Freedom : retrospective and prospective / edited by Swithin R. Wilmot.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wilmot, Swithin R., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Slavery--West Indies--Congresses.

Slavery.

Enslaved persons--Emancipation--West Indies--Congresses.

Enslaved persons.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (lxxiv, 280 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Kingston ; Miami : Ian Randle Publishers, [2009]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The European-driven transatlantic slave trade in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries was the largest forced movement of human beings in history. Over 15 million Africans were shipped to the New World and another 5 million died in captivity over a period of 250 years. The bicentenary of the abolition of the British Transatlantic Trade in Africans for enslavement was commemorated in 2007 and the University of the West Indies Mona campus marked the anniversary by making the bicentenary the focus of its annual Mona Academic Conference on the theme Freedom: Retrospective and Prospective. This volume represents an edited collection of papers that were delivered at the 2007 conference. Freedom: Retrospective and Prospective examines the historical experience of slavery that has helped to shape the Caribbean and its contemporary challenges. In this volume, the contributions both academic and personal, reflect on various aspects of memorialisation; reparations; capitalism and slavery; sovereignty; globalization and trade liberalization; education and gender; freedom and development; migration and Diaspora.

Contents:

Emancipation : an unfinished story / Ruth Simmons

Song as enactment of communal memory / Maureen Warner-Lewis

'A world only partly named' : knowledge of plants for therapeutic interventions in the early Cape Colony among the free and unfree / Geri Augusto

A weh dem a go? The slave trade of Jamaica / Nadine Hunt

The memorialisation of slavery and the slave trade in freedom narratives / Paul E. Lovejoy

Africans in early English Jamaica : (1655-1700) the Akan-dominance myth / Silvia Kouwenberg

Freedom and slavery in Maryse Condé's Moi, Tituba : from spiritual adaptation to universal magic / Sébastien Sacré

Freedom Road : the empowerment of the enslaved population by the eighteenth century / Heather Cateau

The nature of the Amerindian/European encounter and its impact on the Amerindians / Sister Mary Noel Menezes

Marginality or activism : the Black male and the family in nineteenth-century Jamaica / Jenny Jemmott

'All that is buried is not dead' : public histories and legacies of slavery in post-apartheid Cape Town / Nick Shepherd

The 1805 Haitian Constitution : the making of slave freedom in the Atlantic world / Anthony Bogues

The legacies of the transatlantic trade in enslaved Africans and human development challenges : the role of education / Sandra Gift

Two hundred years since the abolition of the slave trade / Juline Francis-Gordon

I remember because I am free : thoughts on the bicentennial celebration of the abolition of the Atlantic slave trade / Anne C. Bailey

The Black resurrection : the Rastafari perspective / Yasus Afari

Unfinished business : ignored voices / Carol Narcisse and and Judith Wedderburn

Epilogue. Reparations for African enslavement : preparing the Caribbean case / Hilary McD. Beckles.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9789766376857

9766376859