The Caribbean Slave

Author : Hilary Beckles,Verene Shepherd
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1993-07
Category : History
ISBN : 1565840852

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Caribbean Slave Society and Economy by Hilary Beckles,Verene Shepherd Pdf

Because the institution of slavery has exerted such momentous force in shaping the socioeconomic and political history of the Caribbean, much of the region's historical writing has focused on slavery. Caribbean Slave Society and Economy brings together into one volume the main themes of the recent research on slavery, and explores the patterns and forms of socioeconomic life and activity that molded the region's heterogeneous slave societies.

Author : Kenneth F. Kiple
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2002-06-20
Category : History
ISBN : 0521524709

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The Caribbean Slave by Kenneth F. Kiple Pdf

A comprehensive analysis of the biological experience of black slaves in the Caribbean.

Author : Randy M. Browne
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2017-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812294279

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Surviving Slavery in the British Caribbean by Randy M. Browne Pdf

A groundbreaking study of slavery and power in the British Caribbean that foregrounds the struggle for survival Atlantic slave societies were notorious deathtraps. In Surviving Slavery in the British Caribbean, Randy M. Browne looks past the familiar numbers of life and death and into a human drama in which enslaved Africans and their descendants struggled to survive against their enslavers, their environment, and sometimes one another. Grounded in the nineteenth-century British colony of Berbice, one of the Atlantic world's best-documented slave societies and the last frontier of slavery in the British Caribbean, Browne argues that the central problem for most enslaved people was not how to resist or escape slavery but simply how to stay alive. Guided by the voices of hundreds of enslaved people preserved in an extraordinary set of legal records, Browne reveals a world of Caribbean slavery that is both brutal and breathtakingly intimate. Field laborers invoked abolitionist-inspired legal reforms to protest brutal floggings, spiritual healers conducted secretive nighttime rituals, anxious drivers weighed the competing pressures of managers and the condition of their fellow slaves in the fields, and women fought back against abusive masters and husbands. Browne shows that at the core of enslaved people's complicated relationships with their enslavers and one another was the struggle to live in a world of death. Provocative and unflinching, Surviving Slavery in the British Caribbean reorients the study of Atlantic slavery by revealing how differently enslaved people's social relationships, cultural practices, and political strategies appear when seen in the light of their unrelenting struggle to survive.

Author : Darién J. Davis
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 41,8 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 : B. W. Higman
Publisher : University of the West Indies Press
Page : 830 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : 9766400105

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Slave Populations of the British Caribbean, 1807-1834 by B. W. Higman Pdf

Reprint of work that originally appeared in 1984. Excellent and thorough treatment of major demographic aspects of British Caribbean slavery from abolition of slave trade to slave emancipation. Draws heavily on extensive data available from slave registration returns for various islands to provide comparative perspective of nature of slave life. Excellent tables and figures. Essential for serious scholars of the region. -Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58

Author : Barbara Bush
Publisher : James Currey
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0852550588

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Slave Women in Caribbean Society, 1650-1838 by Barbara Bush Pdf

In this text the author sets forth and then evaulates the images of slave women accumulated in published sources and folklore.

Author : David Eltis,Stanley L. Engerman,Keith R. Bradley,Paul Cartledge,Craig Perry,David Richardson,Seymour Drescher
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Slavery
ISBN : LCCN:2009036356

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The Cambridge World History of Slavery: Dependence, servility, and coerced labor in time and space by David Eltis,Stanley L. Engerman,Keith R. Bradley,Paul Cartledge,Craig Perry,David Richardson,Seymour Drescher Pdf

"Most societies in the past have had slaves, and almost all peoples have at some time in their pasts been both slaves as well as owners of slaves. Recent decades have seen a significant increase in our understanding of the historical role played by slavery and wide interest across a range of academic disciplines in the evolution of the institution. Exciting and innovative research methodologies have been developed, and numerous fruitful debates generated. Further, the study of slavery has come to provide strong connections between academic research and the wider public interest at a time when such links have in general been weak. The Cambridge World History of Slavery responds to these trends by providing for the first time, in four volumes, a comprehensive global history of this widespread phenomenon from the ancient world to the present day. Volume I surveys the history of slavery in the ancient Mediterranean world. Although chapters are devoted to the ancient Near East and the Jews, its principal concern is with the societies of ancient Greece and Rome. These are often considered as the first examples in world history of genuine slave societies because of the widespread prevalence of chattel slavery, which is argued to have been a cultural manifestation of the ubiquitous violence in societies typified by incessant warfare"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Herbert S. Klein,Ben Vinson III
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 43,7 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 : Hilary Beckles,Verene Shepherd
Publisher : Ian Randle Publishers
Page : 1156 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173005885147

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Caribbean Slavery in the Atlantic World by Hilary Beckles,Verene Shepherd Pdf

For abstracts see: Caribbean Abstracts, no. 11, 1999-2000 (2001); p. 103.

