Slavery In Africa And The Caribbean

Author : Olatunji Ojo,Nadine Hunt
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2020-05-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350161283

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Slavery in Africa and the Caribbean by Olatunji Ojo,Nadine Hunt Pdf

For over four hundred years, thousands of African men and women were taken from their homeland and transported across the world to be sold into slavery. The history of this startling and horrific period is perennially important, and recent scholarship has sought to uncover the experiences of the slaves themselves in order to uncover the voices of its many victims. "Slavery and Africa in the Caribbean" analyses the written sources which have survived, demonstrating how many Africans coped by adopting a flexible identity in order to negotiate the cultural differences in African, European and Islamic systems of slavery. An important work based on Jamaican and African archival sources, this book will appeal to students and scholars who are interested in slavery, gender, identity, religion, colonialism and the African diaspora.

Author : Herbert S. Klein,Ben Vinson III
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2007-09-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199885022

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African Slavery in Latin America and the Caribbean by Herbert S. Klein,Ben Vinson III Pdf

This is an original survey of the economic and social history of slavery of the Afro-American experience in Latin America and the Caribbean. The focus of the book is on the Portuguese, Spanish, and French-speaking regions of continental America and the Caribbean. It analyzes the latest research on urban and rural slavery and on the African and Afro-American experience under these regimes. It approaches these themes both historically and structurally. The historical section provides a detailed analysis of the evolution of slavery and forced labor systems in Europe, Africa, and America. The second half of the book looks at the type of life and culture which the salves experienced in these American regimes. The first part of the book describes the growth of the plantation and mining economies that absorbed African slave labor, how that labor was used, and how the changing international economic conditions affected the local use and distribution of the slave labor force. Particular emphasis is given to the evolution of the sugar plantation economy, which was the single largest user of African slave labor and which was established in almost all of the Latin American colonies. Once establishing the economic context in which slave labor was applied, the book shifts focus to the Africans and Afro-Americans themselves as they passed through this slave regime. The first part deals with the demographic history of the slaves, including their experience in the Atlantic slave trade and their expectations of life in the New World. The next part deals with the attempts of the African and American born slaves to create a viable and autonomous culture. This includes their adaptation of European languages, religions, and even kinship systems to their own needs. It also examines systems of cooptation and accommodation to the slave regime, as well as the type and intensity of slave resistances and rebellions. A separate chapter is devoted to the important and different role of the free colored under slavery in the various colonies. The unique importance of the Brazilian free labor class is stressed, just as is the very unusual mobility experienced by the free colored in the French West Indies. The final chapter deals with the differing history of total emancipation and how ex-slaves adjusted to free conditions in the post-abolition periods of their respective societies. The patterns of post-emancipation integration are studied along with the questions of the relative success of the ex-slaves in obtaining control over land and escape from the old plantation regimes.

Author : Darién J. Davis
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : 0842024859

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Slavery and Beyond by Darién J. Davis Pdf

The slave market in Seville, while still relatively small, became one of the most active in Europe. Many called the city the 'New Babylon.' Northern and sub-Saharan Africans comprised more than 50 percent of the inhabitants of several of Seville's neighborhoods. The African populations became so socially and politically important that in 1475 the Crown appointed Juan de Valladolid, its royal servant and mayoral, to represent Seville's Afro-Iberian community. Churches and charities catered to its spiritual and material needs.

Author : Hilary Beckles,Verene Shepherd
Publisher : Ian Randle Publishers
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789766373078

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Saving Souls by Hilary Beckles,Verene Shepherd Pdf

The process of terminating the European Transatlantic Trade in Africans (TTA) was long and drawn-out. Although Africans, including the enslaved had long resisted its operation, abolition has traditionally been presented as a benevolent act by the British state acting under pressure from the intellectual classes and humanitarian activists. But the campaign to end the TTA cannot be separated from the resistance struggle of the Africans themselves.In Saving Souls: The Struggle to end the Transatlantic Trade in Africans, the companion volume to Trading Souls, noted Caribbean historians Hilary Beckles and Verene Shepherd trace the African experience from capture, the horrors of the Middle Passage to liberation. Their story emphasises the contributions of the victims of the enslaved even while acknowledging the critical role of the British abolitionists. Readers will learn about: The structure and conduct of the trade in African peopleDetails of the resistance of Africans to capture, sale and transportationThe abolition movement - involving black and white, enslaved and free, male and female, Christian and non-Christian activistsLegacies of the 1807 ActThe final Abolition Acts, namely the 1805-1806 Order-in-Council and the 1807 Act are included as appendices for easy reference.

Author : Paul E. Lovejoy,Olatunji Ojo,Nadine Hunt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Slavery
ISBN : 0755623630

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Slavery in Africa and the Caribbean by Paul E. Lovejoy,Olatunji Ojo,Nadine Hunt Pdf

"For over four hundred years, thousands of African men and women were taken from their homeland and transported across the world to be sold into slavery. The history of this startling and horrific period is perennially important, and recent scholarship has sought to uncover the experiences of the slaves themselves in order to uncover the voices of its many victims. "Slavery and Africa in the Caribbean" analyses the written sources which have survived, demonstrating how many Africans coped by adopting a flexible identity in order to negotiate the cultural differences in African, European and Islamic systems of slavery. An important work based on Jamaican and African archival sources, this book will appeal to students and scholars who are interested in slavery, gender, identity, religion, colonialism and the African diaspora."--Bloomsbury publishing.

