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Immigrants in Baltimore: How Warm the Welcome?
(Center for Africana Studies, 2007)
Elizabeth Clifford, “Immigrants in Baltimore: How Warm the Welcome?”
This paper focuses on the contemporary situation of immigrants in Baltimore. Immigrants in Baltimore face
a situation different from those in many other ...
The Problems and Challenges of Research and Writing on Africans and their Descendants in Colonial Cartagena de Indies:A Research Report
(Center for Africana Studies, 2007)
This paper is a work-in-progress summarizing the kinds of documents that can be used to
learn about the history of Africans in colonial Cartagena de Indias. Some of the sources
described here include the work of Alonso ...
Immigration, Race, and Nation: Baltimore's Immigrant Recruitment and Response, 1880-1910
(Center for Africana Studies, 2007)
In the period immediately following the Civil War, Maryland was among the southern states to pursue an active campaign to recruit European immigrants. This paper explores these efforts as well as the response of residents ...
African Diasporas and the Atlantic
(The Atlantic in Global History, 1500-2000, edited by Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra and Eric R. Seeman, 129-147. Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 2007)
As a cursory consultation of any library catalog quickly confirms, the African diaspora
as both concept and field of study is overwhelmingly defined by Atlantic scholarship.
This is paradoxical in two respects. The ...
Malagasy at the Mascarenes
(Comparative Studies in Society and History, 2007)
European expansion from the fifteenth century produced much writing on, and
sometimes in, non-European languages that served a broad array of imperial
interests. Most European ventures into what one scholar has termed ...
Colonies Lost: God, Hunger, and Conflict in Anosy (Madagascar) to 1674
(Variorum, Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, 2007)
A fleet of thirteen Portuguese vessels under the command of Pedro Álvares Cabral set
sail from Lisbon for the East Indies just two years after Vasco da Gama fi rst rounded
the Cape of Good Hope. In late May 1500, inclement ...
ENSLAVED MALAGASY AND ‘LE TRAVAIL DE LA PAROLE' IN THE PRE-REVOLUTIONARY MASCARENES
(Journal of African History, 2007)
ABSTRACT: Malagasy speakers probably formed the single largest native speech
community among slaves dispersed into the western Indian Ocean between 1500
and 1900. In the eighteenth-century Mascarenes, Malagasy parlers ...
Atlantic Bridge, Atlantic Divide: Africans and Afro-Brazilians in Portuguese America
(Center for Africana Studies, 2007)
This essay focuses on an aspect of persons of African birth and descent in colonial Brazil
to which not sufficient attention has been paid by scholars. To the many factors--
ethnicity, language, belief systems slavery, ...