Maureen Warner-Lewis

Archibald Monteath

Igbo, Jamaican, Moravian

Buch

This reconstruction of one of the rare Caribbean slave narratives is an amplification, interrogation, and modification of its original texts by cross-reference with official documents, contemporary diaryentries and reports, present-day oral sources, and secondary analyses of plantation society. Accessing a variety of primary records, Maureen Warner-Lewis meticulously reconstructs a biography of enslaved Archibald Monteath, an Igbo, who was brought to Jamaica around 1802, became active in the Moravian Church and later purchased his freedom. Through Monteath's biography she explores the sociology of slavery from 1750 to the 1860s. Fieldwork con… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-976-640-197-9
EAN: 9789766401979
Produktnummer: 3255320
Verlag: University of the West Indies Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
Seitenangabe: 384 S.
Masse: H25.4 cm x B17.8 cm x D2.0 cm 721 g
Abbildungen: Paperback
Gewicht: 721

Über den Autor

Maureen Warner-Lewis is Professor Emerita, Department of Literatures in English, University of the West Indies, Jamaica. Her numerous publications include Trinidad Yoruba: From Mother Tongue to Memory; Yoruba Songs of Trinidad; Guinea's Other Suns: The African Dynamic in Trinidad Culture; and Central Africa in the Caribbean: Transcending Time, Transforming Cultures, which has received several local, regional and international book awards.