This collection examines the effects of slavery and emancipation on race, class and gender in societies of the American South, the Caribbean, Latin America and West Africa. The contributors discuss what slavery has to teach us about patterns of adjustment and change, black identity and the extent to which enslaved peoples succeeded in creating a dynamic world of interaction between the Americas. They examine how emancipation was defined, how it affected attitudes towards slavery, patterns of labour usage and relationships between workers as well as between workers and their former owners.
List of Illustrations iv Introduction 1(8) Sylvia R. Frey Betty Wood The Angolan--Afro--Brazilian Cultural Connections 9(15) Linda M. Heywood Frontier Exchange and Cotton Production: The Slave Economy in Mississippi, 1798--1836 24(14) Daniel H. Usner, Jr. The 11 Oclock Flog: Women, Work, and Labour Law in the British Caribbean 38(21) Mary Turner `A Most Useful and Valuable People? Cultural, Moral, and Practical Dilemmas in the Use of Liberated African Labour in the Nineteenth-century Caribbean 59(22) Rosanne Marion Adderley Rites and Power: Reflections on Slavery, Freedom and Political Ritual 81(22) Julie Saville `Stubborn and Disposed to Stand their Ground: Black Militia, Sugar Workers and the Dynamics of Collective Action in the Louisiana Sugar Bowl, 1863--87 103(24) Rebecca J. Scott Reinventing Tradition: Liberty Place, Historical Memory, and Silk-stocking Vigilantism in New Orleans Politics 127(23) Lawrence N. Powell The Slave Trade Remembered on the Former Gold and Slave Coasts 150(20) Theresa A. Singleton Notes on Contributors 170(3) Index 173
SYLVIA R. FREY Tulane University, BETTY WOOD University of Cambridge
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