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2. French colonial archaeology in the Southeast and Caribbean
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Kelly,Kenneth G. (Author) and Hardy,Meredith D. (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 2011
- Published:
- Gainesville: University Press of Florida
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 250 p, Introduction /Kenneth G. Kelly and Meredith D. Hardy -- -- French Protestants in South Carolina: the archaeology of a European ethnic minority /Ellen Shlasko -- -- French refugees and slave abuse in Frederick County, Maryland: Jean Payen de Boisneuf and the Vincendière Family at L'Hermitage Plantation /Sara Rivers-Cofield -- -- Commoditization of persons, places, and things during Biloxi's second tenure as capital of French colonial Louisiana /Barbara Thedy Hester -- -- The Moran site (22HR511): an early-eighteenth-century French colonial cemetery in Nouveau Biloxi, Mississippi /Marie Elaine Danforth -- -- The greatest gathering: the second French-Chickasaw War in the Mississippi Valley and the potential for archaeology /Ann M. Early -- -- Colonial and Creole diets in eighteenth-century New Orleans /Elizabeth M. ScottShannon Lee Dawdy -- -- Colonoware in Western colonial Louisiana: makers and meaning /David W. MorganKevin C. MacDonald -- -- Living on the edge : foodways and early expressions of Creole culture on the French colonial Gulf Coast frontier /Meredith D. Hardy -- -- La Vie Quotidienne : historical archaeological approaches to the plantation era in Guadeloupe, French West Indies /Kenneth G. Kelly -- -- Archaeological research at Habitation Loyola, French Guiana /Allison BainRéginald AugerYannick Le Roux -- -- Commentary /John de Bry.
3. Independence
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Simmonds,Yussuf J. (Author)
- Format:
- Newspaper Article
- Publication Date:
- Jul 14-Jul 20, 2011
- Published:
- Los Angeles, CA
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Sentinel
- Journal Title Details:
- 28 : A9-A.9
- Notes:
- After independence, many of the newly formed nations struggle to maintain their hard fought freedom, though there were many lingering colonial attachments; hostilities; and the difficulties that came with growing pains. Around 1789, the French Revolution was raging in France; two years later, a rebellion swept the northern part of the island like a massive tidal wave.
4. Readings in Caribbean history and culture : breaking ground
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Dunkley,Daive A. (Editor)
- Format:
- Book, Edited
- Publication Date:
- 2011
- Published:
- Lanham, MD: Lexington Books
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 302 p, A collection of eleven essays. Among the themes examined are colonialism, slavery, and the involvement of the Christian Church in both colonial rule and enslavement. The essays also analyze the pre-independence and post-independence periods of the twentieth century, with examinations on topics that include prostitution, departmentalization, education, visual art, and the musical form known as Reggae.
5. Sugar barons : family, corruption, empire, and war in the West Indies
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Parker,Matthew (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 2011
- Published:
- New York: Walker & Co.
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 446 p., The sugar revolution made the English, in particular, a nation of voracious consumers. The wealth of her island colonies became the foundation and focus of England's commercial and imperial greatness, underpinning the British economy and ultimately fueling the Industrial Revolution. Yet with the incredible wealth came untold misery: the horror endured by slaves, on whose backs the sugar empire was brutally built; the rampant disease that claimed the lives of one-third of all whites within three years of arrival in the Caribbean; the cruelty, corruption, and decadence of the plantation culture.
6. The Moyne report
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Moyne,Walter Edward Guinness, Baron (Author) and Benn,Denis (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 2011
- Published:
- Kingston: Ian Randle Publishers
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- The Report of West India Royal Commission. Presented by the Secretary of State for the Colonies to Parliament by command of his Majesty, July 1945., 480 p., Exposed the horrendous living conditions in Britain's Caribbean colonies. Following the British West Indian labor unrest of 1934–1939, the Imperial Government sent a royal commission to investigate and report on the situation while also offering possible solutions.
7. The right to self-determination and the dissolution of the Netherlands Antilles
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Duijf,Charlotte M. A. M. (Author) and Soons,Alfred H. A. (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 2011
- Published:
- Nijmegen, The Netherlands: Wolf Legal Publishers (WLP)
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 107 p