Michael Craton
Biographic Data
| ID | 557258 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Craton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Craton |
| SIGNATURE | CRATON M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Waterloo |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 57 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 142 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 57 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1962 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
The Passion to Exist: Slave Rebellions in the British West Indies 1650-1832
Recent studies, especially the splendid comparative survey edited by Richard Price, have suggested that Maroon activity was less a phase, or even type, of resistance than the perennial response of slaves whenever it was possible to run away and sustain themselves in the wilds. In crucial ways, the Maroons were analogous to the American Indians, fighting a losing retreat against the colonial tide. For 85 years after 1655, the Jamaican Maroons succ…
Forms of resistance to slavery
EVEN such self-interested and racist planter writers of the Caribbean as Edward Long, Elie Moreau de Saint Méry and Bryan Edwards recognized that slave resistance was as inevitable as slavery itself.1 Slaves 'naturally' resisted their enslavement because slavery was fundamentally unnatural. Slave resistance of one kind or another was a constant feature of slavery. Only the forms varied across time and place, according to circumstances and opportu…
Sugar and Slavery: An Economic History of the British West Indies, 1623-1775
The Bahamian self and the Haitian other: The migration of Haitians to and through the Bahamas, 1950–2000
This article briefly traces the history of Haitian migration to and from and through the Bahamas, going on to differentiate and describe the lifestyles of contemporary Haitian Bahamians, and to provide a description and analysis of the current crisis in Haitian‐Bahamian social relations. It shows that the minimal and largely temporary migrations when both areas were almost equally poor were succeeded by a flood in the 1960s, once Bahamian prosper…
Decoding pitchy‐patchy: The roots, branches and essence of Junkanoo
(1995). Decoding pitchy‐patchy: The roots, branches and essence of Junkanoo. Slavery & Abolition: Vol. 16, No. 1, pp. 14-44
Response to Pieter C. Emmer’s ‘Reconsideration
First paragraph]Criticisms, however strongly expressed, are valuable where they extend and deepen debates. Pieter Emmer's critique, though, is so ill focused, ill informed, and intemperate, that it is difficult to know how to respond profitably, or even politely
Early Modern British Slave Societies
The People Who Discovered Columbus: The Prehistory of the Bahamas
Islanders in the Stream: A History of the Bahamian People. Vol. 1: From Aboriginal Times to the End of Slavery
Journal Article Islanders in the Stream: A History of the Bahamian People. Vol. 1: From Aboriginal Times to the End of Slavery. By Michael Craton and Gail Saunders. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1992. xxiv, 455 pp. $60.00, ISBN 0-8203-1382-3.) Get access B. W. Higman B. W. Higman University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 81, Iss…
The Economy and Material Culture of Slaves: Goods and Chattels on the Sugar Plantations of Jamaica and Louisiana
Reshuffling the pack: The transition from slavery to other forms of labor in the British Caribbean, ca. 1790-1890
Analysis of a century of (evolutionary) socio-economic transition in the British Caribbean. According to the author, this process demonstrated aspects of a continuum, rather than sharply marked phases and abrupt changes. Before the abolition of slavery slaves behaved as proto-peasants and proto-proletarians and many aspects of slavery survived the abolition
Islanders in the Stream: A History of the Bahamian People
Stedman's Surinam: Life in an Eighteenth-Century Slave Society
Stedman’s Surinam: Life in an Eighteenth-Century Slave Society
This abridgement of the Prices' acclaimed 1988 critical edition is based on Stedman's original, handwritten manuscript, which offers a portrait at considerable variance with the 1796 classic. The unexpurgated text, presented here with extensive notes and commentary, constitutes one of the richest and most evocative accounts ever written of flourishing slave society
Economic Growth and the Ending of the Transatlantic Slave Trade (review)
174CIVIL WAR history Economic Growth and the Ending ofthe Transatlantic Slave Trade. By David Eltis. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1987. Pp. xiii, 418. $42.00.) Extremely impressive on its own terms, this book is not easy for an ordinary historian to read or review. David Eltis is among the most accomplished cliometricians concerned with analyzing the transition from slavery to free wage labor throughout the Atlantic sphere, and this book c…
