JOURNAL ARTICLE

Into the Hills: Challenges of Writing Postemancipation Agency in the Caribbean.

  • Published In: Journal of Social History, 2024, v. 57, n. 3. P. 404 1 of 3

  • Database: Academic Search Ultimate 2 of 3

  • Authored By: Eller, Anne 3 of 3

Abstract

The article focuses on the complexities of studying agency in the postemancipation Caribbean, emphasizing the challenges posed by structural repression, archival scarcity, and entrenched anti-Blackness during this period. It critiques simplistic, triumphalist narratives of emancipation and highlights the need for nuanced approaches that consider everyday experiences, internal community dynamics, and the variegated geographies of Caribbean slavery and postslavery. The author underscores ongoing methodological and theoretical difficulties in reconstructing political thought and action amid pervasive economic deprivation and political constraints, advocating for interdisciplinary scholarship attentive to contingency, complexity, and the multilayered realities faced by Caribbean peoples after abolition.

Additional Information

  • Source:Journal of Social History. 2024/03, Vol. 57, Issue 3, p404
  • Document Type:Article
  • Subject Area:History
  • Publication Date:2024
  • ISSN:0022-4529
  • DOI:10.1093/jsh/shad070
  • Accession Number:176041397
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