"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
Summary
Natasha Lightfoot tells the story of how Antigua's newly freed black working people struggled to realize freedom, prior to and in the decades following their emancipation in 1834. Their continued efforts in the face of oppression complicate common definitions of freedom and narratives about newly freed slaves in the Caribbean
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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