‘Identity in the Shadow of Slavery’ addresses the issues relating to the gender, ethnic and cultural factors affecting the ways in which enslaved Africans and their descendants interpreted their lives under slavery and thereby created communities with a shared sense of identity. The book examines how identities were formulated under slavery and the ways in which the struggle to escape slavery and its legacy continued, after abolition, to affect the lives of descendants of slaves. The introductory essay explores an approach to the study of the African diaspora that looks outward from Africa and places the following chapters, written by leading authorities from Europe, North America and South America, in the context of the theoretical literature.
Paul E. Lovejoy is Distinguished Research Professor of History at York University in Canada and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He has written over fifteen books on African economic and social history, slavery and the African diaspora. He is a member of the International Scientific Committee of the UNESCO ‘Slave Route’ Project.
Author(s): Paul E. Lovejoy
Series: The Black Atlantic
Publisher: Continuum
Year: 2000
Language: English
Commentary: scantailor + ocrmypdf
Pages: 260
City: New York
Tags: slavery;afro-atlantic disapora
Identity in the Shadow of Slavery
Contents
List of Illustrations
List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
1 Identifying Enslaved Africans in the African Diaspora (Paul E. Lovejoy)
2 Cimarrón Ethnicity and Cultural Adaptation in the Spanish Domains of the Circum-Caribbean, 1503-1763 (Jane Landers)
3 Tracing Igbo into the African Diaspora (Douglas B. Chambers)
4 Regla de Ocha-Ifá and the Construction of Cuban Identity (Christine Ayorinde)
5 Cultural Zones in the Era of the Slave Trade: Exploring the Yoruba Connection with the Anlo-Ewe (Sandra E. Greene)
6 Texts of Enslavement: Fon and Yoruba Vocabularies from Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-century Brazil (Olabiyi Yai)
7 Ethnic and Religious Plurality among Yoruba Immigrants in Trinidad in the Nineteenth Century (Maureen Warner-Lewis)
8 Portraits of African Royalty in Brazil (Alberto da Costae Silva)
9 Slavery, Marriage and Kinship in Rural Rio de Janeiro, 1790-1830 (Manolo Garcia Florentino and José Roberto Gées)
10 Female Enslavement in the Caribbean and Gender Ideologies (Hilary McD. Beckles)
11 Those Who Remained Behind: Women Slaves in Nineteenth-century Yorubaland (Francine Shields)
12 ‘She Voluntarily Hath Come’: A Gambian Woman Trader in Colonial Georgia in the Eighteenth Century (Lillian Ashcraft-Eason)
Bibliography
Index
