Alabi''s World

Alabi's World relates the history of a nation founded by escaped slaves deep in the Latin American rain forest. It tells of the black men and women's bloody battles for independence, their uneasy truce with the colonial government, and the attempt of their great leader, Alabi, to reconcile his people with white law and a white God.

About the author

Richard Price is the author of twelve books, including an earlier work on the Saramaka people, the award-winning First Time: The Historical Vision of an Afro-American People. He is coeditor, with Sally Price, of John Gabriel Steadman's Narrative of a Five Year Expedition against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam. He has taught at Stanford, Yale, Johns Hopkins, Minnesota, and the University of Paris.

Summary

It is a confrontation, he suggests, that was enacted thousands of times across the slaveholding Americas as white men strained to suppress black culture and blacks resisted- determined to preserve their heritage and beliefs.

Product details

• Authors: Richard Pr, Richard Price
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.07.1990
• EAN: 9780801839566
• ISBN: 978-0-8018-3956-6
• No. of pages: 472
• Series: Johns Hopkins Studies in Atlan; Johns Hopkins Studies in Atlantic History and Culture; Johns Hopkins Studies in Atlantic History and Culture; Johns Hopkins Studies in Atlan
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; HISTORY / Latin America / South America, Suriname, History of the Americas, Surinam (Suriname)