UID:
almafu_9959690243202883
Format:
1 online resource (336 p.) :
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10 illustrations
ISBN:
9780822375050
Content:
In 1834 Antigua became the only British colony in the Caribbean to move directly from slavery to full emancipation. Immediate freedom, however, did not live up to its promise, as it did not guarantee any level of stability or autonomy, and the implementation of new forms of coercion and control made it, in many ways, indistinguishable from slavery. In Troubling Freedom Natasha Lightfoot tells the story of how Antigua's newly freed black working people struggled to realize freedom in their everyday lives, prior to and in the decades following emancipation. She presents freedpeople's efforts to form an efficient workforce, acquire property, secure housing, worship, and build independent communities in response to elite prescriptions for acceptable behavior and oppression. Despite its continued efforts, Antigua's black population failed to convince whites that its members were worthy of full economic and political inclusion. By highlighting the diverse ways freedpeople defined and created freedom through "idian acts of survival and occasional uprisings, Lightfoot complicates conceptions of freedom and the general narrative that landlessness was the primary constraint for newly emancipated slaves in the Caribbean.
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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Illustrations --
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Maps --
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Acknowledgments --
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Introduction “Me No B’longs to Dem” --
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Chapter 1. “A Landscape That Continually Recurred in Passing” --
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Chapter 2. “So Them Make Law for Negro, So Them Make Law for Master” --
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Chapter 3. “But Freedom till Better” --
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Chapter 4. “An Equality with the Highest in the Land”? --
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Chapter 5. “Sinful Conexions” --
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Chapter 6. “Mashing Ants” --
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Chapter 7. “Our Side” --
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Conclusion. “My Color Broke Me Down” --
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Notes --
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Bibliography --
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Index
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In English.
Language:
English
Subjects:
Ethnology
Keywords:
Electronic books
DOI:
10.1515/9780822375050
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822375050
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780822375050
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822375050
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780822375050
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/9780822375050?locatt=mode:legacy
