Overview

This is the eighth volume of the series The Legacy of Slavery and Indentured Labour. It covers the post slavery period of the long nine­teenth century and its continuities into much of the first half of the twentieth century. From a geopolitical perspective, the essays collect­ively encompass the Francophone territories in the Indian Ocean, as well as the Anglophone, Francophone, and Dutch Caribbean and Latin America. Within almost each essay, a myriad of multidimensional issues is foregrounded. To the credit of the authors, these matters are well sup­ported by the historical and historiographical backgrounds that set the situational context for the reader. The themes raised juxtapose a wide array of data on First Nations, European colonization, African New World enslavement and resistance (including marronage), and debates surrounding the abolition of slavery. They also address emancipation in practice, post-slavery in-migrations, indentured labour, and the intersections of African, Indian, and Jewish diasporas, issues of continuities and adjustments, and chal­lenges of present-day living, including the integration of social groups and the consolidation of the nation-state. Readers are treated to multi­disciplinary and comparative analyses. Collectively, the essays encom­pass the disciplines of history, sociology, anthropology, philology, and literary criticism.

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Author:   Michael Toussaint ,  Hillegonda M.A.E. Neus-van der Putten ,  Jerome L. Egger ,  Eric R. Jagdew
Publisher:   Manohar Publishers and Distributors
Imprint:   Manohar Publishers and Distributors
Weight:   0.600kg
ISBN:  

9789360805715

ISBN 10:   9360805718
Pages:   228
Publication Date:   30 April 2025
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

List of Figures 5 List of Tables 6 Preface from the Series Editors 7 Introduction 11 Part One: Legacy of Slavery and Indenture 1. The Free and Regulated Migration: Legacies from Slave Trade and Slavery to the Indentured System — David Leconte 25 2. British Guiana and Dutch Guiana in the Post-Emancipation Period, 1833-1873: Historiographical Notes on Emancipation and Apprenticeship — Eric R. Jagdew 53 Part Two: Slavery’s Legacy in the Caribbean 3. The Pamaka Road to Freedom: The Early History and Geography of the Pamaka Tribe in Suriname — J. Marten W. Schalkwijk 79 4. Sugar Strikes: Confronting Plantation Legacies in the 1930s British Guiana — Nicole Burrowes 115 5. Afro-Surinamese, 1863-1963: Integration in Suriname after the Abolition of Slavery — Chan Choenni 131 Part Three: French and Jewish Entities and Experience 6. Emergence of the Attached Workers Phenomenon in Martinique from 1848 to 1880 — Marie-Rose Noe?mie 151 7. Identity Construction of the White Creoles of Martinique through Networks and Mobility during the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century: Archipelago Families — Ade?lai?de Marine-Gougeon 171 8. Pas d’ombres chinoises: Jews in French Caribbean Literature — Kathleen Gyssels 191 Contributors 213 Index 217

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Michael Toussaint is a lecturer at the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine Campus. He specializes in European imperialism, the history of Latin America and the Caribbean and the African diaspora. Hillegonda M.A.E. Hilde Neus-van der Putten studied Colonial and Modern Literature, and teaches courses on gender. She published a book on Susanne de Plessis, a portrait of a female slave owner. Jerome L. Egger is a historian specializing in the twentieth century history of Suriname. He is currently Head of the History Department and has published on ethnicity and politics, and on the history of Creoles in Suriname. Eric R. Jagdew is a senior researcher at the Faculty of Humanities at the Anton de Kom University. His PhD thesis focused on Indigenous and Maroon treaties in Suriname.

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