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2. Obeah: Healing and Protection in West Indian Slave Life
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Bilby,Kenneth M. (Author) and Handler,Jerome S. (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2004
- Published:
- Barbados: University of the West Indies, Department of History
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Caribbean History
- Journal Title Details:
- 38(2) : 153-184
- Notes:
- Obeah encompasses a wide variety of beliefs and practices involving the control or channelling of supernatural/spiritual forces, usually for socially beneficial ends such as treating illness, bringing good fortune, protecting against harm, and avenging wrongs. Although obeah was sometimes used to harm others, Europeans during the slave period distorted its positive role in the lives of many enslaved persons. In post-emancipation times, colonial officials, local white elites and their ideological allies exaggerated the antisocial dimensions of obeah, minimizing or ignoring its positive functions. This negative interpretation became so deeply ingrained that many West Indians accept it to varying degrees today, although the positive attributes of obeah are still acknowledged in most parts of the anglophone Caribbean. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT];
3. People in Slavery
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Hall,Douglas (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2001
- Published:
- Barbados: University of the West Indies, Department of History
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Caribbean History
- Journal Title Details:
- 35(1) : 122-138
- Notes:
- Hall examines the wealth of materials in the diaries of Thomas Thistlewood, a young man with considerable experiences and full of curiosity. Thistlewood's diaries are of special interest, for he entertained representatives from both of the land of gentry and, because of the slaves and free blacks and coloureds.;
4. Slavery and African Identity Patterns in Eighteenth-Century Cuba
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Gomes,Flavio dos Santos (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2010
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Caribbean History
- Journal Title Details:
- 44(2) : 224-236
- Notes:
- In this article, I analyse patterns of classifications and naming of African "nations" in colonial Cuba. Based on parish records, I suggest possible interpretations of African patterns of classification, identities and social arrangements during the formation of Cuban plantations over the course of the eighteenth century. I discuss some of the methodological implications that can be explored regarding marriages of enslaved people in Cuba based on ecclesiastical sources, chiefly in the case of Guanabacoa. I have furthered the social/demographic analysis of "nations" in Cuba, underscoring how Africans could have been the agents of networks and alliances through organizational strategies and the formation of identities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR].
5. Slaves, Freedmen and Indentured Labourers in Colonial Mauritius
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Satchell,Veront M. (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2002
- Published:
- Barbados: University of the West Indies, Department of History
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Caribbean History
- Journal Title Details:
- 36(1) : 179-186
- Notes:
- Review of Slaves, Freedmen and Indentured Labourers in Colonial Mauritius by Richard B. Allen;
6. The Three Faces of Post-Emancipation Migration in Martinique, 1848-1865
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Brown,Laurence (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2002
- Published:
- Barbados: University of the West Indies, Department of History
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Caribbean History
- Journal Title Details:
- 36(2) : 310-336
- Notes:
- 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];
7. The Worlds of Unfree Labour: From Indentured Servitude to Slavery
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Bryan,Patrick E. (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2000
- Published:
- Barbados: University of the West Indies, Department of History
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Caribbean History
- Journal Title Details:
- 34(1/2) : 1 microfiche
- Notes:
- Bryan reviews The Worlds of Unfree Labour: From Indentured Servitude to Slavery, edited by Colin Palmer (Ashgate Variorum 1998).;
8. Three Slaveholders in the Antilles: Saint-Domingue, Martinique and Jamaica
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Forster,Robert (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2002
- Published:
- Mona, Jamaica: University of the West Indies
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Caribbean History
- Journal Title Details:
- 36(1) : 1-33
- Notes:
- 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];