Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xii, 224 pages)
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illustrations, maps
Edition:
London Bloomsbury Publishing 2020 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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Also issued in print
ISBN:
9780755623631
Series Statement:
International library of colonial history vol. 13
Content:
Tables - vii Maps - viii Illustrations - ix -- Acknowledgements - x Notes on Contributors - xi Introduction (〈i〉Nadine Hunt and Olatunji Ojio〈/i〉) - 1 -- 1. Ethnicity and Identity at the Niger-Benue Confluence during the Nineteenth Century Nupe Jihad (〈i〉Femi James Kolapo〈/i〉) - 9 -- 2. Slave Trading in Kano Emirate (〈i〉Mohammed Bashir Salau〈/i〉) - 38 -- 3. Concubinage and Slavery in Benguela, c. 1750-1850 (〈i〉Mariana P. Candido〈/i〉) - 65 -- 4. Correspondence of the Lagos Slave Trade, 1848-1850 (〈i〉Olatunji Ojo〈/i〉) - 85 -- 5. The Metamorphosis of Slavery in Colonial Mombassa, 1907-1963 (〈i〉Feisal Farah〈/i〉) - 121 -- 6. Economy, Politics, and the Early Formation of a Cultural Identity in British Virgin Islands' Slave Society (〈i〉Katherine A. Smith〈/i〉) - 144 -- 7. Remembering Africans in Diaspora: Robert Wedderburn's 'Freedome Narrative' (〈i〉Nadine Hunt〈/i〉) - 175 Bibliography - 199 Index - 221.
Content:
"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
Note:
"Most of the chapters in this book derive from conference papers presented at the Canadian Association for African Studies (CAAS) Annual Meeting and Conference held at Carleton University, Ottawa in May 2010. Coinciding with the Association's 40th anniversary, the editiors thought it was an appropriate time for past and present students of Professor Paul Ellsworth Lovejoy to celebrate his scholarly contributions and career ..."--p. [x]
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [199]-220) and index
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Also issued in print.
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781780761152
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Language:
English
DOI:
10.5040/9780755623631
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