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2. From Surinam to the Holocaust: Anton de Kom, a Political Migrant
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Kinshasa,Kwando M. (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2002
- Published:
- Barbados: University of the West Indies, Department of History
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Caribbean History
- Journal Title Details:
- 36(1) : 33-69
- Notes:
- As anonymously as Anton de Kom began his life in 1898 in a small nineteenth-century Surinam village, it would be terminated forty-seven years later by forces beyond his control. His death, however, was not a singular event, but one representative of an entire generation of Surinamese migrants who, desiring to improve their lives, travelled northward to Holland, the "mother country", only to find a deeper sense of pain as unwanted and abused eacute;migrés. De Kom's migration to Holland occurred twice. First, as a youth he was pulled northward to understand better "her greatness". A decade later, he was forcibly pushed and exiled northward by the Dutch colonial authorities. On the second occasion, he became aware of his own illegitimate political birth as a colonial subject, and the psychological trap that awaited him when asked to defend the imperial country against an invading German army. His residence in exile exposed the serious dilemma of "two-ness", described by W.E.B. DuBois, when the colonized becomes psychologically and aesthetically committed to the colonizer's world, as well as that of the colonized. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT];
3. Slaves, Freedmen and Indentured Labourers in Colonial Mauritius
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Satchell,Veront M. (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2002
- Published:
- Barbados: University of the West Indies, Department of History
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Caribbean History
- Journal Title Details:
- 36(1) : 179-186
- Notes:
- Review of Slaves, Freedmen and Indentured Labourers in Colonial Mauritius by Richard B. Allen;
4. The Three Faces of Post-Emancipation Migration in Martinique, 1848-1865
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Brown,Laurence (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2002
- Published:
- Barbados: University of the West Indies, Department of History
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Caribbean History
- Journal Title Details:
- 36(2) : 310-336
- Notes:
- Internal, indentured and regional migration were tightly interlinked in post-emancipation Martinique by both contemporary perceptions and migrant actions. Anticipating a flight from the estates, colonial elites were committed before emancipation to constructing a replacement workforce through immigration. Indentureship was therefore a reaction to a crisis of labour relations rather than of labour supply. Such schemes also stimulated regional movements, from marronage by indentured Africans and Asians to recruitment efforts in the British West Indies. Viewed together, the three faces of post-emancipation migration reveal the continuing tension between the colony's search for coerced labour and the migrants' assertions of agency. [abstract];
5. Three Slaveholders in the Antilles: Saint-Domingue, Martinique and Jamaica
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Forster,Robert (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2002
- Published:
- Mona, Jamaica: University of the West Indies
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Caribbean History
- Journal Title Details:
- 36(1) : 1-33
- Notes:
- Based on the correspondence and diaries of three slaveholders in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, this article identifies the differences in the attitudes and behaviour of each planter towards his slaves in response to structural constraints or norms. These include political, administrative, civic and religious institutions, but also the economic system, social expectations and cultural norms. The author concludes that, although one can detect degrees of harshness in the treatment of field labourers, sexual exploitation seems constant and intractable in all three cases. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT];