New Negroes From Africa - Slave Trade Abolition Free African Settlement in Nineteenth Century

Informationen zum Autor Rosanne Marion Adderley Klappentext Rosanne Marion Adderley is Associate Professor of History at Tulane University in New Orleans. Zusammenfassung A study of "receptive" communities in the West Indies, which focuses on two groups - English-speaking colonists, and the new African immigrants. This work describes the formation of these settlements, and offers details about the families of liberated Africans, the labour they performed, their religions, and the culture they brought with them. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Potential Laborers or "Troublesome Savages"? Settlement of Liberated Africans in the Bahamas 2. "Binding them to the trade of digging cane holes": Settlement of Liberated Africans in Trinidad 3. "A fine family of what we call Creole Yarabas": African Ethnic Identities in Liberated African Community Formation 4. "Assisted by his wife, an African": Gender, Family, and Household Formation in the Experience of Liberated Africans 5. Orisha Worship and "Jesus Time": Religious Worlds of Liberated Africans 6. "Powers superior to those of other witches": New African Immigrants and Supernatural Practice beyond Religious Spheres 7. "Deeply attached to his native country": Visions of Africa and Mentalities of Exile in Liberated African Culture Conclusion: African Creoles and Creole Africans Appendix 1. Reports of Liberated African Arrivals in the Bahamas from Governors' Correspondence Appendix 2. Reports of Liberated African Arrivals in Trinidad from Governors' Correspondence Notes Select Bibliography Index

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• Authors: Rosanne Marion Adderley, Adderley Rosanne Marion
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 11.12.2006
• EAN: 9780253218278
• ISBN: 978-0-253-21827-8
• No. of pages: 360
• Series: Blacks in the Diaspora (Paperb; Blacks in the Diaspora; Blacks in the Diaspora (Paperb
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