Research Catalog

Title

Identity in the shadow of slavery / edited by Paul E. Lovejoy.

Publication

London ; New York, NY : Continuum, c2009.

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Details

Additional Authors

Lovejoy, Paul E.

Description

xvi, 245 p. : ill., maps; 23 cm.

Summary

• Identity in the Shadow of Slavery addresses the issues relating to the gender, ethnic, and cultural factors affecting the ways in which enslaved Africans and their descendants interpreted their lives under slavery and thereby created communities with a shared sense of identity.
• In this revised edition, the authors examine how identities were formulated under slavery and the ways in which the struggle to escape slavery and its legacy continued, after abolition, to affect the lives of descendants of slaves. The introductory essay explores an approach to the study of the African Diaspora that looks outward from Africa and places the following chapters, written by leading authorities from Europe, North America and South America, in the context of the theoretical literature.

Series Statement

Harriet Tubman series on the African diaspora

Uniform Title

Harriet Tubman series on the African diaspora

Subject

• Africans > America > Ethnic identity > Congresses
• African Americans > Race identity > Congresses
• Slavery > Social aspects > History > America > Congresses
• Slavery > America > Psychological aspects > History > Congresses
• Group identity > America > History > Congresses
• Enslaved persons > America > Social conditions > Congresses
• African diaspora > Congresses

Genre/Form

• Kongress.
• Toronto (1997)

Note

• Papers originally presented at the UNESCO/SSHRCC Summer Institute, "Identifying Enslaved Africans : the 'Nigerian' Hinterland and the African Diaspora," held at York University, Toronto, July 14-August 1, 1997.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Identifying enslaved Africans in the African diaspora / Paul E. Lovejoy -- Cimarrón ethnicity and cultural adaptation in the Spanish domains of the circum-Caribbean, 1503-1763 / Jane Landers -- Tracing Igbo into the African diaspora / Douglas B. Chambers -- Regla de Ocha-Ifá and the construction of Cuban identity / Christine Ayorinde -- Cultural zones in the era of the slave trade : Exploring the Yoruba connection with the Anlo-Ewe / Sandra E. Greene -- Texts of enslavement : Fon and Yoruba vocabularies from eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Brazil / Olabiyi Yai -- Ethnic and religious plurality among Yoruba immigrants in Trinidad in the nineteenth century / Maureen Warner-Lewis -- Portraits of African royalty in Brazil / Alberto da Costa e Silva -- Slavery, marriage and kinship in rural Rio de Janeiro, 1790-1830 / Manolo Garcia Florentino and José Roberto Góes -- Female enslavement in the Caribbean and gender ideologies / Hilary McD. Beckles -- Those who remained behind : women slaves in nineteenth-century Yorubaland / Francine Shields -- 'She voluntarily hath come' : a Gambian woman trader in colonial Georgia in the eighteenth century / Lillian Ashcraft-Eason.

ISBN

• 9780826403964 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0826403964 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2009004584

OCLC

• 298188289
• SCSB-11524710

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library