{"title":"\"The Protection of Slaves and Other Property\": An Anglican Minister, Criminal Charges, and White Planters' Fears of Emancipation in Barbados","authors":"M. Strickland","doi":"10.1353/jch.2021.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jch.2021.0001","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:In 1827, the churchwarden and vestry of the parish church in St Lucy, Barbados, brought criminal charges against the rector, Rev. William Marshall Harte. They argued that he used his religious position to undermine the racial distinctions of Barbadian society. These charges occurred within the context of metropolitan debates surrounding slavery, amelioration, and emancipation. Using data drawn from Treasury records and papers in the Colonial Office, this article shows that white proprietors accepted Christian instruction for their enslaved people, as Anglican clergy generally preached the compatibility of Anglicanism and slavery. Indeed, they often adopted religious instruction to promote \"docility\" and \"deference\" among enslaved people. However, they sought to quash any actions or rhetoric by Anglican ministers that might hinder the enslaver–enslaved power dynamic, the foundation for maintaining the institution of slavery. While Harte fiercely denied the charges, the actions taken against him reveal this to be a late-stage offence by white planters in the waning years of slavery in the British Empire. Ultimately, this article argues that, in the lead up to emancipation, white colonists took physical and legal actions to curtail anti-slavery rhetoric that propagated from the metropole in the hopes of maintaining the institution.","PeriodicalId":83090,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Caribbean history","volume":"11 1","pages":"151 - 175"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84306305","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":"Garinagu Ethnogenesis and St Vincent's Black Caribs in the British Colonial Account","authors":"Doris Garcia","doi":"10.1353/jch.2021.0000","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jch.2021.0000","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Sir William Young's book An Account of the Black Charaibs in the Island of St. Vincent's has been the primary historical source about the Black Caribs' ethnogenesis and Vicentinian history for many years. This essay critically examines the book's historical inconsistencies and fabrications. Restating such claims in published works has shaped how the Black Caribs' present-day descendants, the Garinagu, have come to understand their ethnic origins and identity. This work contributes to a small body of critical interdisciplinary historiography that challenges the master narrative that British colonizers wrote about the Black Caribs and the ethnohistory of the Lesser Antilles.","PeriodicalId":83090,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Caribbean history","volume":"377 1","pages":"121 - 150"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80603791","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":"Jamaica Ladies: Female Slaveholders and the Creation of Britain's Atlantic Empire by Christine Walker (review)","authors":"M. Strickland","doi":"10.1353/jch.2021.0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jch.2021.0004","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":83090,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Caribbean history","volume":"68 1","pages":"217 - 220"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82528396","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":"Regional Discourses on Society and History: Shaping the Caribbean ed. by Jerome Teelucksingh and Shane Pantin (review)","authors":"Danalee Jahgoo","doi":"10.1353/jch.2021.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jch.2021.0005","url":null,"abstract":"Regional Discourses on Society and History: Shaping the Caribbean provides a platform for scholars to examine the ways in which the Caribbean has been shaped through analyses of historical and contemporary issues. This noteworthy publication has twelve chapters and is divided into three themes. Each theme features the work of contributors specializing in the diverse areas of History, African and Latin American Studies, Law, Literature, Heritage Studies and Politics. It presents fresh perspectives on elements of Caribbean history and society and provides insight into undeveloped areas of study. Regional Discourses on Society and History attempts to fuse subject matters described by the editors as “vintage in origin” (xi) such as race and nationalism, with more recent areas of scholarship. The first section examines the theme of “Migration and Identity” and two of the contributors, Peter Timothy and James Cantres, focus on the experiences of the Caribbean diaspora in the United Kingdom (UK). The other two scholars, Ronald Noel and Aakeil Murray, discuss connections with North America. Timothy in “Visionaries, Pioneers, Apostle and Healers” reveals the significant contributions of migrants from Trinidad and Tobago, to the development of society, science and culture in the United Kingdom from 1948 to 1986. Attempts to establish roots in the UK, manifested in the development of different elements of Caribbean culture which served the double purpose of fostering Black Power and identity and resisting racism. Timothy delves into ways in which prominent Caribbean individuals in the UK could have been considered to be visionaries and pioneers in the development of Black British society as a result of the way they used their creativity and sense of Black pride to create an accepted space for the Caribbean diaspora. Cantres in “Black Power and West Indian Cricket Exercises in PostNationalism” focuses on the development and success of the West Indies Cricket team and how the performances of extraordinary West Indian","PeriodicalId":83090,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Caribbean history","volume":"17 1","pages":"221 - 225"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89663362","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":"Judas to the Garveyite Cause: A Review of Jeffrey Perry's Hubert Harrison: The Struggle for Equality, 1918–1927","authors":"Rhone Fraser","doi":"10.1353/jch.2021.