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Women against the colonial regime: going beyond the enslaver’s gaze
By Danas Kuzminas Enslaved women on the island of Barbados were subordinated and subjected to harsh conditions shaped by the regime of slavery. Gendered discourses meant that enslaved women had to contend with multiple hardships at once. Among the most damaging were the stigmatizing and sexualizing discourses that we are researching in the Racialized Motherhood… — read more
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Kitty Pender and Sukey Frances: Enslaved Women in Barbadian Newspapers
By Danas Kuzminas As I worked through hundreds of fugitive advertisements printed in Barbados during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the research process proved increasingly challenging. Although many of the ads I observed may initially appear uniform, closer examination reveals a wide variety of formats through which enslavers sought to inform the public about those… — read more
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Abolition Without Equality: Colonial Morality and the Illusion of Freedom
By Danas Kuzminas. As an intern, joining the research team for the Racialized Motherhood project, my main task is to examine two newspapers (the Barbados Mercury and The Barbadian) printed in Barbados during the 18th and 19th centuries. Even though the project aims to consider women with children or pregnant women who escaped their owners… — read more
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Creole Widows as the Most Stable Portion of Colonial Society
By Felicia J. Fricke. Between 1789 and 1830, the population structure of the Dutch Caribbean island of St. Eustatius changed markedly. At the beginning of this period, the island was populated by 4,944 enslaved people, 2,375 white people, and 511 free people of colour.[1] At the end, there were 1,614 enslaved people, 132 white people,… — read more
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Freeing children born to enslaved mothers? Differing accounts of an 1847 discussion
By Ida L. Vos. In 1847, Wolter Robert van Hoëvell argued that slavery should be ended in the Dutch East Indies. Van Hoëvell was the pastor for the Malay Community in Batavia – now called Jakarta – the capital of the East Indies. A possible method of abolition that came up was freeing all children… — read more
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“Big with Child, and Within a Few Days of Her Time”: What can we learn about race, language, and freedom from colonial newspaper advertisements?
On The Quebec Gazette of 8th March 1787, an ad tells us about “Bett,” a woman about eighteen years old who, wearing a jacket, pettycoat and a shawl, had ran away the previous evening. The ad describes Bett as “big with child, and within a few days of her time:” Though this ad’s goal was… — read more
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