Colleen A Vasconcellos
Biographic Data
| ID | 967651 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Colleen A Vasconcellos |
| GIVEN NAMES | Colleen A |
| FAMILY NAME | Vasconcellos |
| SIGNATURE | VASCONCELLOS C A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of West Georgia |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Youth Culture as a Battleground
An examination of enslaved children and youth in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries illustrates how youth culture came to mean different things to different groups as each struggled to maintain control of a life enslaved. As planters increasingly relied upon enslaved youth as a means of production, enslaved parents struggled to raise their children within a system that actively threatened to destroy their African cultural identity. Caught in…
A line H elg . Slave No More
While the majority of works on abolitionism take a decidedly top-down approach in their examinations of the movement’s efforts to end the transatlantic slave trade and later slavery itself, Aline Helg’s latest monograph focuses on the agency of the enslaved in obtaining their own freedom. Slave No More: Self-Liberation before Abolitionism in the Americas reframes what we already know about slavery and abolition in the Americas in order to ascerta…
Settler Jamaica in the 1750s
Once in a while a study comes along that forces us to rethink everything that we previously knew about a particular subject. Jack P. Greene’s Settler Jamaica in the 1750s is one of those studies. Although labeled “a social portrait,” Greene’s book is really more a meticulous quantitative analysis of the settler class in Jamaica during the 1750s. While that class had previously been defined as exclusively white, Greene expands the perimeters in or…
Birth Control in the Decolonizing Caribbean
Bourbonnais opens her monograph with a powerful sentence: “Rose Gordon wrote a letter” (1). As she begins to tell Rose’s story, we see that this is not a simple medical history of reproductive politics and practice. Nor is it a simple political history. Both comparative and transnational, hers is first and foremost a social history, as is made clear from the opening sentence of the book. As she traces how the working class negotiated control over…
Contested Bodies
In this groundbreaking study, Turner builds upon the current historiography about enslaved women by using the body as the basis for her theoretical framework. She not only explores the changing nature of how abolitionists, planters, and the enslaved perceived and represented women’s bodies, and how those perceptions and representations extended and legitimized colonial rule, but also how those ideas created tension and conflict between abolitioni…
Sally and Molly
Trevor Burnard and John Garrigus. The Plantation Machine
Scholars familiar with the plantation complex will be highly interested in reading The Plantation Machine: Atlantic Capitalism in French Saint-Domingue and British Jamaica by Trevor Burnard and John Garrigus, an exciting intellectual history of the place and agency of the plantation system in the making of eighteenth-century Atlantic capitalism. In their analysis of the two largest and most profitable sugar colonies in the Caribbean from 1740 to …
Slavery, Childhood, and Abolition in Jamaica, 1788?1838
This study examines childhood and slavery in Jamaica from the onset of improved conditions for the islandAEs slaves to the end of all forced or coerced labour throughout the British Caribbean. As Colleen A. Vasconcellos discusses the nature of child development in the plantation complex, she looks at how both colonial Jamaican society and the slave community conceived childhooduand how those ideas changed as the abolitionist movement gained power…
Finding Enslaved Children's Place, Voice, and Agency within the Narrative
In this essay, I discuss the methodologies behind examining the nature of childhood within Jamaican slavery. By exploring children's experiences through lenses like family, resistance, and culture, I argue that we give them a voice and agency by examining how they carved a place for themselves in the slave community.En este ensayo, discuto las metodologías envueltas en la examinación de la naturaleza de la niñez dentro del contexto de la esclavit…
Freedom
Reviewed by: Freedom: Retrospective and Perspective Colleen A. Vasconcellos Freedom: Retrospective and Perspective. Edited by Swithon R. Wilmot. (Kingston: Ian Randle Publishers, 2009). In March of 1807, England witnessed the passage of An Act for the Abolition of the Slave Trade. Two hundred years later, the Atlantic World commemorated its bicentennial through various celebrations, conferences, and publications. The University of the West Indies…
Books
To Fit you All for Freedom
In 1837, one year before apprenticeship ended on the island of Jamaica, ten women from Lansquinet Estate in the parish of St Ann refused to carry their children into the fields with them because it
African Muslims in Antebellum America
Sally and Molly
Finding Enslaved Children's Place, Voice, and Agency within the Narrative
In this essay, I discuss the methodologies behind examining the nature of childhood within Jamaican slavery. By exploring children's experiences through lenses like family, resistance, and culture, I argue that we give them a voice and agency by examining how they carved a place for themselves in the slave community.En este ensayo, discuto las metodologías envueltas en la examinación de la naturaleza de la niñez dentro del contexto de la esclavit…
To Fit you All for Freedom
In 1837, one year before apprenticeship ended on the island of Jamaica, ten women from Lansquinet Estate in the parish of St Ann refused to carry their children into the fields with them because it
African Muslims in Antebellum America
To Fit you All for Freedom
In 1837, one year before apprenticeship ended on the island of Jamaica, ten women from Lansquinet Estate in the parish of St Ann refused to carry their children into the fields with them because it
Books
Freedom
Reviewed by: Freedom: Retrospective and Perspective Colleen A. Vasconcellos Freedom: Retrospective and Perspective. Edited by Swithon R. Wilmot. (Kingston: Ian Randle Publishers, 2009). In March of 1807, England witnessed the passage of An Act for the Abolition of the Slave Trade. Two hundred years later, the Atlantic World commemorated its bicentennial through various celebrations, conferences, and publications. The University of the West Indies…
Slavery, Childhood, and Abolition in Jamaica, 1788?1838
This study examines childhood and slavery in Jamaica from the onset of improved conditions for the islandAEs slaves to the end of all forced or coerced labour throughout the British Caribbean. As Colleen A. Vasconcellos discusses the nature of child development in the plantation complex, she looks at how both colonial Jamaican society and the slave community conceived childhooduand how those ideas changed as the abolitionist movement gained power…
Finding Enslaved Children's Place, Voice, and Agency within the Narrative
In this essay, I discuss the methodologies behind examining the nature of childhood within Jamaican slavery. By exploring children's experiences through lenses like family, resistance, and culture, I argue that we give them a voice and agency by examining how they carved a place for themselves in the slave community.En este ensayo, discuto las metodologías envueltas en la examinación de la naturaleza de la niñez dentro del contexto de la esclavit…
Sally and Molly
Trevor Burnard and John Garrigus. The Plantation Machine
Scholars familiar with the plantation complex will be highly interested in reading The Plantation Machine: Atlantic Capitalism in French Saint-Domingue and British Jamaica by Trevor Burnard and John Garrigus, an exciting intellectual history of the place and agency of the plantation system in the making of eighteenth-century Atlantic capitalism. In their analysis of the two largest and most profitable sugar colonies in the Caribbean from 1740 to …
Birth Control in the Decolonizing Caribbean
Bourbonnais opens her monograph with a powerful sentence: “Rose Gordon wrote a letter” (1). As she begins to tell Rose’s story, we see that this is not a simple medical history of reproductive politics and practice. Nor is it a simple political history. Both comparative and transnational, hers is first and foremost a social history, as is made clear from the opening sentence of the book. As she traces how the working class negotiated control over…
Contested Bodies
In this groundbreaking study, Turner builds upon the current historiography about enslaved women by using the body as the basis for her theoretical framework. She not only explores the changing nature of how abolitionists, planters, and the enslaved perceived and represented women’s bodies, and how those perceptions and representations extended and legitimized colonial rule, but also how those ideas created tension and conflict between abolitioni…
Settler Jamaica in the 1750s
Once in a while a study comes along that forces us to rethink everything that we previously knew about a particular subject. Jack P. Greene’s Settler Jamaica in the 1750s is one of those studies. Although labeled “a social portrait,” Greene’s book is really more a meticulous quantitative analysis of the settler class in Jamaica during the 1750s. While that class had previously been defined as exclusively white, Greene expands the perimeters in or…
Youth Culture as a Battleground
An examination of enslaved children and youth in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries illustrates how youth culture came to mean different things to different groups as each struggled to maintain control of a life enslaved. As planters increasingly relied upon enslaved youth as a means of production, enslaved parents struggled to raise their children within a system that actively threatened to destroy their African cultural identity. Caught in…
A line H elg . Slave No More
While the majority of works on abolitionism take a decidedly top-down approach in their examinations of the movement’s efforts to end the transatlantic slave trade and later slavery itself, Aline Helg’s latest monograph focuses on the agency of the enslaved in obtaining their own freedom. Slave No More: Self-Liberation before Abolitionism in the Americas reframes what we already know about slavery and abolition in the Americas in order to ascerta…
Sociology (12 works) · Political science (10 works) · Law (8 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · History (7 works) · Caribbean history, culture, and politics (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Race, History, and American Society (4 works) · Art history (3 works) · Colonialism (3 works)