Gad Heuman
Biographic Data
| ID | 219786 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gad Heuman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gad |
| FAMILY NAME | Heuman |
| SIGNATURE | HEUMAN G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Warwick |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 34 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
In Memoriam
The Apprenticeship System in the Caribbean: The World of the Apprentices
Slavery was abolished in the Anglophone Caribbean on August 1, 1834. On that date, the enslaved became legally free. However, the freedom of the enslaved was heavily circumscribed by the Apprenticeship system which followed immediately after August 1. Under the terms of this system, former slaves-now called apprentices-were required to work up to 45 hours per week for their former masters without compensation. Apprentices resisted the system at i…
Out of the House of Bondage: Runaways, Resistance and Marronage in Africa and the New World
Tacky’s Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave War, by Vincent Brown
On April 7, 1760, a slave revolt broke out in the northeast parish of St. Mary, Jamaica.Its ringleaders came from the Gold Coast in West Africa and, at its peak, the revolt involved around 400 rebels.More than a month later, on May 25, there was another insurrection in the western parish of Westmoreland.These two uprisings were the beginning of a war that lasted 18 months and resulted in 500 Blacks being killed or executed and 500 more transporte…
Race and Nation in the Age of Emancipations
Children of Uncertain Fortune: Mixed-race Jamaicans in Britain and the Atlantic family, 1733–1833
Settler Jamaica in the 1750s: A Social Portrait, by Jack P. Greene
Slave Rebellions
The Great African Slave Revolt of 1825: Cuba and the Fight for Freedom in Matanzas - by Barcia, Manuel
Out of the House of Bondage: Runaways, Resistance and Marronage in Africa and the New World
Slave rebellions have been studied in considerable detail, but this volume examines other patterns of slave resistance, concentrating on runaway slaves and the communities some of them formed. These essays show us who the runaways were, suggest when and where they went, and who harboured them
Slave Rebellions
Runaway Slaves in Nineteenth-Century Barbados
The Problem of Emancipation: The Caribbean Roots of the American Civil War
The Problem of Emancipation: The Caribbean Roots of the American Civil War." American Nineteenth Century History, 11(2), pp. 262–263
Livestock, Sugar and Slavery: Contested Terrain in Colonial Jamaica
Livestock, Sugar and Slavery: Contested Terrain in Colonial Jamaica Verene A. Shepherd Kingston, Ian Randle, 2009 xi + 279 pp., ISBN: 978-976-637-256-9 ($22.95 paperback) The historiography on slav
The Routledge History of Slavery
© 2011 Gad Heuman and Trevor Burnard. All rights reserved. The Routledge History of Slavery is a landmark publication that provides an overview of the main themes surrounding the history of slavery from ancient Greece to the present day. Taking stock of the field of Slave Studies, the book explores the major advances that have taken place in the past few decades of study in this crucial field. Offering an unusual, transnational history of slavery…
Revisiting Caribbean Labour: Essays in Honour of O. Nigel Bolland by Constance Sutton (ed.)
Plantation Jamaica, 1750-1850: Capital and control in a colonial economy - By Barry W. Higman
Riots and resistance in the Caribbean at the moment of freedom
Slavery, The Slave Trade, and Abolition
The historiography of slavery has undergone a fundamental transformation, particularly since the 1960s. There has been an explosion of literature on slavery in the British Empire. There has also been a significant shift in studies of the slave trade. Earlier work tended to focus on the undoubted horrors of the trade but provided little analytical framework for understanding it. Other accounts of the trade stigmatized the Europeans as exploiters a…
God Almighty Make Me Free: Christianity in Preemancipation Jamaica
Describes the impact of evangelical Christianity on slaves in Jamaica in the 84 years between the arrival of the first European Protestant missionaries and emancipation in 1838, analyzing the association of Christianity with the slaves' growing aspirations for freedom and the desire of freed person
Prologue to the Morant Bay Rebellion in Jamaica
First paragraph]1865 was a crucial year for Jamaica. In October, the Morant Bay Rebellion transformed the colony's political structure as well as that of most of the British Caribbean. Led by a native Baptist deacon, Paul Bogle, the rebellion engulfed the parish of St. Thomas in the East. The subsequent repression by British forces and by the Jamaican Maroons resulted in the deaths of nearly 500 blacks. Yet although the rebellion itself has recei…
The West Indies: Patterns of Development, Culture and Environmental Change Since 1492
Runaway slaves in nineteenth‐century Barbados
(1985). Runaway slaves in nineteenth‐century Barbados. Slavery & Abolition: Vol. 6, Out of the House of Bondage: Runaways, Resistance and Marronage in Africa and the New World, pp. 95-111
Slavery and emancipation in the British Caribbean
The Routledge History of Slavery
© 2011 Gad Heuman and Trevor Burnard. All rights reserved. The Routledge History of Slavery is a landmark publication that provides an overview of the main themes surrounding the history of slavery from ancient Greece to the present day. Taking stock of the field of Slave Studies, the book explores the major advances that have taken place in the past few decades of study in this crucial field. Offering an unusual, transnational history of slavery…
Out of the House of Bondage: Runaways, Resistance and Marronage in Africa and the New World
Slave rebellions have been studied in considerable detail, but this volume examines other patterns of slave resistance, concentrating on runaway slaves and the communities some of them formed. These essays show us who the runaways were, suggest when and where they went, and who harboured them
The West Indies: Patterns of Development, Culture and Environmental Change Since 1492
