... intimate labor altar work Spirit baptism apprenticeship ...

... 1834 emancipation apprenticeship labor negotiation work discipline mobility Contract Act ...

..., an approach that joins together and expands studies of women’s emotional, caring, and reproductive labor. An analysis of altar work highlights the pivotal work of bringing new followers into the church, carried out by networks of women who pass along intimate practices through an apprenticeship model...

... 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...