Societies after slavery : a select annotated bibliography of printed sources on Cuba, Brazil, British colonial Africa, South Africa, and the British West Indies / Rebecca J. Scott ... [and others], editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Scott, Rebecca J. (Rebecca Jarvis), 1950-

Class of 1891 Department of Arts Fund.

Series:

Pitt Latin American series

Pitt Latin American studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Enslaved persons--Emancipation--Bibliography.

Enslaved persons.

Freed persons--Bibliography.

Freed persons.

Enslaved persons--Emancipation.

Enslaved persons--Emancipation--British colonies.

Enslaved persons--Emancipation--French colonies.

Genre:

Bibliographies.

Physical Description:

xvi, 411 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2002]

Summary:

Societies after Slavery is the definitive resource for scholars and students engaged in research on postemancipation societies in the Americas and Africa. Providing thousands of entries and rich scholarly annotations, the bibliography covers a span of emancipations from the British West Indies in the 1830s to Sierra Leone in 1927. In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, millions of slaves became legally free men, women, and children. This massive transformation caused theoreticians and political economists -- as well as laborers and employers -- to question the meaning of "free labor," and shaped the economic and political future of a diverse group of societies.

Since the 1950s, the study of slavery has become one of the most productive fields within North American and Latin American history and, more recently, within African history. As the study of slavery matured, scholars began asking new questions about emancipation and the transition to freedom and raising fundamental questions about worldwide economic changes, the international discussion of the meaning of free labor, the connections between national politics and global ideological currents, the evolution of systems of race relations, and the possibilities and constraints confronting former slaves and other rural workers.

To aid researchers conducting comparative studies, the editors -- leading figures in slavery and postemancipation research -- have identified and annotated primary and secondary sources that can be readily found in major research libraries or accessed from any university or public library participating in a research consortium. The bibliography is arranged geographically -- the British West Indies, British Colonial Africa, South Africa, Cuba, and Brazil -- and includes sources such as parliamentary and congressional hearings and inquiries, reports of governmental and international agencies, missionary records, published census reports, correspondence published in the context of contemporary debates, personal memoirs, surveys, autobiographies, early sociological and ethnographic studies, and transcriptions of oral interviews.

Societies after Slavery also features many new documentary sources for use in teaching courses such as the comparative history of slavery and emancipation, and is particularly useful for professors undertaking the challenge of an Atlantic Studies or other systematic approach to the history of Europe, Africa, and the Americas.

Contents:

Bibliographies, Historiographical Essays, and Indexes 5

Primary Sources 16

British Parliamentary Papers 24

Secondary Sources 71

II. British Colonial Africa

Bibliographies, Historiographical Essays, and Indexes 137

Primary Sources 138

British Parliamentary Papers 162

Secondary Sources 180

III. South Africa

Bibliographies, Historiographical Essays, and Indexes 207

Primary Sources 208

Secondary Sources 221

IV. Cuba

Bibliographies, Historiographical Essays, and Indexes 242

Primary Sources 249

U.S.-Supervised Censuses and U.S. Governmental Records 285

Secondary Sources 290

V. Brazil

Bibliographies, Historiographical Essays, and Indexes 327

Primary Sources 335

Censuses and Related Compilations 355

Secondary Sources 362.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1891 Department of Arts Fund.

ISBN:

0822941848

OCLC:

48811087