St. Croix, V.I.: Virgin Islands Emancipation Commission
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
80 p, Contents: Editor's preface / Arnold R. Highfield -- Freedom in Frederiksted / Richard A. Schrader -- A chronology of slavery and emancipation in the history of the Danish West Indies / Svend E. Holsoe -- Emancipation and the new social order: views from the upper class / Marilyn F. Krigger -- Emancipation in hemispheric perspective / Lauren Larsen -- Political and economic aspects of emancipation / Malik Sekou -- A selection of historical documents relating to emancipation in the Danish West Indies / George F. Tyson -- An annotated bibliography / Arnold R. Highfield
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
398 p, "Análisis y reflexión acerca de los factores que contribuyeron a la supresión de la esclavitud en el Caribe español en general y, en particular, en Cuba, en torno a la cual están dedicados la mayoría de los textos presentados." (Publisher)
Examines two holidays that many radical abolitionists celebrated every year, the Fourth of July and the First of August, an antislavery holiday commemorating British emancipation in the West Indies
Cohen,David William (Author) and Greene,Jack P. (Author)
Format:
Book, Whole
Publication Date:
1972
Published:
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
344 p, Contents: Colonial Spanish America / Frederick P. Bowser -- Surinam and Curaçao / H. Hoetink -- Colonial Brazil / A.J.R. Russell-Wood -- The French Antilles / Léo Elisabeth -- Saint Domingue / Gwendolyn Midlo Hall -- Jamaica / Douglas Hall -- Barbados / Jerome S. Handler and Arnold A. Sio -- The slave states of North America / Eugene D. Genovese -- Cuba / Franklin W. Knight -- Nineteenth-century Brazil / Herbert S. Klein
Sheridan discusses some of the common endeavours he shared with Douglas Gordon Hawkins Hall concerning the West Indian Economic and Social History. Foremost among the historians of the transition from slavery to freedom in individual West Indian colonies is Douglas Hall, whose contributions to West Indian history and culture are manifold.;