Author : Michael Craton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 9768123087

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Empire, Enslavement, and Freedom in the Caribbean by Michael Craton Pdf

Author : Gelien Matthews
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807131312

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Caribbean Slave Revolts and the British Abolitionist Movement by Gelien Matthews Pdf

"Focusing on slave revolts that took place in Barbados in 1816, in Demerara in 1823, and in Jamaica in 1831-32, Matthews identifies four key aspects in British abolitionist propaganda regarding Caribbean slavery: the denial that antislavery activism prompted slave revolts, the attempt to understand and recount slave uprisings from the slaves' perspectives, the portrayal of slave rebels as victims of armed suppressors and as agents of the antislavery movement, and the presentation of revolts as a rationale against the continuance of slavery. She makes use of previously overlooked publications of British abolitionists to prove that their language changed over time in response to slave uprisings.".

Author : Brian L. Moore,B. W. Higman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 9766401373

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Slavery, Freedom and Gender by Brian L. Moore,B. W. Higman Pdf

A collection of lectures delivered between 1987 and 1998. The book is divided into two sections: slavery and freedom, which features critical research on slavery and post-emancipation society, and gender.

Author : Laurent Dubois,John D. Garrigus
Publisher : Bedford/St. Martin's
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09-02
Category : History
ISBN : 1319048781

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Slave Revolution in the Caribbean, 1789-1804 by Laurent Dubois,John D. Garrigus Pdf

This volume details the first slave rebellion to have a successful outcome, leading to the establishment of Haiti as a free black republic and paving the way for the emancipation of slaves in the rest of the French Empire and the world. Incited by the French Revolution, the enslaved inhabitants of the French Caribbean began a series of revolts, and in 1791 plantation workers in Haiti, then known as Saint-Domingue, overwhelmed their planter owners and began to take control of the island. They achieved emancipation in 1794, and after successfully opposing Napoleonic forces eight years later, emerged as part of an independent nation in 1804. A broad selection of documents, all newly translated by the authors, is contextualized by a thorough introduction considering the very latest scholarship. Laurent Dubois and John D. Garrigus clarify for students the complex political, economic, and racial issues surrounding the revolution and its reverberations worldwide. Useful pedagogical tools include maps, illustrations, a chronology, and a selected bibliography.--Publisher description.

Author : Catherine A. Reinhardt
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 1845450795

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Claims to Memory by Catherine A. Reinhardt Pdf

By comparing a diversity of documents including letters by slaves, free people of colour and planters, as well as literary works, royal decrees and court cases, Catherine Reinhardt untangles the complex forces of the slave regime that shaped the collective memory of slaves and free coloureds.

Author : Susan Dwyer Amussen
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2009-01-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781442958029

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Caribbean Exchanges by Susan Dwyer Amussen Pdf

English colonial expansion in the Caribbean was more than a matter of migration and trade. It was also a source of social and cultural change within England. Finding evidence of cultural exchange between England and the Caribbean as early as the seventeenth century, Susan Dwyer Amussen uncovers the learned practice of slaveholding As English colonists in the Caribbean quickly became large-scale slaveholders, they established new organizations of labor, new uses of authority, new laws, and new modes of violence, punishment, and repression in order to manage slaves. Concentrating on Barbados and Jamaica, England's two most important colonies, Amussen looks at cultural exports that affected the development of race, gender, labor, and class as categories of legal and social identity in England. Concepts of law and punishment in the Caribbean provided a model for expanded definitions of crime in England; the organization of sugar factories served as a model for early industrialization; and the construction of the ''white woman'' in the Caribbean contributed to changing notions of ''ladyhood'' in England. As Amussen demonstrates, the cultural changes necessary for settling the Caribbean became an important, though uncounted, colonial export.