Search Results for Caribbean slavery

... new plantation economies in British Guiana and Trinidad are discussed in the essay, which concludes with an examination of the imperative for scholars to continue to offer detailed histories of Caribbean slavery and emancipation while simultaneously focusing on British themes. © Small Axe, Inc...

...Laura Rosanne Adderley This essay uses Ada Ferrer’s book Freedom’s Mirror: Cuba and Haiti in the Age of Revolution as a starting point for revisiting the intellectual project of comparative slavery within the Caribbean. Freedom’s Mirror focuses on neighboring territories—Cuba and Hispaniola—during...

...Grégory Pierrot In The Price of Slavery: Capitalism and Revolution in the Caribbean (2022), Nick Nesbitt revisits the relation between Atlantic slavery and capitalism, questioning the paradoxical nature of their relation, and further engaging with critiques of the system in the Black Jacobin...

...:967510/FULLTEXT01.pdf. 22 St. Barthélemysamlingen, SNA. 21 The debate on nationality and geography is highly relevant to the Swedish case and ties into the current of comparative studies on Caribbean slavery. For the Lesser Antilles, see, for example, Jeppe Mulich, “Microregionalism...

... to narrate the violence of the British empire through family stories. The long-intertwined histories of England and the Caribbean inevitably lead to slavery’s archives, and in the final section of the book, Carby describes the lives of her earliest ancestors on a Jamaican coffee plantation. In response...

... of slavery, 2004 was the 200 th anniversary of the Haitian Declaration of Independence and 2006 marked 60 years since Martinique and Guadeloupe became part of metropolitan France as overseas departments. French Caribbean writers have been vital to the public activities associated with remembrance of slavery...

...Christopher Taylor This essay argues that Caribbean histories of slavery and emancipation have served as a crucial site for the generation of the Marxist antiwork politics popularized by Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri. Recovering a transnational network of radicals that disseminated the work of C...

... Orlando Patterson, “The Constituent Elements of Slavery”, en Verene Shepherd y Hilary Beckles, eds., Caribbean Slavery in the Atlantic World (Kingston: Ian Randle, 2000), 33–54. 10 Elsa Goveia, “The West Indian Slave Laws of the Eighteenth Century”, en Shepherd y Beckles, Caribbean Slavery...

...—that arguably represent in that moment the opposite ends of the continuum between Caribbean slavery and freedom in the nineteenth century. But even that particular opposition is a broadly Atlantic story linked to the making of both freedom and unfreedom in the Age of Revolution. Similarly, the questions...

... in an Imperial Context: Dialogues with James Tully (New York: Routledge, 2014), 100–120. 3 Hilary McD. Beckles, Britain's Black Debt: Reparations for Caribbean Slavery and Native Genocide (Kingston: University of the West Indies Press, 2013). Beckles is the chair of the CARICOM Regional Reparations...

... alternative practices of listening and soundmaking, they have marginalized black experience. Caribbean noise, formed out of resistance to slavery and colonialism, has been excluded from informing those alternative practices. The depths of sonic experience revealed by soundscapes of Kamau Brathwaite’s poetry...

...Jackqueline Frost Nick Nesbitt’s The Price of Slavery: Capitalism and Revolution in the Caribbean (2022) argues for the theoretical insufficiency of mid-twentieth-century Marxist humanisms in the Caribbean, proposing a value-form theory approach to the relationship between slavery and capitalism...

... the Caribbean, most explicitly in regard to earlier memorializations of what Petrina Dacres in “Monument and Meaning” refers to as “the traumatic past.” Public representations of slavery and emancipation have a long history in the Caribbean. In his essay “Th e Politics of Emancipation...

...Cheryl Finley Since the early 1990s, the contemporary visual culture of slavery has been defined increasingly by installation, performance, and time-based media. This is particularly so for visual artists who chronicle Caribbean catastrophic history using the slave ship as a key iconic signifier...

... studies migration between the Caribbean and Western Europe or North America rather than within the Caribbean. 12 Extraregional linkages also mark comparative history, with several prominent historians of Caribbean slavery and abolition comparing Cuba with the US South, Brazil, or mainland Spanish...

...Gavin Arnall This essay enters into critical dialogue with Nick Nesbitt’s The Price of Slavery: Capitalism and Revolution in the Caribbean (2022). It explores the original insights but also the blind spots of the book’s interpretation of capitalist slavery, which hinges on a specific understanding...

... range across histories of citizenship, exile, and diaspora; the nexus between nation-state boundaries, intra-Caribbean, and transoceanic migrations; empire and its legacies; race-making, slavery, and freedom; popular culture and consciousness. Collectively, the contributing scholars pose new questions...

.... These narratives deal as much about creativity as about destruction. They also see the merging of white and black in the crucible of slavery as producing not just death but also a viable Caribbean culture. Consequently, Brown's work is both a challenge to Caribbean orthodoxy and also a reiteration of long-standing...

... of God's word, marshals a selective view of the Bible to reinforce existing power structures, in this case the extended family's authority. As we know from Caribbean history, justifications, reinforced by biblical passages, for physical discipline and slavery itself were used by slave owners and European...

... of the Prison, trans. Alan Sheridan (New York: Pantheon, 1977). 6 See, for example, Barbara Bush, White Ladies, Coloured Favourites, and Black Wenches : Some Considerations on Sex, Race, and Class Factors in Social Relations in White Creole Society in the British Caribbean, Slavery and Abolition 2...