Inside slavery : process and legacy in the Caribbean experience / edited by Hilary McD. Beckles ; with a foreword by Woodville K. Marshall.

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Series: Elsa Goveia Memorial Lecture ; 1995 | Elsa Goveia memorial lecture ; 1995.Publication details: [Mona, Kingston, Jamaica] : Canoe Press, The University of the West Indies, 1996.Description: xiii, 154 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : portrait ; 23 cmContent type:

text

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unmediated

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volume

ISBN:

9768125195
9789768125194

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Additional physical formats: Inside slavery.; Inside slavery.DDC classification:

972.9 Ja Ins

Contents:

Signposts and insights / Hilary Beckles -- People in slavery / Douglas G. Hall -- Why the condition of the slaves was "less intolerable in Barbadoes than in the other sugar colonies" / Richard B. Sheridan -- Ecological determinism in Caribbean history / B.W. Higman -- A social history of emancipation day in the British Caribbean : the first fifty years / Bridget Brereton -- The boundaries of freedom : postemancipation society in Cuba, Louisiana and Brazil / Rebecca J. Scott -- A recipe for the perfect calalu : island and regional identity in the British West Indies / Michael Craton.

Summary: "Contains lectures presented at Cave Hill from 1987-93 to honor memory of Elsa Goveia, a highly regarded Caribbean historian. Themes and topics include Thistlewood's Journals (Douglas Hall), slave conditions in Barbados and other islands (Richard Sheridan), slavery and freedom in Brazil and Louisiana (Rebecca Scott), and Emancipation Day celebrations after 50 years (Bridget Brereton). Useful"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58. http://www.loc.gov/hlas

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"Bibliography of Elsa Goveia's publications"-Page xiii.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 141-149) and index.

"Contains lectures presented at Cave Hill from 1987-93 to honor memory of Elsa Goveia, a highly regarded Caribbean historian. Themes and topics include Thistlewood's Journals (Douglas Hall), slave conditions in Barbados and other islands (Richard Sheridan), slavery and freedom in Brazil and Louisiana (Rebecca Scott), and Emancipation Day celebrations after 50 years (Bridget Brereton). Useful"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.

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