University
Press of Florida
The Atlantic Slave Trade
by Johannes Postma
Overview
"In the last few decades, there has been an explosion of interest in and research on the Atlantic slave trade. Despite such trends, however, the field has been lacking a solid textbook that should provide students early in their academic careers with an introduction to the topic. . . . Postma fills this void, bringing us a concise survey of the Atlantic slave trade . . . a clearly written broad survey that does not attempt to oversimplify or dumb-down the material."--EH-NET
In 1502, the first African slaves were taken to Hispaniola. In 1888, Brazil became the last nation in the Western Hemisphere to outlaw slavery. For the nearly 400 years in between, slavery played a major role in linking the histories of Africa, North and South America, and Europe. Beginning with an overview of African slavery in the New World, Postma provides a detailed examination of five separate aspects of the phenomenon:
The capture of slaves and the Middle Passage
The identities of the enslaved and their lives after capture
The economics of the slave trade
The struggle to end slavery
The legacy of the slave trade.
Following these extensive analytical essays are biographies of important individuals—both black and white—in the history of the slave trade. Thirteen primary documents written by enslaved Africans and white officials, an annotated bibliography, and a timeline complete the book, making it a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the subject.
Johannes Postma is emeritus professor of history at Minnesota State University, author of The Dutch in the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1600-1815, and co-editor of Riches from Atlantic Commerce: Dutch Transatlantic Trade and Shipping, 1585-1817.
Details: 208 pages 6x9
Paper: $24.95 ISBN: 0-8130-2906-6
Pubdate: 8/10/05
The Archaeology and History of the Native Georgia Tribes
by Max E. White
Overview
Spanning 12,000 years, this scientifically accurate and very readable book guides readers through the prehistoric and historic archaeological evidence left by Georgia's native peoples. It is the only comprehensive, up-to-date, and text-based overview of its kind in print. Drawing on an extensive body of archaeological and historical data, White traces Native American cultural development and accomplishment over the millennia preceding the establishment of Georgia as a colony and state. Each chapter opens with a vivid fictional vignette transporting the reader to a past culture and setting the scene for the narrative that follows. From hunting giant buffalo and elephants to attempts in the 1700s and 1800s to maintain tribal integrity in the face of European and Euro-American violence and threats, White takes the reader on an archaeologically based tour of the land that today is Georgia.
Evidence from selected archaeological sites and projects is woven into the narrative, and insets supplement the main text to highlight informative passages from archaeological reports and historical documents. A generous number of photographs, maps, and illustrations aid the reader in identifying artifacts and testify to the artistic abilities of these indigenous peoples of Georgia.
Max E. White is associate professor of anthropology at Piedmont College.
Details: 160 pages 6x9
Cloth: $55.00 ISBN: 0-8130-2576-1
Paper: $24.95 ISBN: 0-8130-2840-X
Pubdate: 2/18/05
Before
and After Jamestown: Virginia's Powhatans and Their Predecessors
by Helen C. Rountree and E. Randolph Turner
Overview
Addressed to specialists and nonspecialists alike, Before and After Jamestown
introduces the Powhatans--the Native Americans of Virginia's coastal plains who
played an integral part in the life of the Williamsburg and Jamestown settlements--in
scenes that span 1,100 years, from just before their earliest contact with non-Indians
to the present day.
This first comprehensive overview of the Powhatans emphasizes how the Powhatan
jigsaw has been pieced together with bits of evidence from archaeology, history,
and cultural anthropology. Synthesizing a wealth of documentary and archaeological
data, the authors have produced a book at once thoroughly grounded in scholarship
and accessible to the general reader. Recognized authorities in Powhatan archaeology
and ethnography, they have also extended the historical account through the native
people's long-term adaptation to European immigrants and into the immediate present
and their continuing efforts to gain greater recognition as Indians.
Illustrated with more than 100 photographs, maps, and drawings, the book also
includes an entire chapter, from the Powhatan perspective, on the original English
fort at Jamestown. The authors provide suggestions for additional reading for
both children and adults as well as a list of Indian-related sites to visit in
Virginia.
