ISBN:
9780822375050
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xvi, 320 pages)
,
illustrations, maps
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Print version Troubling freedom
DDC:
305.800972974
Keywords:
Slaves Emancipation
;
Slaves Emancipation
;
Colonies
;
Antigua - Race relations - History
;
Antigua - Race relations - History
;
Electronic books
;
Antigua Race relations
;
History
;
Electronic books
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
Natasha Lightfoot tells the story of how Antigua's newly freed black working people struggled to realize freedom, prior to and in the decades following their emancipation in 1834. Their continued efforts in the face of oppression complicate common definitions of freedom and narratives about newly freed slaves in the Caribbean
Abstract:
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: "Me No B'longs to Dem": Emancipation's Possibilities and Limits in Antigua -- Chapter 1: "A Landscape That Continually Recurred in Passing": The Many Worlds of a Small Place -- Chapter 2: "So Them Make Law for Negro, So Them Make Law for Master": Antigua's 1831 Sunday Market Rebellion -- Chapter 3: "But Freedom till Better": Labor Struggles after 1834 -- Chapter 4: "An Equality with the Highest in the Land"? The Expansion of Black Private and Public Life
Abstract:
Chapter 5: "Sinful Conexions": Christianity, Social Surveillance, and Black Women's Bodies in Distress -- Chapter 6: "Mashing Ants": Surviving the Economic Crisis after 1846 -- Chapter 7: "Our Side": Antigua's 1858 Uprising and the Contingent Nature of Freedom -- Conclusion: "My Color Broke Me Down": Postslavery Violence and Incomplete Freedom in the British Caribbean -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Description / Table of Contents:
"A landscape that continually recurred in passing" : the many worlds of a small place"So them make law for Negro, so them make law for master" : Antigua's 1831 Sunday market rebellion -- "But freedom till better" : labor struggles after 1834 -- "An equality with the highest in the land"? : the expansion of Black private and public life -- "Sinful conexions" : Christianity, social surveillance, and Black women's bodies in distress -- "Mashing ants" : surviving the economic crisis after 1846 -- "Our side" : Antigua's 1858 uprising and the contingent nature of freedom.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
URL:
Volltext
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URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/9780822375050
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/9780822375050?locatt=mode:legacy
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