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2. Caribbean slave revolts and the British abolitionist movement
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Matthews,Gelien (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 2012
- Published:
- Baton Rouge: Louisianna State University Press
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 197 p., Focusing on slave revolts that took place in Barbados in 1816, in Demerara in 1823, and in Jamaica in 1831--32, identifies four key aspects in British abolitionist propaganda regarding Caribbean slavery: the denial that antislavery activism prompted slave revolts, the attempt to understand and recount slave uprisings from the slaves' perspectives, the portrayal of slave rebels as victims of armed suppressors and as agents of the antislavery movement, and the presentation of revolts as a rationale against the continuance of slavery.
3. Orangism, Patriotism, and Slavery in Curacao, 1795-1796
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Fatah-Black,Karwan (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- Dec 2013
- Published:
- United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- International Review of Social History
- Journal Title Details:
- 58(S21) : 35-60
- Notes:
- The defeat of the Dutch armies by the French and the founding of the Batavian Republic in 1795 created confusion in the colonies and on overseas naval vessels about who was in power. This article adds the mutinies on board the Ceres and Medea to the interplay between the Curacao slave revolt of 1795 and the rise of the Curacaoan Patriot movement in 1796. The mariners independently partook in the battle for the political direction of the island and debated which side they wished to be on in the fight between the French Revolution and the British Empire.
4. Revolution! : the Atlantic world reborn
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Bender,Thomas (Editor), Dubois,Laurent (Editor), and Rabinowitz,Richard (Editor)
- Format:
- Book, Edited
- Publication Date:
- 2011
- Published:
- London; New York: D Giles Ltd.
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 287 p, A season of revolutions : the United States, France, and Haiti / Thomas Bender -- Insurgents before independence : the revolution of the American people / T.H. Breen -- A port in the storm : Philadelphia's commerce during the Atlantic revolution era / Cathy Matson -- Atlantic revolutions and the age of abolitionism / David Brion Davis and Peter P. Hinks -- The achievement of the Haitian revolution, 1791-1804 / Robin Blackburn -- An African revolutionary in the Atlantic world / Laurent Dubois and Julius S. Scott -- Liberty in black, white, and color : a trans-Atlantic debate / Jeremy D. Popkin -- A vapor of dread : observations on racial terror and vengeance in the age of revolution / Vincent Brown -- One woman, three revolutions : Rosalie of the Poulard nation / Rebecca J. Scott and Jean M. Hébrard -- The 1804 Haitian revolution / Jean Casimir -- Curating history's silences : the Revolution exhibition / Richard Rabinowitz.; Explores, largely through illustrations, how three globally influential revolutions transformed politics and culture between 1763 and 1816, from the triumph of the British Empire in the Seven Years' War to the end of the Napoleonic Wars.; Time: Geschichte 1763-1815. 1700 - 1804
5. Women and the abolition campaign in the African Atlantic
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Shepherd,Verene A. (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- June, 2008
- Published:
- Kingston, Jamaica
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title Details:
- 42 (1): 131-153
- Notes:
- The passing of the British Abolition Act in 1807 owed much to the activism of women, enslaved and free, who employed diverse strategies to agitate for the ending of what was arguably the greatest crime against humanity. Reflects on women's role in Caribbean development and the struggles they faced in the process.