Natalie Zacek
Biographic Data
| ID | 149094 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Natalie Zacek |
| GIVEN NAMES | Natalie |
| FAMILY NAME | Zacek |
| SIGNATURE | ZACEK N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Manchester |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1943-5640 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 36 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 36 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Introduction: The “palpability” of another legacy
The price of knowledge: Universities and slavery in Anglo-American perspective
This article centers on the different ways that English and American universities have uncovered, publicized, and responded to their historical connections to transatlantic slavery. It argues that these differences reflect how national publics engage with their institutions of higher learning, and English campuses lack of the physical traces of enslavement that exist at some American universities, allowing the former’s students and faculty to vie…
Gendering Slaveholding in the Atlantic World
This Article Forum extends and amplifies the conversation begun by Misha Ewen ("Barbary Newton's Archive: Women and Enslavement in Seventeenth-Century Barbados and England") and Jared Ross Hardesty ("Two Sisters and Their Suriname Plantation: Fairfield Estate, Absenteeism, and New England's Political Economy of Slavery") in their articles in this issue. Natalie Zacek, Nicole S. Maskiell, and Susan D. Amussen engage with Ewen's and Hardesty's work…
Running from Bondage: Enslaved Women and Their Remarkable Fight for Freedom in Revolutionary America by Karen Cook Bell
The story of Ona Judge, an enslaved woman who fled George Washington’s Mount Vernon in 1796 and remained free for the rest of her long life is widely known, particularly since the recent publication of Erica Armstrong Dunbar’s Never Caught (New York, 2019). But Judge was only one of many enslaved women who attempted to escape bondage and experience a lifetime of liberty during the latter half of the eighteenth century. In this insightful study, B…
Holding the Whip-Hand: The Female Slaveholder in Myth and Reality
This article examines two female slaveholders, one real and one fictional, to explore the relationship between gender and slave management in both history and popular culture. Annie Palmer, the “White Witch of Rose Hall” plantation in Jamaica, although the creation of folklore and journalistic exaggeration, has functioned for a century and a half as a symbol not only of the evils of slavery but of the idea that female slaveholders’ cruelty threat…
Spectacle and Spectatorship at the Nineteenth-Century American Racetrack
This paper argues that, in the antebellum United States, many people attended horse races at least as much from a desire to produce and consume spectacle as from a fascination with the sport itself. In many instances, their spectatorship was not simply directed at the actions of the horses and jockeys, but was instead focused on a broader category of spectacle, for which the nation’s preeminent racetracks became famous, and which was largely unav…
Swindler Sachem: The American Indian Who Sold His Birthright, Dropped Out of Harvard, and Conned the King of England. By Jenny Hale Pulsipher
Sentimental images of cultural mingling at the First Thanksgiving notwithstanding, the experience of Native Americans in seventeenth-century New England after the arrival of Puritan settlers was generally a grim one. From the Pequot War of 1636 - 1638 to King Philip’s War four decades later, the Indians of this region experienced significant casualties and lost control over their lands and their lives. But, as Jenny Hale Pulsipher’s lively and in…
Dispossessed Lives: Enslaved Women, Violence, and the Archive, by Marisa J. Fuentes
If historical sources produced by enslaved people in the American South are scant, those for the British Caribbean are nearly non-existent. In this tightly focused study, Marisa J. Fuentes examines the lived experience of women of colour in eighteenth-century Bridgetown, Barbados, illuminating the little-studied and frequently misunderstood practice of urban slavery. As the town was home to a significant number of female slaveholders, who tended …
The Caribbean and West Indies
This chapter examines the development of the Church of England in the West Indian colonies, notably Barbados, Jamaica, and the Leeward Islands of Antigua, Montserrat, Nevis, and St Kitts, in the era of ‘sugar and slavery’ (the mid-seventeenth through to late eighteenth centuries). In many instances, the Church’s mission was undermined by a critical lack of clergy, churches, and funds, and by an apparent lack of interest on the part of the planter…
The Princeton Companion to Atlantic History, edited by Joseph C. Miller
Abigail L. Swingen. Competing Visions of Empire: Labor, Slavery, and the Origins of the British Atlantic Empire
In this lucidly written and intelligently structured book, Abigail L. Swingen joins Susan D. Amussen, Simon Newman, and William Pettigrew in examining the conjoined birth of empire and slavery in seventeenth- and early-eighteenth-century England and its West Indian plantation colonies. Her central contention, ably supported by extensive research in state papers, is that neither imperial expansion nor its reliance on the labor of enslaved Africans…
