[PDF] Rituals Runaways And The Haitian Revolution eBook

Author : Crystal Nicole Eddins
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 20,58 MB
Release : 2022-04-21
Category : History
ISBN : 1009256173

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The Haitian Revolution was perhaps the most successful slave rebellion in modern history; it created the first and only free and independent Black nation in the Americas. This book tells the story of how enslaved Africans forcibly brought to colonial Haiti through the trans-Atlantic slave trade used their cultural and religious heritages, social networks, and labor and militaristic skills to survive horrific conditions. They built webs of networks between African and 'creole' runaways, slaves, and a small number of free people of color through rituals and marronnage - key aspects to building the racial solidarity that helped make the revolution successful. Analyzing underexplored archival sources and advertisements for fugitives from slavery, Crystal Eddins finds indications of collective consciousness and solidarity, unearthing patterns of resistance. The book fills an important gap in the existing literature on the Haitian Revolution. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Author : Crystal Nicole Eddins
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 19,87 MB
Release : 2022-04-21
Category : History
ISBN : 1009256157

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A new analysis of the origins of the Haitian Revolution, revealing the consciousness, solidarity, and resistance that helped it succeed.

Author : Michael A. Gomez
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 36,61 MB
Release : 2019-10-10
Category : History
ISBN : 110849871X

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Captures the essential political, cultural, social, and economic developments that shaped the black experience.

Author : Ras Michael Brown
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 35,84 MB
Release : 2012-08-27
Category : History
ISBN : 1139561049

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African-Atlantic Cultures and the South Carolina Lowcountry examines perceptions of the natural world revealed by the religious ideas and practices of African-descended communities in South Carolina from the colonial period into the twentieth century. Focusing on Kongo nature spirits known as the simbi, Ras Michael Brown describes the essential role religion played in key historical processes, such as establishing new communities and incorporating American forms of Christianity into an African-based spirituality. This book illuminates how people of African descent engaged the spiritual landscape of the Lowcountry through their subsistence practices, religious experiences and political discourse.

Author : Johannes M. Postma
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 49,16 MB
Release : 2008-01-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521048248

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Presenting a thorough analysis of the Dutch participation in the transatlantic slave trade, this book is based upon extensive research in Dutch archives. The book examines the whole range of Dutch involvement in the Atlantic slave trade from the beginning of the 1600s to the nineteenth century.

Author : Jorge L. Giovannetti
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 15,66 MB
Release : 2018-10-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1108423469

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Provides a valuable transnational history of the African Diaspora through examination of British Afro-Caribbeans in Cuba.

Author : Justine Tally
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 48,23 MB
Release : 2007-09-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1139827855

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Nobel laureate Toni Morrison is one of the most widely studied of contemporary American authors. Her novels, particularly Beloved, have had a dramatic impact on the American canon and attracted considerable critical commentary. This 2007 Companion introduces and examines her oeuvre as a whole, the first evaluation to include not only her famous novels, but also her other literary works (short story, drama, musical, and opera), her social and literary criticism, and her career as an editor and teacher. Innovative contributions from internationally recognized critics and academics discuss Morrison's themes, narrative techniques, language and political philosophy, and explain the importance of her work to American studies and world literature. This comprehensive and accessible approach, together with a chronology and guide to further reading, makes this an essential book for students and scholars of African American literature.

Author : Malyn Newitt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : pages
File Size : 37,24 MB
Release : 2010-06-28
Category : History
ISBN : 1139491296

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The Portuguese in West Africa, 1415–1670 brings together a collection of documents - all in new English translation - that illustrate aspects of the encounters between the Portuguese and the peoples of North and West Africa in the period from 1400 to 1650. This period witnessed the diaspora of the Sephardic Jews, the emigration of Portuguese to West Africa and the islands, and the beginnings of the black diaspora associated with the slave trade. The documents show how the Portuguese tried to understand the societies with which they came into contact and to reconcile their experience with the myths and legends inherited from classical and medieval learning. They also show how Africans reacted to the coming of Europeans, adapting Christian ideas to local beliefs and making use of exotic imports and European technologies. The documents also describe the evolution of the black Portuguese communities in Guinea and the islands, as well as the slave trade and the way that it was organized, understood, and justified.

Author : John M. Lipski
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 16,23 MB
Release : 2005-03-10
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 1107320372

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The African slave trade, beginning in the fifteenth century, brought African languages into contact with Spanish and Portuguese, resulting in the Africans' gradual acquisition of these languages. In this 2004 book, John Lipski describes the major forms of Afro-Hispanic language found in the Iberian Peninsula and Latin America over the last 500 years. As well as discussing pronunciation, morphology and syntax, he separates legitimate forms of Afro-Hispanic expression from those that result from racist stereotyping, to assess how contact with the African diaspora has had a permanent impact on contemporary Spanish. A principal issue is the possibility that Spanish, in contact with speakers of African languages, may have creolized and restructured - in the Caribbean and perhaps elsewhere - permanently affecting regional and social varieties of Spanish today. The book is accompanied by the largest known anthology of primary Afro-Hispanic texts from Iberia, Latin America, and former Afro-Hispanic contacts in Africa and Asia.