... II Colonial Settlement, Slavery, and Peonage In 1652 the European employees of the Dutch East India Company who formed a small refreshment station for ships at the southern tip of Africa, now Cape Town, had no intention of conquering...

...The Necessity of Slavery W. S. van Ryneveld The first slaves arrived at the Cape just six years after the colony’s founding. Slav- ery grew with the rise of settler agriculture, particularly in the eighteenth century, as slavery was expanding throughout the Atlantic world. In 1775 about...

... II Sugar, Slavery, and Colonialism By the end of the s the plantation complex, in which Spanish colonists im- ported African slaves to produce sugar sold in Europe, had been established in the Caribbean. But for two centuries, Cuba’s...

...Fleeing Slavery Miguel Barnet, Pedro Deschamps Chapeaux, Rafael García, and Rafael Duharte Resistance and rebellion were inherent elements in every slave society. Slave resis- tance ranged from ‘‘informal’’ or ‘‘everyday’’ attempts to maintain one’s culture and dignity without overtly...

... more profound social change. The movements for abolition of slavery and for the end of colonial rule in Cuba became intertwined. However, the colonial government’s grad- ual abolition of slavery in the s did little to resolve the economic and racial divisions in Cuban society. By Cuban...

...Russ Radical Configurations of Castronovo History in the Era of American Slavery Writing in 1849, critic Theodore Parker notes one spot of originality amid what he deems the bleakness of the American lit• erary landscape: "There is one portion of our...

...Richard Graham FREE AFRICAN BRAZILIANS AND THE STATE IN SLAVERY TIMES Most Mrican Brazilians today are poor and most of the poor in Brazil are Mrican Brazilians (Hasenbalg 1985; Soares and Silva 1987; Lovell Webster 1987).1 There is an active debate in Brazil over how to...

...Chapter One of law and virtue: black women in slavery, freedom, and early criminal justice In every human Breast, God had implanted a Principle, which we call love of Freedom; it is impatient of Oppression, and pants for Deliverance...

...ChapterTwo service savors of slavery: labor, autonomy, and turn-of-the-century urban crime After the war and Emancipation great hopes were entertained by the Negroes for rapid advancement, and nowhere did they seem better founded than in...

... Five  Who’s Your Mama? “whitE” Mulatta gEnEalogiEs, Early PhotograPhy, and anti- Passing narrativEs of slavEry and frEEdoM P. Gabrielle Foreman Partus sequitur ventrem. [The child...

...3. On Swelling: Slavery, Social Science, and Medicine in the Nineteenth Century alejandra bronfman By the time it was published in 1922, Antropología y patología comparada de los negros esclavos (Comparative anthropology and pathology of black slaves) had survived a long and mostly...

... 2 Crimes of Fashion Dressing the Part from Slavery to Freedom In order to recompense me for my trouble [the nursing of a sick silversmith], the Captain promised me ten pounds. . . . I thought this would be of great service to me...

... Part II Atlantic Slavery and the Early Rise of the Western World 6 Slavery and the Revolution in Cotton Textile Production in England JOSEPH E. INIKORI FROM THE point of view of the preindustrial world, the develop• ment of the English cotton textile industry in...

... Part III Atlantic Slavery, the World of the Slaves, and Their Enduring Legacies 10 The Dispersal of African Slaves in the West by Dutch Slave Traders, 163°-18°3 JOHANNES POSTMA MISCONCEPTIONS ABOUT the American destinations of African slaves can easily...

...3 Keeping Slaves in Place: The Secret Debate on the Slavery Question in Northem Nigeria, 1900- 190 4 JAN HOGENDORN AND PAUL E. LOVEJOY IT HAS BEEN widely recognized that British colonial policy toward slavery in Northern Nigeria was crafted by...

...Part II Atlantic Slavery and the Early Rise of the Western World 6 Slavery and the Revolution in Cotton Textile Production in England JOSEPH E. INIKORI FROM THE point of view of the preindustrial world, the develop• ment of the English cotton textile industry in...

... chapter two Imagining Poor Whites in the Antebellum South Abolitionist and Pro-Slavery Fictions In the colonial and early national eras, as we have seen, particular popu- lations of colonists and citizens were stigmatyped and treated as...

... Chapter 2 THE ‘‘REMEMORY’’ OF SLAVERY If this is what is inside of me, then nobody is safe. —Kara Walker, ‘‘Fireside Chat 1999 What if the materials of memory are overwhelming, so traumatic that the remembering of them...

.... TL, Transcript. Travers Buxton,1 Secretary, Anti-Slavery and Aborigines Protection Society,2 to Walter Hines Page,3 U.S. Ambassador to Britain Denison House...

... APRIL 1918 Enclosure: Resolution by the Anti-Slavery and Aborigines Protection Society [Westminster, ca. 4 July 1917] “That in any reconstruction of Africa...