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2. The Atlantic slave trade
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Klein, Herbert S. (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 2010
- Published:
- Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 242 p, This survey is a synthesis of the economic, social, cultural, and political history of the Atlantic slave trade, providing the general reader with a basic understanding of the current state of scholarly knowledge of forced African migration and compares this knowledge to popular beliefs. The Atlantic Slave Trade examines the four hundred years of Atlantic slave trade, covering the West and East African experiences, as well as all the American colonies and republics that obtained slaves from Africa. It outlines both the common features of this trade and the local differences that developed. It discusses the slave trade's economics, politics, demographic impact, and cultural implications in relationship to Africa as well as America.
3. The middle passages of black migration
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Sharpe,Jenny (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2009
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Atlantic studies
- Journal Title Details:
- 6(1) : 97-112
- Notes:
- In characterizing the desperate journeys undertaken by African and Haitian refugees as today's "middle passages," Caryl Phillips's A Distant Shore and Edwidge Danticat's "Children of the Sea" complicate the idea of a single origin to a transatlantic black Diaspora. The term 'middle passage' is more recently used to describe multiple crossings that transform the meaning of Diaspora into a vital and ongoing process.
4. The occupation of Havana: War, trade, and slavery in eighteenth-century Cuba
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Schneider,Elena Andrea (Author)
- Format:
- Dissertation/Thesis
- Publication Date:
- 2011
- Published:
- Princeton, NJ: Princeton University
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 477 p., This study is a "deep history" of the British invasion and occupation of Havana and western Cuba (1762-3) at the end of the Seven Years' War. By contextualizing this event within the broader story of intercolonial relations of war, trade, and slavery from 1713 to 1790, it demonstrates that the British occupation was a continuation and expansion of relations that preceded and postdated the invading warships' arrival. These Anglo-Cuban relations were forged through contraband commerce, the British slave trade to Cuba, and the practices of interimperial warfare, all of which undermined Spanish sovereignty in Cuba and linked its populations of both European and African descent to its British colonial neighbors.