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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.

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Okpewho,Isidore (Editor) and Nzegwu,Nkiru (Editor)
Format:: Book, Edited
Publication Date:: 2009
Published:: Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:: 531 p., Traces the immigrants' progress from expatriation to arrival and covers the successes as well as problems they have encountered as they establish their lives in a new country. Includes Georges E. Fouron's "I, too, want to be a big man" : the making of a Haitian "boat people"; John A. Arthur's "Immigrants and the American system of justice: perspectives of African and Caribbean Blacks"; and Perry Mars' "The Guyana diaspora and homeland conflict resolution."

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