Liberties Lost - The Indigenous Caribbean and Slave Systems

Klappentext Liberties Lost and Freedoms Won have been written by two of the Caribbean's leading historians, Professor Hilary Beckles and Professor Verene Shepherd. Zusammenfassung An essential book for students and teachers written by two of the Caribbean's leading historians. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. The indigenous Caribbean people; 2. The European-Caribbean project; 3. Spanish settlement and indigenous resistance; 4. Other European settlement and rivalry; 5. Europe and the spread of chattel slavery in Africa; 6. The transatlantic trade in enslaved Africans; 7. The Caribbean economy and enslavement; 8. Making and marketing sugar; 9. African culture and community life; 10. Surviving enslavement: wealth and health factors; 11. Revolt and marronage; 12. Armed revolt; 13. Caribbean emancipations; Additional sources for teachers; Glossary; Index.

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• Authors: Hilary Beckles, Hilary McD Beckles, Hilary McD. Beckles, Hilary MCD. Shepherd Beckles, Professor Hilary McD. Beckles, Professor Hilary MCD. Shepherd Beckles, Verene Shepherd, Verene A Shepherd, Verene A. Shepherd
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 14 to 16
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.11.2004
• EAN: 9780521435444
• ISBN: 978-0-521-43544-4
• No. of pages: 248
• Series: Caribbean; Caribbean
• Subjects: Education and learning > Schoolbooks, general education schools; Humanities, art, music > Education > School education, didactics, methodology; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries