Emma Christopher
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3792525 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Emma Christopher |
| PRENOMES | Emma |
| SOBRENOME | Christopher |
| ASSINATURA | CHRISTOPHER E |
| AFILIAÇÕES | UNSW Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7335-5388 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 18 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 9 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 17 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2004 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
German (post)colonialism
Mary Wills. Envoys of Abolition
Mary Wills’s fine book Envoys of Abolition: British Naval Officers and the Campaign against the Slave Trade in West Africa addresses a subject that has been almost totally overlooked despite the vast historiography on slavery and abolition. Her subject is the men who worked aboard the Royal Navy’s patrol ships “recapturing” Africans aboard illegal slave trading vessels, which has much to add to what we know about slave trading and attempts to sto…
‘Not a Kanaka or a N____’
I am a West Indian, from Antigua, African blood I want justice. Albert Messiah, oral evidence, the case of the Hopeful
Far More than Money
As more sources have been made available by the Legacies of British Slavery project, it is clear that ties between Atlantic world slavery and Queensland’s sugar industry are considerably more extensive than previously understood. This article goes beyond looking at money and men to explore what this means for understandings of race, slavery and indenture on Australia’s sugar plantations. It argues that slavery was understood in specific ways by W…
The Bloody Flag
The Bloody Flag is both a considerable academic achievement and a joy to read.Coming after a substantial amount of scholarship on the revolutionary Atlantic, it is no small feat to carve out a niche distinctly his own, yet Niklas Frykman has achieved this.In part because he is multilingual, he takes the Anglo-based historiography of the revolutionary Atlantic and adds to it in a much-needed manner.Frykman shows how the events of the revolutionary…
An Illegitimate Offspring
This article argues that Pacific Islander labour in Australia was not analogous to earlier Atlantic world slavery and can better be understood as its 'illegitimate offspring'. Through case studies that connect the Caribbean to Australia, it reveals how the idea of Pacific Islander labour was forged in an environment where the abolitionist battle had been won, but where the interconnected and changing racial constructions of the time, and argument…
Six. “The Slave Trade Is Merciful Compared to [This]”
The saviour and the revolutionary
The recruitment of Pacific Island labourers for Queensland, Australia, 1863–1904, has often been seen through comparisons to the transatlantic slave trade. Yet the fact that men from Antigua, Barbados and Jamaica pushed for justice after one of the most notorious atrocities of the trade has very rarely been noted, their involvement mired by racist reporting of the case. If seen from the perspective of their Caribbean homelands, their words and ac…
Outlaws of the Atlantic
Book Review| February 01 2016 Outlaws of the Atlantic: Sailors, Pirates, and Motley Crews in the Age of Sail Outlaws of the Atlantic: Sailors, Pirates, and Motley Crews in the Age of Sail. Rediker, Marcus. Boston: Beacon, 2014248 pp., $26.95 (cloth) Emma Christopher Emma Christopher Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Labor (2016) 13 (1): 154–156. https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-3342821 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Face…
The Cambridge History of Australia
The Cambridge History of Australia offers a comprehensive view of Australian history from its pre-European origins to the present day. Over two volumes, this major work of reference tells the nation's social, political and cultural story. Volume 1 examines Australia's indigenous and colonial history through to the Federation of the colonies in 1901. Volume 2 opens with the birth of the twentieth century, tracing developments in the nation through…
The Murderer and His Victim
William Murray, alias Kenneth McKenzie, and his murderer, the real Kenneth McKenzie, occupy crucial roles in the so-called Botany Bay Decision, that is, Britain's resolution to settle a penal colony in Australia in the 1780s. Their intriguing, tangled story is part of the initial post-American Revolution scheme, which saw male convicts released into two independent companies to go and fight on the west coast of Africa. William Murray had already …
Colloquy with Marcus Rediker on The Slave Ship
On the last afternoon of the Society of Early Americanists' most recent biennial conference, sixty-plus colleagues gathered to hear an interdisciplinary panel of scholars focusing on historian Marc
From the ‘Ballad-Singing Monkey’ to the ‘Cunning Savages’
