African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
311 p, This book contains a study of linguistic peculiarities phonological of the Spanish-Venezuelan spoken in Barlovento and Bobures, and contains a vocabulary section.;
To honor our sacred heritage, to bear the burden and glory of our history, we must self-consciously resume our vanguard role in the midst of the liberation struggles of the world.
"In this paper I should like to discuss a particular geographical area in Venezuela which has been heavily influenced by black populations stemming from colonial trans-Atlantic slave trade, i.e., the region known as Barlovento, which lies east-southeast of Caracas." (author);
"After an introduction providing biographical details and some historical context for the Caribbean in the period 1811–1830, the article looks in detail at what have been seen to be [MacGregor's] successes and failures in the Caribbean region. It asks to what extent questions of ethnicity or masculinity have affected the way contemporaries and historians viewed MacGregor and his actions." (IngentaConnect Blog)
