Archibald Monteath: Igbo, Jamaican, Moravian (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9789766401979)

The reconstruction of one of the rare Caribbean slave narratives is an amplification, interrogation, and modification of its original texts by cross-reference with official documents, contemporary diary entries and reports, present-day oral sources, and secondary analyses of plantation society. Accessing a variety of primary records, Maureen Warner-Lewis meticulously reconstructs a biography of enslaved Archibald Montieth, an Igbo, who was brought to Jamaica around 1802, became active in the Moravian Church and later purchased his freedom. Through Monteath's biography she explores the sociology of slavery from 1750 to the 1860s. Fieldwork conducted in Africa brings an important dimension to the work, and scholars of Caribbean history, church history, diasporic studies, Atlantic studies and Jamaica will find it of significant interest.

Author: Maureen Warner-Lewis
ISBN-10: 9766401977
ISBN-13: 9789766401979
Publisher: University of the West Indies Press
Language: English
Published: 10/01/2007
Pages: 367
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.62lbs
Size: 9.89h x 7.01w x 1.10d

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 02/01/2008 pg. 74