All Manner of Cruelty and Slavery
A Long History of Black Labor and White Violence on Navassa Island, 1857-1898
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3650197 |
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| Authors | Dennis Patrick Halpin (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 109 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 2-29 |
| Publication date | 2024-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of African American History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1548-1867 • E-ISSN: 2153-5086 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/726853 |
| OpenAlex | W4394939152 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 7 |
This article examines the long history of Black labor and White violence on Navassa Island between 1857 and 1898. Relying on workers’ accounts, it makes two primary arguments. First, it argues for the importance of understanding a longer history of Black labor and resistance on Navassa that moves beyond the violence of 1889, the focus of most previous accounts. Throughout the mid- to late nineteenth century, workers and management periodically squared off in struggles best understood as a cycle of violence. Second, it offers a reinterpretation of the 1889 violence. Unlike most contemporary and historical accounts, this article maintains that what happened in 1889 was not a worker-instigated riot but rather a protest against an inhumane treatment that turned deadly only after officers opened fire. By connecting the 1889 violence to Navassa’s longer history, a four-decade-long story of resistance and protest missing from previous accounts comes into sharper focus
Biology · Criminology · Cruelty · Sociology · Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies
| Highly cited | No |
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