Justin Roberts
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3615478 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Justin Roberts |
| NOMBRES | Justin |
| APELLIDO | Roberts |
| FIRMA | ROBERTS J |
| AFILIACIONES | Dalhousie University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9374-5671 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 22 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 5 |
| OBRAS COMO AUTOR | 22 |
| OBRAS COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2011 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
Attachment orientation as a narrative resource
The coach-athlete relationship has long been recognised as central to athletes’ performance and wellbeing, yet its understanding through an attachment theory lens remains emergent, particularly within youth sport where empirical insights are limited. Underpinned by critical realist philosophy, this study argues that attachment orientation sits alongside socio-cultural narratives as a resource for storytelling within the caring context of the coac…
Fragile Empire
Fragile Empire reinterprets the rise of slavery in the early English tropics through an innovative geographic framework. It examines slavery at English sites in tropical zones across the Atlantic and Indian oceans, and argues that a variety of factors – epidemiology, slave majorities, European rivalries, and the power of indigenous polities – made the seventeenth-century English tropical empire particularly fragile, creating a model of empire in …
Randy M. Browne. The Driver’s Story
Indentured Servitude
The Paradox of Abolition
In 1792, the Danish government announced the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade and granted St. Croix planters a grace period to import slaves before the cessation. Despite hopes for improved conditions for the enslaved after the abolition, surging sugar prices prompted planters to increase imports of enslaved Africans. Census data, slave trade records, and land tax registers illustrate how St. Croix planters, in the face of impending abo…
Keep Dragging On
Prior research has shown that game‐based learning tools, such as DragonBox 12+, support algebraic understanding and that students' in‐game progress positively predicts their later performance. Using data from 253 seventh‐graders (12–13 years old) who played DragonBox as a part of technology intervention, we examined (a) the relations between students' progress within DragonBox and their algebraic knowledge and general mathematics achievement, (b)…
Enablers and barriers for successful completion of study identified by Māori students on a postgraduate programme for in-service teachers
This article reports on a study that was undertaken into enablers and barriers to Māori student success on a postgraduate programme for in-service teachers. The study was led by Māori researchers and followed a Kaupapa Māori research philosophy—research by Māori, for Māori, and with Māori. Data were gathered via a series of hui (meetings) to which former students were invited, including both those who had completed the programme and those who had…
Bonds of Empire
Reviewed by: Bonds of Empire: The English Origins of Slave Law in South Carolina and British Plantation America, 1660–1783 by Lee B. Wilson Justin Roberts Bonds of Empire: The English Origins of Slave Law in South Carolina and British Plantation America, 1660–1783. By Lee B. Wilson. Cambridge Historical Studies in American Law and Society. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. 288 pages. Cloth, ebook. The preamble to the first comprehensiv…
The Whip and the Hoe
Spectacular physical punishments such as whipping were at the core of the master-slave relationship but it was the chronic and acute physical demands of forced labor that did the most destructive and lasting damage to enslaved people. Plantation field work caused more extensive damage to enslaved bodies than non-field work. Field work was more debilitating to enslaved women than to their male counterparts. Work on sugar plantations caused more da…
M iles O gborn . The Freedom of Speech
The millions of slaves who toiled and died in the Americas left little in the way of firsthand testimony. For the nineteenth-century US South, historians can rely on a vast collection of oral testimonies from ex-slaves collected in the 1930s, but there is nothing comparable for the Caribbean. Recently, slavery scholars such as Marisa Fuentes, immersed in a broader postmodern critique of the archives, have tried to reconceptualize how we use the “…
The Torrid Zone
Wendy Warren. New England Bound
In New England Bound: Slavery and Colonization in Early America, Wendy Warren offers one simple historiographical intervention, arguing that slavery was an important institution in early colonial New England. “Slavery and colonization,” she explains, “went hand in hand” as Europeans expanded to the Americas—and New England was no exception (1). Historians have often contrasted the religious motivations that dominated the settlement of early New E…
