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Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Cowling,Camillia (Author)
Format:: Book, Whole
Publication Date:: unknown
Published:: Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:: 326 p., Shows how gender shaped urban routes to freedom for the enslaved during the process of gradual emancipation in Cuba and Brazil, which occurred only after the rest of Latin America had abolished slavery and even after the American Civil War. Focusing on late nineteenth-century Havana and Rio de Janeiro, Cowling argues that enslaved women played a dominant role in carving out freedom for themselves and their children through the courts.

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Candlin,Kit (Author) and Pybus,Cassandra (Author)
Format:: Book, Whole
Publication Date:: 2015
Published:: Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:: 241 p, In the Caribbean colony of Grenada in 1797, Dorothy Thomas signed the manumission documents for her elderly slave Betty. Thomas owned dozens of slaves and was well on her way to amassing the fortune that would make her the richest black resident in the nearby colony of Demerara. What made the transaction notable was that Betty was Dorothy Thomas’s mother and that fifteen years earlier Dorothy had purchased her own freedom and that of her children. Although she was just one remove from bondage, Dorothy Thomas managed to become so rich and powerful that she was known as the Queen of Demerara.

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Clarke,Orville (Author)
Format:: Newspaper Article
Publication Date:: Feb 6-Feb 12, 2014
Published:: Jamaica, NY
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:: The Weekly Gleaner
Journal Title Details:: p. 19
Notes:: The island's lone female jockey, Georgina Sergeon, made her long-awaited return to the saddle at Caymanas Park on Saturday, February 1 after she was seriously injured in a riding spill just over two years ago. The 23-year-old Sergeon secured two rides on the 10-race programme: GOOD LIFE, who finished third at odds of 11-1 in the second race over 1100 metres for maiden three-year-olds; and the rank outsider, QUIET RULER, who finished down the track in the eighth race over 1200 metres. On Saturday, January 21, 2012, Sergeon fell from her mount, TRICKY TRAIN, after the filly clipped the heels of another horse in a crowded field at the home turn. She came out of the spill with serious injury and had to be hospitalised. Having injured her spine and lower back, Sergeon had to undergo surgery, followed by a long period of rehabilitation.

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Reid,Paul (Author)
Format:: Newspaper Article
Publication Date:: 2014-02-24
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:: Jamaican Observer
Notes:: Jamaica’s multi Olympic and World Championships gold medallist Veronica Campbell Brown has been cleared to resume her track and field career OBSERVER ONLINE has learned.

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Lowe,André (Author)
Format:: Newspaper Article
Publication Date:: Mar 20-Mar 26, 2014
Published:: Jamaica, NY
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title:: The Weekly Gleaner
Journal Title Details:: pp. 20-20,19
Notes:: "The suggestion that [Veronica Campbell-Brown] was cleared on some technicality is simply not true. She was cleared because no anti-doping violation was proven and the reason none was proven was because she didn't do anything wrong, period, end of story," said attorney Howard Jacobs during a press conference yesterday at The Jamaica Pegasus. "It's not a technicality, it's a fundamental point," [Jacob] noted. "The question remained, what happened to the third sample?" "My inability to defend my 200m title was a huge loss. In fact, just being unable to compete was financially and emotionally devastating. This ordeal cost me in excess of 90 per cent of my possible earnings. The ripple effect affected my charities, most notably my foundation and my contribution towards my alma mater and others," said Campbell-Brown. "I now have a renewed appreciation for my talent and relationships within the sport that are important to me."

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