Slavery in Africa and the Caribbean: A History of Enslavement and Identity since the 18th Century (International Library of Colonial History)

The intertwined stories of the great English 'Varsity' universities have many colourful aspects in common, yet each also boasts elements of true distinctiveness. So while the histories of Oxford and Cambridge are both characterised by seething town and gown rivalries, doctrinal conflicts and heretical outbursts, shifts of political and religious allegiance and gripping stories of individual heroism and defiance, they are also narratives of difference and distinctiveness. G.R. Evans explores the remarkable and unique contribution that Cambridge University has made to society and culture, both in Britain and right across the globe, and will subsequently publish her history of Oxford University to complete a major new history of the two universities. Ranging across 800 years of vivid history, packed with incident, Evans here explores great thinkers such as John Duns Scotus - the 13th century Franciscan Friar who gave his name his name to 'dunces' - and celebrates the extraordinary molecular breakthroughs of Watson and Crick in the 20th century. Moving from the radical new thinking of the Cambridge Platonists and the brilliant scientific discoveries of Isaac Newton to the discovery of the Double Helix and the notorious 'Garden House Hotel Riot' of 1970, the book is published to co-incide with the 800th anniversary of the University's foundation in 1209. The first short history of its kind, it will be a lasting and treasured resource for all Cambridge alumni/ae. Tables - vii Maps - viii Illustrations - ix -- Acknowledgements - x Notes on Contributors - xi Introduction ( Nadine Hunt and Olatunji Ojio ) - 1 -- 1. Ethnicity and Identity at the Niger-Benue Confluence during the Nineteenth Century Nupe Jihad ( Femi James Kolapo ) - 9 -- 2. Slave Trading in Kano Emirate ( Mohammed Bashir Salau ) - 38 -- 3. Concubinage and Slavery in Benguela, c. 1750-1850 ( Mariana P. Candido ) - 65 -- 4. Correspondence of the Lagos Slave Trade, 1848-1850 ( Olatunji Ojo ) - 85 -- 5. The Metamorphosis of Slavery in Colonial Mombassa, 1907-1963 ( Feisal Farah ) - 121 -- 6. Economy, Politics, and the Early Formation of a Cultural Identity in British Virgin Islands' Slave Society ( Katherine A. Smith ) - 144 -- 7. Remembering Africans in Diaspora: Robert Wedderburn's 'Freedome Narrative' ( Nadine Hunt ) - 175 Bibliography - 199 Index - 221 "For over four hundred years, thousands of African men and women were taken from their homeland and transported across the world to be sold into slavery. The history of this startling and horrific period is perennially important, and recent scholarship has sought to uncover the experiences of the slaves themselves in order to uncover the voices of its many victims. "Slavery and Africa in the Caribbean" analyses the written sources which have survived, demonstrating how many Africans coped by adopting a flexible identity in order to negotiate the cultural differences in African, European and Islamic systems of slavery. An important work based on Jamaican and African archival sources, this book will appeal to students and scholars who are interested in slavery, gender, identity, religion, colonialism and the African diaspora."--Bloomsbury publishing.