SLAVERY IN AFRICA AND THE CARIBBEAN by Olatunji Ojo (Editor), Nadine Hunt (Editor) ( 9781780761152 )

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Title:

SLAVERY IN AFRICA AND THE CARIBBEAN
A HISTORY OF ENSLAVEMENT AND IDENTITY SINCE THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY

By:

Olatunji Ojo (Editor), Nadine Hunt (Editor)

Format:

Hardback

List price:	£120.00
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ISBN 10:

1780761155

ISBN 13:

9781780761152

Publisher:

I.B.TAURIS & CO LTD.

Pub. date:

14 August, 2012

Series:

International Library of Colonial History v. 13

Pages:

320

Description:

For over four hundred years, thousands of African men and women were taken from their homeland and transported across the world to be sold into slavery. This title demonstrates how many Africans coped by adopting a flexible identity in order to negotiate the cultural differences in African, European and Islamic systems of slavery.

Synopsis:

For over four hundred years, thousands of African men and women were taken from their homeland and transported across the world to be sold into slavery. The history of this startling and horrific period is perennially important, and recent scholarship has sought to uncover the experiences of the slaves themselves in order to uncover the voices of its many victims. "Slavery and Africa in the Caribbean" analyses the written sources which have survived, demonstrating how many Africans coped by adopting a flexible identity in order to negotiate the cultural differences in African, European and Islamic systems of slavery. An important work based on Jamaican and African archival sources, this book will appeal to students and scholars who are interested in slavery, gender, identity, religion, colonialism and the African diaspora.

Illustrations:

7 integrated bw

Publication:

Imprint:

I.B.Tauris

Returns:

Returnable

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