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19 novembre 2015

EAN13

9780822375050

Langue

English

Poids de l'ouvrage

11 Mo

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 quotidian 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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Publié par

Duke University Press

Date de parution

19 novembre 2015

EAN13

9780822375050

Langue

English

Poids de l'ouvrage

11 Mo

History of the Americas Histoire

Troubîng Freedom

antigua and the aftermath

of british emancipation

Nààŝà ôô

duke university press Durham and London 2015

© Dûé Uvéŝ Péŝŝ A ŝ éŝévé Pé  é Ué Sàéŝ ô Aéçà ô àç-éé àé ∞ éŝé  Qûààà  Wéŝçéŝé Pûŝ Sévçéŝ

à ô Côéŝŝ Cààô--Pûçàô Dàà ôô, Nààŝà, [àé] àûô. ôû ééô : Aûà à é àtéà ô Bŝ éàçàô / Nààŝà ôô. àéŝ ç ïçûéŝ ôàçà éééçéŝ à é. isbn ---- (àçôvé : à. àé isbn ---- (. : à. àé isbn ---- (é-ôô . Sàvéŝ—Eàçàô—Aûà à Bàûà—Aûà. . Sàvéŝ—Eàçàô—Côôéŝ—Géà Bà. . Aûà—Ràçé éàôŝ—Hŝô. ï. é. f.l  .—ç 

Côvé à: Môàvà Cûç Mŝŝô, S. Jô’ŝ Séé (çà. . Aqûà  Jôà Sôàŝŝé,Ansîchen von Mîssîons-Nîederassungen der Evangeîshen Bruder-Gemeînde(Bàŝé, ... Côûéŝ ô é Jô Càé Bô à à Bô Uvéŝ.

to the people of antigua & barbuda

& for my sons

contents

illustrations ix

acknowledgments xiii

introduction “Mé Nô B’ôŝ ô Dé”: Eàçàô’ŝ Pôŝŝéŝ à ŝ  Aûà 

chapter 1 “A àŝçàé à Côûà Réçûé  Pàŝŝ”: é Mà Wôŝ ô à Sà Pàçé 

chapter 2 “Sô é Màé à ô Néô, Sô é Màé à ô Màŝé”: Aûà’ŝ  Sûà Màé Rééô 

chapter 3 “Bû ééô  Béé”: àô Sûéŝ àté  

chapter 4 “A Eqûà  é Héŝ  é à”? é Eàŝô ô Bàç Pvàé à Pûç é 

chapter 5 “Sû Côéôŝ”: Cŝà, Sôçà Sûvéàçé, à Bàç Wôé’ŝ Bôéŝ  Dŝéŝŝ 

chapter 6 “Màŝ Aŝ”: Sûvv é Eçôôç Cŝŝ àté  

chapter 7 “Oû Sé”: Aûà’ŝ  Uŝ à é Côé Nàûé ô ééô 

conclusion “M Côô Bôé Mé Dô”: Pôŝŝàvé Vôéçé à ïçôéé ééô  é Bŝ Càéà 

notes 233

v contents

bibliography 287

index309

illustrations

Mà . Péŝé-Dà Mà ô Aûà  Mà . Péŝé-Dà Mà ô é Càéà Réô  Mà . Mà ô S. Jô’ŝ (çà.  

. . Mà ô Aûà (  . . Mà ô Bàûà à Aûà ( 

. . Môàvà Cûç Mŝŝô, S. Jô’ŝ Séé (çà.   . . ô Séé Côûôûŝé (  . . M Yà ô Gàé’ŝ Eŝàé, S. Jô Pàŝ (  . . Rû ô à ŝûà  ô Rôôŝ Eŝàé, S. P’ŝ Pàŝ (  .. Hà’ŝ Vàé, S. Jô Pàŝ ( 

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