Robertson examines how people in St. Lucia percieve emancipation. She argues that the circumstances of St. Lucia's colonial past made ideals of freedom pervasive and emancipation intensely complicated, with consequences that are felt in contemporary St. Lucian identity and in strongly African cultural foundations and continuities.;
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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202 p, "Why do the people of the French Caribbean still continue to be haunted by the memory of their slave past more than one hundred and fifty years after the abolition of slavery? What process led to the divorce of their collective memory of slavery and emancipation from France's portrayal of these historical phenomena? How are Martinicans and Guadeloupeans today transforming the silences of the past into historical and cultural manifestations rooted in the Caribbean? This book answers these questions by relating the 1998 controversy surrounding the 150th anniversary of France's abolition of slavery to the period of the slave regime spanning the late Enligtenment and the French Revolution. By comparing a diversity of documents - including letters by slaves, free people of color, and planters, as well as writings by the philosophes, royal decrees, and court cases - the author untangles the complex forces of the slave regime that have shaped collective memory. The current nationalization of the memory of slavery in France has turned these once peripheral claims into passionate political and cultural debates." --Jacket.
Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
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African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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365 p., As Louisiana and Cuba emerged from slavery in the late 19th Century, each faced the question of what rights former slaves could claim. Observes the people, places, legislation and leadership that shaped how these societies adjusted to the abolition of slavery. The two distinctive worlds also come together, as Cuban exiles take refuge in New Orleans in the 1880s, and black soldiers from Louisiana garrison small towns in eastern Cuba during the 1899 U.S. military occupation.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--Programa de Pós-Graduaç̜ão em História da UFRJ, 2005., 401 p., History of freed slaves in the region of Porto Feliz (SP), between the end of the 18th and mid-19th century when brown, black freedmen and their descendants had to created conditions for societal integration.
St. Croix, V.I.: Virgin Islands Emancipation Commission
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African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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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
