Primary sources Flashcards
J. Ramsay
“the farther back a Negro could trace his creolism, the more he valued himself”
John Stewart, creolisation/music (young creoles)
young creoles liked to copy their masters and mistresses, dance country dance to violin, tambourine
De La Beche
one African “wore a white mask no his face”, and that the play referenced Richard the III
Maria Nugent, creolisation/dance
danced with an old black man which shocked her british friends to the extent that they were “nearly fainting”
Labat on the Calinda
“the spanish have learned it from the [black people] and they dance it all over America just as the [black people] do”
John Stewart, creolisation/dance
drums had a “deafening noise”
Long, creolisation/language
africans spoke their “respective dialects, with some mixture of broken english”
Maria Nugent, creolisation/language
“the creole language is not confined to negroes”
Thomas Rolph, 20th c
talks about visiting Barbados in 1833, and seeing runaway slaves hiding in gullies and bushes
Dr. Robert Love
“African for the Africans”
Declaration of Rights of the Negro Peoples of the World
‘Ethiopia, Thou Land of Our Fathers’ shall be the anthem of the Negro race
Garvey, on Africa
“legitimate, moral and righteous home of all Negroes”
Governor Thomas Lynch of Jamaica
“some of them have affirmed to have planted indian provisions and have found them well grown” - buccaneers
Alexandre Exquemelin
flesh- “they scarce eat anything else”
Henderson
cold pickling the manatee’s tail
