Natasha Lightfoot

Troubling Freedom

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ISBN 13:: 9780822360070
author:: Natasha Lightfoot
format:: Paperback
publisher:: Duke University Press Books
language:: English
Publication Year:: 2015
Pages:: 328
Dimensions:: 22.9 x 15.2 x 2 cm
Genre:: Society, Politics & Philosophy, Social Sciences, Anthropology
Condition:: New
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Troubling Freedom: Antigua and the Aftermath of British Emancipation

In 1834, Antigua became the only British colony in the Caribbean to move directly from slavery to full emancipation. However, this transition did not guarantee stability or autonomy for its newly freed black population.

Natasha Lightfoot explores how Antigua's black working people struggled to realize freedom in their everyday lives, forming efficient workforces, acquiring property, securing housing and worship, and building independent communities in response to elite prescriptions for acceptable behavior and oppression. This nuanced study complicates conceptions of freedom and highlights the diverse ways freedpeople defined and created freedom through quotidian acts of survival and occasional uprisings.

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