Melanie J Newton
Biographic Data
| ID | 275371 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Melanie J Newton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Melanie J |
| FAMILY NAME | Newton |
| SIGNATURE | NEWTON M J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Toronto |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
More Auspicious Shores
Counterpoints of Conquest
This essay is a historical analysis of the Royal Proclamation of October 7, 1763, a foundational legal document of the British Empire after the Seven Years' War. In the Lesser Antilles, in contrast to Canada and the United States, the proclamation has no history as part of an evolving Indigenous constitution. Considering the proclamation from the historical vantage point of these islands reveals it to be worded in such a way as to legislate an In…
Labour Pains
The Race Leapt at Sauteurs”
Introductionin march 2012, atop a hill on Balliceaux island St Vincent and Grenadines, Belizean-born Garifuna healer Lucia Ellis gave thanks for being alive. Balliceaux is an inhospitable place, devoid of fresh water, natural shelter and consumable plant life. In July 1796, British forces interned 4,776 prisoners on this desolate island, which was hours away from St Vincent even on a frigate. An epidemic swept through camp and only 2,248 prisoner…
Introduction
This essay, an introduction to the special section on Caribbean historiography in this issue, reflects on Caribbean historiography's role in the pursuit of redress for historic injustices by exploring what three recent landmark legal developments reveal about Haiti's place in the Caribbean's past, present, and future. From the vantage point of Haiti, the 2004 coup, the 2010 earthquake, and the exploitation of Haitians in the Dominican Republic de…
Returns to a Native Land
This essay explores the narrative of “aboriginal absence,” arguably the foundational colonial myth of Caribbean history. Since the early colonial period, the space of the “native” in the Caribbean context has been treated as a space left vacant for others to fill. Beginning in the 1960s, this narrative of aboriginal absence was widely incorporated across a range of genres into texts that constitute the anglophone Caribbean's decolonizing intellec…
Freedom's Prisons
This article is a conversation with Diana Paton's study No Bond but the Law, which examines incarceration in emancipation era Jamaica. The analysis in this article focuses first on how Paton situates the Jamaican prison system within social transformations taking place across the late 18th and 19th century Atlantic World. The discussion then moves to Paton's engagement with Foucault, highlighting the vital importance of rethinking Foucault critic…
The Children of Africa in the Colonies
"When a small group of free men of color gathered in 1838 to celebrate the end of apprenticeship in Barbados, they spoke of emancipation as the moment of freedom for all colored people, not just the former slaves. The fact that many of these men had owned slaves themselves gives a hollow ring to their lofty pronouncements. Yet in The Children of Africa in the Colonies, Melanie J. Newton demonstrates that simply dismissing these men as hypocrites …
The King v. Robert James, a Slave, for Rape
In December 1832, less than a year before the British Parliament passed the first imperial slave emancipation bill, an all-white jury in the British Caribbean colony of Barbados convicted a black, enslaved man named Robert James of having robbed and sexually violated Margaret Higginbotham, an impoverished white widow and mother. Since Robert James was a black man accused of raping a white woman the jury's decision could hardly have surprised anyo…
After Slavery
New ideas of correctness’
Returns to a Native Land
This essay explores the narrative of “aboriginal absence,” arguably the foundational colonial myth of Caribbean history. Since the early colonial period, the space of the “native” in the Caribbean context has been treated as a space left vacant for others to fill. Beginning in the 1960s, this narrative of aboriginal absence was widely incorporated across a range of genres into texts that constitute the anglophone Caribbean's decolonizing intellec…
The Race Leapt at Sauteurs”
Introductionin march 2012, atop a hill on Balliceaux island St Vincent and Grenadines, Belizean-born Garifuna healer Lucia Ellis gave thanks for being alive. Balliceaux is an inhospitable place, devoid of fresh water, natural shelter and consumable plant life. In July 1796, British forces interned 4,776 prisoners on this desolate island, which was hours away from St Vincent even on a frigate. An epidemic swept through camp and only 2,248 prisoner…
