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Small Axe (2012) 16 (1 (37)): 168–177.
Published: 01 March 2012
...Nicholas Draper Written within the framework originally established by Eric Williams, Nick Draper's book The Price of Emancipation analyzes the £20 million compensation paid to slave owners by the British state in the 1830s, showing that 5 to 10 percent of the British elites of the time were...
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (1 (46)): 37–54.
Published: 01 March 2015
...Victoria J. Collis-Buthelezi Part of the larger book project “Empire, Nation, Diaspora: Cape Town and Constituting a Black Archive,” this essay explores two Caribbean intellectuals, Eric Walrond and Henry Sylvester Williams, who included the South African Cape in their mappings of the Caribbean...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (1 (64)): 102–115.
Published: 01 March 2021
... compliant with Da Costa Gomez’s vision—was ratified, resulting in the Netherlands Antilles and Suriname as new countries within the Kingdom of the Netherlands. Political education activities in Curaçao slowed down soon after. Around that time, in 1954–55, Eric Williams founded the University of Woodford...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (3 (72)): 194–202.
Published: 01 November 2023
... to European Capitalist Development: The Pre-colonial Period” (75–91), chapter 3, may be where the root of the book appears most clearly. It is here that Rodney shows how HEUA is built in extension of the arguments of C. L. R. James and, especially, Eric Williams. The chapter, from its initial epigraph...
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Small Axe (2011) 15 (2 (35)): 174–185.
Published: 01 July 2011
... disenfranchisement.
Yet these leaders—men such as Norman Manley, Grantley Adams, Eric Williams, Errol Barrow,
Forbes Burnham, and Michael Manley (and, for that matter, their challengers: Walter Rodney,
Lloyd Best, Trevor Munroe, or Maurice Bishop)—were also the beneficiaries of educational and
social...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (1 (43)): 55–71.
Published: 01 March 2014
... of black revolutionary success followed abruptly by a dive into a confusing mix of instability. Caribbean historiography was furthered significantly six years later with the work of another Trinidadian, Eric Williams, with his Capitalism and Slavery. 18 A book of immense intellectual weight...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (3 (60)): 167–177.
Published: 01 November 2019
... in the wake of the Great Recession. This research agenda has spurred a new wave of histories of colonialism and slavery’s place in capitalism that has an ambivalent relationship to the pioneering work of W. E. B. Du Bois, C. L. R. James, and Eric Williams. On the one hand, the black radical tradition...
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (1 (37)): 144–153.
Published: 01 March 2012
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Eric Williams and his scholarly legacy loom large over The Price of Emancipation: Slave-
Ownership, Compensation, and British Society at the End of Slavery, Nicholas Draper’s excel-
lent new book. Draper shows that thousands of people across the British Isles owned slaves
at the moment in 1833 when...
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Small Axe (2003) 7 (2): 168–178.
Published: 01 September 2003
... that
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shapes liberalism’s present.” But Scott argues, important as that task was, Holt’s book
did not manage to displace the nationalist/liberationist narrative that stands as the coun-
terpoint to liberalism. For C. L. R. James and Eric Williams, whose key contributions...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (2 (50)): 175–186.
Published: 01 July 2016
... identity, vanished personal maturity, and forgotten practical political know-how of now long-deceased but representative Caribbean thinkers and political intellectuals such as C. L. R. James, Eric Williams, and Arthur Lewis. It is said that the range of intellectual and political concerns and the rich...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (2 (68)): 108–118.
Published: 01 July 2022
... and African descent that was “not White but certainly not African” 21 —was solidified by Eric Williams and the rise of the PNM in the mid-1950s. 22 The party critiqued the White managerial sect and drew heavily on cultural iconography associated with the Black lower classes (styles of speech, dress...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (3 (69)): 14–30.
Published: 01 November 2022
...) have long been at the forefront of efforts aimed at challenging colonialist scholarship. 1 The list is long, but some of the internationally renowned, who published their work close to a century ago, include C. L. R. James, Eric Williams, Fernando Ortiz, Alejo Carpentier, Aimé Césaire, and George...
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (1 (37)): 154–167.
Published: 01 March 2012
... of slave ownership therein.1 It is based on careful analysis of the records gener-
ated by the Slave Compensation Commission, a rarely mentioned provision of the Slavery
Abolition Act of 1833. The commission’s published Parliamentary Returns figured prominently
in Eric Williams’s paradigm-rattling...
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (2 (41)): 108–122.
Published: 01 July 2013
... praised Eric Williams for “engineer[ing] a remarkable marriage between the creole intellectual and the colonial crowd, founded on his belief that in colonial societies searching for a new identity politics and culture must travel hand in hand, so that the political leader also feeds the intact indigenous...
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (2 (41)): 74–87.
Published: 01 July 2013
... Carrión, Eric Williams) have explicitly taken Atlantic connections into consideration. 46 Accordingly, Sidney Mintz's Caribbean “has always been framed in world-historical terms,” considering multiple global connections, from the populations that came in to the commodities that went out. 47 Moreover...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (1 (58)): 97–111.
Published: 01 March 2019
... Black Power movement in the region, since it forced Prime Minister Eric Williams into policies of nationalization in the petroleum industry as well as in the banking sector. Michael Manley, who had been elected leader of the PNP after his father, Norman Manley, had retired in 1969, recruited many...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (1 (43)): 22–37.
Published: 01 March 2014
... of the Caribbean, although the term merchant , as Eric Williams has observed, was a loose one, covering a range of trading activities and combining investing, money lending, and the settlement and exchange of commercial transactions. Most trade took place in the metropole. Much of it occurred through barter...
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (1 (37)): vii–x.
Published: 01 March 2012
... on the questions raised by Eric Williams
in Capitalism and Slavery concerning the relationship between slavery and Britain’s Industrial
Revolution. Memorably, Williams argued that Britain’s industrial transformation was dependent
on the spectacular wealth generated out of the slave economies...
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (2 (38)): 99–107.
Published: 01 July 2012
... review of Eric Williams's From Columbus to Castro (New York: Harper and Row, 1970). 16 Rohlehr, “History as Absurdity,” 1:5. 17 Brathwaite, “Caribbean Man in Space and Time,” 4. 18 George Lamming, In the Castle of My Skin (1953; London: Longman Caribbean, 1970). Derek Walcott...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (2 (71)): 51–71.
Published: 01 July 2023
... 2023 by Small Axe, Inc. 2023 colonial education Yoruba language African slave indentured labor Kumina Black Power Eric Williams Kamau Brathwaite Paul Lovejoy Caribbean-oriented press Maureen Warner-Lewis, 1993, Lopez Photography, Kingston, Jamaica. Courtesy of Maureen Warner-Lewis...
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