Slave cultures and the cultures of slavery / edited by Stephan Palmié.

Other author Palmié, Stephan.
Format Book
Edition1st ed.
Publication InfoKnoxville : University of Tennessee Press, ©1995.
Descriptionxlvii, 283 pages ; 24 cm
Subjects
Slavery--History.

Contents Analyze the sounds : Frederick Douglass's invitation to modern historians of slavery / David W. Blight -- Slave life on Caribbean sugar plantations : some unanswered questions / Sidney W. Mintz -- African cultural principles in Caribbean slave societies : a view from the Danish West Indies / Karen Fog Olwig -- Taste for human commodities : experiencing the Atlantic system / Stephan Palmie -- The gold coast, the closing of the Atlantic slave trade, and Africans of the diaspora / Richard Rathbone -- Preliminary remarks on the Oldendorp manuscripts and their history / Gudrun Meier -- Slavery and slave cultures in a hydraulic society : Suriname / Gert Oostindie and Alex Van Stipriaan -- Female slave-owners on the Gold Coast : just a matter of money / Adam Jones -- Dangerous ancestors : ambivalent visions of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century leaders of the eastern maroons of Suriname / H.U.E. Thoden Van Velzen -- Indian-Black relations in colonial and antebellum Louisiana / Daniel Usner, Jr. -- Native American tribes and their African slaves / Renate Bartl -- Theft, moral economy, and the transition from slavery to freedom in the American South / Alex Lichtenstein -- The creolization of African-American slave kinship in Jamaican free village and maroon communities / Jean Besson -- The transformation of slave experience : self and danger in the rituals of creole migrant women in the Netherlands / Ineke Van Wetering.
Local noteLittle-305012--305131010710M
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [239]-273) and index.
LCCN 95004374
ISBN0870499033 (cloth : alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks HT861 .S35 1995 ✔ Available Place Hold