The Political Languages Of Emancipation In The British Caribbean And The Us South
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Author |
: Demetrius L. Eudell |
Publisher |
: Univ of North Carolina Press |
Total Pages |
: 252 |
Release |
: 2003-04-03 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780807860120 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0807860123 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (20 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Political Languages of Emancipation in the British Caribbean and the U.S. South by : Demetrius L. Eudell
This comparative study examines the emancipation process in the British Caribbean, particularly Jamaica, during the 1830s and in the United States, particularly South Carolina, during the 1860s. Analyzing the intellectual and ideological foundations of postslavery Anglo-America, Demetrius Eudell explores how former slaves, former slaveholders, and their societies' central governments understood and discussed slavery, emancipation, and the transition between the two. Eudell investigates the public policies--which addressed issues of labor control, access to land, and the general social behaviors of former slaves--used to execute emancipation. In both regions, government-appointed officials (special magistrates in Jamaica and agents of the Freedmen's Bureau in South Carolina) were crucial in implementing these policies. While many former slaves were fighting for the right to be paid for their labor and to own land, many officials came to view their role as part of a new civilizing mission whose goal was to eradicate the psychic damage supposedly caused by slavery. Eudell concludes by examining the 1865 Morant Bay rebellion in Jamaica and the retreat from Reconstruction in South Carolina, part of the larger movement of Redemption that occurred in 1877. Both of these occurrences represented the incomplete victory of emancipation, Eudell argues, and should provoke scholarly questions regarding the persistent thesis of U.S. exceptionalism.
Author |
: Edward Bartlett Rugemer |
Publisher |
: LSU Press |
Total Pages |
: 361 |
Release |
: 2009-08 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780807134634 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0807134635 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (34 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Problem of Emancipation by : Edward Bartlett Rugemer
The Problem of Emancipation explores a long-neglected aspect of American slavery and the history of the Atlantic World, bridging a gap in our understanding of the American Civil War. It places the origins of the war in a transatlantic context, exploring the impact of Britain's abolition of slavery on the coming of the war, and revealing the strong influence of Britain's old Atlantic empire on the politics of the United States. This ground-breaking study examines how southern and northern American newspapers covered three slave rebellions that preceded British abolition and how American public opinion shifted radically as a result.
Author |
: Kennetta Hammond Perry |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 336 |
Release |
: 2016-01-04 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780190493431 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0190493437 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (31 Downloads) |
Synopsis London is the Place for Me by : Kennetta Hammond Perry
Black people in the British Empire have long challenged the notion that "there ain't no black in the Union Jack." For the post-World War II wave of Afro-Caribbean migrants, many of whom had long been subjects of the Empire, claims to a British identity and imperial citizenship were considered to be theirs by birthright. However, while Britain was internationally touted as a paragon of fair play and equal justice, they arrived in a nation that was frequently hostile and unwilling to incorporate Black people into its concept of what it meant to be British. Black Britons therefore confronted the racial politics of British citizenship and became active political agents in challenging anti-Black racism. In a society with a highly racially circumscribed sense of identity-and the laws, customs, and institutions to back it up-Black Britons had to organize and fight to assert their right to belong. In London Is The Place for Me, Kennetta Hammond Perry explores how Afro-Caribbean migrants navigated the politics of race and citizenship in Britain and reconfigured the boundaries of what it meant to be both Black and British at a critical juncture in the history of Empire and twentieth century transnational race politics. She situates their experience within a broader context of Black imperial and diasporic political participation, and examines the pushback-both legal and physical-that the migrants' presence provoked. Bringing together a variety of sources including calypso music, photographs, migrant narratives, and records of grassroots Black political organizations, London Is the Place for Me positions Black Britons as part of wider public debates both at home and abroad about citizenship, the meaning of Britishness and the politics of race in the second half of the twentieth century. The United Kingdom's postwar discriminatory curbs on immigration and explosion of racial violence forced White Britons as well as Black to question their perception of Britain as a racially progressive society and, therefore, to question the very foundation of their own identities. Perry's examination expands our understanding of race and the Black experience in Europe and uncovers the critical role that Black people played in the formation of contemporary British society.
Author |
: Jeffrey R. Kerr-Ritchie |
Publisher |
: LSU Press |
Total Pages |
: 333 |
Release |
: 2014-04-16 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780807154731 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0807154733 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (31 Downloads) |
Synopsis Freedom's Seekers by : Jeffrey R. Kerr-Ritchie
Jeffrey R. Kerr-Ritchie's Freedom's Seekers offers a bold and innovative intervention into the study of emancipation as a transnational phe-nomenon and serves as an important contribution to our understanding of the remaking of the nineteenth-century Atlantic Americas. Drawing on decades of research into slave and emancipation societies, Kerr-Ritchie is attentive to those who sought but were not granted freedom, and those who resisted enslavement individually as well as collectively on behalf of their communities. He explores the many roles that fugitive slaves, slave soldiers, and slave rebels played in their own societies. He likewise explicates the lives of individual freedmen, freedwomen, and freed children to show how the first free-born generation helped to shape the terms and conditions of the post-slavery world. Freedom's Seekers is a signal contribution to African Diaspora studies, especially in its rigorous respect for the agency of those who sought and then fought for their freedom, and its consistent attention to the transnational dimensions of emancipation.
