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The Yoruba are on a rock : recaptured Africans and the Orisas of Grenada / Shantel A. George.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- George, Shantel A, author.
- Series:
- Cambridge studies on the African diaspora
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Yoruba (African people)--Grenada.
- Yoruba (African people).
- Black people--Grenada--History.
- Black people.
- Black people--Grenada--Religion.
- Orishas--Grenada.
- Orishas.
- Slavery--Grenada--History.
- Slavery.
- Grenada--Social life and customs.
- Grenada.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (346 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2025.
- Summary:
- "This is the first book-length study of the Africans who left a significant and disproportionate cultural imprint on Grenada's cultural landscape since the nineteenth century. It sheds new light on how the legacies of slavery, indenture, and colonialism shape the perception of Grenada's African-derived religions and their adherents"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- ‘Old creoles’ : The foundation of Grenada’s plantation society
- ‘Scenes of former slavery’ : Abolitionism and the persistence of unfree labour
- New nations : The origins and identities of recaptives
- Bonds of survival : From ‘liberation’ to unfreedom
- ‘Acquaintances and countrymen’ : Building recaptive communities
- ‘Joining their countrymen and women’ : Recaptive Africans after indentureship
- ‘They call them the Yarriba people, it was African dance’ : Becoming Yoruba, becoming African
- ‘Three nights’ : Curating African, African Grenadian, and Indian spaces
- ‘In the form of the Baptists’ : Norman Paul and the legacies of the spiritual baptists
- ‘Grenada ain’t far from Africa’ : Historical memories, human flight, and the recovery of African biographies
- Epilogue.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Online resource; title from PDF title page (Cambridge University Press, viewed September 23, 2025).
- Other Format:
- Print version: George, Shantel A. Yoruba are on a rock
- ISBN:
- 9781009358996
- 1009358995
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license
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