Bøker av Maureen Warner Lewis

A comprehensive description of the African language of Yoruba - the dominant language of the east Guinea coast - as it is used on the Island of Trinidad in the southern Caribbean. This work examines the linguistic heritage of the language as it was successively altered, retained and discarded.

Reconstructs a biography of enslaved Archibald Monteath, an Igbo, who was brought to Jamaica around 1802, became active in the Moravian Church and later purchased his freedom. This book explores the sociology of slavery from 1750 to the 1860s through Monteath's biography.