Freedom
Subtitle: retrospective and prospective
By: edited by Swithin R. Wilmot ; [contributors include Maureen Warner-Lewis ... et al.].
Publisher: Ian Randle Publishers
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Kingston; Miami
Language: eng
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9789766373894
Notes: Papers presented at a conference held Aug. 31-Sept. 2, 2007, at the Mona campus of the University of the West Indies.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Emancipation : an unfinished story  -- Ruth Simmons; title: Song as enactment of communal memory  -- Maureen Warner-Lewis; title: 'A world only partly named' : knowledge of plants for therapeutic interventions in the early Cape Colony among the free and unfree  -- Geri Augusto; title: A weh dem a go? The slave trade of Jamaica  -- Nadine Hunt; title: The memorialisation of slavery and the slave trade in freedom narratives  -- Paul E. Lovejoy; title: Africans in early English Jamaica : (1655-1700) the Akan-dominance myth  -- Silvia Kouwenberg; title: Freedom and slavery in Maryse Condé's Moi, Tituba : from spiritual adaptation to universal magic  -- Sébastien Sacré; title: Freedom Road : the empowerment of the enslaved population by the eighteenth century  -- Heather Cateau; title: The nature of the Amerindian/European encounter and its impact on the Amerindians  -- Sister Mary Noel Menezes; title: Marginality or activism : the Black male and the family in nineteenth-century Jamaica  -- Jenny Jemmott; title: 'All that is buried is not dead' : public histories and legacies of slavery in post-apartheid Cape Town  -- Nick Shepherd; title: The 1805 Haitian Constitution : the making of slave freedom in the Atlantic world  -- Anthony Bogues; title: The legacies of the transatlantic trade in enslaved Africans and human development challenges : the role of education  -- Sandra Gift; title: Two hundred years since the abolition of the slave trade  -- Juline Francis-Gordon; title: I remember because I am free : thoughts on the bicentennial celebration of the abolition of the Atlantic slave trade  -- Anne C. Bailey; title: The Black resurrection : the Rastafari perspective  -- Yasus Afari; title: Unfinished business : ignored voices  -- Carol Narcisse and and Judith Wedderburn; title: Epilogue. Reparations for African enslavement : preparing the Caribbean case -- Hilary McD. Beckles.