Category: Caribbeans
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Reflections on Brotherly Love and the Intimacies of Men in David Chariandy’s ‘Brother’
A short reflection based on Michael Bucknor’s essay ‘That Body Always Just a Skin Away’: Brotherly Love and the Intimacies of Men in David Chariandy’s ‘Brother’.
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Introduction: Jews, Slavery, and the Slave Trade in 18th century Curaçao
In 1863, slavery was abolished in Curaçao. As it turns out, the Jewish community, with its own profound historical connections to slavery as chronicled in the Hebrew Bible, played a noteworthy role in this commerce.