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Law, Justice and Empire: the colonial career of John Gorrie 1829 - 1892
In: UWI Press biography series 2
Law, justice, and empire: the colonial career of John Gorrie, 1829-1892
In: The Press UWI biography series, 2
Brinsley Samaroo, historian (1940–2023): Delivered as The Brinsley Samaroo Legacy Lecture, keynote in the annual History Fest of the Department of History, UWI, St Augustine, at the Alma Jordan Library, UWI, St Augustine, T&T, 6 March 2024
In: Journal of indentureship and its legacies, Band 4, Heft 1
ISSN: 2634-2006
This informal presentation seeks to analyze the late Brinsley Samaroo's major work as a historian. It discusses his pioneering research and writing on labour and political struggles in Trinidad & Tobago in the last century, and his involvement in research on the indentured Indian Diaspora in that country and in the Caribbean more generally. It also notes his work as a public intellectual and cultural activist.
Brinsley Samaroo (1940–2023)
In: Caribbean studies, Band 51, Heft 1, S. 151-154
ISSN: 1940-9095
Freedom Roots: Histories from the Caribbean, by Laurent Dubois & Richard Lee Turits
In: New West Indian guide: NWIG = Nieuwe west-indische gids, Band 95, Heft 1-2, S. 97-98
ISSN: 2213-4360
Contested Bodies: Pregnancy, childrearing, and slavery in Jamaica by Sasha Turner
In: Journal of colonialism & colonial history, Band 19, Heft 3
ISSN: 1532-5768
In Memoriam Michael Craton, Historian
In: Caribbean studies, Band 44, Heft 1-2, S. 215-218
ISSN: 1940-9095
Liberty, Fraternity, Exile: Haiti and Jamaica After Emancipation, written by Matthew J. Smith
In: New West Indian guide: NWIG = Nieuwe west-indische gids, Band 90, Heft 1-2, S. 96-97
ISSN: 2213-4360
The Caribbean: A History of the Region and Its Peoples. Stephan Palmié & Francisco Scarano (eds.). Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011. x + 660 pp. (Paper US$ 35.00)
In: New West Indian guide: NWIG = Nieuwe west-indische gids, Band 87, Heft 3-4, S. 337-340
ISSN: 2213-4360
Contesting the Past: Narratives of Trinidad & Tobago history
In: New West Indian guide: NWIG = Nieuwe west-indische gids, Band 81, Heft 3-4, S. 169-196
ISSN: 2213-4360
Discusses the national narratives developed historically in Trinidad and Tobago. Author describes how the past has been interpreted differently, for different purposes, and by different ethnic groups. She first pays attention to 2 hegemonic historical narratives during the colonial era: the British imperial historical narrative and the French Creole one, associated with political and/or planter elites. Next, she discusses how since the mid-20th c. the anticolonial, nationalist movement responded to this, including academics, resulting in the Eric Williams-led Afro-Creole narrative, dominant in the decades since the 1961 independence, connecting Trinidad as a nation with African-descended Creoles. Further, she highlights challenges to the dominant Afro-Creole narrative, mainly since the 1970s, emerging partly in the domain of "public history", and mostly ethnicity-based. She discusses the politics of (Amerindian) indigeneity in Trinidad, the Tobago narrative, related to its distinct history, the Afrocentric narrative, and the Indocentric narrative, the latter including a more recent extreme Hinducentric narrative. Author points out that the Afro-Creole master narrative, and subsequent (ethnic) counternarratives eclipsed (at least academically) increasing class-based, or gendered historical narratives.
Contesting the Past: Narratives of Trinidad & Tobago history
In: New West Indian guide: NWIG = Nieuwe west-indische gids, Band 81, Heft 3-4, S. 169-196
ISSN: 2213-4360
Discusses the national narratives developed historically in Trinidad and Tobago. Author describes how the past has been interpreted differently, for different purposes, and by different ethnic groups. She first pays attention to 2 hegemonic historical narratives during the colonial era: the British imperial historical narrative and the French Creole one, associated with political and/or planter elites. Next, she discusses how since the mid-20th c. the anticolonial, nationalist movement responded to this, including academics, resulting in the Eric Williams-led Afro-Creole narrative, dominant in the decades since the 1961 independence, connecting Trinidad as a nation with African-descended Creoles. Further, she highlights challenges to the dominant Afro-Creole narrative, mainly since the 1970s, emerging partly in the domain of "public history", and mostly ethnicity-based. She discusses the politics of (Amerindian) indigeneity in Trinidad, the Tobago narrative, related to its distinct history, the Afrocentric narrative, and the Indocentric narrative, the latter including a more recent extreme Hinducentric narrative. Author points out that the Afro-Creole master narrative, and subsequent (ethnic) counternarratives eclipsed (at least academically) increasing class-based, or gendered historical narratives.
Remnants of Conquest: The Island Caribs and their Visitors, 1877-1998 (review)
In: Journal of colonialism & colonial history, Band 3, Heft 1
ISSN: 1532-5768
Slavery, antislavery, freedom
In: New West Indian guide: NWIG = Nieuwe west-indische gids, Band 76, Heft 1-2, S. 97-103
ISSN: 2213-4360
[First paragraph]Empire and Antislavery: Spain, Cuba, and Puerto Rico, 1833-1874. CHRISTOPHER SCHMIDT-NOWARA. Pittsburgh PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1999. xv + 239 pp. (Cloth US$ 50.00, Paper US$ 22.95)Beyond Slavery: Explorations of Race, Labor, and Citizenship in Postemancipation Societies. FREDERICK COOPER, THOMAS C. HOLT & REBECCA J. SCOTT. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000. xiii + 198 pp. (Cloth US$ 34.95, Paper US$ 15.95)From Slavery to Freedom: Comparative Studies in the Rise andFall of Atlantic Slavery. SEYMOUR DRESCHER. New York: New York University Press, 1999. xxv + 454 pp. (Cloth US$ 45.00)Terms of Labor: Slavery, Serfdom, and Free Labor. STANLEY L. ENGERMAN (ed.). Stanford CA: Stanford University Press, 1999. vi + 350 pp. (Cloth US$ 55.00)These four books explore antislavery movements in the Atlantic world, and consider some of the consequences of abolition in postemancipation societies. They are immensely rich studies which engage one of the liveliest areas of enquiry in modern historiography - the transition from slavery to freedom in New World societies - and which represent U.S. historical scholarship at its finest. Each falls into a different category of academic publication.
Gendered Testimonies: Autobiographies, Diaries and Letters by Women as Sources for Caribbean History
In: Feminist review, Band 59, Heft 1, S. 143-163
ISSN: 1466-4380
Although history has been one of the main disciplines through which we can understand gender, the paucity of data written or recorded by women makes it more difficult for the historian to research women's lives in the past. In the Caribbean, this task has been made easier by the discovery of a few key sources which allow an insight into the private sphere of Caribbean women's lives. These records of women who have lived in the Caribbean since the 1800s consist of memoirs, diaries and letters. The autobiographical writings include the extraordinary record of Mary Prince, a Bermuda-born enslaved African woman. Other sources which have been examined are the diaries of women who were members of the élite in the society, and educated women who worked either in professions or through the church to assist others in their societies. Through her examination of the testimonies of these women, the author reveals aspects of childhood, motherhood, marriage and sexual abuses which different women – free and unfree, white, black or coloured – experienced. The glimpses allow us to see Caribbean women who have lived with and challenged the definitions of femininity allowed them in the past. It demonstrates that the distinctions created between women's private and public lives were as artificial then as they are at present.