Troubling freedom : Antigua and the aftermath of British emancipation / Natasha Lightfoot.
Material type: TextPublication details: London : Duke University, c2015.Description: xvi, 320 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cmISBN:- 9780822359753 (cased) :
- EC$40.00
- 305.800 972 974
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-308) and index.
"A landscape that continually recurred in passing" : the many worlds of a small place -- "So them make law for Negro, so them make law for master" : Antigua's 1831 Sunday market rebellion -- "But freedom till better" : labor struggles after 1834 -- "An equality with the highest in the land"? : the expansion of Black private and public life -- "Sinful conexions" : Christianity, social surveillance, and Black women's bodies in distress -- "Mashing ants" : surviving the economic crisis after 1846 -- "Our side" : Antigua's 1858 uprising and the contingent nature of freedom.
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