Suspended States in the Long Caribbean, 1791–1861

Edward H. Sugden
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This chapter examines the suspended state between colonial slavery and postcolonial independence in the “long Caribbean.” Involving the Caribbean, especially Haiti, and other equivalent experiments in black self-rule in Sierra Leone and Liberia, this incomplete transition from slavery to freedom challenged progressivist accounts of a world tending ever closer to emancipation. Instead, it seemed that history had come to an unexpected halt. As such, many individuals conceived of the citizen and sovereign in static terms and grappled with a form of paused political time in which history appeared to have stopped. The “black counterfactual,” which includes “Benito Cereno,” “The Heroic Slave,” Blake; or, The Huts of America, Liberia, and the first Haitian novel, Stella, emerged from this world. This genre, which considered the perils and possibilities of black self-rule and freedom, attempted to imagine the black state into existence. It aimed to intervene in the past to create a cause-and-effect chain of events that would inevitably lead to a better world. However, these fictions found narrative to be every bit as recalcitrant as the long Caribbean world itself. Overall, this chapter challenges a redemptionist note of black historiography, in which eventual liberation orients racial struggles in the nineteenth century.
长加勒比地区的悬置国家(1791-1861
本章考察了“长加勒比”地区在殖民奴隶制和后殖民独立之间的悬置状态。在加勒比海地区,尤其是海地,以及塞拉利昂和利比里亚的黑人自治实验中,这种从奴隶制到自由的不完整过渡挑战了进步主义者对世界越来越接近解放的描述。相反,历史似乎出人意料地停了下来。因此,许多人以静态的方式来理解公民和君主,并努力应对一种停顿的政治时间,在这种时间里,历史似乎已经停止了。“黑人反事实”,包括《贝尼托·切里诺》(Benito Cereno)、《英勇的奴隶》(The Heroic Slave)、布莱克;《美国的小屋》、《利比里亚》和第一部海地小说《斯特拉》从这个世界诞生。这种体裁,考虑了黑人自治和自由的危险和可能性,试图想象黑人国家的存在。它的目的是干预过去,创造一系列事件的因果链,这些事件将不可避免地导致一个更美好的世界。然而,这些小说发现叙事就像漫长的加勒比世界本身一样难以驾驭。总的来说,这一章挑战了黑人史学的救赎主义注释,其中最终的解放导向了19世纪的种族斗争。
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