Obeah, Race and Racism Caribbean Witchcraft in the English Imagination

Name: Obeah, Race and Racism Caribbean Witchcraft in the English Imagination
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ISBN: 9789766407599

ISBN-10: 9766407592

ISBN-13: 9789766407599

Edition: N/A

Authors: Eugenia O'Neal

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In Obeah, Race and Racism, Eugenia O'Neal vividly discusses the tradition of African magic and witchcraft, traces its voyage across the Atlantic and its subsequent evolution on the plantations of the New World, and provides a detailed map of how English writers, poets and dramatists interpreted it for English audiences. The triangular trade in guns and baubles, enslaved Africans and gold, sugar and cotton was mirrored by a similar intellectual trade borne in the reports, accounts and stories that fed the perceptions and prejudices of everyone involved in the slave trade and no subject was more fascinating and disconcerting to Europeans than the religious beliefs of the people they had…

Book details

List price: $45.00
Publisher: University of the West Indies Press
Publication date: 1/24/2020
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 440
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 1.320