After the loss of their American colonies and prior to the settlement of the land which became known as Australia, the British Government intended to found a penal settlement in South West Africa at the mouth of the Orange River. The main proposer of this scheme, Edward Thompson, died before the plan was put into action. This article asks the counterfactual question of what might have happened, had Thompson lived to give a very different story of…
"A "Disgrace to the very Colour
A "Disgrace to the very Colour": Perceptions of Blackness and Whiteness in the founding of Sierra Leone and Botany Bay Emma Christopher One of the most intriguing aspects of the founding of the Province of Freedom in 1787 is that it exactly coincided with another bizarre colonization plan, one which was both its twin and its exact opposite. Just as the Atlantic, Belisarius and Vernon were embarking members of the 'black poor' for Sierra Leone, th…
Many Middle Passages
Slave Ship Sailors
Many middle passages
This groundbreaking book presents a global perspective on the history of forced migration over three centuries and illuminates the centrality of these vast movements of people in the making of the modern world. Highly original essays from renowned international scholars trace the history of slaves, indentured servants, transported convicts, bonded soldiers, trafficked women, and coolie and Kanaka labor across the Pacific, Indian, and Atlantic Oce…
Another head of the hydra
This paper looks at the activities of the sailors on board British and North American slave ships on the coast of West Africa. It argues that the West African coast was a central part of the Atlantic arena, where seamen deserted from their ships, resisted the authority of their captain, and occasionally took the more extreme action of taking their ships and turning pirate. They did this not in isolation from local African workers, but rather in c…
Far More than Money
As more sources have been made available by the Legacies of British Slavery project, it is clear that ties between Atlantic world slavery and Queensland’s sugar industry are considerably more extensive than previously understood. This article goes beyond looking at money and men to explore what this means for understandings of race, slavery and indenture on Australia’s sugar plantations. It argues that slavery was understood in specific ways by W…
Outlaws of the Atlantic
Book Review| February 01 2016 Outlaws of the Atlantic: Sailors, Pirates, and Motley Crews in the Age of Sail Outlaws of the Atlantic: Sailors, Pirates, and Motley Crews in the Age of Sail. Rediker, Marcus. Boston: Beacon, 2014248 pp., $26.95 (cloth) Emma Christopher Emma Christopher Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Labor (2016) 13 (1): 154–156. https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-3342821 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Face…
"A "Disgrace to the very Colour
A "Disgrace to the very Colour": Perceptions of Blackness and Whiteness in the founding of Sierra Leone and Botany Bay Emma Christopher One of the most intriguing aspects of the founding of the Province of Freedom in 1787 is that it exactly coincided with another bizarre colonization plan, one which was both its twin and its exact opposite. Just as the Atlantic, Belisarius and Vernon were embarking members of the 'black poor' for Sierra Leone, th…
An Illegitimate Offspring
This article argues that Pacific Islander labour in Australia was not analogous to earlier Atlantic world slavery and can better be understood as its 'illegitimate offspring'. Through case studies that connect the Caribbean to Australia, it reveals how the idea of Pacific Islander labour was forged in an environment where the abolitionist battle had been won, but where the interconnected and changing racial constructions of the time, and argument…
Another head of the hydra
This paper looks at the activities of the sailors on board British and North American slave ships on the coast of West Africa. It argues that the West African coast was a central part of the Atlantic arena, where seamen deserted from their ships, resisted the authority of their captain, and occasionally took the more extreme action of taking their ships and turning pirate. They did this not in isolation from local African workers, but rather in c…
Many Middle Passages
Slave Ship Sailors
Many middle passages
This groundbreaking book presents a global perspective on the history of forced migration over three centuries and illuminates the centrality of these vast movements of people in the making of the modern world. Highly original essays from renowned international scholars trace the history of slaves, indentured servants, transported convicts, bonded soldiers, trafficked women, and coolie and Kanaka labor across the Pacific, Indian, and Atlantic Oce…
"A "Disgrace to the very Colour
A "Disgrace to the very Colour": Perceptions of Blackness and Whiteness in the founding of Sierra Leone and Botany Bay Emma Christopher One of the most intriguing aspects of the founding of the Province of Freedom in 1787 is that it exactly coincided with another bizarre colonization plan, one which was both its twin and its exact opposite. Just as the Atlantic, Belisarius and Vernon were embarking members of the 'black poor' for Sierra Leone, th…
