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362 p, Contents: Sugar production and British Caribbean dependence on external markets, 1769-1776 -- The American war and the British Caribbean economy -- British policy, Canadian preference, and the West Indian economy, 1783-1810 -- The sugar market after 1775 -- Debt, decline, and the sugar industry, 1775-1810 -- New management techniques and planter reforms -- Hired slave labour -- British Caribbean slavery and abolition -- The sugar industry and eighteenth-century revolutions -- War, trade, and planter survival, 1793-1810 -- Profitability and decline: issues and concepts, an epilogue
Peret,Benjamin (Author), Ponge,Robert (Author), and Maestri Filho,Mario Jose (Author)
Format:
Book, Whole
Publication Date:
2002
Published:
Porto Alegre, RS: UFRGS Editora
Location:
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199 p, Contents: Benjamin Péret: surrealista e historiador de Palmares / Robert Ponge -- Benjamin Péret: um olhar heterodoxo sobre Palmares / Mário Maestri -- Nota sobre "Que foi o quilombo de Palmares?" de Benjamin Péret -- Que foi o quilombo de Palmares / Benjamin Péret
Discusses an investigation into the archaeology of the African Diaspora carried out in 2001 in Guadeloupe. In this first attempt to identify archaeological remains associated with the living spaces of enslaved Africans in the French West Indies
Reviews Richard S. Dunn's Sugar and slaves; Keith Albert Sandiford's Cultural politics of sugar; Doris Y. Kadish's Slavery in the Caribbean Francophone World; C. L. R. James' The Black Jacobins
"[Examines] le développement historique et socio-économique des Caraïbes dans le roman de Paule Marshall: The Chosen Place, The Timeless People (publié en 1963), à travers la relation de deux femmes, l'une noire, l'autre blanche, dont les destins et l'héritage sont liés à l'histoire particulière des relations de genre caractéristiques de l'esclavage et de la vie sur les plantations." (Refdoc.fr)
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398 p, "Análisis y reflexión acerca de los factores que contribuyeron a la supresión de la esclavitud en el Caribe español en general y, en particular, en Cuba, en torno a la cual están dedicados la mayoría de los textos presentados." (Publisher)
As anonymously as Anton de Kom began his life in 1898 in a small nineteenth-century Surinam village, it would be terminated forty-seven years later by forces beyond his control. His death, however, was not a singular event, but one representative of an entire generation of Surinamese migrants who, desiring to improve their lives, travelled northward to Holland, the "mother country", only to find a deeper sense of pain as unwanted and abused eacute;migrés. De Kom's migration to Holland occurred twice. First, as a youth he was pulled northward to understand better "her greatness". A decade later, he was forcibly pushed and exiled northward by the Dutch colonial authorities. On the second occasion, he became aware of his own illegitimate political birth as a colonial subject, and the psychological trap that awaited him when asked to defend the imperial country against an invading German army. His residence in exile exposed the serious dilemma of "two-ness", described by W.E.B. DuBois, when the colonized becomes psychologically and aesthetically committed to the colonizer's world, as well as that of the colonized. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT];
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311 p, Sítese histórica que aborda todas as etapas da história do Espírito Santo: a ocupação original pelas tribos nativas, as capitanias hereditárias, a escravidão, a presença dos jesuítas, e o impacto dos ciclos económicos na região. Recupera a atuação de personagens como Vasco Fernandes Coutinho (o primeriro donatário), e a visita de DOm Pedro II em 1860.;
Discusses the challenges faced by people of African descent during the slave era, who were forced to adapt to their surroudings while, at the same time, attempting to maintain their own cultural integrity. Focuses on the African Diasporic peoples of Brazil, and describes in detail the sisterhood of Nossa Senhora da Boa Morte and the brotherhood of Nossa Senhora do Rosario. Notes that these confraternities show the ingenuity of the Afro-Brazilian people as they maintained their cultural heritage.;
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189 p., Traces the shape of historical thought among peoples who had previously been denied any history at all. The top half of each page presents a direct transcript of oral histories told by living Saramakas about their eighteenth-century ancestors, "Maroons" who had escaped slavery and settled in the rain forests of Suriname. Below these transcripts, Richard Price provides commentaries placing the Saramaka accounts into broader social, intellectual, and historical contexts.
Internal, indentured and regional migration were tightly interlinked in post-emancipation Martinique by both contemporary perceptions and migrant actions. Anticipating a flight from the estates, colonial elites were committed before emancipation to constructing a replacement workforce through immigration. Indentureship was therefore a reaction to a crisis of labour relations rather than of labour supply. Such schemes also stimulated regional movements, from marronage by indentured Africans and Asians to recruitment efforts in the British West Indies. Viewed together, the three faces of post-emancipation migration reveal the continuing tension between the colony's search for coerced labour and the migrants' assertions of agency. [abstract];
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259 p, Reúne textos e ilustrações que propõem-se a comentar e mostrar certos aspectos do culto aos orixás em seus lugares de origem, na Africa (Nigéria, Angolo e Togo) e no novo mundo (Brasil e Antilhas), para onde foram levados, em séculos passados, pelos escravos.;
Based on the correspondence and diaries of three slaveholders in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, this article identifies the differences in the attitudes and behaviour of each planter towards his slaves in response to structural constraints or norms. These include political, administrative, civic and religious institutions, but also the economic system, social expectations and cultural norms. The author concludes that, although one can detect degrees of harshness in the treatment of field labourers, sexual exploitation seems constant and intractable in all three cases. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT];
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261 p, Contents: Language. Pidgins and Creoles ; Papiamentu : a look at the language -- Slavery. Slavery and Africa ; Spanish discovery and rule of the ABC Islands ; The emergence of the Dutch ; Dutch slavery on the ABC Islands ; Revolts and emancipation ; The formation of Papiamentu : how did it happen? ; The Sephardic Jews of Curacao ; The role of the church ; Papiamentu vs. Dutch : society, education and law ; Oral tradition ; The written word ; The issue of standardization -- Present and future. Papiamentu in the Netherlands ; The present-day situation and the future
