Troubling freedom

• Verfasst von: Lightfoot, Natasha [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: Troubling freedom
• Titelzusatz: Antigua and the aftermath of British emancipation
• Verf.angabe: Natasha Lightfoot
• Verlagsort: Durham ; London
• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Jahr: 2015
• Umfang: xvi, 320 Seiten
• Illustrationen: Illustrationen, Karten
• Fussnoten: Includes bibliographical references and index
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-6007-0
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-5975-3
• Schlagwörter: (g)Antigua / (s)Sklaverei / (s)Abschaffung / (z)Geschichte 1831-1858
• Sprache: eng
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe: Lightfoot, Natasha, 1978 - : Troubling freedom. - Durham : Duke University Press, 2015. - 1 online resource (xvi, 320 pages)
• Notation: R Ap
• Notation: WTSHCA
• RVK-Notation: LB 53640
• K10plus-PPN: 826564518

Abstract

"A landscape that continually recurred in passing" : the many worlds of a small place -- "So them make law for Negro, so them make law for master" : Antigua's 1831 Sunday market rebellion -- "But freedom till better" : labor struggles after 1834 -- "An equality with the highest in the land"? : the expansion of Black private and public life -- "Sinful conexions" : Christianity, social surveillance, and Black women's bodies in distress -- "Mashing ants" : surviving the economic crisis after 1846 -- "Our side" : Antigua's 1858 uprising and the contingent nature of freedom