Author: Frederic William Naylor Bayley
Publisher: London : W. Kidd ; Dublin : W.F. Wakeman ; Edinburgh : A. Black ; Glasgow : R. and J. Finlay
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Category : Hurricanes
Languages : en
Pages : 780

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Author: Ira Berlin
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113519033X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 226

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Slaves achieved a degree of economic independence, producing food, tending cash crops, raising livestock, manufacturing furnished goods, marketing their own products, consuming and saving the proceeds and bequeathing property to their descendants. The editors of this volume contend that the legacy of slavery cannot be understood without a full appreciation of the slaves' economy.

Author: Gordon K. Lewis
Publisher: Ian Randle Publishers
ISBN: 9766371717
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 591

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Provides an in-depth analysis of the forces that contributed to the shaping of the West Indian society covering the the crucial inter-war years from the 1920s to the period of the 1960s.

Author: Oscar Webber
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1526160382
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 136

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Negotiating relief and freedom is an investigation of short- and long-term responses to disaster in the British Caribbean colonies during the ‘long’ nineteenth century. It explores how colonial environmental degradation made their inhabitants both more vulnerable to and expanded the impact of natural phenomena such as hurricanes, earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions. It shows that British approaches to disaster ‘relief’ prioritised colonial control and ‘fiscal prudence’ ahead of the relief of the relief of suffering. In turn, that this pattern played out continuously in the long nineteenth century is a reminder that in the Caribbean the transition from slavery to waged labour was not a clean one. Times of crisis brought racial and social tensions to the fore and freedoms once granted, were often quickly curtailed.

Author: Gad J. Heuman
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415213035
Category : Slavery
Languages : en
Pages : 824

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Brings together the most recent and essential writings on slavery. Spanning almost five centuries - the late fifteenth until the mid-nineteenth - the articles trace the range and impact of slavery on the modern western world.

Author: Richard B. Sheridan
Publisher: Barbados : The Press University of the West Indies
ISBN: 9789766400224
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 408

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Collection of essays written by former students, colleagues, and friends to honor a preeminent economic historian of the Caribbean. Covering period 1650-1850, essays encompass a broad range of topics, with major focus on various aspects of slavery and imperial relations during those years. Excellent introductory essay on Sheridan's contributions to Caribbean economic history.

Author: Institute of Jamaica. Library
Publisher:
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Category : Caribbean Area
Languages : en
Pages : 196

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Author: Grosvenor Library, Buffalo, N.Y.
Publisher:
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Category : Latin America
Languages : en
Pages : 40

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Author: Lars Eckstein
Publisher: Rodopi
ISBN: 9042019581
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 308

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The Atlantic slave trade continues to haunt the cultural memories of Africa, Europe and the Americas. There is a prevailing desire to forget: While victims of the African diaspora tried to flee the sites of trauma, enlightened Westerners preferred to be oblivious to the discomforting complicity between their enlightenment and chattel slavery. Recently, however, fiction writers have ventured to 're-member' the Black Atlantic. This book is concerned with how literature performs as memory. It sets out to chart systematically the ways in which literature and memory intersect, and offers readings of three seminal Black Atlantic novels. Each reading illustrates a particular poetic strategy of accessing the past and presents a distinct political outlook on memory. Novelists may choose to write back to texts, images or music: Caryl Phillips's Cambridge brings together numerous fragments of slave narratives, travelogues and histories to shape a brilliant montage of long-forgotten texts. David Dabydeen's A Harlot's Progress approaches slavery through the gateway of paintings by William Hogarth, Sir Joshua Reynolds and J.M.W. Turner. Toni Morrison's Beloved, finally, is steeped in black music, from spirituals and blues to the art of John Coltrane. Beyond differences in poetic strategy, moreover, the novels paradigmatically reveal distinct ideologies: their politics of memory variously promote an encompassing transcultural sense of responsibility, an aestheticist 'creative amnesia', and the need to preserve a collective 'black' identity.

Author: B. W. Higman
Publisher: University of the West Indies Press
ISBN: 9789766400101
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 830

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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