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Troubling Freedom
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Author : Natasha Lightfoot
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press Books
Release Date : 2015-12-04
Troubling Freedom written by Natasha Lightfoot and has been published by Duke University Press Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-12-04 with History categories.
In 1834 Antigua became the only British colony in the Caribbean to move directly from slavery to full emancipation. Immediate freedom, however, 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 control 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 everyday lives, prior to and in the decades following emancipation. She presents freedpeople's efforts to form an efficient workforce, acquire property, secure housing, worship, and build independent communities in response to elite prescriptions for acceptable behavior and oppression. Despite 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 the primary constraint for newly emancipated slaves in the Caribbean.
Troubling Transparency
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Author : David E. Pozen
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018
Troubling Transparency written by David E. Pozen and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with Government information categories.
Troubling Transparency brings together leading scholars from different disciplines to analyze freedom of information policies in the United States and abroad--how they are working, how they are failing, and how they might be improved, especially the mixed legacy and effectiveness of the U.S. Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).
Jubilee S Experiment
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Author : Dexter J. Gabriel
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2023-04-06
Jubilee S Experiment written by Dexter J. Gabriel and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-04-06 with History categories.
Measuring the success of emancipation in the British West Indies became crucial in the struggle against slavery in antebellum America.
Freedom S Captives
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Author : Yesenia Barragan
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2021-07
Freedom S Captives written by Yesenia Barragan and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-07 with History categories.
Freedom's Captives offers a compelling, narrative-driven history of the gradual abolition of slavery in the majority-black Colombian Pacific.
Troubling Freedom
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Author : Natasha Lightfoot
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2015-11-19
Troubling Freedom written by Natasha Lightfoot and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-11-19 with History categories.
In 1834 Antigua became the only British colony in the Caribbean to move directly from slavery to full emancipation. Immediate freedom, however, 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 control 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 everyday lives, prior to and in the decades following emancipation. She presents freedpeople's efforts to form an efficient workforce, acquire property, secure housing, worship, and build independent communities in response to elite prescriptions for acceptable behavior and oppression. Despite 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 the primary constraint for newly emancipated slaves in the Caribbean.
Buying Freedom
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Author : Kwame Anthony Appiah
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2018-06-05
Buying Freedom written by Kwame Anthony Appiah and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-06-05 with Political Science categories.
If "slavery" is defined broadly to include bonded child labor and forced prostitution, there are upward of 25 million slaves in the world today. Individuals and groups are freeing some slaves by buying them from their enslavers. But slave redemption is as controversial today as it was in pre-Civil War America. In Buying Freedom, Kwame Anthony Appiah and Martin Bunzl bring together economists, anthropologists, historians, and philosophers for the first comprehensive examination of the practical and ethical implications of slave redemption. While recognizing the obvious virtue of the desire to buy the freedom of slaves, the contributors ask difficult and troubling questions: Does redeeming slaves actually increase the demand for--and so the number of--slaves? And what about cases where it is far from clear that redemption will improve the material condition, or increase the real freedom, of a slave? Buying Freedom includes essays by the editors and by Dean Karlan and Alan Krueger, Carol Ann Rogers and Kenneth Swinnerton, Arnab Basu and Nancy Chau, Stanley Engerman, Jonathan Conning and Michael Kevane, Jok Madut Jok, Ann McDougall, Lisa Cook, Margaret Kellow, John Stauffer, and Howard McGary.
Bondmen And Rebels
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Author : David Barry Gaspar
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 1993-02-28
Bondmen And Rebels written by David Barry Gaspar and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993-02-28 with Social Science categories.
Originally published in 1985, and available for the first time in paperback, Bondmen & Rebels provides a pioneering study of slave resistance in the Americas. Using the large-scale Antigua slave conspiracy of 1736 as a window into that society, David Barry Gaspar explores the deeper interactive character of the relation between slave resistance and white control.
Immigration And Freedom
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Author : Chandran Kukathas
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2025-07-15
Immigration And Freedom written by Chandran Kukathas and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-07-15 with Philosophy categories.
"Few would deny that immigration controls are restrictions on individual freedom. In debates about immigration, however, freedom is rarely mentioned. When it is raised it is usually indirectly, and the contending parties typically divide into those who question the wisdom or the morality of limiting the movement of would-be immigrants and others who think such restrictions warranted. The language of freedom rarely makes an appearance, perhaps because the liberty of foreigners or aliens does not really interest most people. Advocates of immigrants express a concern for the welfare of outsiders; others appeal to the welfare of natives and the integrity of the nation. The point of this book is to establish freedom as the basis of the immigration question. Chandran Kukathas argues that what's at stake is nothing less than the liberty of citizens and residents of the free society, and therefore the free society itself. To put it simply, immigration controls are controls on people, and it is not possible to control some people without controlling others. More specifically, it is not possible to control outsiders (aliens, foreigners, would-be immigrants) without controlling insiders as well, and to enforce immigration control is to enforce control generally. The author shows why this must be so, and explains why it is significant. Over the course of eight chapters and an epilogue, the books draws anecdotally on current and historical immigration practices in Canada, the United States, Australia, Japan, Singapore and most of the major Western European countries, but the information is deployed in service of an accessible, first-principles argument. To assess immigration, he says, we must think then about what we value most about our society and also come to a clearer understanding about what we mean by immigration in the first place. In the conclusion, he defends the need for greater freedom of movement-which ultimately means a world of more open borders"--
Empire Of Neglect
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Author : Christopher Taylor
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2018-05-03
Empire Of Neglect written by Christopher Taylor and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-05-03 with Literary Criticism categories.
Following the publication of Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations, nineteenth-century liberal economic thinkers insisted that a globally hegemonic Britain would profit only by abandoning the formal empire. British West Indians across the divides of race and class understood that, far from signaling an invitation to nationalist independence, this liberal economic discourse inaugurated a policy of imperial “neglect”—a way of ignoring the ties that obligated Britain to sustain the worlds of the empire’s distant fellow subjects. In Empire of Neglect Christopher Taylor examines this neglect’s cultural and literary ramifications, tracing how nineteenth-century British West Indians reoriented their affective, cultural, and political worlds toward the Americas as a response to the liberalization of the British Empire. Analyzing a wide array of sources, from plantation correspondence, political economy treatises, and novels to newspapers, socialist programs, and memoirs, Taylor shows how the Americas came to serve as a real and figurative site at which abandoned West Indians sought to imagine and invent postliberal forms of political subjecthood.
Shakespeare S Noise
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Author : Kenneth Gross
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2001-04
Shakespeare S Noise written by Kenneth Gross and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-04 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Gross explores the playright's fascination with dangerous and disorderly forms of utterance -- rumor, slander, insult, vituperation, and curse -- and how this generates an immense verbal energy in the poetry and on the stage. More broadly, it also reflects a cultural obsession with the power of defamation in Renaissance England.