Posts Tagged ‘articles’
Argenti, Nicolas. “Things That Don’t Come by the Road: Folktales, Fosterage, and Memories of Slavery in the Cameroon Grassfields.” Comparative Studies in Society and History 52, no. 02 (2010): 224-254. Oku adults have a straightforward rationalization for the existence of folktales: the frightening cautionary tales of the child-eating monster K∂ηgaaηgu serve to warn children not [...]
CHINEA, JORGE L. “Confronting the Crisis of the Slave-Based Plantation System in Puerto Rico: Bureaucratic Proposals for Agricultural Modernisation, Diversification and Free Labour, C. 1846?1852.” Journal of Latin American Studies 42, no. 01 (2010): 121-154. By the late 1820s, Puerto Rico and Cuba had become Spain’s only remaining colonies in the Americas and its major [...]
Volume 197/2010 of Cahiers d’études africaines is a special issue (“Jeux de mémoire”) edited by Marie-Aude Fouéré on memory in sub-Saharan Africa and the Caribbean. It includes three pieces that may be of interest: Articles Chivallon, Christine. “Mémoires de l’esclavage à la Martinique. L’explosion mémorielle et la révélation de mémoires anonymes.” Cahiers d’études africaines 197 [...]
Volume 10 (July 2010) of the Common-Place has two features on slavery and race in the United States: Vivien Green Fryd Lifting the veil of race at the U.S. Capitol Thomas Crawford’s Statue of Freedom Natalie Joy Cherokee Slaveholders and Radical Abolitionists An unlikely alliance in antebellum America Read in full at The Common-Place
Stanley, Amy Dru. “Instead of Waiting for the Thirteenth Amendment: The War Power, Slave Marriage, and Inviolate Human Rights.” American Historical Review 115 (June 2010): 732-765. Partial Paragraph Steal: “One decree became the Thirteenth Amendment; all but forgotten is the other, a congressional act to “encourage Enlistments” in the Union Army. The amendment provided for [...]
The following articles appear in the June 2010 Issue of Slavery & Abolition: Amani Marshall, “‘They Will Endeavor to Pass for Free’: Enslaved Runaways’ Performances of Freedom in Antebellum South Carolina” Emily Berquist, “Early Antislavery Sentiment in the Spanish Atlantic World, 1765-1817″ Kathryn Gin, “‘The Heavenization of Earth’: African American Visions and Uses of the [...]
The following articles appear in June 2010 issue of the African Diaspora Archaeology Newsletter: Obscuring the Inequalities of Slavery: Identifying Differential Access to Ceramics at Monticello by Kari Lentz The Sexton’s House Has a Ritual Concealment: Late 19th-Century Negotiations of Double Consciousness at a Black Family Home in Sussex County, New Jersey by Megan E. [...]
Editors Note: This blog prioritizes scholarship and other items related to the Atlantic African diaspora. However, the following article is a poignant reminder that Africans and people of African descent do not have a monopoly on the history and heritage of chattel slavery. van Deusen, Nancy E. “Diasporas, Bondage, and Intimacy in Lima, 1535 to [...]
Stark, David M. “Making the Most of Their Time: Seasonality of Slave Marriage in Eighteenth-Century Puerto Rico.” Colonial Latin American Review 19, no. 2 (2010): 323. 1st paragraph steal: “On the morning of 28 December 1768, Antonio and Mara, a slave couple belonging to Flix Pagn, were married in the Catholic church of San Germn, [...]
Thioub on Slavery, Colonialism and Africa’s “Predatory Elites” (Interview)
July 23, 2010 in Ibrahima Thioub
Tags: african continent, articles, commentary, news, scholarship, slave trade
Dr. Ibrahima Thioub interviewed by Philippe Bernard discusses the legacy of colonialism, the problem of globalization and debates slavery and its impact on the African continent–including the idea of “predatory elites:” “Vous contestez le récit de la traite négrière qui en fait un pur pillage des Africains par les Blancs. Pourquoi ? La vision “chromatique” [...]