Jefferson Dillman. Colonizing Paradise: Landscape and Empire in the British West Indies
From the beginnings of European settlement to the era of modern mass tourism, Europeans have expressed widely divergent views about the landscape of the West Indies, alternately emphasizing the possibilities and the pitfalls inherent therein. Jefferson Dillman’s study focuses on the ways in which these images were formulated and reformulated over half a millennium, and how their existence and circulation affected the social, cultural, and economi…
Reading the Rebels and Mining the Maps: Digital Humanities and Cartographic Narratives
This essay evaluates the significance of the website Slave Revolt in Jamaica, 1760–176 1, which was created by Harvard historian Vincent Brown in order to both respond to and provoke questions regarding a series of interconnected slave uprisings and their eventual repression by Jamaica’s colonial government. Locating this digital resource within the technological and scholarly developments that made its creation both possible and desirable, the e…
Moral Economies of Corruption: State Formation and Political Culture in Nigeria
all made sharp comments that made me reconsider key aspects of my argument.The anonymous readers for Duke University Press and my editor, Miriam Angress, have vastly improved the book with their careful attention to my argument and its implications.With such interlocutors, this book should be much better than it is; the fault for that, of course, is mine rather than theirs.I owe many people thanks for personal and professional support over the ye…
Enemigos íntimos: Colonizadores y comentaristas franceses e ingleses en la isla de San Cristóbal
Este artículo examina la variedad de textos producida por los colonos franceses e ingleses de la isla de St. Kitts (San Cristóbal) en los siglos XVII y XVIII, momento en que ambas comunidades se hallaban asentadas en este mismo territorio lo que generó mucha tensión y enfrentamientos frecuentes. La puesta en diálogo de estos textos permite entender las similitudes y diferencias entre los dos proyectos imperiales y ofrece una nueva perspectiva del…
Citizenship from Below: Erotic Agency and Caribbean Freedom - by Sheller, Mimi
Unsettled Houses: The Material Culture of the Missionary Project in Jamaica in the Era of Emancipation
This article examines the role of material culture, particularly clothing, houses and furniture, in the lives of nonconformist Protestant missionaries in Jamaica during the first half of the nineteenth century, in relation both to the lifestyles of the missionaries and their families and their encounters with enslaved people. While these missionaries hoped to improve the lives of the slaves and help them negotiate their transition to freedom, the…
Denver Brunsman. The Evil Necessity: British Naval Impressment in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World
Over the course of the eighteenth century, Britain attained an unprecedented degree of maritime mastery, developing Europe's most powerful navy while expanding its merchant marine across its burgeoning empire. But as Denver Brunsman illustrates in this wide-ranging and enlightening study, this seaborne success came at a great human cost, as perhaps a quarter of a million men—after slaves, the largest group of forced laborers in the British Empire…
A Tale Of Two Colonies: What Really Happened in Virginia and Bermuda
Between Lady and Slave: White Working Women in the Eighteenth-Century Leeward Islands
Although the past two decades have witnessed an efflorescence of scholarship on the part of historians, literary scholars, sociologists, and anthropologists on the subject of the history and culture of the British West Indies, to a large extent this chapter examines either the lives of those who owned the islands' plantations or those of the slaves who labored upon them. Women were barred from competing with lower-class white men for the scant op…
Separated by Their Sex: Women in Public and Private in the Colonial Atlantic World, by Mary Beth Norton
Black and White Masculinity in the American South, 1800–2000
Black and White Masculinity in the American South, 1800–2000 EDITED BY LYDIA PLATH AND SERGIO LUSSANA Newcastle Upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009 Pp. 240, £39.99 (hbk), ISBN 978 1 4438
Citizen Bachelors: Manhood and the Creation of the United States, by John Gilbert McCurdy
In this extensively researched and lucidly written study, John Gilbert McCurdy presents an insightful examination of the image and reality of never-married men in colonial and revolutionary America. As McCurdy notes, bachelors have previously been studied, by, among others, Mark Kann, Thomas A. Foster, and Jan Lewis, within the context of familial norms, with the result that it has been tempting for historians to dismiss these men as aberrant and…
Freedom: Retrospective and Prospective - edited by Wilmot, Swithin R
Settler Society in the English Leeward Islands, 1670–1776
