Indian Indenture in the Danish West Indies, 1863-1873

Indian Indenture in the Danish West Indies, 1863-1873
Author: Lomarsh Roopnarine
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 126
Release: 2016-08-24
Genre: History
ISBN: 331930710X

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.

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
Total Pages: 360
Release: 2012-05-07
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9004225404

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.

Slave Society in the Danish West Indies

Slave Society in the Danish West Indies
Author: N. A. T. Hall
Publisher:
Total Pages: 318
Release: 1992
Genre: Enslaved persons
ISBN: 9789764100294

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.

Two Troubled Souls

Two Troubled Souls
Author: Aaron Spencer Fogleman
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2013-12-09
Genre: History
ISBN: 1469608804

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
Total Pages: 314
Release: 1993
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780719034923

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:
Total Pages: 480
Release: 1917
Genre: African Americans
ISBN:

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