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.
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Für höhere Schule und Studium
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Höhe: 216 mm
Breite: 135 mm
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ISBN-13
978-1-350-16128-3 (9781350161283)
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Olatunji Ojo is Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Brock University, St. Catherine's, Canada. Nadine Hunt teaches African History at York University, Toronto, Canada.
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Brock University, St. Catherine's, Canada
York University, Toronto, Canada.
Tables - vii
Maps - viii
Illustrations - ix
Acknowledgements - x
Notes on Contributors - xi
Introduction (Nadine Hunt and Olatunji Ojio) - 1
1. Ethnicity and Identity at the Niger-Benue Confluence during the Nineteenth Century Nupe Jihad (Femi James Kolapo) - 9
2. Slave Trading in Kano Emirate (Mohammed Bashir Salau) - 38
3. Concubinage and Slavery in Benguela, c. 1750-1850 (Mariana P. Candido) - 65
4. Correspondence of the Lagos Slave Trade, 1848-1850 (Olatunji Ojo) - 85
5. The Metamorphosis of Slavery in Colonial Mombassa, 1907-1963 (Feisal Farah) - 121
6. Economy, Politics, and the Early Formation of a Cultural Identity in British Virgin Islands' Slave Society (Katherine A. Smith) - 144
7. Remembering Africans in Diaspora: Robert Wedderburn's 'Freedome Narrative' (Nadine Hunt) - 175
Bibliography - 199
Index - 221
