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    1. Caribbean liberators : bold, brilliant and Black personalities and organizations, 1900-1989

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Teelucksingh,Jerome (Author)
    Format:
    Book, Whole
    Publication Date:
    2012
    Published:
    Bethesda, MD: Academica Press
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Notes:
    294 p., Documents the lives and work of black individuals and organizations in the West Indies from 1900 to 1989, centered on the worlds of labor and black journalism. The French Caribbean is not covered here. Focuses on historical information as well as information on relationships between the two main "servant" minorities of the British Empire: Caribbeans originally from Africa and from India/Pakistan.

    2. Military struggle and identity formation in Latin America: race, nation, and community during the liberal period

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Foote,Nicola (Author) and Horst,René Harder (Author)
    Format:
    Book, Whole
    Publication Date:
    2012
    Published:
    Gainesville: University Press of Florida
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Notes:
    350 p, Introduction: Decentering war : military struggle, nationalism, and Black and indigenous populations in Latin America, 1850-1950 / Nicola Foote and René D. Harder Horst -- pt. 1. Soldiering and citizenship. Subaltern strategies of citizenship and soldiering in Colombia's civil wars : Afro- and indigenous Colombians' experiences in the Cauca, 1851-1877 / James E. Sanders -- Soldiers and statesmen : race, liberalism, and the paradoxes of Afro-Nicaraguan military service, 1844-1863 / Justin Wolfe -- Afro-Cubans in Cuba's War for Independence, 1895-1898 / Aline Helg -- Monteneros and macheteros : Afro-Ecuadorian and indigenous experiences of military struggle in liberal Ecuador, 1895-1930 / Nicola Foote -- Race and ethnicity in the Guatemalan army, 1914 / Richard N. Adams -- Mayan soldier-citizens : ethnic pride in the Guatemalan military, 1925-1945 / David Carey, Jr. -- pt. 2. War and the racing of national boundaries and imaginaries. Indigenous peoples of Brazil and the War of the Triple Alliance, 1864-1870 / Maria de Fátima Costa -- Illustrating race and nation in the Paraguayan War era : exploring the decline of the Tupi Guarani warrior as the embodiment of Brazil / Peter M. Beattie -- The conquest of the desert and the free indigenous communities of the Argentine plains / Carlos Martínez Sarasola -- "The slayer of Victorio bears his honors quietly" : Tarahumaras and the Apache wars in nineteenth-century Mexico / Julia O'Hara -- Embattled identities in postcolonial Chile : race, region, and nation during the War of the Pacific, 1879-1884 / Joanna Crow -- Racial conflict and identity crisis in wartime Peru : revisiting the Cañete Massacre of 1881 / Vincent C. Peloso -- Crossfire, cactus, and racial constructions : the Chaco War and indigenous people in Paraguay / René D. Harder Horst.; Time: 1800 - 1999

    3. The Shame of the Nation": the Force of Re-Enslavement and the Law of "Slavery" Under the Regime of Jean-Louis Ferrand in Santo Domingo, 1804-1809

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Nessler,Graham (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    2012-03
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    NWIG: New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West-Indische Gids
    Journal Title Details:
    86(1) : 5-28
    Notes:
    The article discusses the history of Santo Domingo (which was renamed the Dominican Republic) under the French General Jean-Louis Ferrand from 1804 through 1809. Particular focus is given to Ferrand's efforts, under the direction of the French Emperor Napoleon I, to re-enslave Santo Domingo and overthrow Haiti's ruler Toussaint Louverture. An overview of the slavery laws in Santo Domingo is provided. Ferrand's use of black Haitian captives as slaves, including the Haitians captured by the French who lived near the border with Santo Domingo, is provided.