Gold versus Life
Jobbing gangs—large groups of enslaved people who were principally hired out to dig sugarcane holes—were a crucial component of the British Caribbean slave economy. Emerging first in the early eighteenth century, they comprised approximately 10 percent of enslaved people in the British Caribbean by the late eighteenth century before declining after the abolition of the slave trade. The growth in jobbing gangs stemmed from elite sugar planters’ de…
Secret Cures of Slaves
Surrendering Surinam
Before 1667, Surinam was the next major frontier for Barbadians who wanted to expand the sugar plantation complex. A proprietary colony under the control of Francis Willoughby, governor of Barbados, Surinam was occupied by the Dutch during the Second Anglo-Dutch War. The English Crown, in a key moment of metropolitan intervention in the design of the empire, turned its back on the Surinam colony in the Treaty of Breda, trading it to the Dutch for…
A Tale of Two Plantations
I have spent forty years working on this project," writes Richard Dunn in the prologue to A Tale of Two Plantations.It shows.This comparative study of a sugar plantation in western Jamaica (Mesopotamia) and a mixed-farming plantation in northern Virginia (Mount Airy) is simply unparalleled in its detail.Dunn offers biographical sketches not only of individual slave lives but of entire family histories across generations, including detail on 2,076…
Hubs of Empire
Christa Dierksheide. Amelioration and Empire
Historians know well that there were elements of the Enlightenment that helped foster antislavery movements, such as emerging notions of human rights and a growing conviction that slavery was antithetical to progress and inferior to free labor, but Christa Dierksheide’s Amelioration and Empire: Progress and Slavery in the Plantation Americas demonstrates that late–eighteenth- and nineteenth-century ideas in the Anglo-American world about the rela…
The ‘Better Sort’ and the ‘Poorer Sort’
This article examines wealth inequalities and social hierarchies that appeared among slave communities on sugar plantations in the British Caribbean. These inequalities in status and in material conditions among the enslaved were the product of the privileges that planters granted elite slaves, the collective survival strategies of smaller family groups and the energy demands of different working roles. Elite creole families emerged on sugar plan…
Slavery and the Enlightenment in the British Atlantic, 1750–1807
This book examines the daily details of slave work routines and plantation agriculture in the eighteenth-century British Atlantic, focusing on case studies of large plantations in Barbados, Jamaica and Virginia. Work was the most important factor in the slaves' experience of the institution. Slaves' day-to-day work routines were shaped by plantation management strategies that drew on broader pan-Atlantic intellectual and cultural principles. Alth…
For the Health of the Enslaved
Reviewed by: For the Health of the Enslaved: Slaves, medicine and power in the Danish West Indies, 1803-1848 Justin Roberts For the Health of the Enslaved: Slaves, medicine and power in the Danish West Indies, 1803-1848 Niklas Thode Jensen . Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, 2012. The vast majority of the scholarship on West Indian sugar slavery has focused on British and, to a lesser extent, French West Indian sugar plantations. Few scholars …
Uncertain Business
This article is a detailed case study of the financial records of a Barbadian sugar plantation, Turner's Hall, from 1770 to 1793. It explores the challenges faced by the managers and the strategies they adopted. The most significant internal challenge was the maintenance of a sufficient labour force and the two greatest external challenges were the American Revolution and the hurricane of 1780. Sugar production was an uncertain and volatile busin…
The ‘Better Sort’ and the ‘Poorer Sort’
This article examines wealth inequalities and social hierarchies that appeared among slave communities on sugar plantations in the British Caribbean. These inequalities in status and in material conditions among the enslaved were the product of the privileges that planters granted elite slaves, the collective survival strategies of smaller family groups and the energy demands of different working roles. Elite creole families emerged on sugar plan…
The Paradox of Abolition
In 1792, the Danish government announced the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade and granted St. Croix planters a grace period to import slaves before the cessation. Despite hopes for improved conditions for the enslaved after the abolition, surging sugar prices prompted planters to increase imports of enslaved Africans. Census data, slave trade records, and land tax registers illustrate how St. Croix planters, in the face of impending abo…
