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2. Black August Celebration In Berkeley Saturday
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Format:
- Newspaper Article
- Publication Date:
- 2003-08-27
- Published:
- Oakland, CA
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Oakland Post
- Journal Title Details:
- 23 : 5
- Notes:
- The first Africans came to America in August, so obviously, it's our entire history - in so far as the celebration or acknowledgement was. It has to do with [Jonathan Jackson], George Jackson and prisons. I believe in a time when the United States has more people in prison than any other industrialized nation, the prediction that if the current rate of incarceration stays the way it is now, one in three men will be incarcerated or on parole in 2020, which is not very far. I think it is contingent on us to look at that - the re-enslavement of African Americans continuing. I think this benefit for Haiti is important, because of what Haiti represents - a nearby island that had a successful slave rebellion, it has always suffered from intrusions from America from as far back as the 1800s, so I think joining together the national and international struggles is important. It is important for African Americans to look at themselves locally, nationally and internationally - to see ourselves in the world. Black August 2003 offers an opportunity to do that.
3. Black crescent: the experience and legacy of African Muslims in the Americas
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Gomez,Michael A. (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 2005
- Published:
- New York: Cambridge University Press
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 385 p, Chapters include "Caribbean Crescent" and "Brazilian Sambas"
4. Chattel Principle: Internal Slave Trades in the Americas
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Johnson,Walter (Author)
- Format:
- Monograph
- Publication Date:
- 2004
- Published:
- New Haven, CT: Yale University Press
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 389 p
5. Commentary--Reparations as a Development Strategy: the Caricom Reparations Commission
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Franklin,V. P. (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- Summer, 2013
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Journal of African American History
- Journal Title Details:
- 98(3) : 363-366
- Notes:
- 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.
6. Embrace the wide African Diaspora and all its faces
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Swain,Jeffrey (Author)
- Format:
- Newspaper Article
- Publication Date:
- Mar 13-Mar 19, 2014
- Published:
- Coral Springs, FL
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- South Florida Times
- Journal Title Details:
- 11 : 4A
- Notes:
- Blacks and Latinos have numerous historical connections. The moors of North Africa occupied Spain from about 700-1400 A.D., about the time of the Spanish King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella. Additionally, the slave trade which began with [Henry Louis Gates] the Navigator flourished from the 1440s, taking Africans into Portugal and Spain as servants. Many conquistadors of the New World brought with them free men of African ancestry. Finally, the Transatlantic Slave Trade sealed Afro-Hispanic connections as slaves intermingled voluntarily and involuntarily with their captors, creating variations in our color palate. Thus, our connections are longstanding. My point is that the African Diaspora experience, as was evidenced on Oscar night, is diverse and includes influences of blacks in Europe, Africa and all the Americas and the Caribbean. There are strands of the Diaspora in the Middle East, including Arab nations, and in places as unlikely as Mexico and China. So, blacks in America must begin to embrace our global heritage and we must also learn that our experiences are not superior but mere pieces of a wider tapestry of "colors." All are worth celebrating, researching and understanding. We are one great people cast to the winds by emigration and immigration, historical slavery, war, racial mixing and chance.
7. Encyclopedia of Slave Resistance and Rebellion
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Rodriguez,Junius P. (Author)
- Format:
- Monograph
- Publication Date:
- 2007
- Published:
- Westport, CT: Greenwood Press
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 2 vols
8. Haitian Influence on Early U.S. Has Been Long Underestimated
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Zephir,Flore (Author)
- Format:
- Newspaper Article
- Publication Date:
- Aug 2004
- Published:
- Dorchester, Mass., United States, Dorchester, Mass.
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Boston Haitian Reporter
- Journal Title Details:
- 8 : 11
- Notes:
- Just as dance forms originating from Saint-Domingue made their way into southern culture, religion also left its indelible marks. It is well documented that the Vodou religion in New Orleans began to blossom around 1800 with Sanite Dede, a free woman of color who arrived from Saint-Domingue. The Saint-Domingan Vodou priestess was replaced in 1820 by New Orleans's native Marie Laveau, who became legendary. Haitians were for the most part Catholic; their presence in the various U.S. cities where they settled gave rise to the establishment of a number of biracial congregations. In Baltimore, in 1829, four colored Saint-Domingan women--Elizabeth Lange, Marie Magdelene Baas, Marie Rose Boegue, and Marie Therese Duchemin--established the Oblate Sisters of Providence, the world's first Black religious community, and founded the School for Colored Girls.
9. Haitian history not many of us know (Part II)
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Calloway,Al (Author)
- Format:
- Newspaper Article
- Publication Date:
- Feb 19-Feb 25, 2010
- Published:
- Coral Springs, FL
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- South Florida Times
- Journal Title Details:
- 8 : 4A
- Notes:
- First, the two armies all but destroyed the French plantocracy on the island then they defeated a Spanish force and huge English and French armies. In Adam Hochchild's book Bury the Chains, we learn that then-U. S. President George Washington and then-Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson, both slave owners, sent "a thousand muskets, other military supplies, and eventually some $400,000" of U. S. aid to quell the revolt now known as "the Haitian Revolution." Randall Robinson reveals more in his book, An Unbroken Agony: "Some . . . had been brought to Haiti [St. Domingue] from other Caribbean slave colonies men like the storied Boukman from Jamaica and the legendary Makandal from Trinidad, and the great general, Henri Christophe, who was born in Grenada." Blacks who escaped plantations in the United States also joined L'Ouverture's armies. Robinson reports that L'Ouverture had been the intellectual, "the African humanist, the military strategist, the administrator and, not insignificantly, the conciliator." Robinson also writes that [Jean-Jacques Dessalines] "had been, first and last, the hard-nosed soldier who believed that an enemy as manifestly unsalvageable as the French had to be, wherever possible, obliterated."
10. Henri Christophe
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Simmonds,Yussuf J. (Author)
- Format:
- Newspaper Article
- Publication Date:
- Feb 18-Feb 24, 2010
- Published:
- Los Angeles, Calif., United States, Los Angeles, Calif.
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Sentinel
- Journal Title Details:
- 7 : A12-A.12
- Notes:
- According to historical records and stories passed down by the griots in Haiti, Christophe was born around October 6, 1767 in Grenada and brought to Haiti (then Saint Domingue) as a slave.
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