Verene A Shepherd
Biographic Data
| ID | 3922366 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Verene A Shepherd |
| GIVEN NAMES | Verene A |
| FAMILY NAME | Shepherd |
| SIGNATURE | SHEPHERD V A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of the West Indies System |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Past Imperfect, Future Perfect? Reparations, Rehabilitation, Reconciliation
Captives and Voyagers: Black Migrants across the Eighteenth Century British Atlantic World
Captives and Voyagers: Black Migrants across the Eighteenth Century British Atlantic World, by Alexander X. Byrd, Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University Press, 2008, xi + 346 pp., $49.95, ISBN 978
Slavery, Shame and Pride: Debates over the Marking of the Bicentennial of the Abolition of the British Trans-Atlantic Trade in Africans in 2007
This essay intervenes in the public debates over the relevance of the bicentenary of the abolition of the British trans Atlantic trade in Africans to post-colonial societies in the Caribbean. It is offered as a way of understanding the longer-term meaning and legacy of abolition in the 21st century. The choice of subject matter has not only been determined by the controversies that emerged in the Caribbean and elsewhere during the bicentennial, b…
From "Numbered Notations" to Named Ancestors: Finding Contemporary Meaning in Vincent Brown's The Reaper's Garden
Research Article| March 01 2010 From “Numbered Notations” to Named Ancestors: Finding Contemporary Meaning in Vincent Brown's The Reaper's Garden Verene A. Shepherd Verene A. Shepherd Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Small Axe (2010) 14 (1 (31)): 212–218. https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-2009-053 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Verene A. Shepherd; From “Numbered Notations” to Name…
Apology to Australia's indigenous peoples: Commentary: You don't have to say you're sorry …? Apologies and regrets during the bicentennial of the abolition of the British transatlantic trade in Africa…
(2008). Apology to Australia's indigenous peoples. International Journal of African Renaissance Studies - Multi-, Inter- and Transdisciplinarity: Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 130-140
A Historical Study of Women in Jamaica, 1655-1844: 1655-1844
In 1974 Lucille Mathurin Mair defended her dissertation, which has since become a classic work in Caribbean historiography and influenced generations of scholars. Through extensive archival work with estate records, legal records, family papers and private correspondence, she sought out the women of Jamaica's past during slavery, women of all classes, all colours, black, brown and white. The work stands as a convincing exposure of women as agents…
Knowledge production and the construction of ‘Africa(ns)’ in the Caribbean
This article traces the roots of how knowledge on Africa was produced and reproduced in the Caribbean. The discussion ranges from the views of Las Casas, who initiated the idea of black chattel slavery, through to the views of Thomas Thistlewood (1750–1786), Edward Long (1774), Maria Nugent (1802–1805), Thomas Carlyle (1845), and J. A. Froude (1880) and beyond. Among the questions to be asked and answered are: how deeply embedded in history was t…
Ghosts of Slavery: A Literary Archaeology of Black Women's Lives (review)
Unity and disunity, creolization and marronage in the atlantic world: Conceptualizing Atlantic Studies
Since the emergence of Atlantic Studies, scholars have engaged in a rigorous theorizing of the field. The ideological perspectives have not been unified. Debates have ebbed and flowed, for example, around the issue of identity, an essential question posed: was there a discrete Atlantic identity that was distinguishable from a burgeoning imperialist mentality? This essay comments on the concept of a “unified Atlantic World,” showing that great ins…
Maharani's Misery: Narratives of a passage from India to the Caribbean
Maharani’s Misery sheds new light on the ordeal of indentured Indians, especially women, as they crossed the oceans to labour on sugar plantations in the Caribbean (and elsewhere) in the nineteenth century. Narrating the tragedy of a young woman who died on one such passage, apparently after being raped by crewmen, the book analyses “sexploitation” as a routine aspect of the voyages of the “coolie ships”. The testimonies of those who gave evidenc…
Questioning Creole: Domestic producers in Jamaica's plantation economy
A travers l'exemple de l'elevage domestique a la Jamaique, l'A. discute les points de vue d'Edward Long et de Kamau Brathwaite sur la possibilite d'une economie creole, c'est-a-dire d'une production locale de biens et services echanges sur le marche interne. Selon l'A., les approvisionnements necessaires a l'economie de plantation sucriere etaient essentiellement realises par des importations, entravant ainsi l'emergence d'une production locale e…
Slave Cultures and the Cultures of Slavery
Engendering History: Caribbean Women in Historical Perspective
Part 1 Theoretical perspectives: through an African-feminist theoretical lens, Rosalyn Terborg-Penn writing gender into history - Indian men and women in post-indenture Trinidad society, 1917-47, Patricia Mohammed gender politics and imperial politics - rethinking the history of empire, Catherine Hall. Part 2 Sources and methods: text, testimony and gender, Bridget Brereton gender and memory, Mary Chamberlain pictorial sources for 19th-century wo…
Indentured Labor in the Age of Imperialism, 1834-1922
Caribbean freedom: Society and economy from emancipation to the present
This reader of nearly 60 articles covers major events in the Caribbean struggle for freedom from emancipation to the present - from Toussaint's Haiti to the more recent revolutions in Cuba, Grenada and the Dominican Republic. The range of coverage is comprehensive calling attention to the variety of post-slavery experiences in the Spanish, Dutch, English and French Caribbean. Three broad themes are identified: the slow disintegration of the slave…
Alternative husbandry: Slaves and free labourers on livestock farms in Jamaica in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
(1993). Alternative husbandry: Slaves and free labourers on livestock farms in Jamaica in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Slavery & Abolition: Vol. 14, The wage of Slavery: From Chattel Slavery to wage labour in Africa, the Caribbean and England, pp. 41-66
Livestock and Sugar: Aspects of Jamaica's Agricultural Development from the Late Seventeenth to the Early Nineteenth Century
The study of the agricultural history of Jamaica, particularly after the seventeenth century when England seized the island from Spain, has traditionally been dominated by investigations of the sugar industry. Recently a few scholars have deviated from this path to examine in varying degrees of detail, agrarian activities which did not represent the standard eighteenth-century West Indian route to wealth. Foremost among this growing body of liter…
The effects of the abolition of slavery on Jamaican livestock farms (pens), 1834–1845
(1989). The effects of the abolition of slavery on Jamaican livestock farms (pens), 1834–1845. Slavery & Abolition: Vol. 10, No. 2, pp. 187-211
Indians and blacks in Jamaica in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries: A micro‐study of the foundation of race antagonisms
The immigration and settlement of East Indians in Jamaica had important consequences for the pattern of race relations in that island. More specifically, the presence of Indians created hostility between Indians and blacks, two subordinate groups in Jamaica's plural colonial society. Economic competition, particularly in the twentieth century, combined with the mutual display of feelings of racial and cultural superiority which led to stereotypic…
From rural plantations to urban slums: The economic status and problems of East Indians in Kingston, Jamaica, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
East Indian labourers imported into Jamaica in the post‐emancipation period were located primarily on sugar‐cane and banana plantations in the rural areas of the island. Indeed, the majority remained rural dwellers even after the expiration of their restrictive indentured contracts. The search for higher rewards for labour in terms of real wages and general well‐being, however, impelled a small proportion of time‐expired Indians to the urban sect…
The Dynamics of Afro-Jamaican—East Indian Relations in Jamaica, 1845–1945: A Preliminary Analysis
Livestock and Sugar: Aspects of Jamaica's Agricultural Development from the Late Seventeenth to the Early Nineteenth Century
The study of the agricultural history of Jamaica, particularly after the seventeenth century when England seized the island from Spain, has traditionally been dominated by investigations of the sugar industry. Recently a few scholars have deviated from this path to examine in varying degrees of detail, agrarian activities which did not represent the standard eighteenth-century West Indian route to wealth. Foremost among this growing body of liter…
Slave Cultures and the Cultures of Slavery
Past Imperfect, Future Perfect? Reparations, Rehabilitation, Reconciliation
Slavery, Shame and Pride: Debates over the Marking of the Bicentennial of the Abolition of the British Trans-Atlantic Trade in Africans in 2007
This essay intervenes in the public debates over the relevance of the bicentenary of the abolition of the British trans Atlantic trade in Africans to post-colonial societies in the Caribbean. It is offered as a way of understanding the longer-term meaning and legacy of abolition in the 21st century. The choice of subject matter has not only been determined by the controversies that emerged in the Caribbean and elsewhere during the bicentennial, b…
Questioning Creole: Domestic producers in Jamaica's plantation economy
A travers l'exemple de l'elevage domestique a la Jamaique, l'A. discute les points de vue d'Edward Long et de Kamau Brathwaite sur la possibilite d'une economie creole, c'est-a-dire d'une production locale de biens et services echanges sur le marche interne. Selon l'A., les approvisionnements necessaires a l'economie de plantation sucriere etaient essentiellement realises par des importations, entravant ainsi l'emergence d'une production locale e…
Alternative husbandry: Slaves and free labourers on livestock farms in Jamaica in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
(1993). Alternative husbandry: Slaves and free labourers on livestock farms in Jamaica in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Slavery & Abolition: Vol. 14, The wage of Slavery: From Chattel Slavery to wage labour in Africa, the Caribbean and England, pp. 41-66
