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Vol 2, #8: September 2007

 

 

 

 

 

“What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July?”

Frederick Douglass, 1818-1895

 

Publishing Information

 

Table of Contents

 

Publisher’s Note

 

From the Editor

 

Letters to the Editor

 

Guideline for citing sources in ISLAS

 

 

Essays: 200th Anniversary of the British Act of Abolition

 

Cuba: Sinister Paradoxes. The Golden Age of Colonial Economics in the Context of the Abolition of the Slave Trade

José Hugo Fernández, Writer and Journalist

 

200th Anniversary of the Abolition of the Slave Trade: A Time for Reflection

Dr. Dinizulu Gene Tinnie

 

Far Cry from a Fantasy Voyage: The Impact of the Middle Passage on

Slave Societies across the Atlantic World

SowandeMustakeem

 

Abolition of the Slave Trade: Repercussions in Africa

Dr. Rebecca Shumway

 

Britain Commemorates the 200th Anniversary of the

Abolition of the Slave Trade

Dr. Christine Ayorinde

 

Testimonials: Racism in Cuba

 

The Invisible Color

Juan González Febles

 

Racism in Black and White: A Cuban Perspective

Victor Manuel Domínguez García

 

History

 

Nat Turner and Sab: The Prophetic Tradition and Slave Uprisings

Dr. Jorge Camacho

 

An African Tree Produces White Flowers: Black Consciousness in

the Afro-Argentine Community during the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

Erika Denise Edwards

 

Art and Literature

 

Plácido in “His Own Minor Key”: Notes on a coloratura poet

Dr. Francisco Morán

 

Downloading Africa: Fata Morgana in Wilfredo Lam’s Work

Jorge Núñez Vega

 

Prisoners of Color

 

Raumel Vinajera

Leonardo Calvo Cárdenas

 

 

200th Anniversary of the abolition of the Slave Trade in the British Empire