Settler Society in the English Leeward Islands, 1670–1776 is the first study of the history of the federated colony of the Leeward Islands - Antigua, Montserrat, Nevis, and St Kitts - that covers all four islands in the period from their independence from Barbados in 1670 up to the outbreak of the American Revolution, which reshaped the Caribbean. Natalie A. Zacek emphasizes the extent to which the planters of these islands attempted to establish…
Voices and Silences: The Problem of Slave Testimony in the English West Indian Law Court
Atlantic Families: Lives and Letters in the Later Eighteenth Century
In this lively and extensively researched monograph, Sarah M.S. Pearsall sets out to discover ‘how families nurtured ties, sentimental and otherwise, in an Atlantic beset with considerable disruption, of which the American Revolution was one source among many’ (p. 5). As the British colonies in North America and the West Indies became ever more populous and prosperous over the course of the eighteenth century, more and more Anglo-American familie…
Searching for the Invisible Woman: The Evolution of White Women's Experience in Britain's West Indian Colonies
White women in Britain's West Indian colonies, including Barbados, Jamaica, and the Leeward Islands of Antigua, Montserrat, Nevis, and St. Kitts, have received far less attention from historians than have their counterparts in Britain's North American colonies. While scholars have taken up Mary Beth Norton's suggestion to historicize the evolution of white women's experience in colonial North America, the combination of the scarcity of evidence r…
Reading the Rebels and Mining the Maps: Digital Humanities and Cartographic Narratives
This essay evaluates the significance of the website Slave Revolt in Jamaica, 1760–176 1, which was created by Harvard historian Vincent Brown in order to both respond to and provoke questions regarding a series of interconnected slave uprisings and their eventual repression by Jamaica’s colonial government. Locating this digital resource within the technological and scholarly developments that made its creation both possible and desirable, the e…
American Slaves in Victorian England: Abolitionist Politics in Popular Literature and Culture, and: Romanticism and Slave Narratives: Transatlantic Testimonies (review)
Helen Thomas, Romanticism and Slave Narratives: Transatlantic Testimonies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. ix + 332 pages
An Empire Divided: The American Revolution and the British Caribbean (review)
Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History - Volume 2, Number 1, Spring 2001
Blue Coat or Powdered Wig: Free People of Color in Pre-Revolutionary Saint Domingue (review)
Reviewed by: Blue Coat or Powdered Wig: Free People of Color in Pre-Revolutionary Saint Domingue Natalie Zacek Stewart R. King, Blue Coat or Powdered Wig: Free People of Color in Pre-Revolutionary Saint Domingue (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2001) This monograph, adapted from the author’s dissertation, is a study of the free colored population of Saint Domingue, now known as Haiti, in the decades prior to the outbreak of the French colony…
Voices and Silences: The Problem of Slave Testimony in the English West Indian Law Court
Of codfish, cane, and contraceptives: Early modern commodities in Atlantic perspective
This review article discusses three recent books on the production and circulation of commodities within the early modern Atlantic world. It focuses on the rise of that Atlantic world as a field of historical enquiry, and upon the importance of goods such as sugar, codfish, and medicinal plants within that world in both historic and in historiographical terms. The three titles under review deal with commodities in very different ways and on very …
Searching for the Invisible Woman: The Evolution of White Women's Experience in Britain's West Indian Colonies
White women in Britain's West Indian colonies, including Barbados, Jamaica, and the Leeward Islands of Antigua, Montserrat, Nevis, and St. Kitts, have received far less attention from historians than have their counterparts in Britain's North American colonies. While scholars have taken up Mary Beth Norton's suggestion to historicize the evolution of white women's experience in colonial North America, the combination of the scarcity of evidence r…
Plantation Jamaica 1750–1850: Capital and Control in a Colonial Economy
Book Review| January 01 2008 Plantation Jamaica 1750–1850: Capital and Control in a Colonial Economy Plantation Jamaica 1750-1850: Capital and Control in a Colonial Economy. B. W. Higman. Natalie Zacek Natalie Zacek Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Agricultural History (2008) 82 (1): 103–105. https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-82.1.103 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Natalie Zacek; …
Irons in the Fire: The Business History of the Tayloe Family and Virginia’s Gentry, 1700–1860
LAURA CROGHAN KAMOIE Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2007 Pp. 222, $35.00 (hbk), ISBN 978 0 8139 2637 7 In his classic study of Philadelphia’s mercantile elite in the era of the Amer
Engendering Whiteness: White women and colonialism in Barbados and North Carolina, 1627-1865
CECILY JONES Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2007 Pp. v + 237, £55.00. ISBN 978 0 7190 6432 6 In this monograph, historical sociologist Cecily Jones’s goal is to ‘throw into sharp relief t...
