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Small Axe (2021) 25 (1 (64)): 15–27.
Published: 01 March 2021
... heuristic for thinking revolution and freedom: the provision grounds, plots set apart from the plantation for enslaved people to grow their own food. In the first issue of the Axe , he declares, “Above all, mind and keep possession of the land you now possess as slaves; for without that, freedom...
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Small Axe (2007) 11 (1): 67–75.
Published: 01 February 2007
...David Omowalé Franklyn Small Axe Incorporated 2007 Grenada, Naipaul, and
Ground Provision
David Omowalé Franklyn
In his semi-autobiographical work, A Way In The World, V. S. Naipaul, the Trinidadian-born
writer and Nobel Laureate, tells of his first encounter with Grenadians...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (1 (73)): 39–56.
Published: 01 March 2024
... of the provision ground, small plots of land enslaved people and their families used to grow food and, ultimately, forge a connection with the land. The author peels back the layers of Berryman’s scenes, looking beyond what has been rendered visible, countering European representations of landscape that privilege...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (1 (49)): 113–128.
Published: 01 March 2016
... on Wynter's sustained engagement with racial subjection and/as the morphological production of blackness, the essay argues that the “underlife” Wynter traces from the provision grounds of the colonial plantation to the black urban ghettos in the United States effectively displaces her future critique...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (3 (57)): 105–114.
Published: 01 November 2018
... to secure their livelihoods through a negotiation between the perceived insecurity of wage labor and the symbolic security of the provision ground. Thus Rutter noted the customary practice of the African Caribbean population working for four days of the week, keeping “their own gardens on which they live...
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Small Axe (2008) 12 (1): 145–156.
Published: 01 February 2008
.... Surely some Caribbean historians and art historians have been more
successful than Thompson implies.7
In my own work on the provision grounds and cottage gardens of enslaved Africans and
Creoles living on plantations in Jamaica, Antigua, and St. Vincent, I relied on the scholarship...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (1 (55)): 18–38.
Published: 01 March 2018
... and a half years later similarly configures the forest as a site of transition: “Gave Dinah, a Congo Negroe 1 Bitt [currency]. Cum Illa [her], Sup Thatch Leaves upon ground, in Silva between Negroe ground and Morass, abt. 4 P.M.” 39 That the rape occurs in the woods between the enslaved persons’ provision...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (1 (67)): 55–68.
Published: 01 March 2022
... of annihilation but rather to use it as a site of possibility, a place that “can sustain alternative worldviews and challenge the practices of dehumanization” despite the structure of plantation logic. 16 McKittrick concentrates on the futures propagated on the provision grounds where enslaved people grew...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (3 (66)): 127–133.
Published: 01 November 2021
...,” the provision ground redolent of Afro-Caribbean subalternity, certainly anticipates Brathwaite’s conceptual binary and informs the politics of affinity in “Caribbean Man.” Brathwaite’s spatial metaphors of creolization also elaborate an intellectual cartography that encompasses Elsa Goveia’s insights...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (3 (66)): 178–185.
Published: 01 November 2021
... history to the provision grounds of the plantation past and to the family land of the postemancipation era, where the “the most meaningful relations of belonging and affect at the center of Haitian culture” were formed, constituting “an intimate moral community” (46). Such sentiments feature...
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Small Axe (2008) 12 (1): 133–144.
Published: 01 February 2008
... Jamaica”, an expanded, novel, safe yet still exciting playground
and fruit-provision ground for the white visitor and distanced consumer. At the other are the
tropical visions interrupted by contemporary artists in Trinidad—Christopher Cozier, Irenée
Shaw and Che Lovelace—and London-based, Barbadian...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (2 (53)): 184–192.
Published: 01 July 2017
... freedom in the present. If we treat marronage, provision grounds, or creolization only as stories about the past, then we tie the very processes that were central to those activities to the historical form of the plantation. 15 When labor activists today talk about marronage, they seek to give a name...
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Small Axe (2008) 12 (2): 80–111.
Published: 01 June 2008
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Small Axe (2002) 6 (1): 133–150.
Published: 01 March 2002
..., and
how these overlapping identifi cations intersect with grassroots community activism.
22. Stuart Hall, “New Ethnicities,” Stuart Hall Critical Dialogues in Cultural Studies, eds. D. Morely and K. Chen
(London: Routledge, 1996), 442.
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Small Axe (2008) 12 (1): 169–181.
Published: 01 February 2008
... insightful investigation of local and indigenous people’s
knowledge of horticulture and agriculture, as evident in the provision grounds and cottage
gardens of enslaved Africans and Creoles living on plantations in Jamaica, Antigua, and St.
Vincent, Wilson lay plant specimens...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (3 (54)): 63–84.
Published: 01 November 2017
... abandoning their provision grounds to await the expected repatriation, and the cultivation of racial hatred. 11 Yet as far as the Colonial Office was concerned, extensive police action in St. Thomas had brought Rastafari activity “to a standstill in that parish,” and therefore the “movement ha[d] lost...
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Small Axe (2007) 11 (3): 118–129.
Published: 01 October 2007
... dissidents was prescient. The 2000 Equal Oppor-
tunities Act in Trinidad and Tobago, intended to promote equality of opportunity between
persons of different status and prohibit discrimination, declared that “sex” as a prohibited
ground of discrimination “does not include sexual orientation.”4 Similarly...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (2 (44)): 1–17.
Published: 01 July 2014
... of time and labour between plantation work, their own provision grounds, the market, or other employment; [and] the opportunity to maximize earnings from plantation labour.” Ex-slaves did what slaves before them did: they worked. What changed are the social contexts in which work took place...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (3 (72)): 177–193.
Published: 01 November 2023
... to demand educational provision, and colonial powers closing schools they feared were being hijacked by those opposed to and organizing against the status quo. 16 Even among those who were selectively offered opportunities as a way of creating a slim buffer class of cultural brokers who could...
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (1): 135–156.
Published: 01 March 2009
... picturesque
representations of the Caribbean used to entice tourists and reassure them that it was “an
expanded, novel, safe yet still exciting playground and fruit-provision ground for the white
visitor and distanced consumer.” But, as Leon Wainwright points out, “the hardship, trauma...
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