Islanders in the Stream: A History of the Bahamian People. Volume One: From Aboriginal Times to the End of Slavery
Islanders in the Stream: A History of the Bahamian People: Volume One: From Aboriginal Times to the End of Slavery
The Old Village and the Great House: An Archaeological and Historical Examination of Drax Hall Plantation, St. Ann's Bay, Jamaica
The transition from slavery to free wage Labour in the Caribbean, 1780–1890: A survey with particular reference to recent scholarship
The study of the transition from slavery to wage labour and related transformations throughout the Caribbean sphere is greatly more complicated but potentially more rewarding than examining the single (if not simple) process at either end of the spectrum of plantation America in the United States and Brazil. More than a hundred years separates the first concentrated onslaughts of the secular and religious opponents of British slavery in the Carib…
Alabi's World
The Caribbean: The Genesis of a Fragmented Nationalism
Offering a rare pan-Caribbean perspective on a region that has moved from the very center of the western world to its periphery, The Caribbean: The Genesis of a Fragmented Nationalism journeys through five centuries of economic and social development, emphasizing such topics as the slave-run plantation economy, the changes in political control over the centuries, the impact of the United States, and the effects of Castro's Cuban revolution on the…
On Slavery's Margins: The Farquharson estate, San Salvador, Bahamas 1831–1832
(1991). On Slavery's Margins: The Farquharson estate, San Salvador, Bahamas 1831–1832. Slavery & Abolition: Vol. 12, No. 2, pp. 49-72
Sugar Is Made with Blood: The Conspiracy of La Escalera and the Conflict between Empires over Slavery in Cuba
Journal Article Sugar Is Made with Blood: The Conspiracy of La Escalera and the Conflict between Empires over Slavery in Cuba. By Robert L. Paquette. (Middletown: Wesleyan University Press, 1988. xvii + 346 pp. $29.95.) Get access Michael Craton Michael Craton University of Waterloo, Canada Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 3, December 1989, Pages 931–932, https:…
Commentary: The Search for a Unified Field Theory
First paragraph]The conference sessions of which the foregoing articles are the fruit were dedicated to the discussion of the interrelationship of changing labour systems and technologies in Caribbean sugar plantations between 1750and 1900. What made the exercise frustrating and incomplete as well as challenging and important was that it clearly involved many more variables besides those of labour and technology. However widely labour and technol…
Continuity not change: The incidence of unrest among ex‐slaves in the British West Indies, 1838–1876
(1988). Continuity not change: The incidence of unrest among ex‐slaves in the British West Indies, 1838–1876. Slavery & Abolition: Vol. 9, No. 2, pp. 144-170
Changing Patterns of Slave Families in the British West Indies
any Attempt to restrain this Licentious Intercourse between the Sexes amongst the Slaves in this Island in the present State of their Notions of Right and Wrong, by introducing the Marriage Ceremony amongst them, would be utterly impracticable, and perhaps of dangerous Consequence, as these People are universally known to claim a Right of Disposing themselves in this Respect, according to their own Will and Pleasure without any Controul from thei…
Economic Growth and the Ending of the Transatlantic Slave Trade (review)
174CIVIL WAR history Economic Growth and the Ending ofthe Transatlantic Slave Trade. By David Eltis. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1987. Pp. xiii, 418. $42.00.) Extremely impressive on its own terms, this book is not easy for an ordinary historian to read or review. David Eltis is among the most accomplished cliometricians concerned with analyzing the transition from slavery to free wage labor throughout the Atlantic sphere, and this book c…
Roots and branches: Current Directions in Slave Studies
Sinews of Empire: A Short History of British Slavery
The Economy and Material Culture of Slaves: Goods and Chattels on the Sugar Plantations of Jamaica and Louisiana
Reshuffling the pack: The transition from slavery to other forms of labor in the British Caribbean, ca. 1790-1890
Analysis of a century of (evolutionary) socio-economic transition in the British Caribbean. According to the author, this process demonstrated aspects of a continuum, rather than sharply marked phases and abrupt changes. Before the abolition of slavery slaves behaved as proto-peasants and proto-proletarians and many aspects of slavery survived the abolition
Continuity not change: The incidence of unrest among ex‐slaves in the British West Indies, 1838–1876
