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    After Africa extracts from British travel accounts and journals of the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries concerning the slaves, their manners, and customs in the British West Indies / introduced and edited by Roger D. Abrahams and John F. Szwed ; assisted by Leslie Baker and Adrian Stackhouse
     
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    After Africa extracts from British travel accounts and journals of the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries concerning the slaves, their manners, and customs in the British West Indies / introduced and edited by Roger D. Abrahams and John F. Szwed ; assisted by Leslie Baker and Adrian Stackhouse
    Publisher: 
    New Haven Yale University Press [1983]
    Copyright: 
    ©1983
    Description: 
    ix, 444 pages, 5 unnumbered leaves of plates illustrations 24 cm
    Electronic Resource: 
    Klappentext   http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&doc_number=000056327&line_number=0002&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA
    Klappentext   http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&local_base=BVB01&doc_number=000056327&line_number=0002&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA
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    Table of contents  http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&doc_number=000056327&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA
    Table of contents  http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&local_base=BVB01&doc_number=000056327&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA
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    Includes bibliographical references (pages 411-436) and index
    Contents: 
    The slave accounts in context: two extracts -- Ways of speaking: speech, letters, names, proverbs -- Anancy tales -- Religion and magic: beliefs and practices -- Festivals, carnival, holidays, and JonKanoo -- Music, dance, and games -- Miscellaneous: domestic life, work conditions, dress, housing, body modifications, weddings, medicine, rebellions, discipline -- Appendix: a sampler of accounts of the slaves of the United States -- Biographical notes on authors reprinted
    Subject: 
    Black people -- West Indies, British -- History -- Sources
    Black people -- West Indies, British -- Social life and customs -- Sources
    Slaves -- West Indies, British -- History -- Sources
    Noirs -- Antilles britanniques -- Mœurs et coutumes -- Sources.
    Esclaves -- Antilles britanniques -- Histoire -- Sources.
    Black people
    Black people -- Social life and customs
    Slaves
    Alltag
    Schwarze
    Sklave
    Sklaverei
    Slaven (arbeid)
    Slaves -- West Indies, British -- History -- Sources
    West Indies -- British West Indies
    Westindien
    Westindische Assoziierte Staaten
    Schwarze
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    Quelle
    History
    Sources
    Local Subject: 
    West Indies British colonies Negro slaves, 1790-1890 - Readings from contemporary sources
    Added Author: 
    Abrahams, Roger D.
    Szwed, John F., 1936-
    Catalog Source No.: 
    (OCoLC)ocm08931578
    ISBN: 
    0300027486
    9780300027488
    9780300030303
    0300030304
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    Call No.CollectionBarcodeStatus 
    F2131 .A47 1983XAfrican Art39088003485372Checked InRequest Copy
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    F2131 .A47 1983XSI Tropical Research Institute39088000004192Checked InRequest Copy
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