New Negroes from Africa Slave Trade Abolition and Free African Settlement in the Nineteenth-Century Caribbean

Name: New Negroes from Africa Slave Trade Abolition and Free African Settlement in the Nineteenth-Century Caribbean
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ISBN: 9780253218278

ISBN-10: 0253218276

ISBN-13: 9780253218278

Edition: 2006

Authors: Rosanne Marion Adderley

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Cutting edge scholarship on emancipated African slaves in the British Caribbean.

Book details

List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication date: 12/11/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 360
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.25" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 1.144

Rosanne Marion Adderley is Associate Professor of History at Tulane University in New Orleans.



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Potential Laborers or "Troublesome Savages"? Settlement of Liberated Africans in the Bahamas



"Binding them to the trade of digging cane holes": Settlement of Liberated Africans in Trinidad



"A fine family of what we call creole Yarabas": African Ethnic Identities in Liberated African Community Formation



"Assisted by his wife, an African": Gender, Family, and Household Formation in the Experience of Liberated Africans



Orisha Worship and "Jesus Time": Religious Worlds of Liberated Africans



"Powers superior to those of other witches": New African Immigrants and Supernatural Practice beyond Religious Spheres



"Deeply attached to his native country": Visions of Africa and Mentalities of Exile in Liberated African Culture


Conclusion: African Creoles and Creole Africans



Reports of Liberated African Arrivals in the Bahamas from Governors' Correspondence



Reports of Liberated African Arrivals in Trinidad from Governors' Correspondence


Notes


Select Bibliography


Index