Medical Revolutionaries: The Enslaved Healers of Eighteenth-Century Saint Domingue
Settler Society in the English Leeward Islands, 1670–1776
Settler Society in the English Leeward Islands, 1670–1776 is the first study of the history of the federated colony of the Leeward Islands - Antigua, Montserrat, Nevis, and St Kitts - that covers all four islands in the period from their independence from Barbados in 1670 up to the outbreak of the American Revolution, which reshaped the Caribbean. Natalie A. Zacek emphasizes the extent to which the planters of these islands attempted to establish…
Atlantic Families: Lives and Letters in the Later Eighteenth Century
In this lively and extensively researched monograph, Sarah M.S. Pearsall sets out to discover ‘how families nurtured ties, sentimental and otherwise, in an Atlantic beset with considerable disruption, of which the American Revolution was one source among many’ (p. 5). As the British colonies in North America and the West Indies became ever more populous and prosperous over the course of the eighteenth century, more and more Anglo-American familie…
Black and White Masculinity in the American South, 1800–2000
Black and White Masculinity in the American South, 1800–2000 EDITED BY LYDIA PLATH AND SERGIO LUSSANA Newcastle Upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009 Pp. 240, £39.99 (hbk), ISBN 978 1 4438
Citizen Bachelors: Manhood and the Creation of the United States, by John Gilbert McCurdy
In this extensively researched and lucidly written study, John Gilbert McCurdy presents an insightful examination of the image and reality of never-married men in colonial and revolutionary America. As McCurdy notes, bachelors have previously been studied, by, among others, Mark Kann, Thomas A. Foster, and Jan Lewis, within the context of familial norms, with the result that it has been tempting for historians to dismiss these men as aberrant and…
Freedom: Retrospective and Prospective - edited by Wilmot, Swithin R
Between Lady and Slave: White Working Women in the Eighteenth-Century Leeward Islands
Although the past two decades have witnessed an efflorescence of scholarship on the part of historians, literary scholars, sociologists, and anthropologists on the subject of the history and culture of the British West Indies, to a large extent this chapter examines either the lives of those who owned the islands' plantations or those of the slaves who labored upon them. Women were barred from competing with lower-class white men for the scant op…
Separated by Their Sex: Women in Public and Private in the Colonial Atlantic World, by Mary Beth Norton
A Tale Of Two Colonies: What Really Happened in Virginia and Bermuda
Unsettled Houses: The Material Culture of the Missionary Project in Jamaica in the Era of Emancipation
This article examines the role of material culture, particularly clothing, houses and furniture, in the lives of nonconformist Protestant missionaries in Jamaica during the first half of the nineteenth century, in relation both to the lifestyles of the missionaries and their families and their encounters with enslaved people. While these missionaries hoped to improve the lives of the slaves and help them negotiate their transition to freedom, the…
Denver Brunsman. The Evil Necessity: British Naval Impressment in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World
Over the course of the eighteenth century, Britain attained an unprecedented degree of maritime mastery, developing Europe's most powerful navy while expanding its merchant marine across its burgeoning empire. But as Denver Brunsman illustrates in this wide-ranging and enlightening study, this seaborne success came at a great human cost, as perhaps a quarter of a million men—after slaves, the largest group of forced laborers in the British Empire…
Enemigos íntimos: Colonizadores y comentaristas franceses e ingleses en la isla de San Cristóbal
Este artículo examina la variedad de textos producida por los colonos franceses e ingleses de la isla de St. Kitts (San Cristóbal) en los siglos XVII y XVIII, momento en que ambas comunidades se hallaban asentadas en este mismo territorio lo que generó mucha tensión y enfrentamientos frecuentes. La puesta en diálogo de estos textos permite entender las similitudes y diferencias entre los dos proyectos imperiales y ofrece una nueva perspectiva del…
Citizenship from Below: Erotic Agency and Caribbean Freedom - by Sheller, Mimi
The Princeton Companion to Atlantic History, edited by Joseph C. Miller
Abigail L. Swingen. Competing Visions of Empire: Labor, Slavery, and the Origins of the British Atlantic Empire
In this lucidly written and intelligently structured book, Abigail L. Swingen joins Susan D. Amussen, Simon Newman, and William Pettigrew in examining the conjoined birth of empire and slavery in seventeenth- and early-eighteenth-century England and its West Indian plantation colonies. Her central contention, ably supported by extensive research in state papers, is that neither imperial expansion nor its reliance on the labor of enslaved Africans…
Jefferson Dillman. Colonizing Paradise: Landscape and Empire in the British West Indies
From the beginnings of European settlement to the era of modern mass tourism, Europeans have expressed widely divergent views about the landscape of the West Indies, alternately emphasizing the possibilities and the pitfalls inherent therein. Jefferson Dillman’s study focuses on the ways in which these images were formulated and reformulated over half a millennium, and how their existence and circulation affected the social, cultural, and economi…
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