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1 online resource (xv, 297 pages) : 1 portrait |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Note |
Thirteen of the Elsa Goveia lectures, delivered between 1987 and 1998. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Slavery and the rise of capitalism / Joseph E. Inikori -- Africa in the making of the Caribbean : the formative years / Colin A. Palmer -- The invention of slave society / B.W. Higman -- Slavery and the transformation of society in Cuba, 1511-1760 / Franklin W. Knight -- Planters, farmers and gardeners in eighteenth-century Jamaica / Douglas Hall -- The post-slavery labour problem revisited / Woodville K. Marshall -- Liberated Africans in nineteenth-century Guyana / Monica Schuler -- Women and resistance : "herstory" in contemporary Caribbean history / Blanca G. Silvestrini -- Women field workers in Jamaica during slavery / Lucille Mathurin Mair -- Freeing slavery : gender paradigms in the social history of Caribbean slavery / Hilary McD. Beckles -- Gendered testimony : autobiographies, diaries and letters by women as sources for Caribbean history / Bridget Brereton -- Unspeakable things unspoken : ghosts and memories in the narratives of African American women / Elizabeth Fox-Genovese -- Our debt to history / Rex Nettleford. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Slavery -- West Indies -- History.
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Slavery. |
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West Indies. |
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History. |
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Enslaved persons -- Emancipation -- West Indies.
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Enslaved persons -- Emancipation. |
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Enslaved persons -- Emancipation -- British colonies. |
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Enslaved persons -- Emancipation -- French colonies. |
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Freed persons -- West Indies.
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Freed persons. |
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Enslaved women -- West Indies -- History.
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Enslaved women. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Added Author |
Moore, Brian L., 1948-
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| Added Title |
Dynamics of Caribbean society |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Slavery, freedom and gender. Kingston, Jamaica : University of the West Indies Press, 2003 9766401373 9789766401375 (OCoLC)56533001 |
| ISBN |
9781435632165 (electronic book) |
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1435632168 (electronic book) |
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