The King v. Robert James, a Slave, for Rape
In December 1832, less than a year before the British Parliament passed the first imperial slave emancipation bill, an all-white jury in the British Caribbean colony of Barbados convicted a black, enslaved man named Robert James of having robbed and sexually violated Margaret Higginbotham, an impoverished white widow and mother. Since Robert James was a black man accused of raping a white woman the jury's decision could hardly have surprised anyo…
Counterpoints of Conquest
This essay is a historical analysis of the Royal Proclamation of October 7, 1763, a foundational legal document of the British Empire after the Seven Years' War. In the Lesser Antilles, in contrast to Canada and the United States, the proclamation has no history as part of an evolving Indigenous constitution. Considering the proclamation from the historical vantage point of these islands reveals it to be worded in such a way as to legislate an In…
New ideas of correctness’
New ideas of correctness’
After Slavery
The King v. Robert James, a Slave, for Rape
In December 1832, less than a year before the British Parliament passed the first imperial slave emancipation bill, an all-white jury in the British Caribbean colony of Barbados convicted a black, enslaved man named Robert James of having robbed and sexually violated Margaret Higginbotham, an impoverished white widow and mother. Since Robert James was a black man accused of raping a white woman the jury's decision could hardly have surprised anyo…
The Children of Africa in the Colonies
"When a small group of free men of color gathered in 1838 to celebrate the end of apprenticeship in Barbados, they spoke of emancipation as the moment of freedom for all colored people, not just the former slaves. The fact that many of these men had owned slaves themselves gives a hollow ring to their lofty pronouncements. Yet in The Children of Africa in the Colonies, Melanie J. Newton demonstrates that simply dismissing these men as hypocrites …
Freedom's Prisons
This article is a conversation with Diana Paton's study No Bond but the Law, which examines incarceration in emancipation era Jamaica. The analysis in this article focuses first on how Paton situates the Jamaican prison system within social transformations taking place across the late 18th and 19th century Atlantic World. The discussion then moves to Paton's engagement with Foucault, highlighting the vital importance of rethinking Foucault critic…
Returns to a Native Land
This essay explores the narrative of “aboriginal absence,” arguably the foundational colonial myth of Caribbean history. Since the early colonial period, the space of the “native” in the Caribbean context has been treated as a space left vacant for others to fill. Beginning in the 1960s, this narrative of aboriginal absence was widely incorporated across a range of genres into texts that constitute the anglophone Caribbean's decolonizing intellec…
The Race Leapt at Sauteurs”
Introductionin march 2012, atop a hill on Balliceaux island St Vincent and Grenadines, Belizean-born Garifuna healer Lucia Ellis gave thanks for being alive. Balliceaux is an inhospitable place, devoid of fresh water, natural shelter and consumable plant life. In July 1796, British forces interned 4,776 prisoners on this desolate island, which was hours away from St Vincent even on a frigate. An epidemic swept through camp and only 2,248 prisoner…
Introduction
This essay, an introduction to the special section on Caribbean historiography in this issue, reflects on Caribbean historiography's role in the pursuit of redress for historic injustices by exploring what three recent landmark legal developments reveal about Haiti's place in the Caribbean's past, present, and future. From the vantage point of Haiti, the 2004 coup, the 2010 earthquake, and the exploitation of Haitians in the Dominican Republic de…
Labour Pains
More Auspicious Shores
Counterpoints of Conquest
This essay is a historical analysis of the Royal Proclamation of October 7, 1763, a foundational legal document of the British Empire after the Seven Years' War. In the Lesser Antilles, in contrast to Canada and the United States, the proclamation has no history as part of an evolving Indigenous constitution. Considering the proclamation from the historical vantage point of these islands reveals it to be worded in such a way as to legislate an In…
Colonialism, slavery, and trade (11 works) · Political science (10 works) · Caribbean history, culture, and politics (9 works) · History (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Cuban History and Society (7 works) · Law (7 works) · History (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Emancipation (5 works)