African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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353 p., Interspersing colonial history with her family's experience, Stuart explores the interconnected themes of settlement, sugar and slavery. In examining how these forces shaped her own family--its genealogy, intimate relationships, circumstances of birth, varying hues of skin--she illuminates how her family, among millions of others like it, in turn transformed the society in which they lived, and how that interchange continues to this day.
Paris: United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
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African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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330 p, Includes Joseph E. Inikori's "The slave trade and the Atlantic economies, 1451-1870"; José Luciano Franco's "The slave trade in the Caribbean and Latin America"; Jean Fouchard's "The slave trade and the peopling of Santo Domingo"; and Oruno D. Lara's "Negro resistance to slavery and the Atlantic slave trade from Africa to Black America";
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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383 p., "Collection of 11 articles originally published between 1977-96, brought up-to-date. Topics include the Dutch and the making of the Atlantic system, the West India Company, Dutch (slave) trading, abolitionism, and different forms of plantation labor"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.
"This essay addresses the horrific struggles of enslaved Africans during the "Middle Passage" and argues that the "Black Atlantic" can be considered as a form of existential crucifixion for those whose lives were decimated during the traversing of this oceanic divide between their old world and the new. The author argues that this existential crucifixion represents a kind of collective experiential-historical "Low Saturday" for Diasporan African peoples, in that the failure of full freedom to emerge for "us" suggests that Easter Sunday is an aspirational dream rather than a contextual reality." [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
