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Most African-Guyanese today are descendants of enslaved Africans who were victims of the trans-Atlantic slave trade. These captives had previously been members of societies which had been distinguished by significant achievements and were able to make a valuable contribution to the land to which they were taken. Themes in African Guyanese History seeks to deal in a balanced way with the history of these forced migrants from the time of their arrival in what were then the Dutch colonies of Essequibo and Berbice to the present day.
Curtin combines modern research and statistical methods with his broad knowledge of the field to present the first book-length quantitative analysis of the Atlantic slave trade. Its basic evidence suggests revision of currently held opinions concerning the place of the slave trade in the economies of the Old World nations and their American colonies. “Curtin’s work will not only be the starting point for all future research on the slave trade and comparative slavery, but will become an indispensable reference for anyone interested in Afro-American studies.”—Journal of American History “Curtin has produced a stimulating monograph, the product of immaculate scholarship, against which all past and future studies will have to be judged.”—Journal of American Studies “Professor Curtin’s new book is up to his customary standard of performance: within the limits he set for himself, The Atlantic Slave Trade could hardly be a better or more important book.”—American Historical Review
Covering the Atlantic slave trade from its origins to 1600, the essays in this collection look at the reasons for the causes of slavery and serfdom, slavery in Africa, the development of the slave trade, the demographic situation in Latin America and European attitudes to slavery as an institution.
The disease environments and epidemiology. The rise of the South Atlantic system ; The importance of the West Indies ; Malaria and yellow fever ; The Army Medical Board's report ; Early words on epidemiology ; The fever books ; Slave medical manuals -- The medical profession. Recruitment of doctors ; Medical gentlemen and quacks ; Efforts to upgrade the profession ; Medicine in Cuba and North America ; Diploma holders from Europe ; Doctor-scientists and authors ; Jamaican doctor-scientists and authors -- African and Afro-West Indian medicine. The two medical cultures: Africa ; The two medical cultures: West Indies ; Folk medicine ; Yaws and its treatment ; Slave medical attendants -- The Guinea surgeons. "To buy or to breed" ; The Atlantic slave trade ; West Africa and the slave trade ; The Guinea surgeons ; Duties on the coast ; Diseases and their treatment ; Preserving the health of seamen and slaves ; Mortality on the Middle Passage -- Slaves and plantations. The sugar plantation ; Treatment of slaves ; Seasoning imported slaves ; Clothing and housing ; The work force ; Management of absentees' estates -- Labor, diet, and punishment. Cane hole digging and night work ; War and famine ; Hurricanes, wars, and famine ; Pickled and salted fish ; Slave provision grounds ; Calories and protein ; Provisioning slaves in the eastern Caribbean ; The punishment of slaves -- Morbidity and mortality. "Disorders peculiar to the Negroes" ; Sickness and accidents ; Patterns of mortality ; Malnutrition and diseases of infants and children ; Diseases of children and adults -- The problem of reproduction. Patterns of reproduction ; Debate on the population failure ; "To multiply and rear the human species" ' Pro-natalist policies frustrated ; The victimization of black youngsters ; Black women as "work units" and "breeding units" -- Smallpox and slavery. Introduction ; Variolation or inoculation ; Inoculation in Jamaica and England ; The Jamaican vaccine establishment ; Other campaigns against smallpox -- Slave hospitals. Introduction ; The eighteenth-century experience ; Practical rules for hospital management ; Slave hospitals in Guyana ; Slave hospitals in Jamaica ; Critics of hospital management ; Slave hospitals in Cuba and the United States -- Plantation medical practice. The "irregular" practitioners ; Grenada doctors and slaves ; Doctors in the Leeward Islands and Barbados ; Doctor Jonathan Troup of Dominica ; Medical practice in Jamaica ; Doctor john Williamson of Jamaica ; Medical practice in Cuba and the United States ; Costs and benefits -- Slavery and medicine. Slave population attrition ; heroic medicine in the West Indies ; The quality of plantation health care ; An epilogue.
The history of Ghana attracts popular interest out of proportion to its small size and marginal importance to the global economy. Ghana is the land of Kwame Nkrumah and the Pan-Africanist movement of the 1960s; it has been a temporary home to famous African Americans like W. E. B. DuBois and Maya Angelou; and its Asante Kingdom and signature kente cloth-global symbols of African culture and pride-are well known. Ghana also attracts a continuous flow of international tourists because of two historical sites that are among the most notorious monuments of the transatlantic slave trade: Cape Coast and Elmina Castles. These looming structures are a vivid reminder of the horrific trade that gave birth to the black population of the Americas. The Fante and the Transatlantic Slave Trade explores the fascinating history of the transatlantic slave trade on Ghana's coast between 1700 and 1807. Here author Rebecca Shumway brings to life the survival experiences of southern Ghanaians as they became both victims of continuous violence and successful brokers of enslaved human beings. The era of the slave trade gave birth to a new culture in this part of West Africa, just as it was giving birth to new cultures across the Americas. The Fante and the Transatlantic Slave Trade pushes Asante scholarship to the forefront of African diaspora and Atlantic World studies by showing the integral role of Fante middlemen and transatlantic trade in the development of the Asante economy prior to 1807. Rebecca Shumway is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Pittsburgh.
Reprint of work that originally appeared in 1984. Excellent and thorough treatment of major demographic aspects of British Caribbean slavery from abolition of slave trade to slave emancipation. Draws heavily on extensive data available from slave registration returns for various islands to provide comparative perspective of nature of slave life. Excellent tables and figures. Essential for serious scholars of the region. -Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58
6 The Middle Passage.
This volume (the first one published) begins with an overview of the slave trade. African slavers and the demography of the Caribbean up to 1750. Scholars go on to study the demographic and social structure of the Caribbean slave societies in the 18 and 19 centuries, their evolution and significance, the social and political control in the slave society and forms of resistance and religious beliefs, as well as Maroon communities in the circum-Caribbean. The phenomenon of pluralism and creolization is analysed. The volume closes with a study of the distintegration of the Caribbean slave systems.
Dealing with reasons for the end of the slave trade and of slavery, this volume emphasizes abolitionism, and discusses the persistence of the trade, particularly to Brazil and Cuba.