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jch.2021.0003","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:In his second volume biography of Hubert Harrison's life entitled Hubert Harrison: The Struggle for Equality, 1917–1928, Jeffrey Perry accomplishes what his Introduction states it would do, which is to detail \"the extraordinary last nine and one-half years of Harrison's life, which [was] lived at the edge of poverty in a United States shaped by capitalism, imperialism, and white supremacy\". However, there are aspects of Harrison's life in this biography that are unable to clearly describe Harrison's work as both a US government informer and his work as an editor for the Negro World newspaper that promoted the principles of self-reliance and nationhood for members of the organization that Marcus Garvey co-founded, the UNIA (Universal Negro Improvement Association). These principles are at odds with those of the US government which, since 1919 was undermining the work of the UNIA.","PeriodicalId":83090,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Caribbean history","volume":"14 1","pages":"195 - 216"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74094006","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":"Play Ball! The Gómez Dictatorship and the Development of Baseball in Venezuela, 1909–1935","authors":"J. Rausch","doi":"10.1353/jch.2021.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jch.2021.0002","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:In the first decades of the twentieth century, the adoption of baseball as a national sport spread quickly throughout the Caribbean. Juan Vicente Gómez, who ruled Venezuela with an iron hand from 1908 to 1935, supported its development by assuring that the teams he and his sons owned won the contests in which they participated. A review of available literature suggests that his encouragement of baseball, even on his own terms, proved an effective way to distract the general population from the otherwise ruthless tactics he employed to keep his government in power.","PeriodicalId":83090,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Caribbean history","volume":"39 1","pages":"176 - 194"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77432741","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 Black Republic: African Americans and the Fate of Haiti by Brandon R. Byrd (review)","authors":"R. A. Johnson","doi":"10.1353/jch.2021.0013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jch.2021.0013","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":83090,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Caribbean history","volume":"31 1","pages":"116 - 119"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83140002","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":"Memory, Memorializing and Martyrdom in Post-Revolutionary Grenada","authors":"Candia Mitchell-Hall","doi":"10.1353/jch.2021.0011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jch.2021.0011","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:On 13 March 1979, the small island of Grenada in the Eastern Caribbean staged a big uprising known as the Grenada Revolution (1979–1983). That uprising saw the ousting of the then prime minister Eric Matthew Gairy by the socialist opposition party, the New Jewel Movement led by the young, popular, and charismatic lawyer Maurice Bishop. But after four years of running the country under the People's Revolutionary Government, the revolution imploded on itself when Prime Minister Maurice Bishop along with his government ministers and supporters were killed at Fort Rupert on 19 October 1983. Since then, several memorials have been erected to the memory of Bishop and by extension, the Grenada Revolution. But not everyone wants to remember Maurice Bishop and the Grenada Revolution. The nation is polarized over the Grenada Revolution, and particularly the events of 19 October 1983, and grapples with its memory and re-memory decades after. This paper is interested in how memory, memorializing and martyrdom intersect in the post-revolutionary state.","PeriodicalId":83090,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Caribbean history","volume":"57 1","pages":"111 - 85"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85982758","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":"Slave Revolt on Screen: The Haitian Revolution in Film and Video Games by Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall (review)","authors":"M. Smith","doi":"10.1353/jch.2021.0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jch.2021.0006","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":83090,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Caribbean history","volume":"56 1","pages":"226 - 228"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89825154","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":"How to Control the History of a Slave Rebellion: A Case Study from the Sources of Blackwall's Revolt in St Mary's Parish, Jamaica, 1765","authors":"Devin Leigh, Clifton E. Sorrell","doi":"10.1353/jch.2021.0009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jch.2021.0009","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Enslaved people in Jamaica staged a series of insurrections from 1760 to 1766 that challenged British colonial authority. Much attention has been paid to the first and largest of these insurrections, popularly known as Tacky's Revolt. Far less has been written about a subsequent event from 1765. Although minor in scope and impact, Blackwall's Revolt is important because it resulted in an unusually detailed textual archive. This archive provides a unique opportunity to see how planters forced their knowledge of slave revolt into established narratives, meant to advance the politics of colonial society. The following article examines that process through discussions of rebel leadership, gendered resistance, and slave–Maroon alliance.","PeriodicalId":83090,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Caribbean history","volume":"1 1","pages":"19 - 56"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89541525","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}