(1988). Continuity not change: The incidence of unrest among ex‐slaves in the British West Indies, 1838–1876. Slavery & Abolition: Vol. 9, No. 2, pp. 144-170
The Bahamian self and the Haitian other: The migration of Haitians to and through the Bahamas, 1950–2000
This article briefly traces the history of Haitian migration to and from and through the Bahamas, going on to differentiate and describe the lifestyles of contemporary Haitian Bahamians, and to provide a description and analysis of the current crisis in Haitian‐Bahamian social relations. It shows that the minimal and largely temporary migrations when both areas were almost equally poor were succeeded by a flood in the 1960s, once Bahamian prosper…
Searching for the invisible man: Slaves and plantation life in Jamaica
Proto-Peasant Revolts? The Late Slave Rebellions in the British West Indies 1816-1832
Journal Article PROTO-PEASANT REVOLTS? THE LATE SLAVE REBELLIONS IN THE BRITISH WEST INDIES 1816–1832 Get access Michael Craton Michael Craton University of WaterlooOntario Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 85, Issue 1, November 1979, Pages 99–125, https://doi.org/10.1093/past/85.1.99 Published: 01 November 1979
The transition from slavery to free wage Labour in the Caribbean, 1780–1890: A survey with particular reference to recent scholarship
The study of the transition from slavery to wage labour and related transformations throughout the Caribbean sphere is greatly more complicated but potentially more rewarding than examining the single (if not simple) process at either end of the spectrum of plantation America in the United States and Brazil. More than a hundred years separates the first concentrated onslaughts of the secular and religious opponents of British slavery in the Carib…
Sugar Is Made with Blood: The Conspiracy of La Escalera and the Conflict between Empires over Slavery in Cuba
Journal Article Sugar Is Made with Blood: The Conspiracy of La Escalera and the Conflict between Empires over Slavery in Cuba. By Robert L. Paquette. (Middletown: Wesleyan University Press, 1988. xvii + 346 pp. $29.95.) Get access Michael Craton Michael Craton University of Waterloo, Canada Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 3, December 1989, Pages 931–932, https:…
Slavery and Social Death: A Comparative Study
Journal Article Slavery and Social Death: A Comparative Study. By Orlando Patterson. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1982. xv + 511 pp. Maps, charts, tables, appendixes, notes, and index. $30.00.) Get access Michael Craton Michael Craton University of Waterloo Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 70, Issue 4, March 1984, Pages 862–863, https://doi.org/10.2307/1899753 Pu…
Hobbesian or Panglossian? The Two Extremes of Slave Conditions in the British Caribbean, 1783 to 1834
T has long been recognized that there were considerable variations in J slave conditions from colony to colony within the British Empire, and the relationship between material circumstances and the quality of life on slave plantations has long excited debate. However, there has hitherto been a tendency to generalize and to relate slave conditions to simple causes, imprecisely measured. Depending on their point of view and the population of slaves…
The Caribbean Slave: A Biological History
Journal Article The Caribbean Slave: A Biological History. By Kenneth F. Kiple. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1984. xiii + 274 pp. Tables, notes, bibliographic essay, and index. $32.50.) Get access Michael Craton Michael Craton University of Waterloo Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 73, Issue 1, June 1986, Page 177, https://doi.org/10.2307/1903627 Published: 01 J…
Society and Economy in the British Carribean during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
Islanders in the Stream: A History of the Bahamian People. Vol. 1: From Aboriginal Times to the End of Slavery
Journal Article Islanders in the Stream: A History of the Bahamian People. Vol. 1: From Aboriginal Times to the End of Slavery. By Michael Craton and Gail Saunders. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1992. xxiv, 455 pp. $60.00, ISBN 0-8203-1382-3.) Get access B. W. Higman B. W. Higman University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 81, Iss…
Islanders in the Stream: A History of the Bahamian People. Volume One: From Aboriginal Times to the End of Slavery
Decoding pitchy‐patchy: The roots, branches and essence of Junkanoo
(1995). Decoding pitchy‐patchy: The roots, branches and essence of Junkanoo. Slavery & Abolition: Vol. 16, No. 1, pp. 14-44
The People Who Discovered Columbus: The Prehistory of the Bahamas
Sugar and Slaves: The Rise of the Planter Class in the English West Indies, 1624-1713
