African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title Details:
1 microfilm reel
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Correspondence, speeches, drafts of writings, receipts, estate papers, banking papers, handbills, passports, minutes, a scrapbook, and newspaper clippings. Concerns slavery in the United States, the abolition movement, Reconstruction, American relations with Haiti and the Dominican Republic, Howard University, the War Department, and the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands. Filmed from originals at Fisk University, Erastus Milo Gravath Library
Gaspar,David Barry (Author) and Hine,Darlene Clark (Author)
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Book, Whole
Publication Date:
1996
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Bloomington: Indiana University Press
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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341 p, Includes Mary Karasch's "Slave women on the Brazilian frontier in the nineteenth century," Hilary Beckles' "Black female slaves and white households in Barbados," Robert W. Slenes' "Black homes, white homilies: perceptions of the slave family and of slave women in nineteenth-century Brazil," Barbara Bush's "Hard labor : women, childbirth, and resistance in British Caribbean slave societies," David Barry Gaspar's "From 'the sense of their slavery' : slave women and resistance in Antigua, 1632-1763," Bernard Moitt's "Slave women and resistance in the French Caribbean,"David P. Geggus' "Slave and free colored women in Saint Domingue," and Susan M. Socolow's "Economic roles of the free women of color of Cap Francais."
Suggests that racism was a strategic military liability in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century wars between Britain and France in the Caribbean. The French Revolution provoked slave uprisings on many of the Caribbean islands. Both the British and French underestimated the black rebels' capabilities and routinely executed black prisoners of war rather than ransoming or imprisoning them. These tendencies made Caribbean campaigns longer and bloodier than they might otherwise have been.
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
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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.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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306 p., Uncovers the long-forgotten story of the Hankey, a small British ship that circled the Atlantic in 1792 and 1793. From its altruistic beginnings to its disastrous end, describes the ship's fateful impact upon people from West Africa to Philadelphia, Haiti to London. It began with a group of high-minded British colonists who planned to establish a colony free of slavery in West Africa. With the colony failing, the ship set sail for the Caribbean and then North America, carrying, as it turned out, mosquitoes infected with yellow fever. The resulting pandemic as the Hankey traveled from one port to the next was catastrophic.
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
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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.
