Alabi's World by Richard Price
It is a confrontation, he suggests, that was enacted thousands of times across the slaveholding Americas as white men strained to suppress black culture and blacks resisted- determined to preserve their heritage and beliefs.
A splendid effort to recover the past of the kind of people, inarticulate and usually undocumented as individuals, which is usually beyond recoveryIt is also the presentation of an extremely moving experience: that of a people whose identity... rests on memories of an armed struggle against outsiders two or three centuries ago, which they are still prepared to resume. -- E. J. Hobsbawm New York Review of Books
Richard Price is the author of twelve books, including an earlier work on the Saramaka people, the award-winning First Time: The Historical Vision of an Afro-American People. He is coeditor, with Sally Price, of John Gabriel Steadman's Narrative of a Five Year Expedition against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam. He has taught at Stanford, Yale, Johns Hopkins, Minnesota, and the University of Paris.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780801839566 |
| ISBN 10 | 0801839564 |
| Title | Alabi's World |
| Author | Richard Price |
| Series | Johns Hopkins Studies In Atlantic History And Culture |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Johns Hopkins University Press |
| Year published | 1990-07-27 |
| Number of pages | 472 |
| Prizes | Winner of Gordon K. Lewis Memorial Award for Caribbean Scholarship 1991 (United States), Winner of J.I. Staley Prize for Excellence in Anthropology 1991 (United States), Winner of American Historical Association Albert J. Beveridge Award 1991 (United States) |
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