Helen C. Rountree is professor emerita at Old Dominion University.
E. Randolph Turner III is director of the Virginia Department of Historic Resources
Portsmouth Regional Office.
Details: 272 pages 6 x 9
Cloth: $39.95 ISBN: 0-8130-2476-5
Paper: $24.95 ISBN: 0-8130-2817-5
Expected Pubdate: 10/19/04
Series: Native Peoples, Cultures, and Places of the Southeastern United States
The Spiritual Conversion of the Americas
by James Muldoon
Overview
The conversion efforts of European Christian missionaries, both Catholic and Protestant,
in the Americas during the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries form a single, continuous
thread. From Columbus to the Puritans and beyond, Europeans arriving in the Americas
virtually always included in the justification of their colonizing efforts the
desire to convert the native peoples to Christianity, as their ancestors had been
converted centuries earlier. These essays not only explain how vital these conversion
efforts were to European expansion but also explore the effects of such conversion
work on the Protestant Reformation that was raging in Europe.
In addition to examining a wide range of conversion experiences, this volume also
discusses the differences in the Protestant and Catholic conversion efforts, the
ways in which the various Catholic religious orders approached potential converts,
and the implications of Catholic attempts to convert English Protestants in the
New World.
Contents
Introduction: Seeking Spiritual Gold in the New World, by James Muldoon
1. Making the Land Holy: The Mission Frontier in Early Medieval Europe and Colonial
Mexico, by Daniel T. Reff
2. Conversion Practices on the New Mexico Frontier, by Barbara De Marco
3. Two Kinds of Conversion ("Medieval" and "Modern") among
the Hurons of New France, by Peter Goddard
4. Conversion in Theory and Practice: John Eliot's Mission to the Indians, by
Annie Parker
5. Lutherans Meet the Indians: A Seventeenth-Century Conversion Debate, by Dennis
C. Landis
6. Dutch Calvinism and Native Americans: A Comparative Study of the Motivations
for Protestant Conversion Among the Tupis in Northeastern Brazil (1630-1654) and
the Mohawks in Central New York (1690-1710), by Mark Meuwese
7. "None of these wandering nations has ever been reduced to the Faith":
Missions and Mobility on the Spanish American Frontier, by Amy Turner Bushnell
8. Confessing the Indians: Guilt Discourse and Acculturation in Early Spanish
America, by Jaime Valenzuela Márquez
9. Conversion in Portuguese America, by Isabel dos Guimarães Sá
10. Making Papists of Puritans: Accounting for New English Conversions in New
France, by Evan Haefeli
11. Gold for Glasse: The Trope of Trade in English Missionary Writings, by Laura
M. Stevens
James Muldoon is professor emeritus of history at Rutgers University and is currently
an invited research scholar at the John Carter Brown Library.
Details: 272 pages 6x9
Cloth: $65.00 ISBN: 0-8130-2771-3
Expected Pubdate: 11/19/04
Sugar, Slavery, and Society: Perspectives on the Caribbean, India, the Mascarenes,
and the United States
by Bernard Moitt
Overview
This interdisciplinary exploration of the effects and consequences of the cultivation
of sugarcane and spread of the sugar industry in societies that relied on free,
enslaved, and indentured labor compares the plantation systems used in the Caribbean
and the southern United States with the small independent growers and cooperative
units of India and the Mascarenes. In the literary works analyzed, the theme of
resistance to the vagaries of the sugar plantation system that sought to dehumanize
the workers stands out—resistance both by the enslaved and the indentured,
by male and female. With regard to the enduring legacies of the sugar plantation
system, this study highlights class formation and domination, the practice of
racism, and economic growth punctuated by perpetual crisis.
