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A 7 page book review of Daniel Walker's comparative history text No More, No More (2004). The writer discusses the author's basic themes, points from the text, and the author's scholarship and research. In this regard, the writer cites the opinion of anther historian. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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Orleans, Louisiana, focusing specifically on the slave festivals that took place in both cities. At the core of his examination, Walker tries to prove two basic ideas. First of all,
he tries to show that while all slave societies had their own unique qualities, a common societal existed that was designed to keep African-descended people subservient by "socially degrading the
image of the African and the racial concept of blackness" (Walker vii). The other basic premise for this book is that, throughout the historical period examined, slave communities in both
Havana and New Orleans succeeded in creating institutions and culture that directly contested the societal factors that attempted to degrade them. As this indicates, Walker focuses on cultural factors that
were designed to dehumanize blacks, while also showing how these slave populations resisted this assault. Examination of Walkers book shows that he succeeded in his goals and that his
text sheds considerably light on these points. Walkers material is divided into five chapters. The first chapter provides descriptions of the Havana festival El Dia de Reyes and the
Sunday slave festivals in Congo Square in New Orleans, which are taken from first-period accounts written from that era. This chapter shows how slaves in both locations were able to
express themselves on a wide range of topics, which included such issues as moral justice and the nature of community. For example, Walker gives the example of a Southern work
song, from which the text draws its name: No more auction block for me, No more, no more No more auction block for me Many thousands gone (Walker 15).
Chapter 2 delves deeper into the subject of how, precisely, the festivals of El Dia de Reyes and Congo Square, served slave communities are "counterstatements" to the controlling
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