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2. Banishment in the early Atlantic world convicts, rebels and slaves
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Morgan,Gwenda Auteur (Author) and Rushton,Peter (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 2013
- Published:
- London: Blooomsbury
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 309 p., This book places banishment in the early Atlantic world in its legal, political and social context. Contents: Part one. Diverse patterns of banishment in Britain and Ireland --Part two. Continuity and change: British North America and the Caribbean.
3. Books on early American history and culture, 2001-2005 : an annotated bibliography
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Irwin,Raymond D. (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 2013
- Published:
- Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 326 p., Part of a series listing materials on the history of North America and the Caribbean from 1492 to 1815. Organized thematically, the book covers, among many other topics, exploration and colonization; maritime history; environment; Native Americans; race, gender, and ethnicity; migration; labor and class; business; families; religion; material culture; science; education; politics; and military affairs.
4. Eternal colonialism
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Benjamin,Russell (Editor) and Hall,Gregory Otha (Editor)
- Format:
- Book, Edited
- Publication Date:
- 2010
- Published:
- Lanham, MD: University Press of America
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 211 p., Argues that the colonialism beginning in the 15th century never ended, but rather developed different forms over time. The scope of their work examines eternal colonialism in both American and international contexts. Includes Brad Bullock and Sabita Manian's "Globalization's gendered consequences for the Caribbean."
5. Haitian history not many of us know (Part II)
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Calloway,Al (Author)
- Format:
- Newspaper Article
- Publication Date:
- Feb 19-Feb 25, 2010
- Published:
- Coral Springs, FL
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- South Florida Times
- Journal Title Details:
- 8 : 4A
- Notes:
- First, the two armies all but destroyed the French plantocracy on the island then they defeated a Spanish force and huge English and French armies. In Adam Hochchild's book Bury the Chains, we learn that then-U. S. President George Washington and then-Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson, both slave owners, sent "a thousand muskets, other military supplies, and eventually some $400,000" of U. S. aid to quell the revolt now known as "the Haitian Revolution." Randall Robinson reveals more in his book, An Unbroken Agony: "Some . . . had been brought to Haiti [St. Domingue] from other Caribbean slave colonies men like the storied Boukman from Jamaica and the legendary Makandal from Trinidad, and the great general, Henri Christophe, who was born in Grenada." Blacks who escaped plantations in the United States also joined L'Ouverture's armies. Robinson reports that L'Ouverture had been the intellectual, "the African humanist, the military strategist, the administrator and, not insignificantly, the conciliator." Robinson also writes that [Jean-Jacques Dessalines] "had been, first and last, the hard-nosed soldier who believed that an enemy as manifestly unsalvageable as the French had to be, wherever possible, obliterated."
6. 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.
7. Ship of Death : a Voyage That Changed the Atlantic World
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Smith,Billy G. (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 2013
- Published:
- New Haven: Yale University Press
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 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.
8. The Great Guano Rush: Entrepreneurs and American Overseas Expansion
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Skaggs,Jimmy (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 1994
- Published:
- New York: St. Martin's Press
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 334 p., How did some of the most savage and desolate islands in the world, scattered across the Pacific and Caribbean, become U.S. territories? The Great Guano Rush describes the little-known history of this earliest example of American overseas expansion. 'Guano' (bird droppings) was the 19th century's most important fertilizer and in 1856 Congress, believing that American farmers were being gouged on guano sales by foreign monopolists, authorized U.S. citizens to claim and exploit unowned guano-rich islands around the world. The legacy of these annexations range from Haiti to the central Pacific, from the notorious near-slavery of guano-miners on Navassa Island to the contemporary issue of the Johnston Atoll chemical weapon destruction plant.