ISBN:
9780511760204
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (xxiii, 289 pages)
Series Statement:
Critical perspectives on empire
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DDC:
306.20972983/09033
Keywords:
Picton, Thomas / Sir / 1758-1815 / Trials, litigation, etc
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Geschichte 1800-1900
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Geschichte 1797-1807
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Geschichte
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Kolonie
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Sklaverei
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Criminal justice, Administration of / Trinidad / History / 19th century
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Slavery / Trinidad / History / 19th century
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Sklaverei
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Kolonialismus
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Großbritannien
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Trinidad / Social conditions / 19th century
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Great Britain / Colonies / History / 19th century
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Anglophone Karibik
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Anglophone Karibik
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Kolonialismus
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Sklaverei
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Geschichte 1797-1807
Abstract:
In 1806 General Thomas Picton, Britain's first governor of Trinidad, was brought to trial for the torture of a free mulatto named Louisa Calderon and for overseeing a regime of terror over the island's slave population. James Epstein offers a fascinating account of the unfolding of this colonial drama. He shows the ways in which the trial and its investigation brought empire 'home' and exposed the disjuncture between a national self-image of humane governance and the brutal realities of colonial rule. He uses the trial to open up a range of issues, including colonial violence and norms of justice, the status of the British subject, imperial careering, visions of development after slavery, slave conspiracy and the colonial archive. He reveals how Britain's imperial regime became more authoritarian, hierarchical and militarised but also how unease about abuses of power and of the rights of colonial subjects began to grow
Description / Table of Contents:
Machine generated contents note: Introduction; 1. Politics of colonial sensation; 2. A gentleman's way in the world; 3. 'Only answerable to God and conscience': justice unbounded by law; 4. Ruling narratives; 5. The radical underworld goes colonial; 6. In search of free labor; 7. Conspiracy in the archive; Epilogue: moving on
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DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511760204
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