Freedmen Of Barbados

Author : Jerome S. Handler
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Unappropriated People written by Jerome S. Handler and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Remains the only treatment of the free people of colour of Barbados from the earliest periods of the slave society to emancipation in 1834 and provides the most detailed discussion of the manumission process for any British West Indian society. Allowed certain rights and privileges not extended to slaves but denied others reserved for whites, the social status of the free people was ambiguous. ... Handler shows how the freedmen's struggle for civil rights was a collective effort to maximize their free status and to avoid a position of permanent intermediacy between white and enslaved.--

Author : Jerome S. Handler
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780978660420
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Freedmen of Barbados written by Jerome S. Handler and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Pedro L. V. Welch
Publisher : I. Randle Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Slave Society in the City written by Pedro L. V. Welch and published by I. Randle Publishers. This book was released on 2003 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Melanie J. Newton
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807148725
Total Pages : 481 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Children of Africa in the Colonies written by Melanie J. Newton and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2008-06-01 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How emancipation transformed social and political relations in Barbados When a small group of free men of color gathered in 1838 to celebrate the end of apprenticeship in Barbados, they spoke of emancipation as the moment of freedom for all colored people, not just the former slaves. The fact that many of these men had owned slaves themselves gives a hollow ring to their lofty pronouncements. Yet in The Children of Africa in the Colonies, Melanie J. Newton demonstrates that simply dismissing these men as hypocrites ignores the complexity of their relationship to slavery. Exploring the role of free blacks in Barbados from 1790 to 1860, Newton argues that the emancipation process transformed social relations between Afro-Barbadians and slaves and ex-slaves. Free people of color in Barbados genuinely wanted slavery to end, Newton explains, a desire motivated in part by the realization that emancipation offered them significant political advantages. As a result, free people's goals for the civil rights struggle that began in Barbados in the 1790s often diverged from those of the slaves, and the tensions that formed along class, education, and gender lines severely weakened the movement. While the populist masses viewed emancipation as an opportunity to form a united community among all people of color, wealthy free people viewed it as a chance to better their position relative to white Europeans. To this end, free people of color refashioned their identities in relationship to Africa. Prior to the 1820s, Newton reveals, they downplayed their African descent, emphasizing instead their legal status as free people and their position as owners of property, including slaves. As the emancipation debate in the Atlantic world reached its zenith in the 1820s and 1830s and whites grew increasingly hostile and inflexible, elite free people allied themselves with the politics of the working class and the slaves, relying for the first time on their African heritage and the association of their skin color with slavery to openly challenge white supremacy. After emancipation, free people of color again redefined themselves, now as loyal British imperial subjects, casting themselves in the role of political protectors of their ex-slave brethren in an attempt to escape social and political disenfranchisement. While some wealthy men of color gained political influence as a result of emancipation, the absence of fundamental change in the distribution of land and wealth left most men and women of color with little hope of political independence or social mobility. Mining a rich vein of primary and secondary sources, Newton's study elegantly describes how class divisions and disagreements over labor and social policy among free and slave black Barbadians led to political unrest and devastated the hope for an entirely new social structure and a plebeian majority in the British Caribbean.

Author : Brian L. Moore
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789766401375
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Slavery, Freedom and Gender written by Brian L. Moore and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of lectures delivered between 1987 and 1998. The book is divided into two sections: slavery and freedom, which features critical research on slavery and post-emancipation society, and gender.

Author : Jerome S. Handler
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Plantation Slavery in Barbados written by Jerome S. Handler and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is the first detailed investigation of plantation slave life in Barbados from earliest times until 1838. The authors have visited slave village sites, and their intensive excavation of a slave cemetery has yielded a wealth of material pertaining to mortuary practices and other dimensions of social and material life. Handler and Lange have also examined and extensively integrated the written records to amplify and cross-check their findings. Based on the methodologies of archaeology, history, and ethnography, Plantation Slavery in Barbados explores new ways to reconstruct the culture of a social group that left few historical records. As a description of the organization and development of the plantation system in Barbados, it is a model work in the burgeoning fields of slavery studies, historical anthropology, and Caribbean history.

Author : Hilary Beckles
Publisher : Antilles Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Black Rebellion in Barbados written by Hilary Beckles and published by Antilles Publishing. This book was released on 1984 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Finally, the most detailed research to date of the 1816 slave rebellion and its impact upon the emancipation debate is presented, which suggests that Barbadian slaves, like their counterparts in Demerara and Jamaica who rebelled in 1823 and 1831 respectively, were saying to their owners and the Imperial government, you will either grant us our freedom by law or force us to make it by war. This work is a polemical account of the changing relationships between maturing black radical consciousness and white power in Barbados during the slavery period. It goes a long way towards assisting the process of decolonising the island's general Eurocentric historiography"--Back cover

Author : Hilary Beckles
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780813515113
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Natural Rebels written by Hilary Beckles and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: social history of slavery.

Author : Hilary Beckles
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ISBN 13 : 9789766405854
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The First Black Slave Society written by Hilary Beckles and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book describes the brutal Black slave society and plantation system of Barbados and explains how this slave chattel model was perfected by the British and exported to Jamaica and South Carolina for profit. There is special emphasis on the role of the concept of white supremacy in shaping social structure and economic relations that allowed slavery to continue. The book concludes with information on how slavery was finally outlawed in Barbados, in spite of white resistance.

Author : Hilary Beckles
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789766405878
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The First Black Slave Society written by Hilary Beckles and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: