Jake Subryan Richards
Biographic Data
| ID | 349690 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jake Subryan Richards |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jake Subryan |
| FAMILY NAME | Richards |
| SIGNATURE | RICHARDS J S |
| AFFILIATIONS | London School of Economics and Political Science |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8442-9864 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Ecologies in Flight
People interacted with birds and created ecological knowledge about them while enslaved and during the transition to emancipation from 1848 onward in the Danish colony of St. Croix. These Black ecologies can be reconstructed through a close analysis of the writings of two of the leading ornithologists of the period: Alfred and Edward Newton. These sources provide the basis for a new analytic frame: “ecologies in flight,” in which flight refers to…
The Bonds of Freedom
The story of the long fight for freedom of African captives rescued from the illegal slave trade only to be forced back into bondage The Bonds of Freedom tells the forgotten story of people seized from slave ships by maritime patrols, “liberated,” then forced into bonded labor between 1807 and 1880. Using extensive archival research from Sierra Leone, South Africa, Brazil, Cuba, the United Kingdom, and the United States, historian Jake Subryan Ri…
Captivity’s Collections
Kathleen S. Murphy, Captivity’s Collections: Science, Natural History, and the British Transatlantic Slave Trade. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2023. xiv + 239 pp. (Paper US$ 29.95)
Jurisdiction and Afro-Brazilian Legal Politics from Colonialism to Early Independence
Every empire in the Americas developed a law of slavery that connected the forced transoceanic migration of enslaved people with land-based economic production and social life. Competing conceptions of jurisdiction over land and sea emerged from legal processes regarding slavery in the transition from colonial Portuguese rule to early independence in Brazil. Both the Portuguese monarch and post-independence Brazilian ministers sought to assert ju…
Political Thought and the Emotion of Shame
This article argues that the emotion of shame explains how John Stuart Mill and the Jamaica Committee developed intellectual arguments in response to the brutal suppression by Governor Edward Eyre of the Morant Bay rebellion in post-emancipation colonial Jamaica in 1865. Positioning the emotions as integral to cognitive systems, the article traces Mill and the committee's arguments against their opponents, the Eyre Defence Committee. The Jamaica …
The Adjudication of Slave Ship Captures, Coercive Intervention, and Value Exchange in Comparative Atlantic Perspective, ca. 1839–1870
What were the consequences of creating jurisdictions against the transatlantic slave trade in the nineteenth-century Atlantic world? Answering this question requires a comparative focus on the courts of mixed commission that adjudicated naval captures of slave ships, located at Sierra Leone (the foremost site of British abolition) and Brazil (the primary mid-century target). Court jurisdiction conflicted with sovereign jurisdiction regarding the …
Anti-Slave-Trade Law, ‘Liberated Africans’ and the State in the South Atlantic World, c.1839–1852
On 5 August 1844, six African men boarded HMS Helena to tell Commander Cornwallis Ricketts that their lives were in danger. 'They state themselves that they are slaves, and that they are in bodily fear'. The six had embarked on the brig Unia o at Mozambique Island, the capital of the Portuguese colonial 'province' of Mozambique. The Unia o had been sailing in the 'Quillimane River' when the Helena had intercepted it as a suspected slave ship. Ric…
Political Culture in Jamaica Before Anticolonial Nationalism
This paper considers scholarship on political culture in Jamaica in 1865, the year of the Morant Bay rebellion. It situates the historiography of political culture in relation to three trends: first, an older historiography that envisaged the rebellion as indicative of nationalist consciousness; second, a more recent focus on the local politics of protest in the period 1838–1900; and third, another recent approach of explaining political culture …
Anti-Slave-Trade Law, ‘Liberated Africans’ and the State in the South Atlantic World, c.1839–1852
On 5 August 1844, six African men boarded HMS Helena to tell Commander Cornwallis Ricketts that their lives were in danger. 'They state themselves that they are slaves, and that they are in bodily fear'. The six had embarked on the brig Unia o at Mozambique Island, the capital of the Portuguese colonial 'province' of Mozambique. The Unia o had been sailing in the 'Quillimane River' when the Helena had intercepted it as a suspected slave ship. Ric…
Political Culture in Jamaica Before Anticolonial Nationalism
