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    Start Over Collection Black Caribbean Literature (BCL) Format Dissertation/Thesis Publication Year 2012 Subject Term Slavery

    1. Atlantic archipelagos : a cultural history of Scotland, the Caribbean and the Atlantic world, c.1740-1833

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Morris,Michael (Author)
    Format:
    Dissertation/Thesis
    Publication Date:
    2012
    Published:
    Great Britain: University of Glasgow
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Notes:
    246 p., "This thesis, situated between literature, history and memory studies participates in the modern recovery of the long-obscured relations between Scotland and the Caribbean. I develop the suggestion that the Caribbean represents a forgotten 'lieu de mémoire' where Scotland might fruitfully 'displace' itself. Thus it examines texts from the Enlightenment to Romantic eras in their historical context and draws out their implications for modern national, multicultural, postcolonial concerns." --The Author

    2. Surviving slavery: Politics, power, and authority in the British Caribbean, 1807-1834

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Browne,Randy M. (Author)
    Format:
    Dissertation/Thesis
    Publication Date:
    2012
    Published:
    Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Notes:
    274 p., Explores a broad range of power relationships and struggles for authority in the early 19th century British Atlantic, focusing on the Caribbean colony of Berbice. I aim to understand how enslaved people and their enslavers negotiated their relationships and forged their lives within multiple, interconnected networks of power in a notoriously brutal society. Focuses on politics and culture writ large and small, zooming in to see the internal conflicts, practices, and hierarchies that governed individual plantations, communities, and families; and zooming out to explore the various ways that imperial officials, colonial administrators, and metropolitan antislavery activists tried to shape Caribbean area slavery during the era of amelioration-a crucial period of transformation in the Atlantic world. Sources used include travel narratives, trial records, missionary correspondence, and official government documents. Most important are the records of the Berbice fiscals and protectors of slaves, officials charged with hearing enslaved peoples' grievances and enforcing colonial laws.

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