Watson investigates the emigration of indigenous Amerindians in the West Indies during the period 1834-1900 and their replacement with enslaved Africans. After the emancipation of the slaves in 1833, the poor whites, who used to perform militia service on plantations in the West Indies, were forced to emigrate due to lack of employment opportunities.;
Book review: A Turbulent Time: The French Revolution and the Greater Caribbean. Edited by David Barry Gaspar and David Patrick Geggus. Blacks in the Diaspora. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1997. Maps. Notes. Index. xiii, 262 p ;
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
387 p, This text tells of the struggle of the Indo-Caribbean people. From 1838 to 1917 over half a million indentured labourers were shipped from India to the Caribbean and settled in the former British, Dutch, French and Spanish colonies. Like their predecessors, the African slaves, they laboured on the sugar estates. In 1998 in the English-speaking Caribbean alone there are an estimated one million people of Indian descent and they form the majority in Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago. Based on official reports and papers, and unpublished material from British, Indian and Caribbean sources, this text aims to fill a gap in the history of the Caribbean, of India, Britain and other European colonial powers. (I.B. Tauris website);
In April 1999, Dionne Brand, Leslie Sanders, and Rinaldo Walcott sat down to have a conversation about Brand's second novel At The Full and Change of the Moon. The
interview took place over a promised riposte, and was a conversation among friends.
The novel concerns itself with the contemporary lives of the descendents of Marie Ursule a slave who commits a rebellious and horrific act of mass poisoning on a plantation but saves her daughter Bolla.
Celton,Dora Estela (Author), Miró,Carmen A. (Author), and Sánchez-Albornoz,Nicolás (Author)
Format:
Book, Whole
Publication Date:
2000
Published:
Córdoba, Argentina: Universidad Nacional de Córdoba
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
763 p, "Este volument reúne las ponencias... en el Seminario Internacional sobre Cambios y continuidades en los comportamentos demográficos en América: la experiencia de cinco siglo, realizado en Córdoba, Argentina, entre los días 27 y 29 de octubre de 1998)." Articles chiefly in Spanish; one article in English and four in Portuguese
Cateau,Heather (Author) and Carrington,Selwyn H. H. (Author)
Format:
Book, Whole
Publication Date:
2000
Published:
New York: P. Lang
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
247 p, Contents: Eric Williams and Howard university / John Hope Franklin -- The legacy of Eric Williams / George Lamming -- Eric Williams and his intellectual legacy / Colin Palmer -- Capitalism and slavery, fifty years after / Joseph Inikori -- Capitalism and slavery / Seymour Drescher -- William as historian / Andrew O'Shaughnessy -- Capitalism and slavery / Ibrahim Sundiata -- Economic aspects of the british trade in slaves / William Darity -- Planters, slaves and decline / David Ryden -- War, revolution and abolitionism, 1793-1806 / Claudius Fergus -- Globalization / Kari Levitt
Shepherd,Verene A. (Author) and Beckles,Hilary (Author)
Format:
Monograph
Publication Date:
2000
Published:
Princeton, NJ: Markus Wiener
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
1120 p, "Revised/ expanded version of the text 'Caribbean Slave Society and Economy.' Comprehensive, made up of 17 sections (each with its own introduction) of more than 70 articles." (Publisher)