Contents
Introduction, by Bernard Moitt
1. Indian Sugar Then and Now: Power to the Peasants, by B. S. Baviskar
2. Cane and Its Uses in Grainger's The Sugar Cane, Selvon's "Cane is Bitter,"
Ernest Moutoussamy's Aurore, and Lucie Julia's Les Gens de Bonne-Espérence,
by Sada Niang
3. Sugar, Slavery, and Marronnage in the French Caribbean: The Seventeenth to
the Nineteenth Centuries, by Bernard Moitt
4. Awakening, Resistance, and Empowerment: The Slave Protagonist in the Cane Literatures
of the Caribbean and the Mascarenes, by Joyce Leung
5. Social Stratification and Agency in a Sugar Plantation Society: Enslaved Africans,
Free Blacks, and the White Planter Class in the Guiana Colonies and British Guiana,
1700-1850, by Bernard Moitt and Horace L. Henriques
6. Sugar and the Politics of Slavery in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Cuba, by Anton
L. Allahar
7. From Slavery to Freedom in Louisiana's Sugar Country: Changing Labor Systems
and Workers' Power, 1861-1913, by Richard Follett and Rick Halpern
8. The Caribbean Plantation: Its Contemporary Significance, by Paget Henry
Bernard Moitt is associate professor of history at Virginia Commonwealth University.
Details: 224 pages 6x9
Cloth: $65.00 ISBN: 0-8130-2779-9
Expected Pubdate: 12/17/04
Britain and America Go to War: The Impact of War and Warfare in Anglo-America,
1754-1815
by Julie Flavell and Stephen Conway
Overview
"These essays are exceptionally well-written, carefully argued, and thoroughly
grounded in primary sources and secondary literature. The authors--leaders in
their profession, well published, and award winners--offer thoughtful analysis
and elegant writing."--Daniel Schafer, University of North Florida
Nine leading historians of the new military history offer a fresh look at a critical
period in the history of the Atlantic world. They examine the three major North
American conflicts that disrupted the British Empire between 1754 and 1815: the
Seven Years' War, the American Revolution, and the War of 1812. By framing their
analysis within a British perspective, several of these essays restore the British
dimension to our understanding of these wars. Taken together, these wars helped
to define the identity of each nation while transforming the entire English-speaking
world.
The new military history shifts the reader’s attention from troop movements
and armaments to the social and cultural nature and impact of warfare. The authors
explore questions of gender in the British Army, the experience of the common
soldier, identities in the English Atlantic world, and the press and popular perceptions
of war. These nuanced readings of warfare open a window onto the military experience
of the British and North American people.
Contents
Chronology
Introduction by Julie Flavell and Stephen Conway
Part I. The Seven Years' War
1. War, Empire, and the "National Interest" in Mid-Eighteenth-Century
Britain, by Bob Harris
2. Venus and Mars: Women and the British American Army in the Seven Years' War,
by Peter Way
3. The Thirteen Colonies in the Seven Years' War: The View from London, by P.
J. Marshall
Part II. The American Revolution
4. British Perceptions of New England and the Decision for a Coercive Colonial
Policy, 1774-1775, by Julie Flavell
5. Responses of the British Media to the American Campaigns of the Howe Brothers,
by Margaret Stead
6. "Like the Irish"? Volunteer Corps and Volunteering in Britain during
the American War, by Stephen Conway
Part III. The War of 1812
7. A "Species of milito-nautico-guerilla-plundering warfare": Admiral
Alexander Cochrane's Naval Campaign against the United States, 1814-15, by C.
J. Bartlett and Gene A. Smith
8. Experiencing the War of 1812, by Michael A. Bellesiles
9. The Making of an Atlantic State System: Britain and the United States, 1795-1825,
by Eliga H. Gould
Julie Flavell, a former lecturer of history at the University of Dundee, Scotland,
is an independent historian and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Stephen
Conway is professor of history at University College, London, and a Fellow of
the Royal Historical Society.