Livestock, Sugar and Slavery: Contested Terrain in Colonial Jamaica
Livestock, Sugar and Slavery: Contested Terrain in Colonial Jamaica Verene A. Shepherd Kingston, Ian Randle, 2009 xi + 279 pp., ISBN: 978-976-637-256-9 ($22.95 paperback) The historiography on slav
Riots and resistance in the Caribbean at the moment of freedom
Prologue to the Morant Bay Rebellion in Jamaica
First paragraph]1865 was a crucial year for Jamaica. In October, the Morant Bay Rebellion transformed the colony's political structure as well as that of most of the British Caribbean. Led by a native Baptist deacon, Paul Bogle, the rebellion engulfed the parish of St. Thomas in the East. The subsequent repression by British forces and by the Jamaican Maroons resulted in the deaths of nearly 500 blacks. Yet although the rebellion itself has recei…
Runaway slaves in nineteenth‐century Barbados
(1985). Runaway slaves in nineteenth‐century Barbados. Slavery & Abolition: Vol. 6, Out of the House of Bondage: Runaways, Resistance and Marronage in Africa and the New World, pp. 95-111
Slavery and emancipation in the British Caribbean
Runaway slaves in nineteenth‐century Barbados
(1985). Runaway slaves in nineteenth‐century Barbados. Slavery & Abolition: Vol. 6, Out of the House of Bondage: Runaways, Resistance and Marronage in Africa and the New World, pp. 95-111
The West Indies: Patterns of Development, Culture and Environmental Change Since 1492
Prologue to the Morant Bay Rebellion in Jamaica
First paragraph]1865 was a crucial year for Jamaica. In October, the Morant Bay Rebellion transformed the colony's political structure as well as that of most of the British Caribbean. Led by a native Baptist deacon, Paul Bogle, the rebellion engulfed the parish of St. Thomas in the East. The subsequent repression by British forces and by the Jamaican Maroons resulted in the deaths of nearly 500 blacks. Yet although the rebellion itself has recei…
God Almighty Make Me Free: Christianity in Preemancipation Jamaica
Describes the impact of evangelical Christianity on slaves in Jamaica in the 84 years between the arrival of the first European Protestant missionaries and emancipation in 1838, analyzing the association of Christianity with the slaves' growing aspirations for freedom and the desire of freed person
Slavery, The Slave Trade, and Abolition
The historiography of slavery has undergone a fundamental transformation, particularly since the 1960s. There has been an explosion of literature on slavery in the British Empire. There has also been a significant shift in studies of the slave trade. Earlier work tended to focus on the undoubted horrors of the trade but provided little analytical framework for understanding it. Other accounts of the trade stigmatized the Europeans as exploiters a…
Riots and resistance in the Caribbean at the moment of freedom
Plantation Jamaica, 1750-1850: Capital and control in a colonial economy - By Barry W. Higman
Revisiting Caribbean Labour: Essays in Honour of O. Nigel Bolland by Constance Sutton (ed.)
Slave Rebellions
Runaway Slaves in Nineteenth-Century Barbados
The Problem of Emancipation: The Caribbean Roots of the American Civil War
The Problem of Emancipation: The Caribbean Roots of the American Civil War." American Nineteenth Century History, 11(2), pp. 262–263
Livestock, Sugar and Slavery: Contested Terrain in Colonial Jamaica
Livestock, Sugar and Slavery: Contested Terrain in Colonial Jamaica Verene A. Shepherd Kingston, Ian Randle, 2009 xi + 279 pp., ISBN: 978-976-637-256-9 ($22.95 paperback) The historiography on slav
The Routledge History of Slavery
© 2011 Gad Heuman and Trevor Burnard. All rights reserved. The Routledge History of Slavery is a landmark publication that provides an overview of the main themes surrounding the history of slavery from ancient Greece to the present day. Taking stock of the field of Slave Studies, the book explores the major advances that have taken place in the past few decades of study in this crucial field. Offering an unusual, transnational history of slavery…
Out of the House of Bondage: Runaways, Resistance and Marronage in Africa and the New World
Slave rebellions have been studied in considerable detail, but this volume examines other patterns of slave resistance, concentrating on runaway slaves and the communities some of them formed. These essays show us who the runaways were, suggest when and where they went, and who harboured them
Slave Rebellions
The Great African Slave Revolt of 1825: Cuba and the Fight for Freedom in Matanzas - by Barcia, Manuel
Race and Nation in the Age of Emancipations
Children of Uncertain Fortune: Mixed-race Jamaicans in Britain and the Atlantic family, 1733–1833
Settler Jamaica in the 1750s: A Social Portrait, by Jack P. Greene
Tacky’s Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave War, by Vincent Brown
On April 7, 1760, a slave revolt broke out in the northeast parish of St. Mary, Jamaica.Its ringleaders came from the Gold Coast in West Africa and, at its peak, the revolt involved around 400 rebels.More than a month later, on May 25, there was another insurrection in the western parish of Westmoreland.These two uprisings were the beginning of a war that lasted 18 months and resulted in 500 Blacks being killed or executed and 500 more transporte…
Out of the House of Bondage: Runaways, Resistance and Marronage in Africa and the New World
The Apprenticeship System in the Caribbean: The World of the Apprentices
Slavery was abolished in the Anglophone Caribbean on August 1, 1834. On that date, the enslaved became legally free. However, the freedom of the enslaved was heavily circumscribed by the Apprenticeship system which followed immediately after August 1. Under the terms of this system, former slaves-now called apprentices-were required to work up to 45 hours per week for their former masters without compensation. Apprentices resisted the system at i…
In Memoriam
History (18 works) · Caribbean history, culture, and politics (13 works) · Colonialism, slavery, and trade (13 works) · Political science (12 works) · History (10 works) · Cuban History and Society (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Archaeology (6 works) · Ancient history (5 works)