Examines the women who became involved in Cuba's slave resistance movements of 1843 and 1844, drawing attention to those who molded that resistance in visible and public ways and those whose involvement has often been obscured or unnoticed. The narratives created around Fermina and Carlota Lucumf, two leading figures in the 1843 insurgencies, both rupture and complicate the masculine discourse around slave-movement leadership that has been central to historiographies of slave rebellion.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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197 p., Focusing on slave revolts that took place in Barbados in 1816, in Demerara in 1823, and in Jamaica in 1831--32, identifies four key aspects in British abolitionist propaganda regarding Caribbean slavery: the denial that antislavery activism prompted slave revolts, the attempt to understand and recount slave uprisings from the slaves' perspectives, the portrayal of slave rebels as victims of armed suppressors and as agents of the antislavery movement, and the presentation of revolts as a rationale against the continuance of slavery.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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p. 272
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Includes Explaining Dutch abolition / Gert Oostindie -- Long goodbye : Dutch capitalism and antislavery in comparative perspective / Seymour Drescher -- Dutch case of antislavery : Late abolitions and élitist abolitionism / Maarten Kuitenbrouwer -- Dutch antislavery attitudes in a decline-ridden society, 1750-1815 / Angelie Sens -- Economic explanation of the late abolition of slavery in Suriname / Edwin Horlings -- Suriname and the abolition of slavery / Alex van Stipriaan -- Same old song? : perspectives on slavery and slaves in Suriname and Curac̦ao / Gert Oostindie -- Abolitionism, the Batavian Republic, the British, and the Cape Colony / Robert Ross -- Slavery and the Dutch in Southeast Asia / Gerrit J. Knaap -- Ideology of free labor and Dutch colonial policy, 1830-1870 / Pieter C. Emmer -- Emancipations in comparative perspective : a long and wide view / Stanley L. Engerman.
Provides information on the significance of the Underground Railroad, which carried slaves to freedom across the Rio Grande from Mexico. Overview of slavery in Mexico and Texas; Slave ownership in the United States; Demographic information on Texas; Informal network of transportation for the Black Seminoles and other Indians;