The Dynamics of Afro-Jamaican—East Indian Relations in Jamaica, 1845–1945: A Preliminary Analysis
Unity and disunity, creolization and marronage in the atlantic world: Conceptualizing Atlantic Studies
Since the emergence of Atlantic Studies, scholars have engaged in a rigorous theorizing of the field. The ideological perspectives have not been unified. Debates have ebbed and flowed, for example, around the issue of identity, an essential question posed: was there a discrete Atlantic identity that was distinguishable from a burgeoning imperialist mentality? This essay comments on the concept of a “unified Atlantic World,” showing that great ins…
The effects of the abolition of slavery on Jamaican livestock farms (pens), 1834–1845
(1989). The effects of the abolition of slavery on Jamaican livestock farms (pens), 1834–1845. Slavery & Abolition: Vol. 10, No. 2, pp. 187-211
Indians and blacks in Jamaica in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries: A micro‐study of the foundation of race antagonisms
The immigration and settlement of East Indians in Jamaica had important consequences for the pattern of race relations in that island. More specifically, the presence of Indians created hostility between Indians and blacks, two subordinate groups in Jamaica's plural colonial society. Economic competition, particularly in the twentieth century, combined with the mutual display of feelings of racial and cultural superiority which led to stereotypic…
From rural plantations to urban slums: The economic status and problems of East Indians in Kingston, Jamaica, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
East Indian labourers imported into Jamaica in the post‐emancipation period were located primarily on sugar‐cane and banana plantations in the rural areas of the island. Indeed, the majority remained rural dwellers even after the expiration of their restrictive indentured contracts. The search for higher rewards for labour in terms of real wages and general well‐being, however, impelled a small proportion of time‐expired Indians to the urban sect…
From rural plantations to urban slums: The economic status and problems of East Indians in Kingston, Jamaica, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
East Indian labourers imported into Jamaica in the post‐emancipation period were located primarily on sugar‐cane and banana plantations in the rural areas of the island. Indeed, the majority remained rural dwellers even after the expiration of their restrictive indentured contracts. The search for higher rewards for labour in terms of real wages and general well‐being, however, impelled a small proportion of time‐expired Indians to the urban sect…
The Dynamics of Afro-Jamaican—East Indian Relations in Jamaica, 1845–1945: A Preliminary Analysis
Indians and blacks in Jamaica in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries: A micro‐study of the foundation of race antagonisms
The immigration and settlement of East Indians in Jamaica had important consequences for the pattern of race relations in that island. More specifically, the presence of Indians created hostility between Indians and blacks, two subordinate groups in Jamaica's plural colonial society. Economic competition, particularly in the twentieth century, combined with the mutual display of feelings of racial and cultural superiority which led to stereotypic…
The effects of the abolition of slavery on Jamaican livestock farms (pens), 1834–1845
(1989). The effects of the abolition of slavery on Jamaican livestock farms (pens), 1834–1845. Slavery & Abolition: Vol. 10, No. 2, pp. 187-211
Livestock and Sugar: Aspects of Jamaica's Agricultural Development from the Late Seventeenth to the Early Nineteenth Century
The study of the agricultural history of Jamaica, particularly after the seventeenth century when England seized the island from Spain, has traditionally been dominated by investigations of the sugar industry. Recently a few scholars have deviated from this path to examine in varying degrees of detail, agrarian activities which did not represent the standard eighteenth-century West Indian route to wealth. Foremost among this growing body of liter…
Caribbean freedom: Society and economy from emancipation to the present
This reader of nearly 60 articles covers major events in the Caribbean struggle for freedom from emancipation to the present - from Toussaint's Haiti to the more recent revolutions in Cuba, Grenada and the Dominican Republic. The range of coverage is comprehensive calling attention to the variety of post-slavery experiences in the Spanish, Dutch, English and French Caribbean. Three broad themes are identified: the slow disintegration of the slave…
Alternative husbandry: Slaves and free labourers on livestock farms in Jamaica in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
(1993). Alternative husbandry: Slaves and free labourers on livestock farms in Jamaica in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Slavery & Abolition: Vol. 14, The wage of Slavery: From Chattel Slavery to wage labour in Africa, the Caribbean and England, pp. 41-66
Engendering History: Caribbean Women in Historical Perspective
