kenneth G. Kelly and Meredith D. Hardy -- -- French Protestants in South Carolina: the archaeology of a European ethnic minority /Ellen Shlasko -- -- French refugees and slave abuse in Frederick County, Maryland: Jean Payen de Boisneuf and the Vincendière Family at L'Hermitage Plantation /Sara Rivers-Cofield -- -- Commoditization of persons, places, and things during Biloxi's second tenure as capital of French colonial Louisiana /Barbara Thedy Hester -- -- The Moran site (22HR511): an early-eighteenth-century French colonial cemetery in Nouveau Biloxi, Mississippi /Marie Elaine Danforth -- -- The greatest gathering: the second French-Chickasaw War in the Mississippi Valley and the potential for archaeology /Ann M. Early -- -- Colonial and Creole diets in eighteenth-century New Orleans /Elizabeth M. ScottShannon Lee Dawdy -- -- Colonoware in Western colonial Louisiana: makers and meaning /David W. MorganKevin C. MacDonald -- -- Living on the edge : foodways and early expressions of Creole culture on the French colonial Gulf Coast frontier /Meredith D. Hardy -- -- La Vie Quotidienne : historical archaeological approaches to the plantation era in Guadeloupe, French West Indies /Kenneth G. Kelly -- -- Archaeological research at Habitation Loyola, French Guiana /Allison BainRéginald AugerYannick Le Roux -- -- Commentary /John de Bry.