Details: 336 pages 6 X 9
Cloth: $65.00 ISBN: 0-8130-2781-0
Expected Pubdate: 12/24/04
The
Jewish Community of Early Colonial Nevis: A Historical Archaeological Study A
A Historical Archaeological Study
by Michelle M. Terrell
Overview
Two mysteries unfold in this unusual story of an archaeological investigation:
What happened to the forgotten Sephardic Jews who existed 300 years ago on the
island of Nevis in the eastern Caribbean? And how does an archaeologist deal with
the frustrations, tribulations, and false leads of the evolving research process?
In the 1990s, Michelle Terrell set out to study the Spanish and Portuguese Jewish
community in Charlestown, the capital of the former British West Indian colony
of Nevis. Islanders led her to a spot that traditionally had been identified as
the site of a 17th-century Jewish synagogue located near an alley named "Jews
Walk," which led to a cemetery with headstones bearing inscriptions in Hebrew,
English, and Portuguese. After four seasons of digging, Terrell had unearthed
an ample number and intriguing assortment of archaeological remains--none of them
ecclesiastical or characteristic of synagogues.
Terrell persisted in her efforts to pinpoint the true location of the vanished
synagogue, working at odds with cherished oral traditions and with local political
practices. Eventually, she was able to use archived land records to reconstruct
the layout of the entire Jewish community and to identify her original excavation
site as the location of a villa belonging to an English planter. As she reports
here, she was also able to establish that the Nevis Jews were a vibrant and important
enclave within the British West Indies, to compare their community to other colonial-period
Jewish enclaves on other Caribbean islands, and to place them within the global
context of the Sephardic diaspora. Her work challenges the views of past scholars
who have portrayed the Caribbean islands as peaceful havens for Iberian Jews who
fled the Spanish Inquisition, suggesting instead that Jewish daily life in British
colonial society was constantly challenged and under pressure.
Terrell's innovative account of her documentary expedition provides both an astute
professional appraisal of a Jewish Caribbean community and a lively personal record
of her pursuit of multiple lines of evidence. Readers who view this saga over
her shoulder will discover a rich picture of how historical archaeologists do
their jobs.
Michelle M. Terrell, a registered professional archaeologist who works in Minnesota,
has received numerous awards for her scholarship, including the 2001 Society for
Historical Archeology Dissertation Award and the 1996 Edwin S. and Ruth M. White
Prize from the Boston University Humanities Foundation.
Details:
200 pages 6 X 9
Cloth: $59.95 ISBN: 0-8130-2786-1
Expected Pubdate: 12/24/04
George Washington's South
Edited by Tamara Harvey and Greg O'Brien
Overview
"These essays reflect the highest standard of scholarly inquiry and will
be of great value to interpreters of the life and times of George Washington and
to scholars interested in cultural encounter and the development of regional identity
in the American South."--Kenneth E. Koons, Virginia Military Institute
George Washington's South brings together a diverse array of essays by scholars
in the fields of history, literature, art history, and anthropology, focusing
on Washington, the development of regional identity in the South, and interactions
among many of the region's people. The contributors examine the relationship between
George Washington's varied and contradictory careers as a southern planter, general,
and president and the emergence of the American South during the 18th century.
They explore how regional identity is formed and how the life of Washington reflects
the diversity of race, gender, and frontier experiences that confronted the American
South during the years of the Early Republic.
Contents
Introduction
Part 1. On the Map and Off: The South as a Diverse Region
1. Remapping Boundaries in the Old Southwest, 1783?1795, by Daniel H. Usner, Jr.
2. Mapping the "American South": Image, Archive, and the Textual Construction
of Regional Identity in the Age of Washington, by Martin Brückner
3. "And Die by Inches": George Washington and the Encounter of Cultures
on the Southern Colonial Frontier, by Warren R. Hofstra
4. "This gown . . . was much admired and caused much jealousy": Fashion
and the Forging of Elite Identities in French Colonial Louisiana, by Sophie White
Part 2. George Washington as Person, Symbol, and Southerner
5. George Washington and Three Women, by Don Higginbotham
6. George Washington: Publicity, Probity, and Power, by David S. Shields
7. George Washington, the South, and the Poetics of National Memory, by Carla
Mulford
Part 3. Free and Enslaved Black Americans in George Washington’s South
8. Slave Flight: Mount Vernon, Virginia, and the Wider Atlantic World, by Philip
D. Morgan and Michael L. Nicholls
9. "Under the Color of Law": The Ordeal of Thomas Jeremiah, a Free Black
Man, and the Struggle for Power in Revolutionary South Carolina, by William R.
