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No More, No More - Slavery And Cultural Resistance In Havana And New Orleans (Paperback, New)
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No More, No More - Slavery And Cultural Resistance In Havana And New Orleans (Paperback, New)
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However urban slave societies might have differed from their rural
counterparts, they still relied on a concerted assault on the
psychological, social, and cultural identity of their
African-descended inhabitants to maintain power and control. This
ambitious book looks at how people of African descent in two such
societies--Havana and New Orleans in the nineteenth
century--created and maintained their own forms of cultural
resistance to the slave regime's assault and, in the process, put
forth autonomous views of sell and the social landscape. In
Havana's annual Dia de Reyes festival and in the weekly activities
that took place at New Orleans's Congo Square, author Daniel Walker
identities specific cultural beliefs and activities that Africans
brought to the New World and modified in order to withstand and
contest the dehumanizing effects of oppression. "No More, No More
crosses disciplinary boundaries as well, elucidating the economic,
social, cultural, and demographic operations at work in two cities
and the wide-scale efforts at cultural resistance embodied in
public performances.
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