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This book demonstrates the continuities of five centuries of European-led slavery and colonialism in Africa, the Caribbean, and the Americas, examining calls for reparations in all three regions for what many now regard to have constituted crimes against humanity. The Atlantic world economy emerged from the interactions of this triangular slave trade involving human chattel, textiles, arms, wine, sugar, coffee, tobacco, and other goods. This is thus the story of the birth of the modern capitalist system and a Black Atlantic that has shaped global trade, finance, consumer tastes, lifestyles, and fashion for over five centuries. The volume is authored by a multi-disciplinary, pan-continental group encompassing diverse subjects. This collection is concise and comprehensive, enabling cross-regional comparisons to be drawn, and ensuring that some of the most important global events of the past five centuries are read from diverse perspectives. The Black Atlantic’s Triple Burden: Slavery, Colonialism, and Reparations builds on the editor’s 2020 38-chapter edited volume, The Pan-African Pantheon: Prophets, Poets, and Philosophers (Jacana and Manchester University Press), which won the prestigious Cambridge University Press African Studies Review prize in 2022 for Best Edited Volume at the African Studies Association of the United States. Adekeye Adebajo solely edits both. The 28-chapter volume demonstrates the continuities of five centuries of European slavery and colonialism in Africa, the Caribbean, and the Americas, examining calls for reparations in all three regions for what many now regard to have been crimes against humanity. The chapters are authored by some of the most eminent scholars from Africa, the Caribbean, the Americas, and Europe. These academics are largely based in their regions, thus contributing substantively to efforts to transform educational curricula across the globe. This collection, therefore, seeks to be comprehensive and multidisciplinary and to enable cross-regional comparisons to be drawn, ensuring that important global events are read from diverse perspectives. The volume is also aimed at subject area experts, as well as students in diverse areas of the humanities and beyond who seek a sound introductory reference book to these important historical subjects to which they are often not exposed. The authors thus represent a multi-disciplinary group encompassing diverse fields such as history, international relations, politics, economics, sociology, anthropology, literature, and languages. The book also introduces readers to French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian historical and other sources on these important areas.

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Author:   Adekeye Adebajo
Publisher:   Jacana Media (Pty) Ltd
Imprint:   Jacana Media
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9781431434572

ISBN 10:   1431434574
Pages:   584
Publication Date:   31 October 2024
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Format:   Paperback
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PART I. INTRODUCTION: SETTING THE SCENE 1) A Diagnosis of the Triple Burden: Slavery, Colonialism, and Reparations Professor Adekeye Adebajo, Senior Research Fellow, Centre for the Advancement of Scholarship, University of Pretoria, South Africa. 2) Masters and Servants in Barbados and South Africa: From Enslaved Labour to Coerced “Free” Labour in the British Empire Professor Alan Cobley, Professor of History, University of the West Indies (UWI), Barbados. 3) Colonialism: Mamma Italia and Her Imperial Orphans Professor Patrizia Palumbo, Columbia University, New York, US 4) Reparations for Imperialism: Legacies Beyond Slavery in the British Empire Professor Stephen Small, Director of the Institute for the Study of Societal Issues, University of California, Berkeley, US. PART II. SLAVERY IN AFRICA 5) Central Africa Professor Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch, Emeritus of African History at the Université Paris, Paris, France. 6) West Africa Professor Martin Klein, University of Toronto, Canada. 7) Southern Africa Dr Butholezwe Mtombeni, College of Human Sciences, School of Humanities, University of South Africa (UNISA), Tshwane, South Africa. PART III. SLAVERY IN THE CARIBBEAN AND THE AMERICAS 8) The British Caribbean Professor Bridget Brereton, Professor Emeritus of History, the University of the West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago. 9) The French Caribbean Professor Jaime A. Falomir, Professor of Political Science and Latin American Studies, Université des Antilles, Martinique. 10) The Dutch Caribbean Dr. Kwame Nimako, Lecturer, Graduate School of Social Sciences, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. 11) Lusophone America Professor Carlos Silva Jr., University of Feira de Santana, Bahia, Brazil. 12) The United States Professor Jeffrey R. Kerr-Ritchie, Department of History, Howard University, Washington D.C, US. 13) The Role of Women in the Emancipation of North America Professor Daniel J Broyld, Assistant Professor of History, Central Connecticut State University, Connecticut, US. PART IV. COLONIALISM IN AFRICA 14) British Africa Dr. Samuel Igba, Post-doctoral Fellow, Centre for the Advancement of Scholarship, University of Pretoria, South Africa. 15) French Africa Professor Douglas Yates, Associate Professor, American Graduate School, Paris, France. 16) Belgian Africa Professor Guy Vanthemsche, Department of History, The Vrije University, Brussels, Belgium. 17) Portuguese Africa Professor Sandra Sousa, Assistant Professor of Portuguese, University of Central Florida, Orlando, US. 18) German Africa Professor Adam A Blackler, Assistant Professor of History, The Vrije University Brussels, Belgium. 19) Spanish Africa Professor Gustau Nerin, Department of Geography and History, University of Barcelona, Spain; and Dr. Iňaki Tofino, Department of English and Languages, Truro and Penwith College, Cornwall, Britain. 20) Italian Africa Professor Mia Fuller, Professor of Italian Studies, University of California Berkeley, US. PART V. COLONIALISM IN THE CARIBBEAN AND THE AMERICAS 21) The British Caribbean Dr. Shelene Gomes, Lecturer, the University of the West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago; and Dr. Scott Timcke, Lecturer, the University of the West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago. 22) The Dutch Caribbean Dr. Rose Mary Allen, Lecturer, Caribbean Studies, University of Curaçao, Willemstad, the Netherlands. 23) Latin America Professor Susan Elizabeth Ramirez, Neville G. Penrose Chair of History and Latin American Studies, Texas Christian University, US. PART VI. THE GLOBAL STRUGGLE FOR REPARATIONS 24) The Caribbean Professor Hilary Beckles, Vice-Chancellor, the University of the West Indies, Barbados. 25) The US Dr. Andrew Maginn, Senior Researcher for the Roberson Project on Slavery, Race, and Reconciliation, Sewanee: The University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee, US. 26) Britain Dr. Nicola Frith, Lecturer of French and Francophone Studies, University of Edinburgh, Scotland; and Ms. Esther Stanford-Xosei, PhD Candidate, University of Chichester, England. 27) Africa Professor Adekeye Adebajo, Senior Research Fellow, Centre for the Advancement of Scholarship, University of Pretoria, South Africa. . 28) Latin America Dr. June Soomer, Chair of the Open Campus Council, University of the West Indies Open Campus, Kingston, Jamaica. PART VII. CONCLUSION 29) Concluding Reflections: From Slavery to Reparations Professor Adekeye Adebajo, Senior Research Fellow, Centre for the Advancement of Scholarship, University of Pretoria, South Africa.

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