"New negroes from Africa" : slave trade abolition and free African settlement in the nineteenth-century Caribbean / / Rosanne Marion Adderley

• Record Nr.: UNISA996248102103316
• Autore: Adderley Rosanne Marion
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, c2006
• ISBN: 0-253-34703-3; 0-253-21827-6
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xiv, 337 p. ) : ill., maps
• Collana: Blacks in the diaspora
• Disciplina: 305.89607296
• Soggetti: Black people - Bahamas - Social conditions - 19th century; Black people - Trinidad and Tobago - Trinidad - Social conditions - 19th century; Africans - Bahamas - Social conditions - 19th century; Africans - Trinidad and Tobago - Trinidad - Social conditions - 19th century; Black people - Cultural assimilation - Bahamas; Black people - Cultural assimilation - Trinidad and Tobago - Trinidad; African diaspora; Black people - Social conditions - 19th century - Bahamas; Black people - Social conditions - 19th century - Trinidad and Tobago - Trinidad; Africans - Social conditions - 19th century - Bahamas; Africans - Social conditions - 19th century - Trinidad - Trinidad and Tobago; Latin America; Regions & Countries - Americas; History & Archaeology
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [303]-316) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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