Archibald Monteath : Igbo, Jamaican, Moravian

Archibald Monteath : Igbo, Jamaican, Moravian / Maureen Warner-Lewis.

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. Acce...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Monteath, Archibald, -1864, Warner-Lewis, Maureen
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Kingston, Jamaica : University of West Indies Press, ©2007.
Subjects:
Monteath, Archibald, > -1864.
Monteath, Archibald, > -1864
Slave narratives.
Slavery > Jamaica > Biography.
Slavery > Jamaica > History.
Moravians > Jamaica > History.
Moravians
Slave narratives
Slavery
Jamaica
Biographies
History
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Table of Contents:
  • History of the autobiographical texts
  • Aniaso
  • Toby of the Monteaths
  • Family and inheritance
  • Colonial commercial networks
  • Entrapped within colour as caste
  • Messages and implications for Blacks of Christianization
  • Planters and missionaries: tensions and alliances
  • Outwardly bound but inwardly free
  • Shaping identities
  • Conclusion
  • Appendix 1. Experiences of a former slave in Jamaica, translated by Mary Kuck
  • Appendix 2. Archibald John Monteith: native helper and assistant in the Jamaican Mission at New Carmel / edited by Vernon Nelson.

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