This group of essays, resulting from research affiliated with the UNESCO Slave Route Project, explores trans-Atlantic linkages and cultural overlays during the era of slavery and after. The essays concentrate on ethnicity and culture and their manifestations on both sides of the Atlantic and draw on new methodologies and new sources relating to the emergence of the African diaspora, one of the major historical phenomena of the modern era.
This group of essays, resulting from research affiliated with the UNESCO Slave Route Project, explores trans-Atlantic linkages and cultural overlays during the era of slavery and after. The essays concentrate on ethnicity and culture and their manifestations on both sides of the Atlantic and draw on new methodologies and new sources relating to the emergence of the African diaspora, one of the major historical phenomena of the modern era.
Paul E. Lovejoy, Distinguished Research Professor in the Department of History at York University, holds the Canada Research Chair in African Diaspora History and is Director of the Harriet Tubman Institute for Research on the Global Migrations of African Peoples. He is the author or editor of numerous volumes on the African diaspora. David V. Trotman is Associate Professor of History and Humanities and Associate Director of the Harriet Tubman Institute at York University. He received his doctorate at Johns Hopkins University and most recently, he is author of Contesting Freedom: Control and Resistance in the Post-Emancipation Caribbean (with Gad Heuman).
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1. Introduction: Ethnicity and the African Diaspora Paul E. Lovejoy and David V. Trotman York University 2. Ethnic Designations of the Slave Trade and the Reconstruction of the History of Transatlantic Slavery Paul Lovejoy York University 3. The Story of Nbena 1817-1820: Unlawful Enslavement and the Concept of "Original Freedom" in Angola Jose Curto York University 4. African Ethnicities and the Meanings of Mina Gwendolyn Hall Rutgers University 5. A Quality of Anguish: The Igbo Response to Enslavement in the Americas Michael A. Gomez 6. I Francisco Castaneda Negro Esclavo Caravali--Carabali Ethnicity in Colonial New Granada Renee Soulodre-La France York University 7. On the Frontiers of the African Diaspora in Central America: The African Origins of San Fernando de Omoa Rina Caceres Universidad da Costa Rica 8. Devils or Sorcerers Muslims or Studs: Manding in the Americas Sylviane Anna Diouf 9. The Reconstruction of Ethnicity in Bahia: The Case of the Nago in the Nineteenth Century Maria Ines Cortes de Oliveira 10. The Afro-Brazilian Communities of the Bight of Benin in the Nineteenth Century Elisee Soumonni Universite Nationale du Benin 11. Ethnicity Colour and Gender in the Experiences of Enslaved Women on Non-Sugar Properties in Jamaica Verene A. Lazarus-Shepherd University of the West Indies 12. Africanizing and Creolizing the Plantation Frontier of Trinidad 1787-1834 David V. Trotman York University 13. Ethnic Politics among Africans in Nineteenth-Century Bahia Joao Jose Reis Universidade Federal da Bahia
1. Introduction: Ethnicity and the African Diaspora Paul E. Lovejoy and David V. Trotman York University 2. Ethnic Designations of the Slave Trade and the Reconstruction of the History of Transatlantic Slavery Paul Lovejoy York University 3. The Story of Nbena 1817-1820: Unlawful Enslavement and the Concept of "Original Freedom" in Angola Jose Curto York University 4. African Ethnicities and the Meanings of Mina Gwendolyn Hall Rutgers University 5. A Quality of Anguish: The Igbo Response to Enslavement in the Americas Michael A. Gomez 6. I Francisco Castaneda Negro Esclavo Caravali--Carabali Ethnicity in Colonial New Granada Renee Soulodre-La France York University 7. On the Frontiers of the African Diaspora in Central America: The African Origins of San Fernando de Omoa Rina Caceres Universidad da Costa Rica 8. Devils or Sorcerers Muslims or Studs: Manding in the Americas Sylviane Anna Diouf 9. The Reconstruction of Ethnicity in Bahia: The Case of the Nago in the Nineteenth Century Maria Ines Cortes de Oliveira 10. The Afro-Brazilian Communities of the Bight of Benin in the Nineteenth Century Elisee Soumonni Universite Nationale du Benin 11. Ethnicity Colour and Gender in the Experiences of Enslaved Women on Non-Sugar Properties in Jamaica Verene A. Lazarus-Shepherd University of the West Indies 12. Africanizing and Creolizing the Plantation Frontier of Trinidad 1787-1834 David V. Trotman York University 13. Ethnic Politics among Africans in Nineteenth-Century Bahia Joao Jose Reis Universidade Federal da Bahia
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