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Archibald Monteath : Igbo, Jamaican, Moravian / Maureen Warner-Lewis.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Monteath, Archibald, -1864.
- Monteath, Archibald.
- Slave narratives.
- Slavery--Jamaica--Biography.
- Slavery.
- Slavery--Jamaica--History.
- Moravians--Jamaica--History.
- Moravians.
- History.
- Jamaica.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 367 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Kingston, Jamaica : University of West Indies Press, [2007]
- Summary:
- This reconstruction of one of the rare Caribbean slave narratives is an amplification, interrogation, and modification of its original texts by cross-reference with official documents, contemporary diary entries and reports, present-day oral sources, and secondary analyses of plantation society. Accessing a variety of primary records, Maureen Warner-Lewis meticulously reconstructs a biography of enslaved Archibald Monteath, an Igbo, who was brought to Jamaica around 1802, became active in the Moravian Church and later purchased his freedom. Through Monteath's biography she explores the sociology of slavery from 1750 to the 1860s. Fieldwork conducted in Africa brings an important dimension to the work, and scholars of Caribbean history, church history, diasporic studies, Atlantic studies and Jamaica will find it of significant interest. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 History of the Autobiographical Texts 1
- Chapter 2 Aniaso 24
- Chapter 3 Toby of the Monteaths 44
- Chapter 4 Family and Inheritance 69
- Chapter 5 Colonial Commercial Networks 93
- Chapter 6 Entrapped within Colour as Caste 118
- Chapter 7 Messages and Implications for Blacks of Christianization 143
- Chapter 8 Planters and Missionaries: Tensions and Alliances 173
- Chapter 9 Outwardly Bound but Inwardly Free 203
- Chapter 10 Shaping Identities 233
- Appendix 1 Experiences of a Former Slave in Jamaica / translated by Mary Kuck 267
- Appendix 2 Archibald John Monteith: Native Helper and Assistant in the Jamaica Mission at New Carmel / edited by Vernon Nelson 286.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-362) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9789766401979
- 9766401977
- OCLC:
- 166368659
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