Conceiving Fertility in the Age of Abolition

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katherine Paugh
Keyword(s):  
Labor Force ◽  
American Revolution ◽  
Atlantic World ◽  
White Women ◽  
Political History ◽  
Haitian Revolution ◽  
The Political ◽  
Pivotal Moments ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Haitian Revolution

The story of the Afro-Caribbean midwife Doll illuminates the politics of midwifery on Newton plantation in Barbados. It is well known that midwives wielded a great deal of power, but the racial dynamics of that power have received less attention. Doll’s story indicates that she vied with white women for the position of midwife, and that the former were viewed by the plantation’s white managers as more responsible guardians of the reproduction of the labor force. Plantation managers therefore eventually took steps to replace Doll with a white midwife. The Newton ledgers allow us to correlate the timing of pivotal moments in Doll’s career with pivotal moments in the political history of the Atlantic world. Her rise to power came during the massive disruptions caused by the American Revolution, and her removal from office came during the backlash against elite Afro-Barbadians caused by the Haitian Revolution.

The Evolution of Land and Labor in the Haitian Revolution, 1791-1820

1978 ◽  
Vol 34 (4) ◽  
pp. 449-459 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert K. Lacerte
Keyword(s):  
New World ◽  
Political History ◽  
Haitian Revolution ◽  
The Political ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
Moderate Amount ◽  
Economic Changes ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Haitian Revolution ◽  
Peasant Economy

Between 1791 when the Haitian revolution began, and the death of Henri Christophe in 1820, important economic changes occurred in Haiti which transformed one of the most prosperous plantation economies in the New World into a republic of peasant proprietors. While the political history of the revolution has received a moderate amount of attention, the economic and social changes which accompanied it have been poorly understood. It is the purpose of this study to focus on the internal developments which were occurring in an irresistible way to bring about a peasant economy and to delineate the responses of a variety of governments, both French and Haitian, to try to halt these changes.

Introduction

2018 ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Matthew R. Bahar
Keyword(s):  
British Empire ◽  
American Indians ◽  
American Revolution ◽  
Academic Writing ◽  
Atlantic World ◽  
Cultural Development ◽  
The Political ◽  
Sea Power ◽  
History Of ◽  
Political Economic

A Thanksgiving Day pageant at Plymouth Harbor, Massachusetts, in 1970 revealed the extent to which modern Americans have forgotten an important chapter of their early past. Though profoundly significant in the political, economic, and cultural development of both Native and colonial societies in the Northeast, the history of Wabanaki sea power has been intentionally and inadvertently overlooked by myriad peoples. New Englanders in the era of the American Revolution ignored their history of victimhood at the hands of Indians and their dependency on the British Empire to mitigate it. The story has since been buried deeper by popular and academic writing informed by historical assumptions about American Indians, the Atlantic world, and piracy.

The Borders of Citizenship in the Haitian Revolution

2020 ◽  
pp. 009059172097534
Author(s):  
Lorenzo Ravano
Keyword(s):  
Haitian Revolution ◽  
People Of Color ◽  
Modern Concept ◽  
The Political ◽  
Free People Of Color ◽  
Racial Boundaries ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Haitian Revolution ◽  
Plantation Labor ◽  
Free People

This essay surveys the appropriations and transformations of the modern concept of citizenship by the actors of the Haitian Revolution, analyzed through the intertwining of race, plantation labor, and the postcolonial state. The concept of citizenship is interpreted as an instrument of emancipative struggles as well as of practices of government. The reconstruction is focused around four moments: the liberal critique by free people of color of the racial boundaries of French citizenship; the strategic uses of citizenship by the insurgent slaves to secure their freedom; the inclusion of former slaves into citizenship to preserve the plantation system within the republican order; and postcolonial Haitian citizenship. By analyzing the constitutional shifts and the political thinking of different figures, such as Julien Raimond, Georges Biassou, Jean-François, Toussaint Louverture, and Jean-Jacques Dessalines, the essay shows the conceptual originality of Haitian political thought and its relevance for the history of modern political concepts.

New directions in the political history of the Spanish-Atlantic world, c. 1750–1850

2018 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 175-182 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gabriel Paquette ◽  
Manuel Lucena-Giraldo ◽  
Gonzalo M. Quintero Saravia ◽  
Oriol Regué-Sendrós
Keyword(s):  
Atlantic World ◽  
Political History ◽  
The Political ◽  
New Directions ◽  
Spanish Atlantic ◽  
History Of

Introduction

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rembert Lutjeharms
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Political History ◽  
The Political ◽  
Poetry And Poetics ◽  
Sanskrit Poetics ◽  
History Of ◽  
Sanskrit Poetry ◽  
The Way

This chapter introduces the main themes of the book—Kavikarṇapūra, theology, Sanskrit poetry, and Sanskrit poetics—and provides an overview of each chapter. It briefly highlights the importance of the practice of poetry for the Caitanya Vaiṣṇava tradition, places Kavikarṇapūra in the (political) history of sixteenth‐century Bengal and Orissa as well as sketches his place in the early developments of the Caitanya Vaiṣṇava tradition (a topic more fully explored in Chapter 1). The chapter also reflects more generally on the nature of both his poetry and poetics, and highlights the way Kavikarṇapūra has so far been studied in modern scholarship.

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