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This is the first reader that goes beyond the fragmentation between
Spanish, British, Dutch, and French Caribbean history to explain
slavery, emancipation, colonization and decolonization in the
region. The contributors to this pan-Caribbean approach are leading
scholars in the field, including Franklin Knight and Luis
Martinez-Fernandez.
This group of essays, resulting from research affiliated with the
UNESCO Slave Route Project, explores trans-Atlantic linkages and
cultural overlays during the era of slavery and after. The essays
concentrate on ethnicity and culture and their manifestations on
both sides of the Atlantic and draw on new methodologies and new
sources relating to the emergence of the African diaspora, one of
the most historical phenomena of the modern era. In exploring the
cultural impact of the slave trade in Africa and the Americas,
these essays contend that complex, intercontinental forces shaped
the African diaspora; the repercussions being felt on both sides of
the Atlantic. Rather than considering the Atlantic a barrier,
crossed in one direction only, the trans-Atlantic dimensions of
slaving revealed here involved a degree of interaction that
requires a careful reconsideration of patterns of resistance and
accommodation, allowing for an examination of the expectations of
the enslaved as well as analysis of the experience of
slavery.Personal experience, memory and tradition kept alive
cultural forms and expressions, whether through music, poetry or
other means. The encounters forced on the ensl
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