Search Results for comparative slavery

...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...

..., I had focused primarily on the anglophone Caribbean and British colonialism during the postemancipation period. My investment in comparative slavery and emancipation studies gave me working knowledge of the major chronologies of the rest of the Caribbean. But overall, I had not read that widely...

... 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...

.... Fewer still are studies that cross the great divide of the actual moment of slavery s legal demise, to produce social histories of emancipation that encompass fully the later decades of slavery and the first generations of freedom.1 This comparative lack of attention to abolition can be explained...

... Patterson’s theory of social death, I want to suggest, is as much a moral theory as a social-historical one. Or, to put it slightly differently, his Slavery and Social Death should be read less as comparative empirical sociology than as the model of a moral theory of evil. Memorably, Patterson’s aim...

... comrades in the Fordist industrial centers of Turin and Milan. 17 Pizzolato's synchronic framing understands the United States and Italy as inhabiting comparable positions within the variegated time-space of global capitalism. Such framing discounts the way heterogeneous temporalities of slavery...

... tephen B est is associate professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of The Fugitive's Properties: Law and the Poetics of Possession (2004) and is currently working on a new project on slavery and the limits of historicist critique. C hristopher T. B onner...

...-organization: Three Decades of Turbulence in Grenada,” Journal of Commonwealth and Comparative Politics 23, no. 2 (1985): 91–111; Ken Boodhoo, Grenada: the Birth and Death of a Revolution (Latin American and Caribbean Center, Florida International University, 1984); Robert Beck, The Grenada...

..., human-money.” However, Mbembe also suggests—in a comparative discussion of Atlantic slavey and trans-Saharan slavery—that it is possible to extract “surplus value” from enslaved persons. Nesbitt’s value-form analysis of capitalist slavery reveals the inaccuracy of this formulation. See Mbembe, Critique...

... provided legal precedent for recognizing certain people as less than human, a kind of living dead. According to Orlando Patterson's comparative study Slavery and Social Death , “social death” is the condition of the slave's alienation from the rest of society that characterizes chattel slavery...

..., citizenship, cultural heritage, and religion. He is the author of Tracing Slavery: The Politics of Atlantic Memory in the Netherlands (2021) and the coeditor (with Ernst van den Hemel and Irene Stengs) of The Secular Sacred: Emotions of Belonging and the Perils of Nation and Religion (2020). O lívia...

... that Rodney would not like a comparative perspective. It was an early version of the thesis of Slavery and Social Death . 59 And Rodney was snide about comparative work, because he took a historical particularist position. We were at our conference for several days, but we never talked much to each other...

...: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...

...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...

... Carolina Press, 2011). 31 Eric Williams, Capitalism and Slavery (1944; repr., Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1994); Mintz, Caribbean Transformations , 302; Frank Moya Pons, “Caribbean Consciousness: What the Caribbean Is Not,” Caribbean Educational Bulletin 5 (1978): 40–50...

... thoughtful and insightful critiques of my work (for which I thank them both) recognize that No Bond but the Law was situated within two comparative and transnational historiographical fields: the history of punishment and the history of the transition away from slavery.1 Since its publication in 2004, a wave...

... of Law (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005); Diana Paton, No Bond But the Law: Punishment, Race, and Gender in Jamaican State Formation, 1780–1870 (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2004). 9 Orlando Patterson, Slavery and Social Death: A Comparative Study (Cambridge, MA: Harvard...

.... 31 Edward Kamau Brathwaite, “Caliban, Ariel, and Unprospero in the Conflict of Creolization: A Study of the Slave Revolt in Jamaica in 1831–32,” in Vera Ruben and Arthur Tuden, eds., Comparative Perspectives on Slavery in New World Plantation Societies (New York: New York Academy of Sciences, 1977...

... 1888–1893: Gender and the Color of Art History (London: Thames and Hudson, 1993). 49 I borrow the quoted phrase from Orlando Patterson, Slavery and Social Death: A Comparative Study (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1982). 50 For a related treatment of Jacobs's ruses, see Fred...

... 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...