Studies of political change on Grenada have invariably centred on the activities of T. Albert Marryshow in the period immediately after World War I. Drawing on the rich data available from contemporary newspapers, this paper argues that Donovan's efforts in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries provided the impetus and framework for Marryshow's later struggles. In fact, Marryshow himself admits Donovan's contributions to his political growth. The "first of the Federalists", Donovan preached federation long before the concept was fashionable. Embracing a broad approach to the island's situation, both activists linked local demands for change to the plight of Africans worldwide. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT];
Watson investigates the emigration of indigenous Amerindians in the West Indies during the period 1834-1900 and their replacement with enslaved Africans. After the emancipation of the slaves in 1833, the poor whites, who used to perform militia service on plantations in the West Indies, were forced to emigrate due to lack of employment opportunities.;
"In this paper the process of creolisation will be considered through analysis of the wills and testaments of African, black and mixed-race women in nineteenth-century Salvador da Bahia, Brazil. As primary sources these will and testaments provide evidence concerning material, social and cultural markers of creolisation." [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR];
The Caribbean branch of the Toronto-based Global Afrikan Congress (GAC) this week welcomed British Prime Minister Tony Blair's comments on the horrors of slavery, saying he has done much more for the cause than "our own" Black-led governments in the region on the issue. Maxie Fox, a spokesman for the GAC formed in Barbados in 2002, said the GAC and other Afro organizations have been trying for years to persuade regional governments to "have a discourse" on slavery, its effects on Blacks and even reparations, but only Guyana's President Bharrat Jagdeo, a Hindu, has seen it fit to acknowledge correspondence.
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.;
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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.
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Discusses the danger that people took to abolish slavery in the West Indies; "Du droit de visite maritime accordé à l'Angleterre par les puissance du continent": p. 269-297.
Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
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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.
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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.
'It is a cause to celebrate, for slavery is the worst abomination that one set of people can, through their power and might, inflict on another," said [Bruce Golding] in his message. "In that celebration, we honour the courage of those leaders who fought the battle against slavery at times when it seemed to be a battle that would never be won, those who sacrificed their lives so that our forefathers could be free and our nation be built."
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Originally published: London, J. Cape, 1937., 398 p, When the British Parliament in 1833 freed the slaves, it provided for a transitional period of apprenticeship for the liberated negroes. This monograph shows details how this plan was worked out, especially in Jamaica, where Governor and Assembly were on bad terms, the planters were often harsh and the negroes turbulent, and the Special magistrates imported to supervise the scheme were not always equal to their task.
St. Croix, V.I.: Virgin Islands Emancipation Commission
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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
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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