"Sad as Horrour, Black as Hell": The Parke Murder, the Catiline Conspiracy, and the Wentworth Execution

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Natalie A. Zacek
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abstract:The 1710 assassination of Daniel Parke, the royal governor of the English colony of the Leeward Islands, was a sensational event, especially as the killers were not rebellious enslaved people or foreign attackers but instead some of the wealthiest and most respected white men of the Antiguan plantocracy. This murder has been described as one of "the most lurid episodes in English Caribbean history," an occurrence that "summed up many long years of life on the tropical firing line." But although the murder of a colonial governor, a man who had been appointed as the sovereign's personal representative within this colony, was deeply shocking to Englishmen at home and abroad, it was not as unprecedented as it might seem initially. An obscure and anonymous text that circulated in London soon afterward shows that Parke's assassination could be incorporated into the histories of the ancient world and earlier Stuart England alike. The epic poem Forty One in Miniature offers a prism through which readers can better understand the political culture of the eighteenth-century English Caribbean, helping them to appreciate its relationship to metropolitan values and practices.
“悲伤如恐怖,黑如地狱”:帕克谋杀案,卡提林阴谋和温特沃斯处决
1710年,英国背风群岛总督丹尼尔·帕克被暗杀,这是一件轰动一时的事件,尤其是凶手既不是反叛的奴隶,也不是外国侵略者,而是安提关种植园统治下一些最富有、最受尊敬的白人。这起谋杀案被描述为“英属加勒比地区历史上最骇人听闻的事件之一”,这起事件“总结了热带火线上许多年的生活”。然而,尽管一名被任命为该殖民地君主个人代表的殖民地总督被谋杀,令国内外的英国人深感震惊,但它并不像最初看起来那么史无前例。此后不久,在伦敦流传的一份晦涩的匿名文本表明,帕克遇刺案可以被纳入古代世界和早期斯图亚特英格兰的历史。史诗《四十一岁的缩影》提供了一个棱镜,通过它读者可以更好地理解十八世纪英国加勒比地区的政治文化,帮助他们欣赏它与大都市价值观和实践的关系。
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