The Island Of Slaves
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The Island Of Slaves
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Author : Pierre de Marivaux
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2002-04-22
The Island Of Slaves written by Pierre de Marivaux and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-04-22 with Drama categories.
What will become of us? Four people, the sole survivors of a shipwreck, crawl out of the sea. Two of them are masters, and two of them are servants; and all four are about to discover what life feels like when the boot is on the other foot. Marivaux's potent mix of laughter, emotion and theatrical game-playing makes him one of the most surprising and most modern of all classic playwrights. Neil Bartlett has adapted this brilliant comedy of role-swapping and redemption, which premiered at the Lyric Hammersmith in April 2002. Cast size: 4
Islands Of Slaves
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Author : Hansen, Thorkild
language : en
Publisher: Sub-Saharan Publishers
Release Date : 2017-01-17
Islands Of Slaves written by Hansen, Thorkild and has been published by Sub-Saharan Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-01-17 with History categories.
This is third title in Thorkild Hansen's classic trilogy on the Atlantic slave trade, originally published in Danish in 1967; and the first major translation and publication of the work in English. In Europe and North America, few are aware that the beautiful and now wealthy Virgin Islands of St Thomas, St Croix and St Jan were once Danish settlements and outposts of the slave trade. Moreover that the question of the independence of the islands was never seriously considered by the Danes, who instead sold them to the US in 1917 for 25 million dollars, several decades after the official end of slavery. This was against the will of the majority of the islanders, who were opposed to rule by the Americans, wary of their iniquitous treatment of blacks. In Denmark meanwhile, the popular view of national history presides that Denmark was the first of the imperial powers to abolish the slave trade. Thorkild Hansen's work breaks with these miss- representations of Denmark's role in the Atlantic slave trade. The third and biggest volume in the trilogy covers the period from the introduction of African slaves to the Danish islands, their official emancipation in 1848, subsequent sale to the Americans in the twentieth century, and reactions and resistance to these processes. Scrutinizing Denmark's moral obligation towards the islanders, the author draws extensively on primary sources, dramatizing and depicting real life characters into a moving and descriptive narrative. The introduction is provided by the historian A.V. Adams who states that ' Hansen's trilogy and Dako's scholarly initiative and competence in translating it contributes not only to Danes' re-reading of their own history, but also to West Indians' understanding of theirs... Hansen and Darko's contribution reaches beyond the Caribbean into the larger history of African-diaspora slave resistance... And inasmuch as the islands under consideration of the United States of America, this book through its translation becomes a text of US historiography...'
Creating The Creole Island
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Author : Megan Vaughan
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2005-02
Creating The Creole Island written by Megan Vaughan and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-02 with Foreign Language Study categories.
The island of Mauritius lies in the middle of the Indian Ocean, about 550 miles east of Madagascar. Uninhabited until the arrival of colonists in the late sixteenth century, Mauritius was subsequently populated by many different peoples as successive waves of colonizers and slaves arrived at its shores. The French ruled the island from the early eighteenth century until the early nineteenth. Throughout the 1700s, ships brought men and women from France to build the colonial population and from Africa and India as slaves. In Creating the Creole Island, the distinguished historian Megan Vaughan traces the complex and contradictory social relations that developed on Mauritius under French colonial rule, paying particular attention to questions of subjectivity and agency. Combining archival research with an engaging literary style, Vaughan juxtaposes extensive analysis of court records with examinations of the logs of slave ships and of colonial correspondence and travel accounts. The result is a close reading of life on the island, power relations, colonialism, and the process of cultural creolization. Vaughan brings to light complexities of language, sexuality, and reproduction as well as the impact of the French Revolution. Illuminating a crucial period in the history of Mauritius, Creating the Creole Island is a major contribution to the historiography of slavery, colonialism, and creolization across the Indian Ocean.
A Descriptive Account Of The Island Of Jamaica
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Author : William Beckford
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1790
A Descriptive Account Of The Island Of Jamaica written by William Beckford and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1790 with Agriculture categories.
Remarks On The Condition Of The Slaves In The Island Of Jamaica
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Author : William Sells
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1972
Remarks On The Condition Of The Slaves In The Island Of Jamaica written by William Sells and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1972 with Slavery categories.
A View Of The Past And Present State Of The Island Of Jamaica
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Author : John Stewart
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1823
A View Of The Past And Present State Of The Island Of Jamaica written by John Stewart and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1823 with Jamaica categories.
Remarks On The Condition Of The Slaves In The Island Of Jamaica
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Author : William Sells
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1823
Remarks On The Condition Of The Slaves In The Island Of Jamaica written by William Sells and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1823 with Enslaved persons categories.
The Island Of Cuba
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Author : Alexander von Humboldt
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1856
The Island Of Cuba written by Alexander von Humboldt and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1856 with Black people categories.
Slave Island
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Author : Simon Finch
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1983
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Island On Fire
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Author : Tom Zoellner
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2020-05-12
Island On Fire written by Tom Zoellner and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-05-12 with History categories.
From a New York Times bestselling author, a gripping account of the slave rebellion that led to the abolition of slavery in the British Empire. For five horrific weeks after Christmas in 1831, Jamaica was convulsed by an uprising of its enslaved people. What started as a peaceful labor strike quickly turned into a full-blown revolt, leaving hundreds of plantation houses in smoking ruins. By the time British troops had put down the rebels, more than a thousand Jamaicans lay dead from summary executions and extrajudicial murder. While the rebels lost their military gamble, their sacrifice accelerated the larger struggle for freedom in the British Atlantic. The daring and suffering of the Jamaicans galvanized public opinion throughout the empire, triggering a decisive turn against slavery. For centuries bondage had fed Britain’s appetite for sugar. Within two years of the Christmas rebellion, slavery was formally abolished. Island on Fire is a dramatic day-by-day account of this transformative uprising. A skillful storyteller, Tom Zoellner goes back to the primary sources to tell the intimate story of the men and women who rose up and tasted liberty for a few brief weeks. He provides the first full portrait of the rebellion's enigmatic leader, Samuel Sharpe, and gives us a poignant glimpse of the struggles and dreams of the many Jamaicans who died for liberty.