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2. Lord Seaforth: Highland Proprietor, Caribbean Governor and Slave Owner
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- McKichan,Finlay (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2011
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Scottish Historical Review
- Journal Title Details:
- 90(2) : 204-235
- Notes:
- Francis Humberston Mackenzie of Seaforth (1754-1815) was a Highland proprietor in what has become known as 'The First Phase of Clearance', was governor of Barbados (1801-6) in the sensitive period immediately before the abolition of the British slave trade and was himself a plantation owner in Berbice (Guiana). It is suggested that his concern for his Highland small tenants was paralleled by his ambition in Barbados to make the killing of a slave by a white a capital offence, by his attempts to give free coloureds the right to testify against whites and by his aim to provide good conditions for his own enslaved labourers in Berbice.
3. Shifting the Balance in Environmental Governance: Ethnicity, Environmental Citizenship and Discourses of Responsibility
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Clarke,Lisa (Author) and Agyeman,Julian (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2011
- Published:
- Oxford, UK: Blackwell
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Antipode
- Journal Title Details:
- 43(5) : 1773-1800
- Notes:
- Focuses on the notion of environmental citizenship in examining how black and minority ethnic groups in Britain talk about environmental "rights" alongside environmental responsibilities. The authors conducted ten semi-structured interviews with community key informants and ten focus groups with African-Caribbean or Indian communities. Four environmental responsibility discourses in the participants' talk were identified. These were variously defined by issues of trust, social equity, off-loading of responsibility and government intervention and that served to shift environmental responsibility away from the individual onto "institutional others". Concludes by suggesting policy implications for the environmental and sustainability policy and planning community.
4. THE BRITISH ARMY'S UNKNOWN, REGULAR, AFRICAN-WEST INDIAN ENGINEER AND SERVICE CORPS, 1783 TO THE 1840s
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Chartrand,RenÉ (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2011
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research
- Journal Title Details:
- 89(358) : 117-138
- Notes:
- The article discusses engineer and service corps in the British Army which operated during the 18th and 19th centuries and were made up of African, African-American, and West Indian soldiers and laborers. According to the author, the existence of these corps is not readily apparent in the historical record because they depended on commissioned officers from other units for senior command and because for political reasons their funding was taken discreetly from the budgets of other units and government departments. Details on the roles of enslaved soldiers in engineer and service corps are presented. Other topics include the corps' service in Jamaica, Grenada, St. Vincent, the abolition of slavery in Great Britain, and compensation received by the soldiers.
5. The Cultural Currency of Afro-Caribbeans in Northamptonshire c. 1960-1990
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Watley,George (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2011
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Midland History
- Journal Title Details:
- 36(2) : 245-261
- Notes:
- This article addresses how Northamptonshire Afro-Caribbeans c. 1960-1990 were simultaneously part of the transformation from people of the Caribbean with individual island identities or nationalities into Afro-Caribbean British people whilst helping to shape this ethno-racial development. Oral history has been integral in conducting this research. Northamptonshire Black History Association (NBHA) interviews from 2002 to 2005 supplemented the interviews conducted by the author in 2009-10. Economic concepts derived from understanding monetary currencies and flight to quality will be used to help historians understand how culture and its manifestations are forms, and have systems, of exchange. These monetary concepts will also be used to create an understanding of cultural currency, as well as the frameworks for analysing how acquiring strong cultural currencies often leads to a process of exchange for other strong cultural currencies. Northamptonshire Afro-Caribbean organisations and individuals' usage of their historical and developed cultural currencies to obtain greater ethnoracial pride will be illuminated in this article. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR].
6. The Legacy of Empire: The Common Law Inheritance and Commitments to Legality in Former British Colonies
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Daniels,Ronald J. (Author), Trebilcock,Michael J. (Author), and Carson,Lindsey D. (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- Jan 2011
- Published:
- Ann Arbor, MI: American Society of Comparative Law, University of Michigan
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- The American Journal of Comparative Law
- Journal Title Details:
- 59(1) : 111-178
- Notes:
- Examines the colonial experiences of eight formerly British-controlled territories- Barbados, Jamaica, Botswana, Nigeria, Kenya, India, Burma, and Singapore -to identify how the processes and policies of the colonial enterprise affected their respective contemporary rule of law outcomes.