From the ‘Ballad-Singing Monkey’ to the ‘Cunning Savages’
After the loss of their American colonies and prior to the settlement of the land which became known as Australia, the British Government intended to found a penal settlement in South West Africa at the mouth of the Orange River. The main proposer of this scheme, Edward Thompson, died before the plan was put into action. This article asks the counterfactual question of what might have happened, had Thompson lived to give a very different story of…
Colloquy with Marcus Rediker on The Slave Ship
On the last afternoon of the Society of Early Americanists' most recent biennial conference, sixty-plus colleagues gathered to hear an interdisciplinary panel of scholars focusing on historian Marc
The Murderer and His Victim
William Murray, alias Kenneth McKenzie, and his murderer, the real Kenneth McKenzie, occupy crucial roles in the so-called Botany Bay Decision, that is, Britain's resolution to settle a penal colony in Australia in the 1780s. Their intriguing, tangled story is part of the initial post-American Revolution scheme, which saw male convicts released into two independent companies to go and fight on the west coast of Africa. William Murray had already …
The Cambridge History of Australia
The Cambridge History of Australia offers a comprehensive view of Australian history from its pre-European origins to the present day. Over two volumes, this major work of reference tells the nation's social, political and cultural story. Volume 1 examines Australia's indigenous and colonial history through to the Federation of the colonies in 1901. Volume 2 opens with the birth of the twentieth century, tracing developments in the nation through…
Outlaws of the Atlantic
Book Review| February 01 2016 Outlaws of the Atlantic: Sailors, Pirates, and Motley Crews in the Age of Sail Outlaws of the Atlantic: Sailors, Pirates, and Motley Crews in the Age of Sail. Rediker, Marcus. Boston: Beacon, 2014248 pp., $26.95 (cloth) Emma Christopher Emma Christopher Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Labor (2016) 13 (1): 154–156. https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-3342821 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Face…
Six. “The Slave Trade Is Merciful Compared to [This]”
The saviour and the revolutionary
The recruitment of Pacific Island labourers for Queensland, Australia, 1863–1904, has often been seen through comparisons to the transatlantic slave trade. Yet the fact that men from Antigua, Barbados and Jamaica pushed for justice after one of the most notorious atrocities of the trade has very rarely been noted, their involvement mired by racist reporting of the case. If seen from the perspective of their Caribbean homelands, their words and ac…
Far More than Money
As more sources have been made available by the Legacies of British Slavery project, it is clear that ties between Atlantic world slavery and Queensland’s sugar industry are considerably more extensive than previously understood. This article goes beyond looking at money and men to explore what this means for understandings of race, slavery and indenture on Australia’s sugar plantations. It argues that slavery was understood in specific ways by W…
The Bloody Flag
The Bloody Flag is both a considerable academic achievement and a joy to read.Coming after a substantial amount of scholarship on the revolutionary Atlantic, it is no small feat to carve out a niche distinctly his own, yet Niklas Frykman has achieved this.In part because he is multilingual, he takes the Anglo-based historiography of the revolutionary Atlantic and adds to it in a much-needed manner.Frykman shows how the events of the revolutionary…
An Illegitimate Offspring
This article argues that Pacific Islander labour in Australia was not analogous to earlier Atlantic world slavery and can better be understood as its 'illegitimate offspring'. Through case studies that connect the Caribbean to Australia, it reveals how the idea of Pacific Islander labour was forged in an environment where the abolitionist battle had been won, but where the interconnected and changing racial constructions of the time, and argument…
‘Not a Kanaka or a N____’
I am a West Indian, from Antigua, African blood I want justice. Albert Messiah, oral evidence, the case of the Hopeful
Mary Wills. Envoys of Abolition
Mary Wills’s fine book Envoys of Abolition: British Naval Officers and the Campaign against the Slave Trade in West Africa addresses a subject that has been almost totally overlooked despite the vast historiography on slavery and abolition. Her subject is the men who worked aboard the Royal Navy’s patrol ships “recapturing” Africans aboard illegal slave trading vessels, which has much to add to what we know about slave trading and attempts to sto…
German (post)colonialism
History (16 obras) · Colonialism, slavery, and trade (13 obras) · Law (11 obras) · Political science (11 obras) · History (10 obras) · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories (8 obras) · Archaeology (7 obras) · Ethnology (7 obras) · Art (6 obras) · Australian History and Society (6 obras)