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... of their violence hint at their varied and contradictory conceptions of freedom and who should enjoy its privileges. Ultimately, through this spectacular moment of violence, Antigua’s working people launched a futile protest against the narrowly construed freedom against which they had been struggling in smaller...

... This chapter examines Antigua’s 1831 slave rebellion, in which enslaved people protested the outlawing of their Sunday market, due to missionary preoccupation with Sabbath reverence and riots in the capital, St. John’s, and a series of fires across several rural estates. This unfolded...

... This chapter provides an overview of the social, spatial, and legal contours of colonial Antigua and its sister island, Barbuda, in the late slavery period. The chapter presents the precolonial and early colonial history of both islands. It orients readers to the ways that colonial class...

... 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...

... 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...

... is present in the observations of all colonial elites at the time, especially an 1844 social history of Antigua written by a planter’s wife, Mrs. Lanaghan. leisure free village consumption race class gender discourse Mrs. Lanaghan ...