Gold versus Life
Jobbing gangs—large groups of enslaved people who were principally hired out to dig sugarcane holes—were a crucial component of the British Caribbean slave economy. Emerging first in the early eighteenth century, they comprised approximately 10 percent of enslaved people in the British Caribbean by the late eighteenth century before declining after the abolition of the slave trade. The growth in jobbing gangs stemmed from elite sugar planters’ de…
Uncertain Business
This article is a detailed case study of the financial records of a Barbadian sugar plantation, Turner's Hall, from 1770 to 1793. It explores the challenges faced by the managers and the strategies they adopted. The most significant internal challenge was the maintenance of a sufficient labour force and the two greatest external challenges were the American Revolution and the hurricane of 1780. Sugar production was an uncertain and volatile busin…
Uncertain Business
This article is a detailed case study of the financial records of a Barbadian sugar plantation, Turner's Hall, from 1770 to 1793. It explores the challenges faced by the managers and the strategies they adopted. The most significant internal challenge was the maintenance of a sufficient labour force and the two greatest external challenges were the American Revolution and the hurricane of 1780. Sugar production was an uncertain and volatile busin…
For the Health of the Enslaved
Reviewed by: For the Health of the Enslaved: Slaves, medicine and power in the Danish West Indies, 1803-1848 Justin Roberts For the Health of the Enslaved: Slaves, medicine and power in the Danish West Indies, 1803-1848 Niklas Thode Jensen . Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, 2012. The vast majority of the scholarship on West Indian sugar slavery has focused on British and, to a lesser extent, French West Indian sugar plantations. Few scholars …
Slavery and the Enlightenment in the British Atlantic, 1750–1807
This book examines the daily details of slave work routines and plantation agriculture in the eighteenth-century British Atlantic, focusing on case studies of large plantations in Barbados, Jamaica and Virginia. Work was the most important factor in the slaves' experience of the institution. Slaves' day-to-day work routines were shaped by plantation management strategies that drew on broader pan-Atlantic intellectual and cultural principles. Alth…
The ‘Better Sort’ and the ‘Poorer Sort’
This article examines wealth inequalities and social hierarchies that appeared among slave communities on sugar plantations in the British Caribbean. These inequalities in status and in material conditions among the enslaved were the product of the privileges that planters granted elite slaves, the collective survival strategies of smaller family groups and the energy demands of different working roles. Elite creole families emerged on sugar plan…
Hubs of Empire
Christa Dierksheide. Amelioration and Empire
Historians know well that there were elements of the Enlightenment that helped foster antislavery movements, such as emerging notions of human rights and a growing conviction that slavery was antithetical to progress and inferior to free labor, but Christa Dierksheide’s Amelioration and Empire: Progress and Slavery in the Plantation Americas demonstrates that late–eighteenth- and nineteenth-century ideas in the Anglo-American world about the rela…
Surrendering Surinam
Before 1667, Surinam was the next major frontier for Barbadians who wanted to expand the sugar plantation complex. A proprietary colony under the control of Francis Willoughby, governor of Barbados, Surinam was occupied by the Dutch during the Second Anglo-Dutch War. The English Crown, in a key moment of metropolitan intervention in the design of the empire, turned its back on the Surinam colony in the Treaty of Breda, trading it to the Dutch for…
A Tale of Two Plantations
I have spent forty years working on this project," writes Richard Dunn in the prologue to A Tale of Two Plantations.It shows.This comparative study of a sugar plantation in western Jamaica (Mesopotamia) and a mixed-farming plantation in northern Virginia (Mount Airy) is simply unparalleled in its detail.Dunn offers biographical sketches not only of individual slave lives but of entire family histories across generations, including detail on 2,076…
Secret Cures of Slaves
The Torrid Zone
Wendy Warren. New England Bound
In New England Bound: Slavery and Colonization in Early America, Wendy Warren offers one simple historiographical intervention, arguing that slavery was an important institution in early colonial New England. “Slavery and colonization,” she explains, “went hand in hand” as Europeans expanded to the Americas—and New England was no exception (1). Historians have often contrasted the religious motivations that dominated the settlement of early New E…
