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    1. Bound lives : Africans, Indians, and the making of race in colonial Peru

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    O'Toole,Rachel Sarah (Author)
    Format:
    Book, Whole
    Publication Date:
    2012
    Published:
    Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Notes:
    257 p., Chronicles the lived experience of race relations in northern coastal Peru during the colonial era. Rachel Sarah O'Toole examines the construction of a casta (caste) system under the Spanish government, and how this system was negotiated and employed by Andeans and Africans.

    2. Surviving slavery: Politics, power, and authority in the British Caribbean, 1807-1834

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Browne,Randy M. (Author)
    Format:
    Dissertation/Thesis
    Publication Date:
    2012
    Published:
    Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Notes:
    274 p., Explores a broad range of power relationships and struggles for authority in the early 19th century British Atlantic, focusing on the Caribbean colony of Berbice. I aim to understand how enslaved people and their enslavers negotiated their relationships and forged their lives within multiple, interconnected networks of power in a notoriously brutal society. Focuses on politics and culture writ large and small, zooming in to see the internal conflicts, practices, and hierarchies that governed individual plantations, communities, and families; and zooming out to explore the various ways that imperial officials, colonial administrators, and metropolitan antislavery activists tried to shape Caribbean area slavery during the era of amelioration-a crucial period of transformation in the Atlantic world. Sources used include travel narratives, trial records, missionary correspondence, and official government documents. Most important are the records of the Berbice fiscals and protectors of slaves, officials charged with hearing enslaved peoples' grievances and enforcing colonial laws.