Description: Troubling Freedom : Antigua and the Aftermath of British Emancipation, Paperback by Lightfoot, Natasha, ISBN 0822360071, ISBN-13 9780822360070, Brand New, Free P&P in the UK In 1834 Antigua became the only British colony in the Caribbean to move directly from slavery to full emancipation. Immediate freedom, however, did not live up to its promise, as it did not guarantee any level of stability or autonomy, and the implementation of new forms of coercion and control made it, in many ways, indistinguishable from slavery. In Troubling Freedom Natasha Lightfoot tells the story of how Antigua's newly freed black working people struggled to realize freedom in their everyday lives, prior to and in the decades following emancipation. She presents freedpeople's efforts to form an efficient workforce, acquire property, secure housing, worship, and build independent communities in response to elite prescriptions for acceptable behavior and oppression. Despite its continued efforts, Antigua's black population failed to convince whites that its members were worthy of full economic and political inclusion. By highlighting the diverse ways freedpeople defined and created freedom through quotidian acts of survival and occasional uprisings, Lightfoot complicates conceptions of freedom and the general narrative that landlessness was the primary constraint for newly emancipated slaves in the Caribbean.
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Book Title: Troubling Freedom : Antigua and the Aftermath of British Emancipa
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication Year: 2015
Subject: History
Item Height: 229 mm
Number of Pages: 336 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Troubling Freedom: Antigua and the Aftermath of British Emancipation
Type: Textbook
Author: Natasha Lightfoot
Item Width: 152 mm
Format: Paperback