Gold versus Life
Jobbing gangs—large groups of enslaved people who were principally hired out to dig sugarcane holes—were a crucial component of the British Caribbean slave economy. Emerging first in the early eighteenth century, they comprised approximately 10 percent of enslaved people in the British Caribbean by the late eighteenth century before declining after the abolition of the slave trade. The growth in jobbing gangs stemmed from elite sugar planters’ de…
The Whip and the Hoe
Spectacular physical punishments such as whipping were at the core of the master-slave relationship but it was the chronic and acute physical demands of forced labor that did the most destructive and lasting damage to enslaved people. Plantation field work caused more extensive damage to enslaved bodies than non-field work. Field work was more debilitating to enslaved women than to their male counterparts. Work on sugar plantations caused more da…
M iles O gborn . The Freedom of Speech
The millions of slaves who toiled and died in the Americas left little in the way of firsthand testimony. For the nineteenth-century US South, historians can rely on a vast collection of oral testimonies from ex-slaves collected in the 1930s, but there is nothing comparable for the Caribbean. Recently, slavery scholars such as Marisa Fuentes, immersed in a broader postmodern critique of the archives, have tried to reconceptualize how we use the “…
Enablers and barriers for successful completion of study identified by Māori students on a postgraduate programme for in-service teachers
This article reports on a study that was undertaken into enablers and barriers to Māori student success on a postgraduate programme for in-service teachers. The study was led by Māori researchers and followed a Kaupapa Māori research philosophy—research by Māori, for Māori, and with Māori. Data were gathered via a series of hui (meetings) to which former students were invited, including both those who had completed the programme and those who had…
Bonds of Empire
Reviewed by: Bonds of Empire: The English Origins of Slave Law in South Carolina and British Plantation America, 1660–1783 by Lee B. Wilson Justin Roberts Bonds of Empire: The English Origins of Slave Law in South Carolina and British Plantation America, 1660–1783. By Lee B. Wilson. Cambridge Historical Studies in American Law and Society. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. 288 pages. Cloth, ebook. The preamble to the first comprehensiv…
Keep Dragging On
Prior research has shown that game‐based learning tools, such as DragonBox 12+, support algebraic understanding and that students' in‐game progress positively predicts their later performance. Using data from 253 seventh‐graders (12–13 years old) who played DragonBox as a part of technology intervention, we examined (a) the relations between students' progress within DragonBox and their algebraic knowledge and general mathematics achievement, (b)…
Indentured Servitude
The Paradox of Abolition
In 1792, the Danish government announced the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade and granted St. Croix planters a grace period to import slaves before the cessation. Despite hopes for improved conditions for the enslaved after the abolition, surging sugar prices prompted planters to increase imports of enslaved Africans. Census data, slave trade records, and land tax registers illustrate how St. Croix planters, in the face of impending abo…
Fragile Empire
Fragile Empire reinterprets the rise of slavery in the early English tropics through an innovative geographic framework. It examines slavery at English sites in tropical zones across the Atlantic and Indian oceans, and argues that a variety of factors – epidemiology, slave majorities, European rivalries, and the power of indigenous polities – made the seventeenth-century English tropical empire particularly fragile, creating a model of empire in …
Randy M. Browne. The Driver’s Story
Attachment orientation as a narrative resource
The coach-athlete relationship has long been recognised as central to athletes’ performance and wellbeing, yet its understanding through an attachment theory lens remains emergent, particularly within youth sport where empirical insights are limited. Underpinned by critical realist philosophy, this study argues that attachment orientation sits alongside socio-cultural narratives as a resource for storytelling within the caring context of the coac…
History (15 obras) · Colonialism, slavery, and trade (12 obras) · Political science (10 obras) · Law (9 obras) · Sociology (9 obras) · Economic history (7 obras) · Caribbean history, culture, and politics (6 obras) · Economics (6 obras) · Art (5 obras) · Cuban History and Society (5 obras)