This paper considers scholarship on political culture in Jamaica in 1865, the year of the Morant Bay rebellion. It situates the historiography of political culture in relation to three trends: first, an older historiography that envisaged the rebellion as indicative of nationalist consciousness; second, a more recent focus on the local politics of protest in the period 1838–1900; and third, another recent approach of explaining political culture …
The Adjudication of Slave Ship Captures, Coercive Intervention, and Value Exchange in Comparative Atlantic Perspective, ca. 1839–1870
What were the consequences of creating jurisdictions against the transatlantic slave trade in the nineteenth-century Atlantic world? Answering this question requires a comparative focus on the courts of mixed commission that adjudicated naval captures of slave ships, located at Sierra Leone (the foremost site of British abolition) and Brazil (the primary mid-century target). Court jurisdiction conflicted with sovereign jurisdiction regarding the …
Political Culture in Jamaica Before Anticolonial Nationalism
This paper considers scholarship on political culture in Jamaica in 1865, the year of the Morant Bay rebellion. It situates the historiography of political culture in relation to three trends: first, an older historiography that envisaged the rebellion as indicative of nationalist consciousness; second, a more recent focus on the local politics of protest in the period 1838–1900; and third, another recent approach of explaining political culture …
Anti-Slave-Trade Law, ‘Liberated Africans’ and the State in the South Atlantic World, c.1839–1852
On 5 August 1844, six African men boarded HMS Helena to tell Commander Cornwallis Ricketts that their lives were in danger. 'They state themselves that they are slaves, and that they are in bodily fear'. The six had embarked on the brig Unia o at Mozambique Island, the capital of the Portuguese colonial 'province' of Mozambique. The Unia o had been sailing in the 'Quillimane River' when the Helena had intercepted it as a suspected slave ship. Ric…
The Adjudication of Slave Ship Captures, Coercive Intervention, and Value Exchange in Comparative Atlantic Perspective, ca. 1839–1870
What were the consequences of creating jurisdictions against the transatlantic slave trade in the nineteenth-century Atlantic world? Answering this question requires a comparative focus on the courts of mixed commission that adjudicated naval captures of slave ships, located at Sierra Leone (the foremost site of British abolition) and Brazil (the primary mid-century target). Court jurisdiction conflicted with sovereign jurisdiction regarding the …
Political Thought and the Emotion of Shame
This article argues that the emotion of shame explains how John Stuart Mill and the Jamaica Committee developed intellectual arguments in response to the brutal suppression by Governor Edward Eyre of the Morant Bay rebellion in post-emancipation colonial Jamaica in 1865. Positioning the emotions as integral to cognitive systems, the article traces Mill and the committee's arguments against their opponents, the Eyre Defence Committee. The Jamaica …
Jurisdiction and Afro-Brazilian Legal Politics from Colonialism to Early Independence
Every empire in the Americas developed a law of slavery that connected the forced transoceanic migration of enslaved people with land-based economic production and social life. Competing conceptions of jurisdiction over land and sea emerged from legal processes regarding slavery in the transition from colonial Portuguese rule to early independence in Brazil. Both the Portuguese monarch and post-independence Brazilian ministers sought to assert ju…
The Bonds of Freedom
The story of the long fight for freedom of African captives rescued from the illegal slave trade only to be forced back into bondage The Bonds of Freedom tells the forgotten story of people seized from slave ships by maritime patrols, “liberated,” then forced into bonded labor between 1807 and 1880. Using extensive archival research from Sierra Leone, South Africa, Brazil, Cuba, the United Kingdom, and the United States, historian Jake Subryan Ri…
Captivity’s Collections
Kathleen S. Murphy, Captivity’s Collections: Science, Natural History, and the British Transatlantic Slave Trade. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2023. xiv + 239 pp. (Paper US$ 29.95)
Ecologies in Flight
People interacted with birds and created ecological knowledge about them while enslaved and during the transition to emancipation from 1848 onward in the Danish colony of St. Croix. These Black ecologies can be reconstructed through a close analysis of the writings of two of the leading ornithologists of the period: Alfred and Edward Newton. These sources provide the basis for a new analytic frame: “ecologies in flight,” in which flight refers to…
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