Posts Tagged ‘caribbean’
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 [...]
This reconstruction of one of the rare Caribbean slave narratives is an amplification, interrogation, and modification of its original texts by crossreference with official documents, contemporary diaryentries and reports, presentday oral sources, and secondary analyses of plantation society. Accessing a variety of primary records, Maureen Warner-Lewis meticulously reconstructs a biography of enslaved Archibald Monteath, an [...]
Kay Dian Kriz. Slavery, Sugar, and the Culture of Refinement: Picturing the British West Indies, 1700-1840. Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art. New Haven Yale University Press, 2008. This highly original book asks new questions about paintings and prints associated with the British West Indies between 1700 and 1840, when the trade in [...]
Curated by Alejandro de la Fuente and Elio Rodríguez Valdés Queloides/Keloids “is an art exhibit that seeks to contribute to current debates about the persistence of racism in contemporary Cuba and elsewhere in the world.“ Twelve artists are participating as the project moves from Havana, Cuba to Pittsburgh over the course of 2010-2011 including Pedro [...]
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 [...]
Ivor L. Miller. Voice of the Leopard: African Secret Societies and Cuba. Caribbean Studies Series. Jackson University Press of Mississippi, 2009. In Voice of the Leopard: African Secret Societies and Cuba, Ivor L. Miller shows how African migrants and their political fraternities played a formative role in the history of Cuba. During the eighteenth and [...]
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, [...]
ED: It’s been great to see, in the very first days of the disaster all these writers inside Haiti telling their stories, what happened, and what they would like to see happen next. Because everyone could get on the Internet, anyone could write their own narrative. There’s a woman I know who lost her son, [...]
New Perspectives on the Amistad Dr. Michael Zeuske of the University of Cologne will speak on his new findings in Cuban and Spanish archives on the Amistad and its captain, Ramón Ferrer, and what they tell us about slavery and the slave trade in Cuba and the Atlantic world in the nineteenth century. Please join [...]
Suzanne Dracius, and R. H. Mitsch. “In Search of Suzanne Césaire’s Garden.” Research in African Literatures 41, no. 1 (2010): 155-165. “Always feminine, sometimes feminist, and there was no clash, adhering to a double marronnage-as a Martinican who writes and as a woman who writes-I set out to practice the Césairean exhortation “Marronner, il faut [...]
