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Series: Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies
Published: 08 October 2004
DOI: 10.1215/9780822386148-003
EISBN: 978-0-8223-8614-8
Published: 09 April 2004
DOI: 10.1215/9780822385509-011
EISBN: 978-0-8223-8550-9
Series: Latin America Otherwise
Published: 01 January 1999
DOI: 10.1215/9780822397472-002
EISBN: 978-0-8223-9747-2
Published: 24 June 2011
DOI: 10.1215/9780822392729-106
EISBN: 978-0-8223-9272-9
Series: The Latin America Readers
Published: 30 April 2021
DOI: 10.1215/9781478013099-067
EISBN: 978-1-4780-1309-9
Published: 22 October 2021
DOI: 10.1215/9781478021537-015
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2153-7
Series: American Encounters/Global Interactions
Published: 04 December 2001
DOI: 10.1215/9780822383260-004
EISBN: 978-0-8223-8326-0
Book Chapter

By Natasha Lightfoot
Published: 11 November 2015
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7505-0
... 1858 uprising Point dockworkers Antiguans Barbudans Madeirans planters policemen women gender violence oppression freedom ...
Published: 11 November 2015
DOI: 10.1215/9780822375050-008
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7505-0
..., white planters, and, most prominently, black and mixed-race policemen. Gendered violence also unfolded as Antiguan women assaulted Barbudan women in ways that reflected the pervasive devaluation of black women’s bodily integrity in slavery and freedom. The rioters’ goals and the changing targets...
Published: 01 January 2017
DOI: 10.1215/9780822373735-005
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7373-5
... This chapter brings together the geopolitical visions of Jamaican planters and merchants, British loyalists defeated in the American Revolution, and a sector of New Granada’s colonial authorities to argue that, in the aftermath of the American Revolution, their disparate interests converged...
Published: 01 January 2017
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7430-5
... rule and preserve slavery. For decades, it struggled with internal divisions while searching for a profitable economy—until British industry created a soaring demand for cotton that U.S. southern planters met by expanding plantations worked by enslaved laborers onto lands taken from native peoples...
... imperialism This chapter brings together the geopolitical visions of Jamaican planters and merchants, British loyalists defeated in the American Revolution, and a sector of New Granada’s colonial authorities to argue that, in the aftermath of the American Revolution, their disparate interests converged...
Published: 01 January 2017
DOI: 10.1215/9780822374305-006
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7430-5
... how rights and participations that came out of Cádiz liberalism offered free Cubans, planters and others, ways to participate in governance as sugar and slavery expanded along with trade ties to the United States. Cuba remained in Spain’s empire yet became a new country in many ways. Free Cubans...
Published: 07 September 2015
DOI: 10.1215/9780822375302-004
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7530-2
... Beginning with a discussion of an 1863 carte de visite of Wilson Chinn, a branded slave, chapter 3 examines early applications of biometric surveillance and draws a link between contemporary biometric information technology and transatlantic slavery. The diary of English planter Thomas...
Published: 11 November 2015
DOI: 10.1215/9780822375050-004
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7505-0
... and children, and the pursuit of livelihoods beyond the plantations. Freedpeople’s growing mobility and refashioned work routines prompted planters and lawmakers to respond with severe legal and customary strategies of containment, including the 1834 Contract Act, which tied employment to estate residence...
Published: 01 January 2017
DOI: 10.1215/9780822374305-004
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7430-5
... The first American nation rose after 1776, fighting to reject British rule and preserve slavery. For decades, it struggled with internal divisions while searching for a profitable economy—until British industry created a soaring demand for cotton that U.S. southern planters met by expanding...
Published: 31 August 2015
DOI: 10.1215/9780822375418-002
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7541-8
... as the racial coding to the planter class. This chapter juxtaposes contemporary artistic representations of Sally Hemings with Brazil’s Chica da Silva, and concerns the visual positionality both women enter. In this chapter the imagistic lens of slavery confronts the space whiteness occupies within repetitive...
Published: 11 November 2015
DOI: 10.1215/9780822375050-005
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7505-0
... 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 ...
Series: The Latin America Readers
Published: 01 January 2017
DOI: 10.1215/9780822373865-079
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7386-5
... previously unknown to them, as well as descriptions of “El Dorado,” the fact that slaves mined gold, and the uses of coca leaf among indigenous people. For the national period, material outlines land tenure among coffee planters, chronicles the banana workers’ strike of 1928, and lauds the acumen of local...
Published: 01 January 2017
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7430-5
... planters met by expanding plantations worked by enslaved laborers onto lands taken from native peoples and, in Texas, from Mexico. Amid wars after 1808, new industries rose in the Northeast, depending on southern cotton while competing with British industries. Meanwhile, farmers pushed across...