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Wild Work. The Story of the Red River Tragedy

By: Richard Hooker Wilmer,Mary Edwards Bryan

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Wild Work. The Story of the Red River Tragedy

By: Richard Hooker Wilmer,Mary Edwards Bryan

Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.

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3385472083

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9783385472082

African Musicians in the Atlantic World

Legacies of Sound and Slavery

By: Mary Caton Lingold

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African Musicians in the Atlantic World

Legacies of Sound and Slavery

By: Mary Caton Lingold

Music, that fundamental form of human expression, is one of the most powerful cultural continuities fostered by enslaved Africans and their descendants throughout the Americas. The roots of so much of the music beloved around the world today are drawn directly from the men and women carried across the Atlantic in chains, from the west coast of Africa to the shores of the so-called New World. This important new book bridges African diaspora studies, music studies, and transatlantic and colonial American literature to trace the lineage of African and African diasporic musical life in the early modern period. Mary Caton Lingold meticulously analyzes surviving sources, especially European travelogues, to recover the lives of African performers, the sounds they created, and the meaning their musical creations held in Africa and later for enslaved communities in the Caribbean and throughout the plantation Americas. The book provides a rich history of early African sound and a revelatory analysis of the many ways that music shaped enslavement and colonization in the Americas.

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236

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University of Virginia Press

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0813949793

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9780813949796

Family Love in the Diaspora

Migration and the Anglo-Caribbean Experience

By: Mary Chamberlain

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Family Love in the Diaspora

Migration and the Anglo-Caribbean Experience

By: Mary Chamberlain

Colonial social policy in the British West Indies from the nineteenth century onward assumed that black families lacked morals, structure, and men, a void that explained poverty and lack of citizenship. African-Caribbean families appeared as the mirror opposite of the "ideal" family advocated by the white, colonial authorities. Yet contrary to this image, what provided continuity in the period and contributed to survival was in fact the strength of family connections, their inclusivity and support. This study is based on 150 life story narratives across three generations of forty-five families who originated in the former British West Indies. The author focuses on the particular axes of Caribbean peoples from the former British colonies of Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago and Barbados, and Great Britain. Divided into four parts, the chapters within each present an oral history of migrant African-Caribbean families, demonstrating the varieties, organization, and dynamics of family through their memories and narratives. It traces the evolution of Caribbean life; argues how the family can be seen as the tool that helps transmit and transform historical mentalities; examines the dynamics of family life; and makes comparisons with Indo-Caribbean families. Above all, this is a story of families that evolved, against the odds of slavery and poverty, to form a distinct Creole form, through which much of the social history of the English-speaking Caribbean is refracted. "Family Love in the Diaspora" offers an important new perspective on African-Caribbean families, their history, and the problems they face, for now and the future. It offers a long overdue historical dimension to the debates on Caribbean families.

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395

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Routledge

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1351520350

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9781351520355

The Economics of Emancipation

Jamaica and Barbados, 1823-1843

By: Kathleen Mary Butler

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The Economics of Emancipation

Jamaica and Barbados, 1823-1843

By: Kathleen Mary Butler

The British Slavery Abolition Act of 1834 provided a grant of u20 million to compensate the owners of West Indian slaves for the loss of their human 'property.' In this first comparative analysis of the impact of the award on the colonies, Mary Butler focuses on Jamaica and Barbados, two of Britain's premier sugar islands. The Economics of Emancipation examines the effect of compensated emancipation on colonial credit, landownership, plantation land values, and the broader spheres of international trade and finance. Butler also brings the role and status of women as creditors and plantation owners into focus for the first time. Through her analysis of rarely used chancery court records, attorneys' letters, and compensation returns, Butler underscores the fragility of the colonial economies of Jamaica and Barbados, illustrates the changing relationship between planters and merchants, and offers new insights into the social and political history of the West Indies and Britain.

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220

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UNC Press Books

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1469639793

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9781469639796

The History of Mary Prince

By: Mary Prince

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The History of Mary Prince

By: Mary Prince

I have been a slave - I have felt what a slave feels, and I know what a slave knows ...' Mary Prince recalls that in the slave market in Bermuda, where she was put up for sale, the buyers' talk 'fell like cayenne pepper into the fresh wounds of our hearts'. During her life as a slave she was taken from Bermuda to Turks Island and Antigua, eventually arriving in London where, in 1828, she reported the cruelty of her master and mistress to the Anti-Slavery Society. The History of Mary Prince (1831) was the first life of a black woman to be published in Britain. This extraordinary testament of ill-treatment and survival was a protest and a rallying-cry for emancipation that provoked two libel actions and ran into three editions in the year of its publication. This edition includes an introduction which discusses The History within the context of black writing, explanatory notes, a chronology, and supplementary material on enslavement and the case of Mary Prince.

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162

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Penguin

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1101158549

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9781101158548

Surprising Lands Down Under

By: Mary Ann Harrell

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Surprising Lands Down Under

By: Mary Ann Harrell

This is a broad-ranging look at the lands and people and the cities of Australia and New Zealand; it also presents their common heritage as former British colonies and their differences as diverse nations.

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208

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0870447149

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9780870447143

Book's by Mary Edwards Bryan

Wild Work. The Story of the Red River Tragedy

Wild Work. The Story of the Red River Tragedy

African Musicians in the Atlantic World

African Musicians in the Atlantic World

Family Love in the Diaspora

Family Love in the Diaspora

The Economics of Emancipation

The Economics of Emancipation

The History of Mary Prince

The History of Mary Prince

Surprising Lands Down Under

Surprising Lands Down Under

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