African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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306 p., Uncovers the long-forgotten story of the Hankey, a small British ship that circled the Atlantic in 1792 and 1793. From its altruistic beginnings to its disastrous end, describes the ship's fateful impact upon people from West Africa to Philadelphia, Haiti to London. It began with a group of high-minded British colonists who planned to establish a colony free of slavery in West Africa. With the colony failing, the ship set sail for the Caribbean and then North America, carrying, as it turned out, mosquitoes infected with yellow fever. The resulting pandemic as the Hankey traveled from one port to the next was catastrophic.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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373 p, Explores the abolition of African slavery in Spanish Cuba from 1817 to 1886—from the first Anglo-Spanish agreement to abolish the slave trade until the removal from Cuba of the last vestige of black servitude. Making extensive use of heretofore untapped research sources from the Spanish archives, the author has developed new perspectives on nineteenth-century Spanish policy in Cuba.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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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.;