Author |
: Carole Emberton |
Publisher |
: University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages |
: 294 |
Release |
: 2013-06-10 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780226024301 |
ISBN-13 |
: 022602430X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (01 Downloads) |
Synopsis Beyond Redemption by : Carole Emberton
In the months after the end of the Civil War, there was one word on everyone’s lips: redemption. From the fiery language of Radical Republicans calling for a reconstruction of the former Confederacy to the petitions of those individuals who had worked the land as slaves to the white supremacists who would bring an end to Reconstruction in the late 1870s, this crucial concept informed the ways in which many people—both black and white, northerner and southerner—imagined the transformation of the American South. Beyond Redemption explores how the violence of a protracted civil war shaped the meaning of freedom and citizenship in the new South. Here, Carole Emberton traces the competing meanings that redemption held for Americans as they tried to come to terms with the war and the changing social landscape. While some imagined redemption from the brutality of slavery and war, others—like the infamous Ku Klux Klan—sought political and racial redemption for their losses through violence. Beyond Redemption merges studies of race and American manhood with an analysis of post-Civil War American politics to offer unconventional and challenging insight into the violence of Reconstruction.
Author |
: Richard Follett |
Publisher |
: Johns Hopkins University Press |
Total Pages |
: 174 |
Release |
: 2016-04-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781421419404 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1421419408 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (04 Downloads) |
Synopsis Plantation Kingdom by : Richard Follett
Written for scholars and students alike, Plantation Kingdom is an accessible and fascinating study.
Author |
: Michele Gillespie |
Publisher |
: University of Missouri Press |
Total Pages |
: 252 |
Release |
: 2005 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780826264725 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0826264727 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (25 Downloads) |
Synopsis Global Perspectives on Industrial Transformation in the American South by : Michele Gillespie
Covering the late colonial age to World War I and beyond, this collection of essays places the economic history of the American South in an international light by establishing useful comparisons with the larger Atlantic and world economy. In an attempt to dispel long-lasting myths about the South, the essays analyze the economic evolution of the South since the slave era. From this perspective, the conception of a backward, wholly agricultural antebellum South occupied only by wealthy planters, poor whites, and contented slaves has finally given way to one of economic and social dynamism as well as regional prosperity. In a coherent and cohesive progression of subjects, these essays show that the South had been deeply enmeshed in the Atlantic economy since the colonial period and, after the Civil War, retained distinctive needs that caused increasing departure from the course northerners adopted on matters of political economy. This comparative approach also helps explain the motivations behind the political choices made by the South as an eminently export-oriented region. This book shows that the South was not slower to develop with respect to industrialization than either the majority of the northern states, especially in the West, or the countries of Western Europe. In fact, the apparently disappointing performance of the New South's economy appears to be the result of more pervasive and largely uncontrollable trends that affected the national as well as the international economy. Global Perspectives on Industrial Transformation in the American South makes an important contribution to the economic history of the South and to recent efforts to place American history in a more international context.
Author |
: Lisa Lowe |
Publisher |
: Duke University Press |
Total Pages |
: 303 |
Release |
: 2015-06-27 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780822375647 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0822375648 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (47 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Intimacies of Four Continents by : Lisa Lowe
In this uniquely interdisciplinary work, Lisa Lowe examines the relationships between Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Americas in the late eighteenth- and early nineteenth- centuries, exploring the links between colonialism, slavery, imperial trades and Western liberalism. Reading across archives, canons, and continents, Lowe connects the liberal narrative of freedom overcoming slavery to the expansion of Anglo-American empire, observing that abstract promises of freedom often obscure their embeddedness within colonial conditions. Race and social difference, Lowe contends, are enduring remainders of colonial processes through which “the human” is universalized and “freed” by liberal forms, while the peoples who create the conditions of possibility for that freedom are assimilated or forgotten. Analyzing the archive of liberalism alongside the colonial state archives from which it has been separated, Lowe offers new methods for interpreting the past, examining events well documented in archives, and those matters absent, whether actively suppressed or merely deemed insignificant. Lowe invents a mode of reading intimately, which defies accepted national boundaries and disrupts given chronologies, complicating our conceptions of history, politics, economics, and culture, and ultimately, knowledge itself.
Author |
: Whitney Nell Stewart |
Publisher |
: University of Georgia Press |
Total Pages |
: 225 |
Release |
: 2018 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780820353104 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0820353108 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (04 Downloads) |
Synopsis Race and Nation in the Age of Emancipations by : Whitney Nell Stewart
With these essays, historians contend that emancipation was not something that simply happened to enslaved peoples but rather something in which they actively participated. Their examination uncovers the various techniques employed by people of African descent across the Atlantic World, allowing a broader picture of their paths to freedom.
Author |
: Christopher Taylor |
Publisher |
: Duke University Press |
Total Pages |
: 292 |
Release |
: 2018-05-03 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780822371748 |
ISBN-13 |
: 082237174X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (48 Downloads) |
Synopsis Empire of Neglect by : Christopher Taylor
Following the publication of Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations, nineteenth-century liberal economic thinkers insisted that a globally hegemonic Britain would profit only by abandoning the formal empire. British West Indians across the divides of race and class understood that, far from signaling an invitation to nationalist independence, this liberal economic discourse inaugurated a policy of imperial “neglect”—a way of ignoring the ties that obligated Britain to sustain the worlds of the empire’s distant fellow subjects. In Empire of Neglect Christopher Taylor examines this neglect’s cultural and literary ramifications, tracing how nineteenth-century British West Indians reoriented their affective, cultural, and political worlds toward the Americas as a response to the liberalization of the British Empire. Analyzing a wide array of sources, from plantation correspondence, political economy treatises, and novels to newspapers, socialist programs, and memoirs, Taylor shows how the Americas came to serve as a real and figurative site at which abandoned West Indians sought to imagine and invent postliberal forms of political subjecthood.