From Enslavement to Emancipation: Naming Practices in the Danish West Indies

<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>In most contexts, personal names function as identifiers and as a locus for identity. Therefore, names can be used to trace patterns of kinship, ancestry, and belonging. The social power of naming, however, and its capacity to shape the life...

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Main Authors: Abel, Sarah, Tyson, George F, Palsson, Gisli
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 2019
Subjects:
naming
identity
slavery
Danish West Indies
kinship
ancestry
archives
memory
St
Croix
Iceland
Sever
Online Access:https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/305616
https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.52694

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