Ryan
Part 4. George Washington and Southern Indians
10. George Washington, Dragging Canoe, and Southeastern Indian Resistance, by
Peter H. Wood
11. Creek Indians and Americans in the Age of Washington, by Robbie Ethridge
12. George Washington and the “Civilization” of the Southern Indians,
by Theda Perdue
Tamara Harvey is assistant professor of English at the University of Southern
Mississippi.
Greg O'Brien is associate
professor of history at the University of Southern Mississippi and the author
of Choctaws in a Revolutionary Age, 1750-1830.
Details: 352 pages 6 X 9
Cloth: $59.95 ISBN: 0-8130-2689-x
Pub Date: 1/30/04
The
Sugar Industry and the Abolition of Slave Trade, 1775-1810
Selwyn
H. H. Carrington
Selwyn Carrington analyzes
the complex state of the British West Indian economy at the end of the 18th
century, crucial years for the Caribbean colonies and the slave trade. Drawing
on a wealth of primary materials, from plantation records and estate day-books
to correspondence among plantation owners, merchants, and overseers, his book
presents a detailed portrait of an economic system in decline for 30 years prior
to the British abolition of the slave trade.
Carrington explores
planter flight, lack of investment in the older sugar islands, and failed attempts
to rationalize sugar production and to reduce sugar imports to England. He marshals
an abundance of statistical evidence to trace other factors in the shift from
one slave system to another--such as trade relations, debt crises, hired labor,
management techniques, and local and foreign sugar markets--and their impact
on the slave trade, slavery, and the British West Indian economy. He concludes
that with the arrival of what Eric Williams called "mature capitalism," the sugar colonies once at the core of the Atlantic economy became irrelevant
to the new economic life, and their labor system, in the eyes of British policy
makers and political commentators, became a millstone to be cast off.
Utilizing primary material
and statistical data never before presented, Carrington provides a rich source
for those interested in the Caribbean economy between the American Revolution
and the Industrial Revolution. His study will also add a meticulous and insightful
chapter to the history of the Atlantic slave trade and its demise.
Selwyn H. H. Carrington
is professor of history at Howard University.
11/18/2002. 394pp.
6 X 9.
54 tables, 12 graphs, notes, bibliography, index.
0-8130-2557-5 $59.95s
Black
Seminoles in the Bahamas
Rosalyn
Howard
This is the first full-length
ethnography of a unique community within the African diaspora. Rosalyn Howard
traces the history of the isolated "Red Bays" community of the Bahamas,
from their escape from the plantations of the American South through their utilization
of social memory in the construction of new identity and community.
Some of the many African
slaves escaping from southern plantations traveled to Florida and joined the
Seminole Indians, intermarried, and came to call themselves Black Seminoles.
In 1821, pursued and harassed by European Americans through the First Seminole
War, approximately 200 members of this group fled to Andros Island, where they
remained essentially isolated for nearly 150 years. Drawing on archival and
secondary sources in the United States and the Bahamas as well as interviews
with members of the present-day Black Seminole community on Andros Island, Howard
reconstructs the story of the Red Bays people. She chronicles their struggles
as they adapt to a new environment and forge a new identity in this insular
community and analyzes the former slaves' relationship with their Native American
companions.
Black Seminoles in
contemporary Red Bays number approximately 290, the majority of whom are descended
directly from the original settlers. As part of her research, Howard lived for
a year in this small community, recording its oral history and analyzing the
ways in which that history informed the evolving identity of the people. Her
treatment dispels the air of mystery surrounding the Black Seminoles of Andros
and provides a foundation for further anthropological and historical investigations.
