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Slave Populations of the British Caribbean, 1807-1834
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This paper gave excellent and thorough treatment of major demographic aspects of British Caribbean slavery from abolition of slave trade to slave emancipation, drawing heavily on extensive date available from slave registration returns for various islands to provide comparative perspective of nature of slave life.Abstract:
This book is a reprint of work that originally appeared in 1984. It gives excellent and thorough treatment of major demographic aspects of British Caribbean slavery from abolition of slave trade to slave emancipation. Draws heavily on extensive date available from slave registration returns for various islands to provide comparative perspective of nature of slave life. It is essential for serious scholars of the region.read more
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From country marks to DNA markers: The genomic turn in the reconstruction of african identities
Sarah Abel,Hannes Schroeder +1 more
TL;DR: Assessing the combined influence of scientists, businesses, and members of the public in defining the scope of genetics for restoring ethnic links between African and African American populations is taken, and the responsibilities of anthropologists are considered in addressing ongoing biocolonial tendencies and power disparities in the production of genetic ancestry.
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Antiguan Methodism and antislavery activity: Anne and Elizabeth Hart in the eighteenth-century black Atlantic
TL;DR: The Hart sisters as mentioned in this paper were moderate opponents of slavery, not abolitionists but meliorationists, who did not oppose slavery as an institution, but rather the vice it spread into the lives of blacks.
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‘New ideas of correctness’: Gender, amelioration and emancipation in Barbados, 1810s‐50s
TL;DR: The Barbadian newspaper, which sought to represent the views of the planter elite, described the party as an 'assembly of dissipated men - white, black and coloured and coloured women of ill fame.' Two years later the same newspaper vilified a white police officer after his arrest for being involved in a brawl at a mulatto dance which he was attending as discussed by the authors.
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Towns in Plantation Societies in Eighteenth-Century British America
TL;DR: The slave trade was vital to this urbanization, forming the dynamic trade that allowed for entrepreneurial decision making as mentioned in this paper, and it allowed towns like Kingston, Charleston, and Bridgetown to become more than shipping points.