Troubling Freedom

Klappentext Natasha Lightfoot is Associate Professor of History at Columbia University. Zusammenfassung Natasha Lightfoot tells the story of how Antigua's newly freed black working people struggled to realize freedom! prior to and in the decades following their emancipation in 1834. Their continued efforts in the face of oppression complicate common definitions of freedom and narratives about newly freed slaves in the Caribbean.

Autorentext
Natasha Lightfoot is Associate Professor of History at Columbia University.

Klappentext
Natasha Lightfoot is Associate Professor of History at Columbia University.

Zusammenfassung
Natasha Lightfoot tells the story of how Antigua's newly freed black working people struggled to realize freedom, prior to and in the decades following their emancipation in 1834. Their continued efforts in the face of oppression complicate common definitions of freedom and narratives about newly freed slaves in the Caribbean.

Inhalt
Illustrations ix

Acknowledgments xiii

Introduction. "Me No B'longs to Dem": Emancipation's Possibilities and Limits in Antigua 1

1. A Landscape That Continually Recurred in Passing: The Many Worlds of a Small Place 21

2. So Them Make Laws for Negro, So Them Make Law for Master: Antigua's 1831 Sunday Market Rebellion 57

3. But Freedom till Better: Labor Struggles after 1834 84

4. An Equality with the Highest in the Land?: The Expansion of Black Private and Public Life 117

5. Sinful Conexions: Christianity, Social Surveillance, and Black Women's Bodies in Distress 142

6. Mashing Ants: Surviving the Economic Crisis after 1846 167

7. Our Side: Antigua's 1858 Uprising and the Contingent Nature of Freedom 195

8. "My Color Broke Me Down": Postslavery Violence and Incomplete Freedom in the British Caribbean 224

Notes 233

Bibliography 287

Index 309

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