Troubling freedom : Antigua and the aftermath of British emancipation /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Lightfoot, Natasha, 1978- (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Language Notes:	English.
Published:	Durham : Duke University Press, 2015.
Subjects:	Enslaved persons > Emancipation > Antigua and Barbuda > Antigua. Enslaved persons > Great Britain > Emancipation > Colonies. Antigua > Race relations > History. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

"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.