Cahuita Symposium

Slavery, Culture, and Religion

Sponsors:

Harriet Tubman Resource Centre on the African Diaspora, York University

Instituto de Investigaciones Sociales, Universidad de Costa Rica

UNESCO “Slave Route” Project, Secteur de la Culture

February 11-14th 2006

Cahuita (Límon), Costa Rica

Venue: La Diosa

Opening Night, February 11 – An evening with:

Hilary McD. Beckles, University of the West Indies, Cave Hill

Quince Duncan, Author

Manuel Monestel, Musician

Name/Nombre / Institution/Instituto / Paper Title/Título de papel
Agüero, Celma / El Colegio de México / Diálogos Atlánticos y Construcción de Conocimiento
Alpers, Edward A. / University of California, Los Angeles / African Music in the Indian Ocean: The Legacy of Slavery
Apter, Andrew / University of California, Los Angeles / The Blood of Mothers: Women, Money and Markets in Black Atlantic Perspective
Baum, Robert M. / University of Missouri / Slavery and Religious Change among the Diola of Senegambia
Brazeal, Brian / University of Chicago / Coins for the Dead, Money on the Floor
Burnham, Thor / York University / ‘A General Belief in Everything:’ Qualitative Reassessments of the Cultural Influence of Foreign-Born Nationals in Nineteenth-Century Haiti
Cáceres Gómez, Rina / Universidad de Costa Rica / Rumores, rebelión y confrontación en Martinique
Campbell, Gwyn / McGill University / Slave Culture in Madagascar and in the Malagasy Slave Diaspora: An Outline
Escorel de Moraes, Silvia / Universidade Federal de Rio de Janeiro / Dressed for Power and the Power to Dress:
Imaages and Social Roles of Blacks in 18th Century Rio de Janeiro
Goodman, Jordan / University College London / When ex-slaves enslave: Roger Casement and the Barbadians in the Rubber Forests of Peru, 1904-1910
Herrera, Bernal / Universidad de Costa Rica / Modernidad periférica y metropolitana.
El papel del mundo hispano-americano
Hunt, Nadine / York University / Bozales or Creoles?: Newly Landed Enslaved Africans in Colonial Spanish America, 1713-1763
Ibarra, Eugenia / Universidad de Costa Rica / Rasgos socioculturales africanos y amerindios en el surgimiento de los grupos zambos en la Costa de Mosquito en el siglo 18
Klein, Martin A. / University of Toronto / Islam and Slavery in Sudanic Africa
La Rue, George Michael / Clarion University / Moving Between Worlds: Liminality and Rituals in the Movement of Sudanese Slaves to Muslim Egypt in the Nineteenth Century
Liberato, Carlos F. / Universidade Federal de Sergipe and York University / The Grão Pará and Maranhão Company and Slavery in the Portuguese Amazon Region, 1755-1777
Lovejoy, Henry / York University / Drums of Resistance: Bata Drums of Old Oyo in Colonial Cuba, 1817-1845
Lovejoy, Paul E. / York University / Gustavus Vassa, alias Olaudah Equiano, on the MosquitoShore: Plantation Overseer cum Abolitionist
Lydon, Ghislaine / University of California, Los Angeles / Splitting Babies and Breaking Chains:Muslim Contests Over Slaves in Nineteenth Century Southwestern Sahara
Marshall, Neil / York University / Slave Law, Slave Voice: The Fiscals and Protector of Slave Reports in the Guianas in the Early Nineteenth Century
McVorran, Marcelle / DePauwUniversity / Ritual in Popular Culture - Locating the Spirit of the Trinidad Carnival
Moitt, Bernard / Virginia Commonwealth University / From Enslavement to Servitude: The Evolution of Wardship in Urban Senegal, 1840-1905
Paugh, Katherine / University of Pennsylvania / Rationalizing Reproduction: Christian Conversion and the Fertility of Enslaved Laborers in the British West Indies
Ray, Daren E. / Brigham Young University / The Christian Watoro of Fuladoyo:
Competing Ideologies on the SwahiliCoast
Coast
Rogers, Nicholas / York University / Eighteenth-century warfare in the tropics: the San Juan expedition of 1780
Rosarrio, Reina Cristina / Universidad de Costa Rica,
Instituto Tecnológico de Santo Domingo / Haiti y República Dominicana 200 años después: Los haitianos en República Dominicana
Shepherd, Verene A. / University of the West Indies, Mona / “We Did Not Think That the King’s Soldiers…Would Fight Against Us”:
Slavery, Resistance and Punishment in 19th Century Jamaica
Smith, Katherine / Howard University / The Roots of African Caribbean Identity: BritishIslands’ Slave Society and the Transformation of African Religion
Teelucksingh, Jerome / University of the West Indies, St. Augustine / Religion and Blacks in Nineteenth Century Canada

Discussants:

Gad Heuman, WarwickUniversity

Kris Lane, College of William and Mary

Joseph C. Miller, University of Virginia

David V. Trotman, York University

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