Addresses change and continuity in mortuary practices from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries within enslaved and free populations on the former Danish and current US Virgin Island of St. John. St. John's former residents created diverse burial sites for practical and symbolic reasons related to environment, kinship, socio-cultural politics, and religion. Reveals how people historically transformed identities of selves and communities as they perceived and commemorated the dead through meaningful mortuary sites and practices within dynamic local and regional contexts.
Dessalines became a lieutenant in Papillon's army and followed him to Santo Domingo, where at first he enlisted to serve Spain's military forces against the French then he joined the "real" slave rebellion that was inspired by Dutty Boukman, a voodoo priest, and led by Toussaint.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
546 p, In-depth treatment of Jewish images of and behavior toward Blacks during the period of peak Jewish involvement in Atlantic slave-holding. Based on a wide-range of sources in several languages.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
560 p, Describes the ways Jews imagined and treated Blacks during the first three centuries of the Atlantic slave trade and European colonialism. Using many previously unexamined sources, it goes beyond mere inter-ethnic polemics to lay out for the first time the scope of Jewish anti-Blackness in places such as Portugal, the Ottoman Empire, Italy, Amsterdam and the Caribbean. Readers will see that Jewish attitudes and behavior remained barely distinguishable from general European trends, hardly benign, but far less intense.
Here is a big bomb. What people need to do is to examine the number of people who list themselves as Negro in Central and South American countries. Then cultural shock sets in. Spain imported in its possessions, Negroes by the thousands. Mexico, Peru, Panama, Columbia, and Argentina, all had large Negro populations. Today many of these Negroes have assimilated into the population, and are no longer distinguished as Negroes.
Instituto de Ciencias Históricas (Academia de Ciencias de Cuba)
Format:
Book, Whole
Publication Date:
1986
Published:
La Habana, Cuba: Editorial Academia
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
279 p, Contents: Esquema histórico sobre la trata negrera y la esclavitud / José Luciano Franco Ferrán -- Hacia una periodización de la historia de la esclavitud en Cuba / Rafael L. López Valdés -- Las ideas sobre la esclavitud (1790-1878) / Mildred de la Torre -- Algunas consideraciones en torno a la abolición de la esclavitud / Fe Iglesias García -- Los palenques en Cuba / Gabino La Rosa Corzo -- El mercado de fuerza de trabajo en Cuba / Gloria García -- La esclavitud en Cuba vista por los viajeros rusos / Angel García y Piotr Mironchuk -- Fuentes utilizadas por José Antonio Saco en la Historia de la esclavitud en las Antillas francesas / Orestes Gárciga -- Breve estudio de una fuente documental : los libros de registros de entrada y salida del Depósito de Cimarrones de La Habana / Mirtha González Moreno -- Bibliografía acerca de la esclavitud en Cuba / Ernesto Ruiz -- Fuentes arqueológicas en el estudio de la esclavitud en Cuba / Lourdes S. Domínguez