Trans-Atlantic Dimensions of Ethnicity in the African Diaspora

by Paul E. Lovejoy (Editor), David V. Trotman (Editor)

Overview

This group of essays, resulting from research affiliated with the UNESCO Slave Route Project, explores trans-Atlantic linkages and cultural overlays during the era of slavery and after. The essays concentrate on ethnicity and culture and their manifestations on both sides of the Atlantic and draw on new methodologies and new sources relating to the emergence of the African diaspora, one of the major historical phenomena of the modern era.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780826449078
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	02/18/2004
Series:	Black Atlantic
Pages:	288
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.69(d)

About the Author

Paul E. Lovejoy, Distinguished Research Professor in the Department of History at York University, holds the Canada Research Chair in African Diaspora History and is Director of the Harriet Tubman Institute for Research on the Global Migrations of African Peoples. He is the author or editor of numerous volumes on the African diaspora.

David V. Trotman is Associate Professor of History and Humanities and Associate Director of the Harriet Tubman Institute at York University. He received his doctorate at Johns Hopkins University and most recently, he is author of Contesting Freedom: Control and Resistance in the Post-Emancipation Caribbean (with Gad Heuman).

Table of Contents

1. Introduction: Ethnicity and the African Diaspora, Paul E. Lovejoy and David V. Trotman, York University2. Ethnic Designations of the Slave Trade and the Reconstruction of the History of Transatlantic Slavery, Paul Lovejoy, York University3. The Story of Nbena, 1817-1820: Unlawful Enslavement and the Concept of "Original Freedom" in Angola, Jose Curto, York University4. African Ethnicities and the Meanings of Mina, Gwendolyn Hall, Rutgers University5. A Quality of Anguish: The Igbo Response to Enslavement in the Americas, Michael A. Gomez6. I, Francisco Castaneda, Negro Esclavo Caravali—Carabali Ethnicity in Colonial New Granada, Renee Soulodre-La France, York University7. On the Frontiers of the African Diaspora in Central America: The African Origins of San Fernando de Omoa, Rina Caceres, Universidad da Costa Rica8. Devils or Sorcerers, Muslims or Studs: Manding in the Americas, Sylviane Anna Diouf9. The Reconstruction of Ethnicity in Bahia: The Case of the Nago in the Nineteenth Century, Maria Ines Cortes de Oliveira10. The Afro-Brazilian Communities of the Bight of Benin in the Nineteenth Century, Elisee Soumonni, Universite Nationale du Benin11. Ethnicity, Colour and Gender in the Experiences of Enslaved Women on Non-Sugar Properties in Jamaica, Verene A. Lazarus-Shepherd, University of the West Indies12. Africanizing and Creolizing the Plantation Frontier of Trinidad, 1787-1834, David V. Trotman, York University13. Ethnic Politics among Africans in Nineteenth-Century Bahia, Joao Jose Reis, Universidade Federal da Bahia