Contesting ‘Black’ Liberty and Subjecthood in the Anglophone Caribbean, 1730s–1780s
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9325396 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Brooke N Newman (Yahoo (United Kingdom), corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 32 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 169-183 |
| Publication date | 2011-06-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Slavery and Abolition (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0144-039X • E-ISSN: 1743-9523 |
| Publisher | Frank Cass & Co (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1080/0144039x.2011.568230 |
| OpenAlex | W2092906066 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 29 |
Tracing the shifting meanings of British liberty and subjecthood in relation to persons of African descent in the West Indian colonies – from tentative acceptance and ambivalence in the early eighteenth century, to outright hostility after 1760 – this article argues that planter elites ultimately embraced a rigid, outmoded racial ideology in order to preserve white hegemony. In Jamaica in particular, the master class came to see free ‘black’ participation in civil society as a threat to their own birthright and privileged status as transplanted Britons. Yet non-white West Indians also made use of the English system of law and liberty in their efforts to affirm their identity as British subjects and to be considered as such by metropolitan Britons
Aesthetics · Ambivalence · Art · Hegemony · Identity (music · Ideology · Political science · Politics · Sociology · White (mutation · Australian History and Society · Caribbean history, culture, and politics · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Gender Studies · Law
Bibliography of Books and Articles Published in English on Colonialism and Imperialism in 2011
Juana Ramírez, Eighteenth-Century Oaxaca, New Spain (Mexico)
Maria Firmina dos Reis, Nineteenth-Century Maranhão (Brazil)
Carrie Williams Clifford, Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Ohio (US)
Elizabeth Key, Seventeenth-Century Virginia (US)
Emma Lane Coger, Nineteenth-Century Illinois, Iowa, and Missouri (US)
Minerva, Nineteenth-Century Téjas and Louisiana (US), and Mexico
Gabriela, Nineteenth-Century Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil)
Cécile Fatiman and Petra Carabalí, Late Eighteenth-Century Haiti and Mid-Nineteenth-Century Cuba
Paula de Eguiluz, Seventeenth-Century Puerto Rico, Cuba, and New Granada (Colombia)
María Hipólita Lozano, Eighteenth-Century Lima (Peru)
Juana María Álvarez, Eighteenth-Century New Granada (Colombia)
Anna Maria Lopes de Brito, Eighteenth-Century Minas Gerais (Brazil)
Margarita de Sossa, Sixteenth-Century Puebla de los Ángeles, New Spain (Mexico)
Marion, Eighteenth-Century Natchitoches, Louisiana (US)
Judith and Hannah
María Remedios del Valle, Nineteenth-Century Argentina
Sarah Chauqum, Eighteenth-Century Rhode Island and Connecticut (US)
Hannah Manena McKenney, Late Seventeenth- and Early Eighteenth-Century Bermuda and New Providence (Bahamas)
Reytory Angola, Seventeenth-Century Manhattan (US)
As If She Were Free
Laura E. Davis Titus, Nineteenth-Century Norfolk, Virginia (US)
Alien Seamen in the British Navy, British Law, and the British State, C. 1793 – C. 1815
All spirited likely young lads’
The decline of Jamaica's interracial households and the fall of the planter class, 1733–1823
Harvest Years? Reconfigurations of Empire in Jamaica, 1756–1807
Who should be treated “with every degree of humanity”? Debating rights for planters, soldiers, and Caribs/Kalinago on St. Vincent, 1763–1773
Emerging from the Shadows
Anticolonial citizenship
| Citations per year | 2.07 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2012 - 2025 (14) |
| Highly cited | No |