Description: Further DetailsTitle: Troubling FreedomCondition: NewSubtitle: Antigua and the Aftermath of British EmancipationISBN-10: 0822360071EAN: 9780822360070ISBN: 9780822360070Publisher: Duke University PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 12/04/2015Description: In 1834 Antigua became the only British colony in the Caribbean to move directly from slavery to full emancipation. Immediate freedom, however, did not live up to its promise, as it did not guarantee any level of stability or autonomy, and the implementation of new forms of coercion and control made it, in many ways, indistinguishable from slavery. In Troubling Freedom Natasha Lightfoot tells the story of how Antigua's newly freed black working people struggled to realize freedom in their everyday lives, prior to and in the decades following emancipation. She presents freedpeople's efforts to form an efficient workforce, acquire property, secure housing, worship, and build independent communities in response to elite prescriptions for acceptable behavior and oppression. Despite its continued efforts, Antigua's black population failed to convince whites that its members were worthy of full economic and political inclusion. By highlighting the diverse ways freedpeople defined and created freedom through quotidian acts of survival and occasional uprisings, Lightfoot complicates conceptions of freedom and the general narrative that landlessness was the primary constraint for newly emancipated slaves in the Caribbean.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmAuthor: Natasha LightfootGenre: HistoryItem Weight: 476gRelease Year: 2015 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Troubling Freedom
Title: Troubling Freedom
Subtitle: Antigua and the Aftermath of British Emancipation
ISBN-10: 0822360071
EAN: 9780822360070
ISBN: 9780822360070
Release Date: 12/04/2015
Release Year: 2015
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: History
Number of Pages: 336 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Troubling Freedom : Antigua and the Aftermath of British Emancipation
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication Year: 2015
Subject: Slavery, Europe / Great Britain / General, Caribbean & West Indies / General
Item Height: 0.7 in
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 16.8 Oz
Author: Natasha Lightfoot
Item Length: 9 in
Subject Area: Social Science, History
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
