Gaspar,David Barry (Author) and Geggus,David P. (Author)
Format:
Book, Whole
Publication Date:
1997
Published:
Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
262 p, examines several slave societies in the Greater Caribbean to illustrate the pervasive and multi-layered impact of the revolutionary age on the region. Built precariously on the exploitation of slave labor, organized according to the doctrine of racial discrimination, the plantation colonies were particularly vulnerable to the message of the French Revolution, which proved all the more potent because it coincided with the emergence of the antislavery movement in the Atlantic world and interacted with local traditions of resistance among the region's slaves, free coloreds, and white colonists.
Mayagüez PR San Juan: Asociación Puertorriqueña de Historiadores Postdata
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
126 p, Género e historiografía (los relatos y las vidas) / Blanca Silvestrini -- Los discursos autobiográficos de mujeres en Cuba y Puerto Rico / Aileen Schmidt -- Sin hombre en la casa o el mito del matriarcado en el Caribe angloparlante / María I. Quiñonez Arocho -- Teosofía y modernización : el caso de Olivia Paoli de Braschi / Mario R. Cancel -- Las primarias de la alcaldesa : apoderamiento femenino en Guayama (1952) / Mary Frances Gallart -- Las mujeres y la higiene : la construcción de "lo social" en San Juan, 1880-1929 / Ivette Rodríguez Santana -- Angeles de la Caridad : mujer y beneficencia en Ponce, 1855-1885 / Thamar Lebrón Fernández -- Vienen tumbando caña (todavía) / Janis Palma; Includes bibliographical references.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
333 p, Contents: Plantations, sugar cane, and slavery / Sidney M. Greenfield -- Indian labor and new world plantations : European demands and Indian responses in northeastern Brazil / Stuart B. Schwartz -- Slave families on a rural estate in colonial Brazil / Richard Graham -- African slave trade and economic development in Amazonia, 1700-1800 / Colin M. MacLachlan -- Encomienda, African slavery, and agriculture in seventeenth-century Caracas / Robert J. Ferry -- Slaves in Piedmont Virginia, 1720-1790 / Philip D. Morgan and Michael L. Nicholls -- Plantations, paternalism, and profitability : factors affecting African demography in the old British Empire / Daniel C. Littlefield -- Tale of two plantations : slave life at Mesopotamia in Jamaica and Mount Airy in Virginia, 1799-1828 / Richard S. Dunn -- Slaves and slave masters on eighteenth century St. John / Karen Fog Olwig -- Tousssaint Louverture and the slaves of the Bréda plantations / David Geggus -- Freedom and oppression of slaves in the eighteenth century Caribbean / Arthur L. Stinchcombe -- Was the plantation slave a proletarian? / Sidney W. Mintz
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
334 p, pt. I. Colonial and creole societies: Creolization and creole societies : a cultural nationalist view of Caribbean social history -- pt. II. Colonization and slavery: Colonization and slavery in Central America. Slave labour and the shaping of slave culture : the extraction of timber in the slave society of Belize. "Indios bravos" or "gentle savages" : 19th century views of the "Indians" of Belize and the Miskito Coast -- pt. III. From slavery to freedom: "Proto-proletarians"? : slave wages in the Americas : between slave labour and wage labour. Systems of domination after slavery : the control of land and labour in the British West Indies after 1838. The politics of freedom in the British Caribbean -- pt. IV. Class, culture, and politics: "The maze of politics" : the Caribbean Labour Congress and the Cold War, 1945-52. Race, class, and nation : social consciousness and political culture in four West Indian novels, 1949-55. Pluralism and the politicization of ethnicity in Belize and Guyana.;
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
101 p, A narrative history with the catalogue of an exhibition of rare prints, maps, and illustrated books from the John Carter Brown Library. Contents: 1. The birth of the Dutch Republic and the world war against Habsburg Spain -- 2. The West Indies Company -- 3. The Dutch in Brazil : a peerless prince in Pernambuco -- 4. Images and knowledge of the New World -- 5. "In some future day it may be thought of more importance" : Dutch contributions to North American history -- 6. The Guianas and the Caribbean Islands; "Exhibition sites: The John Carter Brown Library, Providence, Rhode Island, May 9 to September 15, 1997; the Equitable Gallery, New York, New York, January 22 to April 4, 1998"--T.p. verso. "Preface" (p. xiii-xv)
