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South Sea Slavery: Voices From The Dark, Gemma Tamock, Soraya Hosni, Thomas Dick
South Sea Slavery: Voices From The Dark, Gemma Tamock, Soraya Hosni, Thomas Dick
Thomas Dick
The status of South Sea Island sugar cane labourers in 19th century Queensland has been hotly debated since the very beginning of the labour trade in 1863.
The official historical perspective is that Island labourers were indentured workers, recruited and contracted in their native lands, brought to Australia to work for three years and then returned to their islands. Though acknowledging that kidnappings were common in the early years of the labour trade, historians maintain that the labourers signed contracts and were paid, therefore negating the claims of Islander descendants that they were slaves. There are many stories passed down …
Precarity As Capture: A Conceptual Reconstruction And Critique Of The Worker-Slave Analogy, Franco Barchiesi
Precarity As Capture: A Conceptual Reconstruction And Critique Of The Worker-Slave Analogy, Franco Barchiesi
Franco Barchiesi
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The African Lexis In Jamaican: Its Linguistic And Sociohistorical Significance, Joseph T. Farquharson
The African Lexis In Jamaican: Its Linguistic And Sociohistorical Significance, Joseph T. Farquharson
Joseph T. Farquharson
This thesis presents a fresh and comprehensive treatment of the putative lexical Africanisms in Jamaican with a view to assessing the volume and nature of this aspect of the grammar of Jamaican.
The work draws on a set of best practices in the field of etymology and outlines a set of transparent guidelines for assigning etyma. These guidelines are put to work by conducting careful etymological analyses of the over 500 putative Africanisms that have been identified for Jamaican. The analyses produce a list of 289 words whose African etymologies have been fairly well established. An entire chapter is devoted …