Archibald Monteath: Igbo, Jamaican, Moravian

by Maureen Warner-Lewis

Overview

The 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 Montieth, 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789766401979
Publisher:	The University of the West Indies Press
Publication date:	10/28/2007
Pages:	367
Product dimensions:	6.90(w) x 9.90(h) x 1.30(d)

About the Author

MAUREEN WARNER-LEWIS is Professor Emerita, African-Caribbean Language and Orature, Department of Literatures in English, University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica. Her many publications include E. Kamau Brathwaite’s “Masks”: Essays and Annotations; Yoruba Songs of Trinidad; Trinidad Yoruba: From Mother Tongue to Memory; Central Africa in the Caribbean: Transcending Time, Transforming Cultures; and Archibald Monteath: Igbo, Jamaican, Moravian.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations     viii
Acknowledgements     xi
Notes on Spelling Variations     xiv
Abbreviations     xv
History of the Autobiographical Texts     1
Aniaso     24
Toby of the Monteaths     44
Family and Inheritance     69
Colonial Commercial Networks     93
Entrapped within Colour as Caste     118
Messages and Implications for Blacks of Christianization     143
Planters and Missionaries: Tensions and Alliances     173
Outwardly Bound but Inwardly Free     203
Shaping Identities     233
Conclusion     250
Experiences of a Former Slave in Jamaica$dtranslated by Mary Kuck     267
Archibald John Monteith: Native Helper and Assistant in the Jamaica Mission at New Carmel$dedited by Vernon Nelson     286
Notes     305
Bibliography     349
Index     363