{"title":"Empire, Kinship and Violence: Family Histories, Indigenous Rights and the Making of Settler Colonialism by Elizabeth Elbourne (review)","authors":"","doi":"10.1353/cch.2023.a915316","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cch.2023.a915316","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":278323,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History","volume":"1235 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139018993","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"\"I had resolved that I would be virtuous, though I was a slave\": Enslaved Women, Feminine Virtue and the Sexual Economy of US Slavery","authors":"Kaisha Esty","doi":"10.1353/cch.2023.a915313","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cch.2023.a915313","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract: This article traces the powerful currency of notions of feminine virtue among enslaved women in the antebellum US South. Early nineteenth-century white American ideas of \"female virtue\" were limited to white womanhood and legitimized US white supremacist and patriarchal imperialism. Exploited for their reproductive and productive labor, enslaved women were denied the assumption of feminine virtue. Rather, they were positioned at the center of slavery's sexual economy. Yet, enslaved women developed a transnational and multifaceted understanding of feminine virtue that they enlisted and passed on to their daughters as a form of subversion. This article argues that enslaved women's concerns with and actions around virtue reveals a strategy through which they struggled for sexual autonomy.","PeriodicalId":278323,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History","volume":"142 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139020685","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Haunted Flesh and Chaos Theory: Gender, State Violence and the Afterlife of Slave Rebellions","authors":"Aisha Finch","doi":"10.1353/cch.2023.a915314","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cch.2023.a915314","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract: This article explores the gendered afterlife of slave rebellions, building on historical and sociological scholarship that takes death and haunting as central analytics. It focuses on a moment of state repression in Cuba in 1844, in the aftermath of two substantive slave insurgencies, and the movement of enslaved and free people of color known as La Escalera. While a voluminous colonial record has documented the spectacle of public punishment in 1844, I trace an invisible, largely unarchived form of punishment that haunted Black people who were forced to witness acts of torture and execution, stalking their psychic worlds. Alongside the masculinization of this public punishment, this article explores a phenomenon that I call encumberment, which encompasses the absorption of state terror on the most intimate of levels; the act of contending and coping with torture's impact on wider communities; and the labor of rebuilding and caring for traumatized loved ones—all of which were deeply gendered processes. Yet if haunting was a central feature of moments like 1844, these moments were also characterized by a counter-haunting, illustrating how the aftermath of slave insurgencies also stalked and plagued the colonial state, and disrupted the fantasy of the rebellion's undoing. Encompassing the memory of collective Black rage, the colonial pursuit of public tranquility, the care for traumatized Black bodies and the attention to the dead, counter-haunting became central to the afterlife of 1844. The deep entanglement of haunting and counterlife was a critical legacy of this and other slave rebellions.","PeriodicalId":278323,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History","volume":"93 9","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138986418","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"\"An Excellent Hunter\": Environmental Creolization and the Paths to Freedom in Nineteenth-Century Amazonia","authors":"Oscar de la Torre","doi":"10.1353/cch.2023.a915310","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cch.2023.a915310","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract: If slave societies in the Atlantic world were based on \"creole ecologies,\" that is, on bringing enslaved African workers to the Americas to cultivate an Asian crop (sugar), then how would those workers' acquisition of environmental knowledge alter such a project? In this article I argue that a fruitful response to that question lies in the concept of environmental creolization: the process of familiarization with New World environments that enslaved people from Africa developed upon arriving in the Americas. After tracing its origins in the convergence between the historiographies of transatlantic slavery and environmental history, I discuss the trajectories of three Black individuals living in nineteenth-century Amazonia who used their knowledge of local environments to carve better working conditions inside the institution, and to slowly exit it. Their cases not only illustrate the centrality of environmental knowledge in the tropical and forested areas of the Americas, but also illuminate how a successful environmental creolization greatly impacted contests over autonomy and freedom throughout the Atlantic world.","PeriodicalId":278323,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History","volume":"14 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138988869","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Precarious Freedoms: Intergenerational Divisions within the Black Family in Postcolonial Córdoba, Argentina","authors":"Erika Denise Edwards","doi":"10.1353/cch.2023.a915311","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cch.2023.a915311","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract: This article explores the intergenerational dynamics within the Black family in postcolonial Córdoba, Argentina. It delves into the difficult reality that Black emancipation did not define freedom. Instead \"free\" status remained a precarious existence to which some free and free(d) Black parents clung by differentiating themselves from the enslaved population. Through the examination of marriage dissent court cases that featured African-descended families as plaintiffs and defendants, this article demonstrates that the maintenance of a social hierarchy that discriminated against the enslaved did not only emanate from external influences, such as governing authorities and policies, but the African-descendant population also internalized and upheld it.","PeriodicalId":278323,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History","volume":"28 9","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139018128","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Haitian Revolution, Anti-Imperialism, and Black Revolutionary International Consciousness: An Interview with Leslie M. Alexander","authors":"C. Eddins, Zach Sell","doi":"10.1353/cch.2023.a915309","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cch.2023.a915309","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":278323,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History","volume":"326 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139020284","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Lives and Legacies of a Carceral Island: A Biographical History of Wadjemup/Rottnest Island by Ann Curthoys, Shino Konishi, and Alexandra Ludewig (review)","authors":"","doi":"10.1353/cch.2023.a915307","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cch.2023.a915307","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":278323,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History","volume":"24 8","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139017044","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Chandragupta Maurya: The Creation of a National Hero in India by Sushma Jansari (review)","authors":"","doi":"10.1353/cch.2023.a915308","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cch.2023.a915308","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":278323,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History","volume":"814 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139022694","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"\"The Total Subversion of All Rule\": Countering Slavery in Colonial and Imperial Contexts","authors":"C. Eddins, Zach Sell","doi":"10.1353/cch.2023.a915315","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cch.2023.a915315","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":278323,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History","volume":"375 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139022841","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Round Table Conference Geographies: Constituting Colonial India in Interwar London by Stephen Legg (review)","authors":"","doi":"10.1353/cch.2023.a915312","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cch.2023.a915312","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":278323,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History","volume":"349 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139016083","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}