Slavery & Resistance
This week I am reading for a conference sponsored by the Early Modern Studies Institute and the Huntington Library on Slavery and Resistance. To prepare, I am turning to the recent publications of the participants and chasing down some of the more interesting footnotes in their pre-circulated papers. Some of these are old classics I’m looking at again, and others are completely new to me.
I’ll note how many of these essays, and how many of the papers for the conference, are taking on the questions of forced migration, mobility, and marronage. Clearly we are in the middle of a trend toward migration, and I’m puzzling over what motivates that pivot, and what its future may be.
Hilary Beckles, “The 200 Years War: Slave Resistance in the British West Indies: An Overview of the Historiography” Jamaican Historical Review Vol. 13, (Jan 1, 1982): 1-10. (Link to ProQuest Here)
Dawson, Kevin. “A Sea of Caribbean Islands: Maritime Maroons in the Greater Caribbean.” Slavery & Abolition 42, no. 3 (2021): 428–48. doi:10.1080/0144039X.2021.1927509.
Ewald, Janet J. “Crossers of the Sea: Slaves, Freedmen, and Other Migrants in the Northwestern Indian Ocean, c. 1750-1914.” The American Historical Review 105, no. 1 (2000): 69–91. https://doi.org/10.2307/2652435.
Lamotte, Mélanie. "Beyond the Atlantic: Unifying Racial Policies across the Early French Empire." The William and Mary Quarterly 81, no. 1 (2024): 3-36. https://doi.org/10.1353/wmq.2024.a918182.
Miki, Yuko. “Fleeing into Slavery: The Insurgent Geographies of Brazilian Quilombolas (Maroons), 1880–1881.” The Americas 68, no. 4 (2012): 495–528. http://www.jstor.org/stable/41432357.
Rupert, Linda M. “Marronage, Manumission and Maritime Trade in the Early Modern Caribbean.” Slavery & Abolition 30, no. 3 (2009): 361–82. doi:10.1080/01440390903098003.
S. J. Zhang, “What Cecilia Knew: Reading Reproduction and Marronage in Records of Recapture” History of the Present (2024) 14 (1): 156–173. https://doi.org/10.1215/21599785-10898396
Sasha Turner, “Bessy Chambers, Nineteenth-Century Jamaica,” in Ball, Seijas, Snyder, eds. As If She Were Free: A Collective Biography of Women and Emancipation in the Americas. (Cambridge University Press, 2020), 255-273. (Link to Publisher’s Website here)
Cécile Vidal, “Private and State Violence Against African Slaves in Lower Louisiana During the French Period, 1699–1769” in New World Orders: Violence, Sanction, and Authority in the Colonial Americas. Ed. John Smolenski and Thomas J. Humphrey (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005): 92-110. https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt4cghbt.9