Rosalyn Howard is assistant
professor of anthropology at the University of Central Florida.
11/28/2002. 160pp.
6 x 9.
20 b&w photos, 2 maps, notes, bibliography, index.
0-8130-2559-1 $55.00s
Slavery
Without Sugar
Diversity in Caribbean Economy and Society Since the 17th Century
Verene
A. Shepherd
The plantation economy
model--at its core the sugar plantation complex that structured Caribbean society
along a rigid enslaver-enslaved line--has so pervaded Caribbean historiography
that it has often masked the social and economic diversification that existed
in the age of sugar. Equally veiled are the gender, class, and ethnic heterogeneity
of the slave-holding class and the variation in the occupations and lived experience
of the enslaved population. This volume seeks to reopen discourse on Caribbean
slave society by showing how diverse the economy and society really were and
how varied were the experiences of the enslaved.
1. Indigo and Slavery
in Saint Domingue, by David Geggus
2. Timber Extraction and the Shaping of the Culture of Enslaved Peoples in Belize,
by O. Nigel Bolland
3. The Internal Economy of Jamaican Pens, 1760-1890, by B. W. Higman
4. Nonsugar Proprietors in a Sugar-Plantation Society, by Verene A. Shepherd
and Kathleen E. A. Monteith
5. Coffee and the "Poorer Sort of People" in Jamaica during the Period
of African Enslavement, by S. D. Smith
6. Slavery and Cotton Culture in the Bahamas, by Gail Saunders
7. State Enslavement in Colonial Havana, 1763-90, by Evelyn Powell Jennings
8. The Urban Context of the Life of the Enslaved: Views from Bridgetown, Barbados,
in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, by Pedro L. V. Welch
9. Freedom without Liberty: Free Blacks in Barbados, by Hilary McD. Beckles
10. The Free Colored Population in Cuba during the Nineteenth Century, by Franklin
W. Knight
11. "Quien Trabajara?": Domestic Workers, Urban Enslaved Workers,
and the Abolition of Slavery in Puerto Rico, byFelix Matos Rodríguez
Verene A. Shepherd
is associate professor of history at the University of the West Indies, Mona.
12/22/2002. 336pp.
6 X 9.
33 tables, notes, bibliographies, index.
0-8130-2552-4 $59.95s
Sympathy
in American Literature:
American Sentiments from Jefferson to the Jameses
Kristin Boudreau
In
this chronicle of the role of sympathy in American literature and culture from
the colonial period to the Gilded Age, Boudreau shows how the sentiment of fellow-feeling
was repeatedly recruited at moments of national and personal crisis. Unlike
many treatments of attachment and sentimentality, this book avoids positing
either the radical or the conservative account of sympathy. Drawing on a range
of texts from John Winthrop's 1630 "Model of Christian Charity" to
William James's 1902 Varieties of Religious Experience, the work explores the
entire complicated legacy of sympathy in American culture. In examining what
she calls the "cultural fiction" of consanguinity, or shared blood,
the author illuminates both its possibilities for soothing social and political
divisions as well as its social and psychological costs. In one of the few books
to trace the influence of writers of the Early Republic on antebellum sentimental
works, Boudreau offers an array of examples from inside and outside the canon
to illustrate that sentimental culture did not end with the Civil War. Boudreau's
canvas is uniquely broad and detailed; she looks for her evidence in the works
of Thomas Jefferson as well as Benjamin Rush, Jürgen Habermas, and Adam Smith,
in moral philosophy as well as captivity narratives, in slavery as well as freemasonry,
and in mesmerism as well as phrenology. She also offers new insights based on
lesser-known works, among them Howells's Annie Kilburn, Douglass's "The
Heroic Slave," and writings of Henry James, Sr. Kristin Boudreau is assistant
professor of English at the University of Georgia.
1/15/2002. 272pp. 6 X 9.
Notes, bibliography, index.
0-8130-2433-1 $55.00s
November 17 , 2005