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Book A Twelvemonth s Residence in the West Indies

Download or read book A Twelvemonth s Residence in the West Indies written by Richard Robert Madden and published by . This book was released on 1835 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Decline of the British West Indies  1763 1833

Download or read book The Decline of the British West Indies 1763 1833 written by Lowell Joseph Ragatz and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book First Supplementary Catalogue of the Library of the Royal Colonial Institute

Download or read book First Supplementary Catalogue of the Library of the Royal Colonial Institute written by Royal Colonial Institute (Great Britain). Library and published by London : The Institute. This book was released on 1901 with total page 1084 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book American Mediterranean

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  • Author : Matthew Pratt Guterl
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Release : 2013-03-11
  • ISBN : 0674072286
  • Pages : 250 pages

Download or read book American Mediterranean written by Matthew Pratt Guterl and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2013-03-11 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did slave-owning Southern planters make sense of the transformation of their world in the Civil War era? Matthew Pratt Guterl shows that they looked beyond their borders for answers. He traces the links that bound them to the wider fraternity of slaveholders in Cuba, Brazil, and elsewhere, and charts their changing political place in the hemisphere. Through such figures as the West Indian Confederate Judah Benjamin, Cuban expatriate Ambrosio Gonzales, and the exile Eliza McHatton, Guterl examines how the Southern elite connectedÑby travel, print culture, even the prospect of future conquestÑwith the communities of New World slaveholders as they redefined their world. He analyzes why they invested in a vision of the circum-Caribbean, and how their commitment to this broader slave-owning community fared. From Rebel exiles in Cuba to West Indian apprenticeship and the Black Codes to the Òlabor problemÓ of the postwar South, this beautifully written book recasts the nineteenth-century South as a complicated borderland in a pan-American vision.

Book The Cultural Politics of Obeah

Download or read book The Cultural Politics of Obeah written by Diana Paton and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-08-10 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An innovative history of the politics and practice of the Caribbean spiritual healing techniques known as obeah and their place in everyday life in the region. Spanning two centuries, the book results from extensive research on the development and implementation of anti-obeah legislation. It includes analysis of hundreds of prosecutions for obeah, and an account of the complex and multiple political meanings of obeah in Caribbean societies. Diana Paton moves beyond attempts to define and describe what obeah was, instead showing the political imperatives that often drove interpretations and discussions of it. She shows that representations of obeah were entangled with key moments in Caribbean history, from eighteenth-century slave rebellions to the formation of new nations after independence. Obeah was at the same time a crucial symbol of the Caribbean's alleged lack of modernity, a site of fear and anxiety, and a thoroughly modern and transnational practice of healing itself.

Book No Bond But the Law

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  • Author : Diana Paton
  • Publisher : Duke University Press
  • Release : 2004-10-29
  • ISBN : 9780822333982
  • Pages : 316 pages

Download or read book No Bond But the Law written by Diana Paton and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2004-10-29 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVThe author analyzes punishment as a way to explore the dynamic of state formation in a colonial society making the transition from slavery to freedom./div

Book Slave Empire

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  • Author : Padraic X. Scanlan
  • Publisher : Robinson
  • Release : 2020-11-26
  • ISBN : 1472142322
  • Pages : 452 pages

Download or read book Slave Empire written by Padraic X. Scanlan and published by Robinson. This book was released on 2020-11-26 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Engrossing and powerful . . . rich and thought-provoking' Fara Dabhoiwala, Guardian 'Path-breaking . . . a major rewriting of history' Mihir Bose, Irish Times 'Slave Empire is lucid, elegant and forensic. It deals with appalling horrors in cool and convincing prose.' The Economist The British empire, in sentimental myth, was more free, more just and more fair than its rivals. But this claim that the British empire was 'free' and that, for all its flaws, it promised liberty to all its subjects was never true. The British empire was built on slavery. Slave Empire puts enslaved people at the centre the British empire in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. In intimate, human detail, Padraic Scanlon shows how British imperial power and industrial capitalism were inextricable from plantation slavery. With vivid original research and careful synthesis of innovative historical scholarship, Slave Empire shows that British freedom and British slavery were made together.

Book The New Monthly Magazine and Literary Journal

Download or read book The New Monthly Magazine and Literary Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1835 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The New Monthly Magazine and Universal Register

Download or read book The New Monthly Magazine and Universal Register written by and published by . This book was released on 1835 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The New Monthly Magazine and Humorist

Download or read book The New Monthly Magazine and Humorist written by and published by . This book was released on 1835 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book New Monthly Magazine and Humorist

Download or read book New Monthly Magazine and Humorist written by and published by . This book was released on 1835 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Reimagining the Transatlantic  1780 1890

Download or read book Reimagining the Transatlantic 1780 1890 written by Joselyn M. Almeida and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-08 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her thought-provoking study of Britain's relationship with Latin America and the Caribbean during the Romantic and Victorian periods, Joselyn M. Almeida makes a compelling case for extending the critical boundaries of current transatlantic and circumatlantic scholarship. She proposes the pan-Atlantic as a critical model that encompasses Britain's relationship to the non-Anglophone Americas given their shared history of conquest and the slave trade, and underscores the importance of writings by Afro-British and Afro-Hispanophone authors in formulating Atlantic culture. In adopting the term pan-Atlantic, Almeida argues for the interrelationship of the discourses of discovery, conquest, enslavement, and liberation expressed in literary motifs such as the New World, Columbus, and Las Casas; the representation of Native Americans; the enslavement and liberation of Africans; and the emancipation of Spanish America. Her study draws on the works of William Robertson, Ottobah Cugoano, Francisco Clavijero, Francisco Miranda, José Blanco White, Richard Robert Madden, Juan Manzano, Charles Darwin, and W. H. Hudson, uncovering the shared cultural grammar of travel narratives, abolitionist poems, novels, and historiographies that crosses national and linguistic boundaries.

Book The Fall of the Planter Class in the British Caribbean  1763 1833

Download or read book The Fall of the Planter Class in the British Caribbean 1763 1833 written by Lowell Joseph Ragatz and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Museum of Foreign Literature  Science and Art

Download or read book Museum of Foreign Literature Science and Art written by and published by . This book was released on 1835 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Obi

    Obi

    Book Details:
  • Author : William Earle
  • Publisher : Broadview Press
  • Release : 2005-07-27
  • ISBN : 1460401506
  • Pages : 260 pages

Download or read book Obi written by William Earle and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2005-07-27 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Three-Fingered Jack,” the protagonist of this 1800 novel, is based on the escaped slave and Jamaican folk hero Jack Mansong, who was believed to have gained his strength from the Afro-Caribbean religion of obeah, or “obi.” His story, told in an inventive mix of styles, is a rousing and sympathetic account of an individual’s attempt to combat slavery while defending family honour. Historically significant for its portrayal of a slave rebellion and of the practice of obeah, Obi is also a fast-paced and lively novel, blending religion, politics, and romance. This Broadview edition includes a critical introduction and a selection of contemporary documents, including historical and literary treatments of obeah and accounts of an eighteenth-century slave rebellion.