Part 1 Theoretical perspectives: through an African-feminist theoretical lens, Rosalyn Terborg-Penn writing gender into history - Indian men and women in post-indenture Trinidad society, 1917-47, Patricia Mohammed gender politics and imperial politics - rethinking the history of empire, Catherine Hall. Part 2 Sources and methods: text, testimony and gender, Bridget Brereton gender and memory, Mary Chamberlain pictorial sources for 19th-century wo…
Indentured Labor in the Age of Imperialism, 1834-1922
Slave Cultures and the Cultures of Slavery
Questioning Creole: Domestic producers in Jamaica's plantation economy
A travers l'exemple de l'elevage domestique a la Jamaique, l'A. discute les points de vue d'Edward Long et de Kamau Brathwaite sur la possibilite d'une economie creole, c'est-a-dire d'une production locale de biens et services echanges sur le marche interne. Selon l'A., les approvisionnements necessaires a l'economie de plantation sucriere etaient essentiellement realises par des importations, entravant ainsi l'emergence d'une production locale e…
Maharani's Misery: Narratives of a passage from India to the Caribbean
Maharani’s Misery sheds new light on the ordeal of indentured Indians, especially women, as they crossed the oceans to labour on sugar plantations in the Caribbean (and elsewhere) in the nineteenth century. Narrating the tragedy of a young woman who died on one such passage, apparently after being raped by crewmen, the book analyses “sexploitation” as a routine aspect of the voyages of the “coolie ships”. The testimonies of those who gave evidenc…
Ghosts of Slavery: A Literary Archaeology of Black Women's Lives (review)
Unity and disunity, creolization and marronage in the atlantic world: Conceptualizing Atlantic Studies
Since the emergence of Atlantic Studies, scholars have engaged in a rigorous theorizing of the field. The ideological perspectives have not been unified. Debates have ebbed and flowed, for example, around the issue of identity, an essential question posed: was there a discrete Atlantic identity that was distinguishable from a burgeoning imperialist mentality? This essay comments on the concept of a “unified Atlantic World,” showing that great ins…
Knowledge production and the construction of ‘Africa(ns)’ in the Caribbean
This article traces the roots of how knowledge on Africa was produced and reproduced in the Caribbean. The discussion ranges from the views of Las Casas, who initiated the idea of black chattel slavery, through to the views of Thomas Thistlewood (1750–1786), Edward Long (1774), Maria Nugent (1802–1805), Thomas Carlyle (1845), and J. A. Froude (1880) and beyond. Among the questions to be asked and answered are: how deeply embedded in history was t…
A Historical Study of Women in Jamaica, 1655-1844: 1655-1844
In 1974 Lucille Mathurin Mair defended her dissertation, which has since become a classic work in Caribbean historiography and influenced generations of scholars. Through extensive archival work with estate records, legal records, family papers and private correspondence, she sought out the women of Jamaica's past during slavery, women of all classes, all colours, black, brown and white. The work stands as a convincing exposure of women as agents…
Apology to Australia's indigenous peoples: Commentary: You don't have to say you're sorry …? Apologies and regrets during the bicentennial of the abolition of the British transatlantic trade in Africa…
(2008). Apology to Australia's indigenous peoples. International Journal of African Renaissance Studies - Multi-, Inter- and Transdisciplinarity: Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 130-140
Slavery, Shame and Pride: Debates over the Marking of the Bicentennial of the Abolition of the British Trans-Atlantic Trade in Africans in 2007
This essay intervenes in the public debates over the relevance of the bicentenary of the abolition of the British trans Atlantic trade in Africans to post-colonial societies in the Caribbean. It is offered as a way of understanding the longer-term meaning and legacy of abolition in the 21st century. The choice of subject matter has not only been determined by the controversies that emerged in the Caribbean and elsewhere during the bicentennial, b…
From "Numbered Notations" to Named Ancestors: Finding Contemporary Meaning in Vincent Brown's The Reaper's Garden
Research Article| March 01 2010 From “Numbered Notations” to Named Ancestors: Finding Contemporary Meaning in Vincent Brown's The Reaper's Garden Verene A. Shepherd Verene A. Shepherd Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Small Axe (2010) 14 (1 (31)): 212–218. https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-2009-053 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Verene A. Shepherd; From “Numbered Notations” to Name…
Captives and Voyagers: Black Migrants across the Eighteenth Century British Atlantic World
Captives and Voyagers: Black Migrants across the Eighteenth Century British Atlantic World, by Alexander X. Byrd, Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University Press, 2008, xi + 346 pp., $49.95, ISBN 978
Past Imperfect, Future Perfect? Reparations, Rehabilitation, Reconciliation
History (15 works) · Caribbean history, culture, and politics (14 works) · Political science (11 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Geography (9 works) · History (9 works) · Colonialism, slavery, and trade (8 works) · Archaeology (7 works) · Economics (7 works) · Gender Studies (6 works)