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The Great Resistance is Carrie Gibson’s third book, and her third about the
history of the Americas, plural. It follows
Empire’s Crossroads: A History of
the Caribbean from Columbus to the Present Day, from 2014, and
El Norte: The
Epic and Forgotten Story of Hispanic North America, published five years
later. The subtitle to the new book indicates its roots in the first two:
The
400-Year Fight to End Slavery in the Americas.
“I was led by both my own curiosity and also a frustration,” Gibson said, of
how she came to retell that four-century fight over 500 absorbing pages.
“So much that is known about the rise of slavery, the system of slavery, and
the end of slavery, tends to be in the English-speaking world. So the
English-speaking historiography looks at the US, it looks at Jamaica, but
there’s this whole other story.
“I’ve spent a lot of time in Cuba, so I write about the Spanish-speaking world
and the Spanish empire, and then there’s slavery in Brazil, which is a whole
other thing. And when you’re in the scholarship, it’s linguistically divided. I
wanted to bring it all together. I wanted to see what it looked like.”"
Via Muse.
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
