Alabi’s World (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Richard Price
- First Published: 1990
- Type of Work: Ethnographic history
- Time of Work: The late seventeenth century to the early nineteenth century
- Setting: Suriname
- Principal Characters: Alabi Panto, Brother Johann Riemer, Kokoku Abini, Kwakun Etia
- Genres: Nonfiction, History
- Subjects: History, Racism, Colonies or colonization, Slavery or slaves, Missions or missionaries, War, Christianity, Criticism, Ethnology, Negotiation
- Locales: Suriname
The history of New World slavery has been an increasingly rich and revealing research field, as historians, ethnographers, sociologists, and other scholars of culture pick through the archival records left by Europeans and Americans revealing the brutality, inhumanity, and racism that created and sustained what after C. Vann Woodward has come to be known as “the peculiar institution.” Carrying on the legacy of C. L. R. James, whose pioneering Black Jacobins (1938) set the standard for historical criticism, many historians and ethnographers have concentrated on showing how...
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