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Albums of Inclusion: The Photographic Poetics of Caribbean Chinese Visual Kinship
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (2 (56)): 35–56.
Published: 01 July 2018
... a discreet “buffer race” between the white minority and the black majority in the Caribbean after abolition. The experiment, which depended on the capacity for the Chinese to develop bourgeois domesticity in the Caribbean after abolition, failed because of sexual intimacies between people of African descent...
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Doing Comparative Caribbean (Gender) History: Puerto Rican and Belizean Working-Class Women, 1830s–1930s
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (1 (43)): 72–86.
Published: 01 March 2014
...Anne S. Macpherson This essay makes a case for comparative Caribbean historiography rooted in research that crosses linguistic, national, and imperial lines, through a discussion of Puerto Rican and Belizean working women from abolition to the 1930s. In illustrating the commensurability...
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Edouard Glissant and the Art of Memory
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (3 (30)): 25–36.
Published: 01 November 2009
... considering postcolonial issues. A number of key commemorative dates over the past two decades have set the scene for a re-visioning of French and francophone history - 1992 was the 500 th anniversary of the new world's “discovery” by Christopher Columbus, 1998 was the 150 th anniversary of the abolition...
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Interpreting 2004: Politics, Memory, Scholarship
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Small Axe (2008) 12 (3 (27)): 1–13.
Published: 01 October 2008
...Charles Forsdick This article reflects on the presence (and absence) of references to Haiti in the events surrounding the Bicentenary of the Abolition of the Slave Trade in Great Britain. It suggests that a growing public awareness of and media attention to Haiti is associated with an increased...
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Capitalism and Slavery Compensation
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (1 (37)): 154–167.
Published: 01 March 2012
... performed important ideological labor: it not only stripped abolition of any semblance of apology, it shielded private profiteering from public or political scrutiny, emancipating the pursuit of material self-interest from any moral fetters. Thus did mammon assert its priority over humanity and religion...
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More Relevant Than Ever: We Slaves of Suriname Today
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (1 (70)): 87–99.
Published: 01 March 2023
... the oppression and exploitation of people on the basis of “race” and class, both during the period of slavery and after its abolition. Although he became known as a national hero in Suriname, in the former colonial metropole of the Netherlands his name, work, and life story were relatively unknown. In 2020...
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (1 (37)): vii–x.
Published: 01 March 2012
... during the Era of Abolition
(London: Pickering and Chatto, 2009).
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only further compromised by the extremity of the violence with which they responded to the
insurrection. It roused...
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Autobiography Out of Empire
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (1): 98–111.
Published: 01 March 2009
...-
closure of self-possession to the enslaved and the indentured alike. In other words, in 1807,
British plans to move from “slavery” to “free labor” may have been a modern utilitarian move,
one in which “abolition” proved an expedient, and only coincidentally “enlightened” solution...
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The Problem of Liberal Empire Reconsidered
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (3 (60)): 167–177.
Published: 01 November 2019
... the island to any other country.” 3 The call for democratic self-government was directed at the “internal affairs” of the West Indies rather than cutting ties with the British Empire. For James, imperial membership was intimately tied to emancipation. Celebrating the centenary of abolition, he argued...
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Provision Grounds Against the Plantation: Robert Wedderburn’s Axe Laid to the Root
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (1 (64)): 15–27.
Published: 01 March 2021
..., as Stefan M. Wheelock argues, when scholars read black writers only within the ideals of white radical abolitionism or heroic violent resistance, they neglect their more nuanced prophetic and speculative intellectual projects. 47 Wedderburn’s final pamphlet counters immediate abolition because he...
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Daniel Maximin’s Lone Sun : Disrupting the Tides of History and Memory
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (1 (67)): 69–84.
Published: 01 March 2022
... emancipation to the French colonies. Some activists now claim, “Schoelcher is not our savior,” and they call for remembrance of local participants in the fight for abolition rather than the commemoration of a French politician. 4 This contention that is making current headlines is not new, however, as forty...
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British Fortunes and Caribbean Slavery
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (1 (37)): 144–153.
Published: 01 March 2012
... with the
government over the abolition of slavery; the diversity of slaveholders in the British Atlantic
world; and the importance of the rise of “new” British plantation colonies in the Caribbean,
particularly in Guiana and Trinidad, to our understanding of emancipation. Finally, I will return
to Williams...
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Pan-Africanism and the Works and Lives of Otto and Hermina Huiswoud
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (3 (75)): 140–156.
Published: 01 November 2024
... and are underpinned by fundamental questions about power and inequality. By the time Black people became legally free after the abolition of slavery, they had been represented and misrepresented for centuries. This called for corrective measures regarding the redefinition of self-identity. At the same time, it called...
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Late Glissant: History, “World Literature,” and the Persistence of the Political
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Small Axe (2010) 14 (3 (33)): 121–134.
Published: 01 November 2010
..., allowing—in
opposition to the self-congratulatory account of French abolitionism in de Villepin’s preface—
for the full recognition of the role of the enslaved themselves (including enslaved women) in
abolition and emancipation. Central to Glissant’s reflection—and to the purpose of the center
he...
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Contributors
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (1 (37)): 179–180.
Published: 01 March 2012
... on slavery and abolition in the British
Caribbean, particularly slave owners and the planter class. He is the author of Slaveholders
in Jamaica (2009) and has published articles in Slavery and Abolition, Journal of Imperial and
Commonwealth History, and Historical Journal...
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Subject to Question: Empire and Catherine Hall's Civilising Subjects
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Small Axe (2003) 7 (2): 127–136.
Published: 01 September 2003
... of the assertion of a post-abolition labor shortage,
by both the sugar party and historians—and this, despite abolitionists’ equivocations
on the topic To the extent that they themselves were aware that they were engaged in
producing and disseminating propaganda, the abolitionists were...
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Capitalism and Slave Ownership: A Response
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (1 (37)): 168–177.
Published: 01 March 2012
... under the 1833 Abolition Act, it
1 Nicholas Draper, The Price of Emancipation: Slave-Ownership, Compensation, and British Society at the End of Slavery
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010).
2 Eric Williams, Capitalism and Slavery (1944; repr., London: Andre Deutsch, 1964).
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The Infrastructures of Liberation at the End of the World: A Reflection on Disaster in the Caribbean
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (2 (62)): 96–109.
Published: 01 July 2020
... Caribbean politics abolition apocalypse On Wednesday, 17 October 2018, the rain came to Trinidad and Tobago. 1 Its arrival was deceptive. Cloaked as a guest bearing gifts, the rain promised a respite from heat so cruel that it had made the suffocating burden of one’s own skin seem more punishing...
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Citizenship Violence and the Afterlives of Dutch Colonialism: Rereading Anton de Kom
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (1 (70)): 100–122.
Published: 01 March 2023
... of the Dutch slavery and the protracted exploitation and oppression of the enslaved, their descendants, and indentured laborers after the abolition of slavery. For my part, I am interested in the ways De Kom demonstrates throughout the book how European law and the rights granted to those recognized...
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From “Numbered Notations” to Named Ancestors: Finding Contemporary Meaning in Vincent Brown's The Reaper's Garden
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Small Axe (2010) 14 (1 (31)): 212–218.
Published: 01 March 2010
... to
mark the bicentennial of the passing of the British Slave Trade Abolition Act, and death and
murder by colonialism were on everyone’s mind. We were recalling the evidence that quantita-
tive historians—from Philip Curtin through Michael Craton, Richard Dunn, Stanley Engerman,
B. W. Higman...
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