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Small Axe (2018) 22 (2 (56)): 219–231.
Published: 01 July 2018
.... 30 See Lisa Yun, The Coolie Speaks: Chinese Indentured Laborers and African Slaves of Cuba (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2008), xix. 31 Lisa Lowe, The Intimacies of Four Continents (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2015). 32 Yun, Coolie Speaks , xxi. 33...
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (1 (46)): 5–19.
Published: 01 March 2015
... to the African slave. The notion of freedom in this context was in essence just that, a theoretical concept or even illusion, and it is as such that one colonist of Saint-Domingue, a Monsieur La Barre, considered it. In a letter to his relatives in France, written a few months before the first of Haiti's slave...
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (1): 98–111.
Published: 01 March 2009
... suggest we understand Equiano’s autobiography as a mediation of the “global
eighteenth century,” at the height of the British slave trade, antislavery movements, and
revolutions in France and Saint-Domingue.1 In 1807, as Britain abolished the African slave
trade in their empire...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (1 (67)): 85–100.
Published: 01 March 2022
... this work and others and features a unique and rare insight into Philip’s recordkeeping of her literary papers, as well as her long-time engagement with African diasporic histories and the archive of the slave trade. Philip also discusses the Black Lives Matter uprisings in the summer of 2020, following...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (3 (63)): 228–238.
Published: 01 November 2020
.... Wynter also draws on Karl Polanyi’s pioneering work on the West African slave trade and how monetized accountancy was introduced by Europeans into the African trading system of equivalences (it is worth noting that Polanyi’s work was particularly important to congress speaker Walter Rodney’s A History...
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Small Axe (2010) 14 (1 (31)): 200–211.
Published: 01 March 2010
... with the modal plantation containing
hundreds rather than tens of slaves) and 1760 (the year of the trauma of Tacky’s revolt). What
white settlers in Jamaica wanted during this period is clear: to increase the level of white settle-
ment while providing white settlers with abundant African...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (2 (68)): 100–107.
Published: 01 July 2022
... and the 1980s and were often borrowed from other languages. The way the terms have been and continue to be used illustrates France’s complicated and shifting relation to people of African descent, notably within its own population. In the context of culture wars that have been shaking the country in the past...
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (3 (30)): 37–50.
Published: 01 November 2009
...Valérie Loichot This essay sheds light on family relations in Octavia Butler's fantasy neo-slave narrative Kindred (1979) through Édouard Glissant's theories of kinship and Relation. This comparative gesture thus relate Glissant's Caribbean texts to an unlikely kin, a Californian African American...
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Small Axe (2010) 14 (2 (32)): 168–178.
Published: 01 July 2010
... of the professional writer Lorna Goodison in the twenty-first century, and that of Doris Goodison archetypal mother of the twentieth. On the other, it honors a cultural landscape of national becoming fashioned by a motley assortment of colonials and rebels, masters and slaves, Europeans and Africans and Creoles, who...
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (2): 57–71.
Published: 01 July 2009
... No overarching characteristic could perhaps
yet be applied to this latest group of migrants. Asian migrants in the last three decades of the
nineteenth century were still a different but not fully understood presence.
Slavery in the Caribbean was abolished in 1807 and African slaves were officially eman...
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (2): 95–106.
Published: 01 July 2009
... explains that “Obama isn’t black” because
“black” in our political and social reality, means those descended from West African slaves.
Voluntary immigrants of African descent (even those descended from West Indian slaves) are
just that, voluntary immigrants of African descent.3...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (1 (58)): 17–34.
Published: 01 March 2019
... killed with the aim of shifting the cost of the loss of “cargo” from the ship’s owners to its underwriters. As Philip writes in “Notanda,” her essay at the close of the book, “The massacre of the African slaves would prove to be more financially advantageous to the owners of the ship and its cargo than...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (3 (72)): 194–202.
Published: 01 November 2023
..., and even gold production, in those regions most affected by the slave trade, took from them the freedom “to pursue a path dictated by the interplay between African people and the African environment” (114). Their relationship to place, and to local time, the basis of endogenous historical development...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (1 (58)): 220–228.
Published: 01 March 2019
...” and tells the multifaceted story of the entrenchment of slavery in Cuba occurring precisely in the shadow of the Haitian Revolution. The study explores the experience of that transformation on the ground as slaves, masters, and colonial officials witnessed simultaneously the local intensification of African...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (1 (70)): 78–86.
Published: 01 March 2023
... as a clerk in the colonial enterprises of the day, De Kom was confronted with the open inequities of colonial society. He was refused the opportunity to rise through the ranks of the organization because of the color of his skin. Men of African slave descent were refused a career. Mindful of his attunement...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (1 (73)): 145–156.
Published: 01 March 2024
... the context of Du Bois’s double-consciousness, where he aims to deconstruct the two “warring ideals” by “merg[ing] his double self into a better and truer self.” 9 The aim is neither to diminish the historical ( living ) legacy of the African slave trade nor to distort the forced cohabitation between White...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (2 (53)): 94–111.
Published: 01 July 2017
... of Africa and India and Africans and Indians in the British colonial imaginary emphasizes the affinities between African slaves and Indian indentured laborers. Although South Africa does not share the same history of the transatlantic slave trade and similar experiences of intimacies between African slaves...
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Small Axe (2010) 14 (3 (33)): 152–162.
Published: 01 November 2010
... expanding colonial project, and most pronouncedly, in the context
of a rapidly expanding Atlantic plantation economy complex fueled by African slave labor. The
African slave trade and the institution of New World slavery itself are widely acknowledged to
7 Ibid., 73...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (2 (65)): 69–82.
Published: 01 July 2021
... or indentured servitude, although they have never been outside the fold of colonialism. The Frenchies were not enslaved, while the Jews were involved in the colonization of the Danish West Indies as merchants in St. Thomas, including the African slave trade. This essay examines two minority ethnic groups...
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (1 (37)): 20–35.
Published: 01 March 2012
... experiment”; all of the 192 contracted Chinese laborers chose to
return home after their terms were up. The 1817 treaty between Spain and England outlaw-
ing the importation of slaves to Spanish colonies had little effect on the Atlantic slave trade.
Instead, prices escalated for black African slave...
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