Author : Christine Hatt
Publisher : Evans Brothers
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0237531925

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Slavery from Africa to the Americas by Christine Hatt Pdf

An illustrated history of slavery in Africa and the Americas from the seventeenth century to the nineteenth century. Suggested level: intermediate, junior secondary.

Author : David Eltis,Stanley L. Engerman,Keith R. Bradley,Paul Cartledge,Seymour Drescher
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 777 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2011-07-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521840682

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The Cambridge World History of Slavery: Volume 3, AD 1420-AD 1804 by David Eltis,Stanley L. Engerman,Keith R. Bradley,Paul Cartledge,Seymour Drescher Pdf

The various manifestations of coerced labour between the opening up of the Atlantic world and the formal creation of Haiti.

Author : Michael Twaddle
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2013-06-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781135235697

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The Wages of Slavery by Michael Twaddle Pdf

The transition from chattel slavery to forced labour in Africa and the Caribbean during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries has commanded increasing attention from scholars in recent years. The Wages of Slavery tackles this subject from a protoproletarian perspective, studies new labour regimes in Africa and the Caribbean, and discusses work practices before and after emancipation the nature of the working week, subsistence and surplus for slaves and free person, and labour negotiations and confrontations.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Plantation life
ISBN : 160256583X

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African Slavery in Latin America and the Caribbean by Anonim Pdf

Author : Hilary Beckles
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Barbadians
ISBN : 9766405859

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The First Black Slave Society by Hilary Beckles Pdf

Book describes the brutal Black slave society and plantation system of Barbados and explains how this slave chattel model was perfected by the British and exported to Jamaica and South Carolina for profit. There is special emphasis on the role of the concept of white supremacy in shaping social structure and economic relations that allowed slavery to continue. The book concludes with information on how slavery was finally outlawed in Barbados, in spite of white resistance.

Author : David Wheat
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469623801

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Atlantic Africa and the Spanish Caribbean, 1570-1640 by David Wheat Pdf

This work resituates the Spanish Caribbean as an extension of the Luso-African Atlantic world from the late sixteenth to the mid-seventeenth century, when the union of the Spanish and Portuguese crowns facilitated a surge in the transatlantic slave trade. After the catastrophic decline of Amerindian populations on the islands, two major African provenance zones, first Upper Guinea and then Angola, contributed forced migrant populations with distinct experiences to the Caribbean. They played a dynamic role in the social formation of early Spanish colonial society in the fortified port cities of Cartagena de Indias, Havana, Santo Domingo, and Panama City and their semirural hinterlands. David Wheat is the first scholar to establish this early phase of the "Africanization" of the Spanish Caribbean two centuries before the rise of large-scale sugar plantations. With African migrants and their descendants comprising demographic majorities in core areas of Spanish settlement, Luso-Africans, Afro-Iberians, Latinized Africans, and free people of color acted more as colonists or settlers than as plantation slaves. These ethnically mixed and economically diversified societies constituted a region of overlapping Iberian and African worlds, while they made possible Spain's colonization of the Caribbean.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2024-07-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781442958081

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Caribbean Exchanges by Anonim Pdf

Author : Richard Anderson,Henry B. Lovejoy
Publisher : Rochester Studies in African H
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : History
ISBN : 9781580469692

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Liberated Africans and the Abolition of the Slave Trade, 1807-1896 by Richard Anderson,Henry B. Lovejoy Pdf

"Interrogates the development of the world's first international courts of humanitarian justice and the subsequent "liberation" of nearly 200,000 Africans in the nineteenth century"--

Author : Michael Mullin
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN : 0252064461

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Africa in America by Michael Mullin Pdf

In an attempt to lay bare the historical and cultural roots of modern African American societies in the South and the British West Indies, Michael Mullin gives a vivid depiction of slave family life, economic strategies, and religion and their relationship to patterns of resistance and acculturation in two major plantation regions, the Caribbean and the American South. Generalized observations of plantation slavery, usually assumed to be the whole of Africans' experience, fail to provide definitive answers about how they met and often overcame the challenges and deprivations of their new lives. Mullin discusses three phases of slave resistance and religion in Anglo-America, both on and off plantations. During the first, or African, phase from the 1730s to the 1760s slave resistance was generally sudden, violently destructive, and charged with African ritual. The second phase, from the late 1760s to the early 1800s, involved plantation slaves who were more conservative and wary. The third phase, from the late 1760s to the second quarter of the nineteenth century, was led by assimilated blacks - artisans and drivers - who, having developed skills both on and off the plantation, led the large preemancipation rebellions. Mullin's case studies of slaveowners and plantation overseers draw on personal diaries and other documents to reveal memorable men whose approaches to their jobs varied widely and were as much affected by interactions with slaves as by personal background, the location of the plantation, and the economic climate of the times. Extensive archival and anecdotal sources inform this pioneering study of slavery as it was practiced in tidewater Virginia, on the rice coast of the Carolinas, and in Jamaica and Barbados. Bringing his training in anthropology to bear on sources from Great Britain, the Caribbean, and the United States, Mullin offers new and definitive information.

Author : Herbert S. Klein,Ben Vinson (III)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Plantation life
ISBN : 0197711057

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African Slavery in Latin America and the Caribbean by Herbert S. Klein,Ben Vinson (III) Pdf

With a focus on the Portuguese, Spanish, and French speaking regions of continental America and the Caribbean, this text offers analysis of recent research on urban and rural slavery and on the African and African American experience under these regimes.