Author: John Gabriel StedmanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians of South America
Languages : en
Pages : 542
Book Description
Narrative of a Five Years' Expedition Against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam
Author: John Gabriel StedmanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians of South America
Languages : en
Pages : 542
Book Description
Slavery and the Politics of Place
Author: Elizabeth A. BohlsPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107079349
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
This book analyzes representations of the places of British slavery - Africa, the Caribbean, and Britain - in writings by planters, slaves and travellers.
Stedman's Surinam
Author: John Gabriel StedmanPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 080184259X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 429
Book Description
This abridgment of the Prices' acclaimed 1988 critical edition is based on Stedman's original, handwritten manuscript, which offers a portrait at considerable variance with the 1796 classic. The unexpurgated text, presented here with extensive notes and commentary, constitutes one of the richest and most evocative accounts ever written of colonial life—and one of the strongest indictments ever to appear against New World slavery.
Narrative, of a Five Years' Expedition Against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam
Author: John Gabriel StedmanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Slavery
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Slave Portraiture in the Atlantic World
Author: Agnes Lugo-OrtizPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107354781
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 489
Book Description
Slave Portraiture in the Atlantic World is the first book to focus on the individualized portrayal of enslaved people from the time of Europe's full engagement with plantation slavery in the late sixteenth century to its final official abolition in Brazil in 1888. While this period saw the emergence of portraiture as a major field of representation in Western art, 'slave' and 'portraiture' as categories appear to be mutually exclusive. On the one hand, the logic of chattel slavery sought to render the slave's body as an instrument for production, as the site of a non-subject. Portraiture, on the contrary, privileged the face as the primary visual matrix for the representation of a distinct individuality. Essays address this apparent paradox of 'slave portraits' from a variety of interdisciplinary perspectives, probing the historical conditions that made the creation of such rare and enigmatic objects possible and exploring their implications for a more complex understanding of power relations under slavery.
Journal of a Lady of Quality
Author: Janet SchawPublisher: Applewood Books
ISBN: 1429016949
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
Alexander and Janet Schaw, Scottish siblings, began a journey in 1774 that would take them from Edinburgh to the Caribbean Islands and then to America. Part of the early wave of Scottish colonization, the pair visited family and friends who had already established themselves in the colonies. ""Journal of a Lady of Quality"" is Janet Schaw's account of this voyage through letters to a friend in Scotland. The letters describe the sights, scenery, and social life she encountered, but they also reveal the political atmosphere of an America on the verge of revolution. Stephen Carl Arch provides a new introduction for this Bison Books edition.
Caribbean Culture and British Fiction in the Atlantic World, 1780-1870
Author: Tim WatsonPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521876265
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 269
Book Description
Examines the interrelationship between Caribbean narratives and British fiction in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Death and the American South
Author: Craig Thompson FriendPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107084202
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
Death and the American South is an edited collection of twelve never-before-published essays, featuring leading senior scholars as well as influential up-and-coming historians. The contributors use a variety of methodological approaches for their research and explore different parts of the South and varying themes in history.
Narrative, of a Five Years' Expedition, Against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam, in Guiana, on the Wild Coast of South America
Author: John Gabriel StedmanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Guiana
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
Author: John Gabriel Stedman