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

Autor Rosanne Marion Adderley
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 11 dec 2006
In 1807 the British government outlawed the slave trade, and began to interdict slave ships en route to the Americas. Through decades of treaties with other slave trading nations and various British schemes for the use of non-slave labor, tens of thousands of Africans rescued from illegally operating slave ships were taken to British Caribbean colonies as free settlers. Some became paid laborers, others indentured servants. The encounter between English-speaking colonists and the new African immigrants are the focus of this study of the Bahamas and Trinidad colonies which together received fifteen thousand of these "liberated Africans" taken from captured slave ships. Adderley describes the formation of new African immigrant communities in territories which had long depended on enslaved African labor. Working from diverse records, she tries to tease out information about the families of liberated Africans, the labor they performed, their religions, and the culture they brought with them. She addresses issues of gender, ethnicity, and identity, and concludes with a discussion of repatriation."
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780253218278
ISBN-10: 0253218276
Pagini: 360
Ilustrații: 8
Dimensiuni: 183 x 233 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.51 kg
Editura: MH – Indiana University Press
Locul publicării:United States

Cuprins

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Potential Laborers or "Troublesome Savages"? Settlement of Liberated Africans in the Bahamas
2. "Binding them to the trade of digging cane holes": Settlement of Liberated Africans in Trinidad
3. "A fine family of what we call Creole Yarabas": African Ethnic Identities in Liberated African Community Formation
4. "Assisted by his wife, an African": Gender, Family, and Household Formation in the Experience of Liberated Africans
5. Orisha Worship and "Jesus Time": Religious Worlds of Liberated Africans
6. "Powers superior to those of other witches": New African Immigrants and Supernatural Practice beyond Religious Spheres
7. "Deeply attached to his native country": Visions of Africa and Mentalities of Exile in Liberated African Culture
Conclusion: African Creoles and Creole Africans
Appendix 1. Reports of Liberated African Arrivals in the Bahamas from Governors' Correspondence
Appendix 2. Reports of Liberated African Arrivals in Trinidad from Governors' Correspondence
Notes
Select Bibliography
Index

Recenzii

This interesting and well researched book makes a valuable contribution to our understanding of the multifaceted experiences of the "liberated Africans" who were brought in the nineteenth century to the Caribbean and, through them, to the cultural history of the African experience in the Americas. --Bridget Brereton, University of the West Indies "Journal of British Studies "

Notă biografică

Rosanne Marion Adderley

Descriere

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