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Title: Alabi's World (Johns Hopkins Studies in Atlantic History and Culture) by Richard Price ISBN: 0-8018-3956-4 Publisher: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr Pub. Date: June, 1990 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)
Rating: 5
Summary: A thorough account of the events surrounding Saramaka life
Comment: "Alabi's World" is thorough (some note about that, later), captivating, and educational. To go to the cliche': "I have not been able to put the book down." I must qualify this by saying that my roots are from Suriname and therefore I have much interest in the material because of my familiarity with the settings. However, anyone interested in colonial history, African history as it pertains to the Western Hemisphere (slavery, slave rebellion, African customs of Maroons), will be thoroughly enlightened by the accounts charted in this book from the 4 perspectives listed above.
Richard Price has painstakingly arranged his research in such a matter that you get 4 different perspectives of life in Saramaka (Maroon colony located in the interior of Suriname): German Moravian (religious sect), Dutch Colonist, Saramaka, and his own. It is neatly arranged so that the information flows like a captivating story in which you follow these historical characters and get caught up in their lives, motivations, changes...
Because he has made one character the focal point, you get a more centralized view of what it was like in 18th century colonial Suriname and you can take away more detail from these individualized accounts.
I have discovered a great source for Maroon history in Suriname and will be seeking out all of Richard Price's titles to get the complete story about the Maroons.
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Title: Slavery and Human Progress by David Brion Davis ISBN: 0195037332 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: January, 1986 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Indians, Settlers, and Slaves in a Frontier Exchange Economy: The Lower Mississippi Valley Before 1783 by Daniel H. Usner ISBN: 080784358X Publisher: Omohundro Inst of Early Amer Histor Pub. Date: April, 1992 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Founding Mothers & Fathers : Gendered Power and the Forming of American Society by Mary Beth Norton ISBN: 0679749772 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 29 July, 1997 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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Title: When Jesus Came, the Corn Mothers Went Away: Marriage, Sexuality, and Power in New Mexico, 1500-1846 by Ramon A. Gutierrez ISBN: 0804718326 Publisher: Stanford Univ Pr Pub. Date: April, 1991 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: The Devil in the New World: The Impact of Diabolism in New Spain by Fernando Cervantes ISBN: 0300068891 Publisher: Yale Univ Pr Pub. Date: April, 1997 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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