Indian Indenture in the Danish West Indies, 1863-1873
Indian Indenture in the Danish West Indies, 1863-1873

Author: Lomarsh Roopnarine

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-08-24

Total Pages: 126

ISBN-13: 331930710X

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This book is the first comprehensive analysis of Denmark’s solitary experiment with Indian indentured labor on St. Croix during the second half of the nineteenth century. The book focuses on the recruitment, transportation, plantation labor, re-indenture, repatriation, remittances and abolition of Indian indentured experience on the island. In doing so, Roopnarine has produced a compelling narrative on Indian indenture. The laborers challenged and responded accordingly to their daily indentured existence using their cultural strengths to cohere and co-exist in a planter-dominated environment. Laborers had to create opportunities for themselves using their homeland customs without losing the focus that someday they would return home. Indentured Indians understood that the plantation system would not be flexible to them but rather they had to be flexible to plantation system. Roopnarine’s concise analysis has moved Indian indenture from the margin to mainstream not only in the historiography of the Danish West Indies, but also in the wider Caribbean where Indians were indentured.

Slave Society in the Danish West Indies
Slave Society in the Danish West Indies

Author: N. A. T. Hall

Publisher:

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 318

ISBN-13: 9789764100294

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This volume is an account of the development and destruction of slavery in St Thomas, St John and St Croix, the Caribbean islands which today comprise the US Virgin Islands. The book sees slavery as fundamental to the entire fabric of colonial society, and pays particular attention to the social and political life of the whites and freedmen in interaction with the slaves.

Language Contact in the Danish West Indies: Giving Jack His Jacket
Language Contact in the Danish West Indies: Giving Jack His Jacket

Author: Robin Sabino

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2012-05-07

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13: 9004225404

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In Language Contact in the Danish West Indies: Giving Jack His Jacket, Robin Sabino draws on fieldwork with a last speaker and research from a range of disciplines laying bare the crucial roles of community and resistance in creole genesis.

Two Troubled Souls
Two Troubled Souls

Author: Aaron Spencer Fogleman

Publisher: UNC Press Books

Published: 2013-12-09

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 1469608804

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Jean-Francois Reynier, a French Swiss Huguenot, and his wife, Maria Barbara Knoll, a Lutheran from the German territories, crossed the Atlantic several times and lived among Protestants, Jews, African slaves, and Native Americans from Suriname to New York and many places in between. While they preached to and doctored many Atlantic peoples in religious missions, revivals, and communal experiments, they encountered scandals, bouts of madness, and other turmoil, including within their own marriage. Aaron Spencer Fogleman's riveting narrative offers a lens through which to better understand how individuals engaged with the eighteenth-century Atlantic world and how men and women experienced many of its important aspects differently. Reynier's and Knoll's lives illuminate an underside of empire where religious radicals fought against church authority and each other to find and spread the truth; where Atlantic peoples had spiritual, medical, and linguistic encounters that authorities could not always understand or control; and where wives disobeyed husbands to seek their own truth and opportunity.

Bibliography of European Economic and Social History
Bibliography of European Economic and Social History

Author: Derek Howard Aldcroft

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 314

ISBN-13: 9780719034923

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This bibliographical guide contains 10,000 references to the economic and social history of 30 European countries during the period 1700-1939. More than 3000 periodicals have been consulted to obtain references, as well as books, edited collections and conference proceedings. The information is listed in categories such as industry, agriculture, finance, migration, labour conditions, urban communities and organizations. Full publication details are included, so that references may be located easily.

The Journal of Negro History
The Journal of Negro History

Author: Carter Godwin Woodson

Publisher:

Published: 1917

Total Pages: 480

ISBN-13:

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The scope of the Journal include the broad range of the study of Afro-American life and history.