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... This chapter examines Antigua’s 1858 riot within a trajectory of uprisings around the nineteenth-century British Caribbean and the broader imperial world. This trend of resistance reflects the pitfalls of a partial, racially delimited freedom that brought freedpeople economic, social...

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..., and their development of the African Orthodox Church, a denomination associated with Black nationalism. McGuire and Morgan, as with many other West Indian clergy, fled the collapsing economy of the British Caribbean with their parishioners, traveling through circum-Caribbean and settling in the United States...

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... This chapter considers the economic and ideological factors that prompted Caribbean people to join the British and French colonial administrations in Africa. In particular, the chapter focuses on the legacies of slavery, the grim economic circumstances of the late nineteenth century, the effects...

... for alternative conceptions of imagined community. black bodies Britishness Caribbean multimedia masculinities This monographic study examines the oeuvre of Nigerian-British photographer Rotimi Fani-Kayode (1956–89) in light of his posthumous Communion series. Where the artist’s choice...

... This chapter examines the transformations in labor after abolition. It first examines the racial and economic reasons why Antigua, unlike most other British Caribbean colonies, decided to forego the four-year apprenticeship scheme devised to keep enslaved people in a liminal, subservient...

... This chapter investigates the successive and severe setbacks to black working people’s progress between the late 1840s and mid-1850s. The Sugar Duties Act of 1846 that gradually eliminated protection for British Caribbean sugar in the English market depressed sugar prices and precipitated...

...Beginnings This chapter considers the geopolitical context into which Henry C. C. Astwood was born. Centering Astwood’s birth land, the Turks Islands, it examines the British Caribbean’s transition from slavery to free labor in the 1830s. It then pushes forward to the 1860s, demonstrating how...

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... US scholarship has named Henry C. C. Astwood among the nineteenth century’s esteemed Black leaders. His trajectory as a poor African-descendant migrant from the British Caribbean to Reconstruction-era New Orleans to the US consulship in Santo Domingo in 1882 demonstrated his remarkable ingenuity...

... This chapter considers the geopolitical context into which Henry C. C. Astwood was born. Centering Astwood’s birth land, the Turks Islands, it examines the British Caribbean’s transition from slavery to free labor in the 1830s. It then pushes forward to the 1860s, demonstrating how...

... proinsurgent diplomacy and Jamaican authorities’ adherence to British neutrality allowed Haiti to emerge as an international revolutionary center actively spreading revolution throughout the Greater Caribbean. Second, the gradual success of British military campaigns against Napoleon and Caribbean-wide fears...

... of British informal empire in Latin America. The second presents the proposals of Jamaican planters and merchants to overcome the economic crisis produced by the American Revolution. The third turns to the analysis of alleged and real threats of British invasion of Caribbean New Granada. The fourth examines...

..., British, and French imperial spheres. The chapter is organized in two sections. The first one examines the trajectories of seamen who connected New Granada’s Caribbean coasts with Spanish and non-Spanish territories in the Caribbean and the Atlantic world. Focusing on two specific types of sailors...

... of British informal empire in Latin America. The second presents the proposals of Jamaican planters and merchants to overcome the economic crisis produced by the American Revolution. The third turns to the analysis of alleged and real threats of British invasion of Caribbean New Granada. The fourth examines...

... preconceived notions about the existence of isolated Spanish, British, and French imperial spheres. The chapter is organized in two sections. The first one examines the trajectories of seamen who connected New Granada’s Caribbean coasts with Spanish and non-Spanish territories in the Caribbean and the Atlantic...