Author: Thomas Wingate ToddPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Anthropology and Negro Slavery
Author: Thomas Wingate ToddSlavery in Africa
Author: Suzanne MiersPublisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 9780299073343
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
This collection of sixteen short papers, together with a complex and very much longer introductory essay by the editors on "African 'Slavery' as an Institution of Marginality," constitutes an impressive attempt by anthropologists and historians to explore, describe, and analyze some of the various kinds of human bondage within a number of precolonial African societies. It is important to note that in spite of the precolonial emphasis of the volume, all of the essays are based at least partly on anthropological or ethnohistorical field research carried out since 1959. All but one have been augmented greatly by more conventional historical research in published as well as archival sources. And although the volume's focus is upon the structures and conditions of servitude within the several African societies described, many of the essays illustrate, and some discuss, the conceptual as well as the practical difficulties of separating the institutions and customs of "domestic" African slavery from those of the European dominated commercial slave trade in which many of the societies participated. -- from JSTOR http://www.jstor.org (May 24, 2013).
The Anthropology of Slavery
Author: Claude MeillassouxPublisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 9780485113952
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
This study of the institution and system of slavery was first published in France in 1986. Drawing upon his knowledge of African society, Professor Meillassoux provides an analysis of the reproduction of the social order in societies relying heavily on slavery: within tribes, marauding bands and nations, and between the classes and sexes. He also examines the rivalry between military and aristocratic groupings and the merchant classes who conducted the slave trade.
The Birth of African-American Culture
Author: Sidney Wilfred MintzPublisher: Beacon Press
ISBN: 9780807009178
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
This compelling look at the wellsprings of cultural vitality during one of the most dehumanizing experiences in history provides a fresh perspective on the African-American past.
The Negro's Place in Nature
Author: James HuntPublisher:
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Category : Black race
Languages : en
Pages : 44
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Shackled Sentiments
Author: Eric J. MontgomeryPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 149858599X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
The ramifications of the trans-Saharan, trans-Atlantic, Indian Ocean, and domestic African slave trades are immeasurable, and they continue to disaffect black people from Africa to Haiti and Los Angeles to Lagos. Shackled Sentiments focuses on the memories and embodiments of slavery through case studies from western, eastern, and central Africa, the Caribbean, and Latin America. The contributors to this collection examine the ways that memories of slavery have been internalized. Slavery and memory are assessed from multiple perspectives: as sets of ritual practices, community-based systems of spirit veneration, mechanisms of resistance and national pride, sacred languages informing personhood, and instruments for healing and well-being. This book is recommended for scholars of anthropology, history, religion, art, and linguistics.
On the Negro's Place in Nature
Author: James HuntPublisher:
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Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 82
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Slavery and African Ethnicities in the Americas
Author: Gwendolyn Midlo HallPublisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807876860
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Enslaved peoples were brought to the Americas from many places in Africa, but a large majority came from relatively few ethnic groups. Drawing on a wide range of materials in four languages as well as on her lifetime study of slave groups in the New World, Gwendolyn Midlo Hall explores the persistence of African ethnic identities among the enslaved over four hundred years of the Atlantic slave trade. Hall traces the linguistic, economic, and cultural ties shared by large numbers of enslaved Africans, showing that despite the fragmentation of the diaspora many ethnic groups retained enough cohesion to communicate and to transmit elements of their shared culture. Hall concludes that recognition of the survival and persistence of African ethnic identities can fundamentally reshape how people think about the emergence of identities among enslaved Africans and their descendants in the Americas, about the ways shared identity gave rise to resistance movements, and about the elements of common African ethnic traditions that influenced regional creole cultures throughout the Americas.
Asian and African Systems of Slavery
Author: WatsonPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520040311
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
Witnessing Slavery
Author: Frances Smith FosterPublisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 9780299142148
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
**** New edition of the Greenwood Press original of 1979 (which is cited in BCL3), with a new introduction, chapter, and a supplementary bibliography. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.