Troubling Freedom

Name: Troubling Freedom
Brand: Duke University Press
SKU: 9780822359753
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Antigua and the Aftermath of British Emancipation

Autor: Natasha Lightfoot

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Editura: Duke University Press

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In 1834 Antigua became the only British colony in the Caribbean to move directly from slavery to ful...

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Autor

Natasha Lightfoot

Limbă

engleză

Legare

Carte - Copertă tare

Publicat

2015

Pagini

336

EAN

9780822359753

ISBN

0822359758

Enbook ID

09268622

Editura

Duke University Press

Greutate

590

Dimensiuni

152 x 229 x 23

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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 and 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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