Africans in the New World, 1493-1834
Subtitle: from the John Carter Brown Library at Brown University
Contributors: John Carter Brown Library
Publisher: Adam Matthew Publications
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Marlborough, Wiltshire, Eng
Language: eng
Format: [microform] :
Number of pages: 30
Subjects: Ship captains; John Carter Brown Library; Slave traders; Exhibitions; Blacks; Plantation owners; Africans; Abolitionists; History
Description: Eighty-one rare printed works were selected to be shown, organised into seven thematic groupings: The Slave Trade, The World of Work, Control, Resistance, Africans and their descendants in multiracial societies, Creation of and Afro-American culture, and Slavery attacked and defended: Towards Emamcipation. This project is based on and exhibition held at the John Carter Brown Library in 1988.
Notes: This project serves as an introduction to the history of Africans in the Americas, from the first direct shipment of slaves across the Atlantic in 1518, to the last known shipment to Cuba in 1864. It presents a variety of perspectives, including those of slave merchants, plantation owners, merchants, ship's captain's, slaves and abolitionists.
Table of contents: title: A sample of titles in this collection: Manifiesto que a Su Magestad ... Haze el Capitan Don Juan de Villalobos / Villalobos; title: Histoire Naturelle et Morale des Iles Antilles de l'Amerique / Rochefort; title: Kurtze und warhaffte Beschreibung der See-Reisen von Amsterdam in Holland nacher Brasilien in America, und Angola in Africa / Augspurger; title: Journal d'un voyage sur les Costes d'Afrique et aux Indes d'Espagne / Snelgrave; title: Journal of a Voyage to Brazil and Residence There ... / Graham [Callcott]; title: Gazophilatium Regium Perubicum / Aguero; title: English-American his Travail by Sea and Land; or, A New Survey of the West-Indies / Gage; title: Impartial Description of Surinam upon the Continent of Guiana in America / Warren; title: Beschryvinge Van het Heerlijcke ende Gezegende Landt Guajana / Keye; title: Present State of Virginia / Jones; title: Compendio Narrativo do Peregrino da America / Pereyra; title: History, Civil and Commercial of the British Colonies in the West Indies / Edwards; title: Historical and Practical Essay on the Culture and Commerce of Tobacco / Tatham; title: Proclamation ... a ses Concitoyens de la ville du Cap / L'Ouverture; title: Particular Account of the Commencement and Progress of the Insurrection of the Negroes in St. Domingo; title: Codigo Formado Por Los Negros de la Isla de; title: Santo Domingo de la Parte Francesa Hoi Estado de Hayti / Cancelada.