Natasha Lightfoot

Troubling Freedom

Antigua and the Aftermath of British Emancipation

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Natasha Lightfoot is Associate Professor of History at Columbia University.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: DUKE UNIV PR
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Dezember 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 590g
• ISBN-13: 9780822359753
• ISBN-10: 0822359758
• Artikelnr.: 42235916

Autorenporträt

Natasha Lightfoot is Associate Professor of History at Columbia University.

Inhaltsangabe

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