By Todd Ramón Ochoa (NHC Fellow, 2017–18) A Party for Lazarus is the story of a Cuban family, six generations removed from slavery, struggling to honor its ancestors amid changing fortunes and a crumbling state. This intimate intergenerational account centers on an annual feast celebrating ancestors and orisás—the life-changing spirits at the heart of Black Atlantic … Continued
Edited by Franklin W. Knight (NHC Fellow, 1986–87) and Peggy K. Liss This volume began with the symposium on Atlantic port cities held at the Library of Congress in May 1986. Ten original essays examine the texture of economy, society, and culture in selected Latin American and Caribbean ports, illustrating the patterns of development.
By David Barry Gaspar (NHC Fellow, 1984–85) Bondmen & Rebels provides a pioneering study of slave resistance in the Americas. Using the large-scale Antigua slave conspiracy of 1736 as a window into that society, David Barry Gaspar explores the deeper interactive character of the relation between slave resistance and white control.
By Rebecca J. Scott (NHC Fellow, 2010–11) Around 1785, a woman was taken from her home in Senegambia and sent to Saint-Domingue in the Caribbean. Those who enslaved her there named her Rosalie. Her later efforts to escape slavery were the beginning of a family’s quest, across five generations and three continents, for lives of … Continued
Edited by Laurent Dubois (NHC Fellow, 2008–09; 2016–17) and Julius S. Scott Between 1492 and 1820, about two-thirds of the people who crossed the Atlantic to the Americas were Africans. With the exception of the Spanish, all the European empires settled more Africans in the New World than they did Europeans. The vast majority of these … Continued
By Laurent Dubois (NHC Fellow, 2008–09; 2016–17) When France both hosted and won the World Cup in 1998, the face of its star player, Zinedine Zidane, the son of Algerian immigrants, was projected onto the Arc de Triomphe. During the 2006 World Cup finals, Zidane stunned the country by ending his spectacular career with an … Continued