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2. America's First Slave Revolt: Indians and African Slaves in Espanola, 1500-1534
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Stone,Erin Woodruff (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- Apr 2013
- Published:
- Durham, NC: Duke University Press
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Ethnohistory
- Journal Title Details:
- 60(2) : 195-217
- Notes:
- On Christmas Day 1521, in the Spanish colony of Santo Domingo, the first recorded slave revolt in the Americas occurred. A group of African, likely Wolof, slaves came together with native Indians led by the Taino cacique Enriquillo to assert their independence. Beyond being the first slave revolt in the Americas, it was also one of the most important moments in Colonial American history because it was the first known instance when Africans and Indians united against their Spanish overlords in the Americas.
3. Extract From "Water, Shoulders, Into The Black Pacific"
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Tinsley,Omise'eke Natasha (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2012
- Published:
- Durham, NC: Duke University Press
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- GLQ
- Journal Title Details:
- 18(2-3) : 263-276
- Notes:
- If Africans' forced Atlantic passage ushered in a colonial era that violently connected Africa and the Americas to Europe, Africans' travel to and on the Pacific as sailors, soldiers, dockworkers, and curious voyagers traced other kinds of crossings: linkages between black Atlantic subjects and Mexico, Native America, Polynesia, Micronesia, the Philippines, and other sites of flow through the global South. "Water, Shoulders, Into the Black Pacific" looks to innovate discussions of the African diaspora by tracing one possible route of this less-explored oceanography. Where does the black Atlantic meet the black Pacific? What would it mean to chart a story of the African diaspora not through the triangle trade crisscrossing that first ocean but as a continual navigation of many bodies of water -- Atlantic, Caribbean, Gulf of Mexico, Mississippi, Pacific -- and many waves of migration?