Africans Into Creoles
Title | Africans Into Creoles PDF eBook |
Author | Russell Lohse |
Publisher | University of New Mexico Press |
Pages | 368 |
Release | 2014 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0826354971 |
Unlike most books on slavery in the Americas, this social history of Africans and their enslaved descendants in colonial Costa Rica recounts the journey of specific people from West Africa to the New World. Tracing the experiences of Africans on two Danish slave ships that arrived in Costa Rica in 1710, the Christianus Quintus and Fredericus Quartus, the author examines slavery in Costa Rica from 1600 to 1750. Lohse looks at the ethnic origins of the Africans and narrates their capture and transport to the coast, their embarkation and passage, and finally their acculturation to slavery and their lives as slaves in Costa Rica. Following the experiences of girls and boys, women and men, he shows how the conditions of slavery in a unique local setting determined the constraints that slaves faced and how they responded to their condition.
Africans in Colonial Mexico
Title | Africans in Colonial Mexico PDF eBook |
Author | Herman L. Bennett |
Publisher | Indiana University Press |
Pages | 289 |
Release | 2005-02-23 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 025321775X |
From secular and ecclesiastical court records, Bennett reconstructs the lives of slave and free blacks, their regulation by the government and by the Church, the impact of the Inquisition, their legal status in marriage and their rights and obligations as Christian subjects.
Atlantic Creoles in the Age of Revolutions
Title | Atlantic Creoles in the Age of Revolutions PDF eBook |
Author | Jane Landers |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Pages | 353 |
Release | 2010-02-15 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0674035917 |
In a tumultuous era of Atlantic revolutions, a remarkable group of African-born and African-descended individuals transformed themselves from slaves into active agents of their lives and times. Through prodigious archival research, Landers alters our vision of the breadth and extent of the Age of Revolution, and our understanding of its actors.
Central Africans, Atlantic Creoles, and the Foundation of the Americas, 1585-1660
Title | Central Africans, Atlantic Creoles, and the Foundation of the Americas, 1585-1660 PDF eBook |
Author | Linda M. Heywood |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 385 |
Release | 2007-09-10 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0521770653 |
This book establishes Central Africa as the origin of most Africans brought to English and Dutch American colonies in North America, the Caribbean, and South America before 1660. It reveals that Central Africans were frequently possessors of an Atlantic Creole culture and places the movement of slaves and creation of the colonies within an Atlantic historical framework.
Africans In Colonial Louisiana
Title | Africans In Colonial Louisiana PDF eBook |
Author | Gwendolyn Midlo Hall |
Publisher | LSU Press |
Pages | 458 |
Release | 1995-07-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0807119997 |
Although a number of important studies of American slavery have explored the formation of slave cultures in the English colonies, no book until now has undertaken a comprehensive assessment of the development of the distinctive Afro-Creole culture of colonial Louisiana. This culture, based upon a separate language community with its own folkloric, musical, religious, and historical traditions, was created by slaves brought directly from Africa to Louisiana before 1731. It still survives as the acknowledged cultural heritage of tens of thousands of people of all races in the southern part of the state. In this pathbreaking work, Gwendolyn Midlo Hall studies Louisiana's creole slave community during the eighteenth century, focusing on the slaves' African origins, the evolution of their own language and culture, and the role they played in the formation of the broader society, economy, and culture of the region. Hall bases her study on research in a wide range of archival sources in Louisiana, France, and Spain and employs several disciplines--history, anthropology, linguistics, and folklore--in her analysis. Among the topics she considers are the French slave trade from Africa to Louisiana, the ethnic origins of the slaves, and relations between African slaves and native Indians. She gives special consideration to race mixture between Africans, Indians, and whites; to the role of slaves in the Natchez Uprising of 1729; to slave unrest and conspiracies, including the Pointe Coupee conspiracies of 1791 and 1795; and to the development of communities of runaway slaves in the cypress swamps around New Orleans.
Africans Into Creoles
Title | Africans Into Creoles PDF eBook |
Author | Russell Lohse |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2014 |
Genre | HISTORY |
ISBN |
"Unlike most books on slavery in the Americas, this social history of Africans and their enslaved descendants in colonial Costa Rica recounts the journey of specific people from West Africa to the New World. Tracing the experiences of Africans on two Danish slave ships that arrived in Costa Rica in 1710, the Christianus Quintus and Fredericus Quartus, the author examines slavery in Costa Rica from 1600 to 1750. Lohse looks at the ethnic origins of the Africans and narrates their capture and transport to the coast, their embarkation and passage, and finally their acculturation to slavery and their lives as slaves in Costa Rica. Following the experiences of girls and boys, women and men, he shows how the conditions of slavery in a unique local setting determined the constraints that slaves faced and how they responded to their condition"-
From Creole to African
Title | From Creole to African PDF eBook |
Author | Ira Berlin |
Publisher | |
Pages | 30 |
Release | 1996 |
Genre | Creoles (Sierra Leone) |
ISBN |