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2. Slavery in the Americas: A Survey of the Scholarship 2005
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Gomez,Michael A. (Author)
- Format:
- Web Page
- Publication Date:
- unknown
- Published:
- Black Studies Center
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 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.;