African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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262 p, "Study of European expansion and role of The Netherlands in the Atlantic slave trade is divided into five chapters. The first two discuss Dutch history and European expansion in Africa. The third focuses on Dutch in Brazil, the Guianas, and the Caribbean. Final chapters look at early settlement of New Netherland and the life of Africans there. Intended as a text for undergraduate students of African and African-American history"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.;
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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The historiography of slavery throughout the Americas, from its inception to its abolition, is discussed. Given the hemispheric-wide focus, the vast literature will be used to identify principal articles and book chapters that simultaneously represent the examination of both a particular phenomenon and a specific region or site. Stated differently, the essay employs articles/chapters written in English, French, Spanish, and Portuguese that address the primary thematic concerns of slavery studies---the economics of slavery, the treatment of the enslaved, the cultures of Africans and their descendants in the Americas within servile contexts, their communities and social relations, and various manifestations of resistance. There is also a discussion of the question of mediation, and the various recovery mechanisms by which the voices and perspectives of the enslaved are conveyed. To this end, each theme is introduced by reference to a lead article/chapter that also provides insight into a particular geographic location, and that responds to preceding literatures in ways that both sum up the major debates and indicate the probable trajectories. Secondary and tertiary references are made to materials that relate to the lead document. This allows for the development of a "conversation" among the various materials that will effectively serve as a historiographic exercise, as it also opens up spaces for an intra-hemispheric dialogue too often inhibited by the artificial constraints of nation-state preoccupations.;
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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122 p, Illustrated with a map of the island depicting places involved in sugar making, including the plants, trees, houses, rooms, and other places involved in the sugar making process. Reprinted in 1673.
