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Jacob A Keiser

West African Compounds in 18th-century Colonial Jamaica

February 6, 2025

A major question among scholars of freedom and slavery in the Atlantic world concerns the extent to which Indigenous African characteristics were successfully transferred to the Americas and survived enslavement, a system of formalized debasement, and dominant European or American social and political systems. This sprawling question has generated intense academic debate. Published in 1976, […]

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