Yoruba Are on a Rock - Recaptured Africans and the Orisas of Grenada

This is the first book-length study of the Africans who left a significant and disproportionate cultural imprint on Grenada's cultural landscape since the nineteenth century. It sheds new light on how the legacies of slavery, indenture, and colonialism shape the perception of Grenada's African-derived religions and their adherents.

List of contents

List of figures; Introduction; 1. 'Old Creoles': the foundation of Grenada's plantation society; 2. 'Scenes of former slavery': abolitionism and the persistence of unfree labour; 3. New nations: the origins and identities of recaptives; 4. Bonds of survival: from 'liberation' to unfreedom; 5. 'Acquaintances and countrymen': building recaptive African communities; 6. 'Joining their countrymen and women': recaptive Africans after indentureship; 7. 'They call them the Yarriba people, it was African dance': becoming Yoruba, becoming African; 8. Three nights: curating African, African grenadian, and Indian spaces; 9. 'In the form of the baptists': Norman Paul and the legacies of the spiritual baptists; 10. Grenada ain't far from Africa': historical memories, human flight, and the recovery of African biographies; Epilogue; Appendix; Bibliography.

About the author

Shantel A. George is Lecturer in History at the University of Glasgow. Her research focuses on African-derived cultures and identities in the British Caribbean and the global circulation of African commodities. This is her first book.

Product details

• Authors: Shantel A. George, Shantel A. (University of Glasgow) George
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2025
• EAN: 9781009358965
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0935896-5
• No. of pages: 346
• Series: Cambridge Studies on the African Diaspora
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, HISTORY / General, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Grenada, African History, Slavery & abolition of slavery, Slavery and abolition of slavery