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Troubling Freedom: Antigua and the Aftermath of British Emancipation

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In 1834 Antigua became the only British colony in the Caribbean to move right away from slavery to full emancipation. Immediate freedom, on the other hand, did not live up to its promise, as it did not guarantee any level of stability or autonomy, and the implementation of new forms of coercion and keep watch over made it, in many ways, indistinguishable from slavery. In Troubling Freedom Natasha Lightfoot tells the story of how Antigua’s newly freed black working people struggled to realize freedom in their on a regular basis lives, prior to and in the decades following emancipation. She presents freedpeople’s efforts to form an efficient group of workers, acquire property, protected housing, worship, and build independent communities in line with elite prescriptions for acceptable behavior and oppression. Regardless of its continued efforts, Antigua’s black population failed to convince whites that its members were worthy of full economic and political inclusion. By highlighting the diverse ways freedpeople defined and created freedom through quotidian acts of survival and occasional uprisings, Lightfoot complicates conceptions of freedom and the general narrative that landlessness was once the principle constraint for newly emancipated slaves in the Caribbean.
 

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