Author: Jill SheppardPublisher: Millwood, N.Y. : KTO Press
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
The "Redlegs" of Barbados, Their Origins and History
Author: Jill SheppardPublisher: Millwood, N.Y. : KTO Press
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
The "redlegs" of Barbados; Their Origins and History; Foreword by Sir Philip Sherlock
Author: Jill SheppardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indentured servants
Languages : en
Pages : 147
Book Description
The "Redlegs" of Barbados, Their Origins and History
Author: Jill SheppardPublisher: Millwood, N.Y. : KTO Press
ISBN:
Category : Indentured servants
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
Archaeology below the Cliff
Author: Matthew C. ReillyPublisher: University Alabama Press
ISBN: 0817320288
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
First book-length archaeological study of a nonelite white population on a Caribbean plantation Archaeology below the Cliff: Race, Class, and Redlegs in Barbadian Sugar Society is the first archaeological study of the poor whites of Barbados, the descendants of seventeenth-century European indentured servants and small farmers. “Redlegs” is a pejorative to describe the marginalized group who remained after the island transitioned to a sugar monoculture economy dependent on the labor of enslaved Africans. A sizable portion of the “white” minority, the Redlegs largely existed on the peripheries of the plantation landscape in an area called “Below Cliff,” which was deemed unsuitable for profitable agricultural production. Just as the land on which they resided was cast as marginal, so too have the poor whites historically and contemporarily been derided as peripheral and isolated as well as idle, alcoholic, degenerate, inbred, and irrelevant to a functional island society and economy. Using archaeological, historical, and oral sources, Matthew C. Reilly shows how the precarious existence of the Barbadian Redlegs challenged elite hypercapitalistic notions of economics, race, and class as they were developing in colonial society. Experiencing pronounced economic hardship, similar to that of the enslaved, albeit under very different circumstances, Barbadian Redlegs developed strategies to live in a harsh environment. Reilly’s investigations reveal that what developed in Below Cliff was a moral economy, based on community needs rather than free-market prices. Reilly extensively excavated households from the tenantry area on the boundaries of the Clifton Hall Plantation, which was abandoned in the 1960s, to explore the daily lives of poor white tenants and investigate their relationships with island economic processes and networks. Despite misconceptions of strict racial isolation, evidence also highlights the importance of poor white encounters and relationships with Afro-Barbadians. Historical data are also incorporated to address how an underrepresented demographic experienced the plantation landscape. Ultimately, Reilly’s narrative situates the Redlegs within island history, privileging inclusion and embeddedness over exclusion and isolation.
To Hell or Barbados
Author: Sean O'CallaghanPublisher: The O'Brien Press
ISBN: 1847175961
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 153
Book Description
A vivid account of the Irish slave trade: the previously untold story of over 50,000 Irish men, women and children who were transported to Barbados and Virginia.
White Creole Culture, Politics and Identity During the Age of Abolition
Author: David LambertPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521841313
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
This book explores the articulation of white creole identity in Barbados during the age of abolitionism.
Archaeology Below the Cliff
Author: Matthew Connor ReillyPublisher:
ISBN: 9780817392420
Category : Barbados
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Pre-Colonial and Post-Contact Archaeology in Barbados
Author: Maaike S. De WaalPublisher:
ISBN: 9789088908460
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Collected papers on all aspects of Barbados' history, heritage, and archaeology, this volume will have considerable impact upon the wider context of Caribbeanist archaeology, history and heritage studies.
The Roots of Caribbean Identity
Author: Peter A. RobertsPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521727456
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 502
Book Description
"The Roots of Caribbean Identity has as its central elements race, place and language. The book presents a movement from a European construction of Caribbean identity towards a more Caribbean construction. The ways in which the identity of the Caribbean region and the identities of the separate islands within the region were shaped are set out in a chronological sequence, starting from the time of the European encounters with the Amerindians and finishing at the end of the nineteenth century."(extrait de la 4ème de couv.).
If the Irish Ran the World
Author: Donald H. AkensonPublisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 9780773516861
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
What would have happened if the Irish had conquered and controlled a vast empire? Would they have been more humane rulers than the English? Using the Caribbean island of Montserrat as a case study of "Irish" imperialism, Donald Akenson addresses these questions and provides a detailed history of the island during its first century as a European colony.