Natasha Lightfoot
Biographic Data
| ID | 205217 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Natasha Lightfoot |
| GIVEN NAMES | Natasha |
| FAMILY NAME | Lightfoot |
| SIGNATURE | LIGHTFOOT N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Columbia University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
So Far to Leeward
Eliza Moore, an enslaved domestic born in British Antigua in the late 1700s, petitioned for her freedom in 1836 and 1838, using Britain’s 1834 abolition of slavery to facilitate her emancipation from the Danish Caribbean. The article frames Moore’s liberation efforts as “fugitive cosmopolitanism,” a concept emphasizing that enslaved people’s subjectivity within the Black Atlantic was marked by travels across great distances and a hard-won savvy—d…
The Common Wind
The 2018 publication of Julius S. Scott's The Common Wind: Afro-American Currents in the Age of the Haitian Revolution inspired a renewed focus on the reverberations of the Haitian Revolution. Here, six scholars of the Atlantic World and the Age of Revolutions consider the historiographical implications of The Common Wind and remind us how the Haitian upheaval belongs at the very center of the ripples of modernity that spread across the globe fro…
Disrepair, Distress, and Dispossession
The crisis unleashed in Barbuda by Hurricane Irma in 2017 followed centuries of neglect by the British colonial state and then by the postcolonial government of its sister island, Antigua. Barbuda developed customary communal-land tenure as a result of its peculiarities in slavery and freedom, and this survival strategy has doubled as political and economic resistance to encroachment by Antigua, where private land ownership and uneven opportunity…
Troubling Freedom
In 1834 Antigua became the only British colony in the Caribbean to move directly from slavery to full emancipation. Immediate freedom, however, did not live up to its promise, as it did not guarantee any level of stability or autonomy, and the implementation of new forms of coercion and control made it, in many ways, indistinguishable from slavery. In Troubling Freedom Natasha Lightfoot tells the story of how Antigua's newly freed black working p…
Reproducing the British Caribbean
This book reveals that the transition from slavery to a precarious freedom in the Anglophone Caribbean cannot be understood without close attention to the history of public health and its gendered
Their Coats were Tied Up like Men’
This paper presents the story of the 1858 riot and its primary causes, including Antigua's economic downturn since emancipation in 1834 and the dissatisfaction which black working people had with the post-slavery social order. The disturbance originated between dockworkers from both Antigua and Barbuda competing for jobs in Antigua's capital, but expanded to involve hundreds of working-class Antiguans assailing Barbudans, white planters, Portugue…
Four Works on the African Diaspora
Crossing Boundaries: Comparative History of Black People in Diaspora. Darlene Clark Hine and Jacqueline McLeod (eds.). Bloomington, IN, and London, UK: Indiana University Press, 1999. xxv+ 491 pp. (Cloth US$29.95) The African Diaspora: African Origins and New World Identities. Isidore Okpewho. Carole Boyce Davies. and Ali A. Mazrui (eds.). Bloomington, IN, and London, UK: Indiana University Press, 1999. xxviii. 566 pp. (Cloth USS59.95) Globalizat…
Disrepair, Distress, and Dispossession
The crisis unleashed in Barbuda by Hurricane Irma in 2017 followed centuries of neglect by the British colonial state and then by the postcolonial government of its sister island, Antigua. Barbuda developed customary communal-land tenure as a result of its peculiarities in slavery and freedom, and this survival strategy has doubled as political and economic resistance to encroachment by Antigua, where private land ownership and uneven opportunity…
Their Coats were Tied Up like Men’
This paper presents the story of the 1858 riot and its primary causes, including Antigua's economic downturn since emancipation in 1834 and the dissatisfaction which black working people had with the post-slavery social order. The disturbance originated between dockworkers from both Antigua and Barbuda competing for jobs in Antigua's capital, but expanded to involve hundreds of working-class Antiguans assailing Barbudans, white planters, Portugue…
Four Works on the African Diaspora
Crossing Boundaries: Comparative History of Black People in Diaspora. Darlene Clark Hine and Jacqueline McLeod (eds.). Bloomington, IN, and London, UK: Indiana University Press, 1999. xxv+ 491 pp. (Cloth US$29.95) The African Diaspora: African Origins and New World Identities. Isidore Okpewho. Carole Boyce Davies. and Ali A. Mazrui (eds.). Bloomington, IN, and London, UK: Indiana University Press, 1999. xxviii. 566 pp. (Cloth USS59.95) Globalizat…
Their Coats were Tied Up like Men’
This paper presents the story of the 1858 riot and its primary causes, including Antigua's economic downturn since emancipation in 1834 and the dissatisfaction which black working people had with the post-slavery social order. The disturbance originated between dockworkers from both Antigua and Barbuda competing for jobs in Antigua's capital, but expanded to involve hundreds of working-class Antiguans assailing Barbudans, white planters, Portugue…
Troubling Freedom
In 1834 Antigua became the only British colony in the Caribbean to move directly from slavery to full emancipation. Immediate freedom, however, did not live up to its promise, as it did not guarantee any level of stability or autonomy, and the implementation of new forms of coercion and control made it, in many ways, indistinguishable from slavery. In Troubling Freedom Natasha Lightfoot tells the story of how Antigua's newly freed black working p…
Reproducing the British Caribbean
This book reveals that the transition from slavery to a precarious freedom in the Anglophone Caribbean cannot be understood without close attention to the history of public health and its gendered
The Common Wind
The 2018 publication of Julius S. Scott's The Common Wind: Afro-American Currents in the Age of the Haitian Revolution inspired a renewed focus on the reverberations of the Haitian Revolution. Here, six scholars of the Atlantic World and the Age of Revolutions consider the historiographical implications of The Common Wind and remind us how the Haitian upheaval belongs at the very center of the ripples of modernity that spread across the globe fro…
Disrepair, Distress, and Dispossession
The crisis unleashed in Barbuda by Hurricane Irma in 2017 followed centuries of neglect by the British colonial state and then by the postcolonial government of its sister island, Antigua. Barbuda developed customary communal-land tenure as a result of its peculiarities in slavery and freedom, and this survival strategy has doubled as political and economic resistance to encroachment by Antigua, where private land ownership and uneven opportunity…
So Far to Leeward
Eliza Moore, an enslaved domestic born in British Antigua in the late 1700s, petitioned for her freedom in 1836 and 1838, using Britain’s 1834 abolition of slavery to facilitate her emancipation from the Danish Caribbean. The article frames Moore’s liberation efforts as “fugitive cosmopolitanism,” a concept emphasizing that enslaved people’s subjectivity within the Black Atlantic was marked by travels across great distances and a hard-won savvy—d…
Law (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · History (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Caribbean history, culture, and politics (5 works) · Colonialism, slavery, and trade (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Emancipation (3 works) · Law (3 works)