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"New Negroes from Africa"
Rosanne Marion Adderley
其他書名
Slave Trade Abolition and Free African Settlement in the Nineteenth-century Caribbean
出版Indiana University Press, 2006
主題History / GeneralHistory / Modern / 19th CenturyHistory / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)History / Caribbean & West Indies / GeneralSocial Science / Black Studies (Global)
ISBN97802533470390253347033
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=FXE23WQXz_YC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋In 1838, the British government outlawed the slave trade, emancipated all of the slaves in its possessions, and began to interdict slave ships en route to the Americas. Almost at once, colonies that had depended on slave labour were faced with a liberated and unwilling labour force. At the same time, newly freed slaves in Sierra Leone (and later from America and elsewhere) were "persuaded" to emigrate to other British colonies to provide a new workforce to replace or augment remnants of the old. Some became paid labourers, others indentured servants. These two groups - one, English-speaking colonists; the other, new African immigrants - are the focus of this study of "receptive" communities in the West Indies. Adderley describes the formation of these settlements, and, working from scant records, tries to tease out information about the families of liberated Africans, the labour they performed, their religions, and the culture they brought with them. She addresses issues of gender, ethnicity, and identity, and concludes with a discussion of repatriation.