Journal Article Sugar and Slaves: The Rise of the Planter Class in the English West Indies, 1624–1713. By Richard S. Dunn. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1972. xx + 359 pp. Maps, illustrations, chart, tables, notes, and index. $11.95.) Get access Michael Craton Michael Craton University of Waterloo, Ontario Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 59, Issue 4, …
A history of the Bahamas
A History of the Bahamas
A Jamaican Plantation: The History of Worthy Park 1670-1970
A Jamaican Plantation. The History of Worthy Park, 1670-1970
Sugar and Slaves: The Rise of the Planter Class in the English West Indies, 1624-1713
Journal Article Sugar and Slaves: The Rise of the Planter Class in the English West Indies, 1624–1713. By Richard S. Dunn. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1972. xx + 359 pp. Maps, illustrations, chart, tables, notes, and index. $11.95.) Get access Michael Craton Michael Craton University of Waterloo, Ontario Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 59, Issue 4, …
Society and Economy in the British Carribean during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
Sinews of Empire: A Short History of British Slavery
Port Royal, Jamaica
The modern-day town of Port Royal, Jamaica, bears little evidence of its spectacular past. In Port Royal Jamaica, Pawson and Buisseret detail the establishment of the town of Port Royal in the second half of the seventeenth century, in the heyday of privateering. The town was critical to the successful colonization of Jamaica by the British and pivotal to British mercantile activity, but is best known for the activities of its swashbuckling pirat…
Searching for the invisible man: Slaves and plantation life in Jamaica
Hobbesian or Panglossian? The Two Extremes of Slave Conditions in the British Caribbean, 1783 to 1834
T has long been recognized that there were considerable variations in J slave conditions from colony to colony within the British Empire, and the relationship between material circumstances and the quality of life on slave plantations has long excited debate. However, there has hitherto been a tendency to generalize and to relate slave conditions to simple causes, imprecisely measured. Depending on their point of view and the population of slaves…
Roots and branches: Current Directions in Slave Studies
Searching for the Invisible Man: Slaves and Plantation Life in Jamaica
Proto-Peasant Revolts? The Late Slave Rebellions in the British West Indies 1816-1832
Journal Article PROTO-PEASANT REVOLTS? THE LATE SLAVE REBELLIONS IN THE BRITISH WEST INDIES 1816–1832 Get access Michael Craton Michael Craton University of WaterlooOntario Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 85, Issue 1, November 1979, Pages 99–125, https://doi.org/10.1093/past/85.1.99 Published: 01 November 1979
Searching for the Invisible Man: Slaves and Plantation Life in Jamaica
Searching for the Invisible Man: Slaves and Plantation Life in Jamaica
Changing Patterns of Slave Families in the British West Indies
any Attempt to restrain this Licentious Intercourse between the Sexes amongst the Slaves in this Island in the present State of their Notions of Right and Wrong, by introducing the Marriage Ceremony amongst them, would be utterly impracticable, and perhaps of dangerous Consequence, as these People are universally known to claim a Right of Disposing themselves in this Respect, according to their own Will and Pleasure without any Controul from thei…
Slavery, Abolition and Emancipation: Black Slaves and the British Empire
Searching for the Invisible Man: Slaves and Plantation Life in Jamaica
From Rebellion to Revolution: Afro-American Slave Revolts in the Making of the Modern World
Testing the chains: Resistance to slavery in the British West Indies
Human cargoes: The British slave trade to Spanish America, 1700–1739
We shall not be moved: Pompey's slave revolt in Exuma Island, Bahamas, 1830
Scholarly research into slave resistance in the British West Indies during formal slavery's final phase has hitherto followed public interest and concentrated on the three major rebellions that erupted between the abolition of the British slave trade in 1808 and the emancipation of British slaves in 1834-1838: in Barbados in 1816, Demerara in 1823, and Jamaica in 1831-2. This concentration stems from and reinforces a concern for the ways in which…
Slavery, War, and Revolution: The British Occupation of Saint Domingue, 1793-1798
The historical roots of the Plantation Model
Slavery and Social Death: A Comparative Study
Journal Article Slavery and Social Death: A Comparative Study. By Orlando Patterson. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1982. xv + 511 pp. Maps, charts, tables, appendixes, notes, and index. $30.00.) Get access Michael Craton Michael Craton University of Waterloo Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 70, Issue 4, March 1984, Pages 862–863, https://doi.org/10.2307/1899753 Pu…
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