Together in a Small Boat: Slavery's Fugitives in the Lesser Antilles

IF 1.1 2区 历史学 Q1 HISTORY
Gunvor Simonsen, Rasmus Christensen
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Abstract: Histories of maritime marronage in the Lesser Antilles—the Danish, Dutch, English, French, and Swedish islands in the eastern Caribbean—have often centered on young enslaved men escaping alone aboard intercontinental vessels anchored in the region's port towns. Scholars have paid less attention to the enslaved men, women, and children who escaped their enslavers on one of the many small open boats that were decisive for sustaining life in the region. The ubiquity of small-boat infrastructure in the Lesser Antilles, the complex legal regime put in place to regulate it, and the affordances—that is, the possibilities of action—provided by small watercraft demonstrate the importance of small-boat flight to slavery's fugitives in the Lesser Antilles. Enslaved people—rural and urban, young and old—knew that they had to collaborate to realize the fugitive force of canoes and other small boats scattered along island shorelines. Indeed, maritime marronage was more often carried out in groups than alone. Through time and political turbulence, the small boat allowed enslaved people to pursue dreams of freedom that had an archipelagic character: proximity facilitated knowledge of conditions on nearby islands and sustained or reestablished friendship and family ties.
小船上:小安的列斯群岛上的奴隶逃亡者
摘要:小安的列斯群岛(位于加勒比海东部的丹麦、荷兰、英国、法国和瑞典诸岛)的海上婚姻史,往往以年轻的奴隶独自登上停靠在该地区港口城镇的洲际船只逃亡为中心。学者们很少关注被奴役的男人、女人和孩子们,他们乘坐许多小船逃离了奴隶,这些小船对维持该地区的生活起着决定性的作用。小安的列斯群岛上无处不在的小船基础设施,复杂的法律制度对其进行监管,以及小船提供的便利,即行动的可能性,表明了小船对小安的列斯群岛上奴隶逃亡者的重要性。被奴役的人们——农村的和城市的,年轻的和年老的——知道他们必须合作来实现分散在岛屿海岸线上的独木舟和其他小船的逃亡力量。事实上,海上婚姻更多的是集体进行,而不是单独进行。经历了时间和政治动荡,小船让被奴役的人们追求具有群岛特征的自由梦想:靠近有助于了解附近岛屿的情况,并维持或重建友谊和家庭关系。
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