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2. Reimagining the transatlantic, 1780-1890
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Almeida-Beveridge,Joselyn M. (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 2011
- Published:
- Farnham: Ashgate
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 294 p, From New World to Pan-Atlantic: opening the history of America -- Francisco de Miranda, Toussaint Louverture, and the Pan-Atlantic sphere of liberation -- Pan-Atlantic exports and imports: translation, freedom, and the circulation of cultural capital -- Positioning South America from HMS Beagle: the navigator, the discoverer, and the ocean of free trade -- Pan-Atlantic migrations: capital, culture, revolution.; Time: 1700 - 1899
3. Shaping the New World : African slavery in the Americas, 1500-1888
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Nellis,Eric Guest (Author) and Canadian Historical Association (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 2013
- Published:
- Projected Pub Date: 1307
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- About the origins, growth, and consolidation of African slavery in the Americas and race-based slavery's impact on the economic, social, and cultural development of the New World. While the book explores the idea of the African slave as a tool in the formation of new American societies, it also acknowledges the culture, humanity, and importance of the slave as a person and highlights the role of women in slave societies.
4. Slavery and antislavery in Spain's Atlantic empire
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Fradera,Josep Maria (Editor) and Schmidt-Nowara,Christopher (Editor)
- Format:
- Book, Edited
- Publication Date:
- 2013
- Published:
- New York: Berghahn Books
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 340 p, African slavery was pervasive in Spain's Atlantic empire yet remained in the margins of the imperial economy until the end of the eighteenth century when the plantation revolution in the Caribbean colonies put the slave traffic and the plantation at the center of colonial exploitation and conflict. The international group of scholars brought together in this volume explain Spain's role as a colonial pioneer in the Atlantic world and its latecomer status as a slave-trading, plantation-based empire.
5. Slavery in the new world: a reader in comparative history
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Foner,Laura (Author) and Genovese,Eugene D. (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 1969
- Published:
- Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 268 p, Includes Sidney W. Mintz's "Labor and sugar in Puerto Rico and in Jamaica, 1800-1850"; Harry Hoetink's "Race relations in Curaçao and Surinam"; Eugene D. Genovese's "The treatment of slaves in different countries: problems in the applications of the comparative method"; H. Orlando Patterson's "The general causes of Jamaican slave revolts"; and Magnus Mörner's "The history of race relations in Latin America: some comments on the state of research";
6. Uncovering Blacks In Latin America
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Format:
- Newspaper Article
- Publication Date:
- Apr 21-Apr 27, 2011
- Published:
- Sacramento, CA
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Sacramento Observer
- Journal Title Details:
- 19 : A7
- Notes:
- Black In Latin America, premiering nationally Tuesdays April 19, 26 and May 3, 10, 2011, at 8 p.m. (ET) on PBS (check local listings), examines how Africa and Europe came together to create the rich cultures of Latin America and the Caribbean. Latin America is often associated with music, monuments and sun, but each of the six countries featured in Black in Latin America including Brazil, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Mexico and Peru, has a secret history. On his journey, Professor Gates discovers, behind a shared legacy of colonialism and slavery, vivid stories and people marked by African roots.