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Singing for Strength: Enslaved Africans and Community Building in the Transatlantic Slave Trade
(Vanderbilt University, 2009-04)
Throughout the Transatlantic slave trade enslaved Africans sang. In holding pens called barracoons awaiting shipment, aboard slave ships crossing the Atlantic, and in the transatlantic colonies, singing was a common feature ...
A Brief History of Piracy in the Caribbean: 1500-1730
(Vanderbilt University, 2007-05)
Piracy in the Caribbean can be segmented into five distinct overlapping eras, which this paper will examine:
the French Corsairs, 1500-1559
the Elizabethans, 1558-1603
the Dutch Sea Rovers, 1570-1648
the Buccaneers ...
Speleothem Paleoclimatology for the Caribbean, Central America, and North America
(Quaternary, 2019-03)
Speleothem oxygen isotope records from the Caribbean, Central, and North America reveal climatic controls that include orbital variation, deglacial forcing related to ocean circulation and ice sheet retreat, and the influence ...