In 2018, the Association of Caribbean Historians (ACH) celebrated its 50th conference in Barbados. The ACH is a non-profit, professional organization devoted to the promotion of Caribbean history from a multidisciplinary, pan-Caribbean perspective. While the ACH was not officially established until 1972, the first “conference” was held in 1968 as a colloquium under the leadership of Profesor Jacques AdélaïdeMerlande, of Guadeloupe. Since then, the organization, the primary association for scholarly and public historians working in the field, has grown to several hundred members around the globe. A major pillar of the Association is its commitment to holding its annual conference in destinations across the Caribbean in different linguistic territories, encouraging the exploration of the region’s rich history. The ACH currently attracts 120 to 150 regional and international delegates to our conference every year and the conference continues to help host destinations to raise the profile of local history, heritage and culture by encouraging local participation, including students, and discussion of local historical issues and themes. The ACH is pleased to collaborate with the Journal of Caribbean History in this special issue as we both stimulate original, excellent research, addressing all aspects of Caribbean history. The JCH has selected five articles submitted by members of the ACH that reflect this ambition. The contributions are by both young and more seasoned scholars, with regional and international affiliations, and cover a variety of topics and countries. They reflect the ACH’s membership and the presentations at our annual conferences.
{"title":"Note from the President of the Association of Caribbean Historians","authors":"R. Hoefte","doi":"10.1353/JCH.2018.0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/JCH.2018.0006","url":null,"abstract":"In 2018, the Association of Caribbean Historians (ACH) celebrated its 50th conference in Barbados. The ACH is a non-profit, professional organization devoted to the promotion of Caribbean history from a multidisciplinary, pan-Caribbean perspective. While the ACH was not officially established until 1972, the first “conference” was held in 1968 as a colloquium under the leadership of Profesor Jacques AdélaïdeMerlande, of Guadeloupe. Since then, the organization, the primary association for scholarly and public historians working in the field, has grown to several hundred members around the globe. A major pillar of the Association is its commitment to holding its annual conference in destinations across the Caribbean in different linguistic territories, encouraging the exploration of the region’s rich history. The ACH currently attracts 120 to 150 regional and international delegates to our conference every year and the conference continues to help host destinations to raise the profile of local history, heritage and culture by encouraging local participation, including students, and discussion of local historical issues and themes. The ACH is pleased to collaborate with the Journal of Caribbean History in this special issue as we both stimulate original, excellent research, addressing all aspects of Caribbean history. The JCH has selected five articles submitted by members of the ACH that reflect this ambition. The contributions are by both young and more seasoned scholars, with regional and international affiliations, and cover a variety of topics and countries. They reflect the ACH’s membership and the presentations at our annual conferences.","PeriodicalId":83090,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Caribbean history","volume":"32 1","pages":"ix - ix"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81501658","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Toussaint Louverture: A Revolutionary Life by Philippe Girard (review)","authors":"C. Campbell","doi":"10.1353/JCH.2018.0012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/JCH.2018.0012","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":83090,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Caribbean history","volume":"19 1","pages":"217 - 220"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76738004","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:From 20 January to 4 April 1866 Emelia Russell Gurney interacted with several persons in Jamaica while her husband sat as one of the three-member Jamaica Royal Commission charged with enquiring into the October 1865 uprising in Morant Bay. She met and talked with clergymen and their wives, a former owner of enslaved people and his family, schoolmasters and black labourers. Her journalistic letters reported her observations and impressions to her mother. The letters provide insight into Jamaica after the ending of slavery, the historical context of the 1865 uprising as well as the diverse perspectives of the cause and effects of the event. This paper examines the contemporary insights and impressions of Jamaica before and after October 1865 from a laywoman's perspective, exploring the conflicting views on the "black and white question" and the impact of the encounters on the daughter of a clergyman and wife of a conservative British politician.
{"title":"Jamaica Before and After October 1865: A Laywoman's Views","authors":"Josephs Aleric","doi":"10.1353/JCH.2017.0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/JCH.2017.0008","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:From 20 January to 4 April 1866 Emelia Russell Gurney interacted with several persons in Jamaica while her husband sat as one of the three-member Jamaica Royal Commission charged with enquiring into the October 1865 uprising in Morant Bay. She met and talked with clergymen and their wives, a former owner of enslaved people and his family, schoolmasters and black labourers. Her journalistic letters reported her observations and impressions to her mother. The letters provide insight into Jamaica after the ending of slavery, the historical context of the 1865 uprising as well as the diverse perspectives of the cause and effects of the event. This paper examines the contemporary insights and impressions of Jamaica before and after October 1865 from a laywoman's perspective, exploring the conflicting views on the \"black and white question\" and the impact of the encounters on the daughter of a clergyman and wife of a conservative British politician.","PeriodicalId":83090,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Caribbean history","volume":"4 1","pages":"171 - 196"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80056066","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:For more than forty years, historians have historicized reparation demands for Europe's involvement in transatlantic slavery. This scholarship has highlighted, among other issues, slavery's devastating legacies. Despite the vigour of this research, little attention has been directed to European apologies for slavery. Yet, an interrogation of these apologies is vital considering the specific manner in which Caribbean descendants of the formerly enslaved have called upon former European enslavers to apologize. Consequently, this article, using as its main point of reference the Ten Point Plan of the Caribbean Reparation Justice Program (CRJP) launched in 2014, scrutinizes the five slavery apologies and statements of regret which the United Kingdom issued from 1999 to 2007.
{"title":"The Caribbean Reparation Movement and British Slavery Apologies: An Appraisal","authors":"Gelien Matthews","doi":"10.1353/JCH.2017.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/JCH.2017.0003","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:For more than forty years, historians have historicized reparation demands for Europe's involvement in transatlantic slavery. This scholarship has highlighted, among other issues, slavery's devastating legacies. Despite the vigour of this research, little attention has been directed to European apologies for slavery. Yet, an interrogation of these apologies is vital considering the specific manner in which Caribbean descendants of the formerly enslaved have called upon former European enslavers to apologize. Consequently, this article, using as its main point of reference the Ten Point Plan of the Caribbean Reparation Justice Program (CRJP) launched in 2014, scrutinizes the five slavery apologies and statements of regret which the United Kingdom issued from 1999 to 2007.","PeriodicalId":83090,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Caribbean history","volume":"26 1","pages":"104 - 80"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74545064","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:This essay in local history examines St Joseph in the first half of the twentieth century. It draws on the testimonies of three long-term residents: the author's mother, who committed to paper recollections of her early life; his godmother with whom he recorded oral interviews; and the Catholic parish priest, from 1903 to 1940, who left behind two untitled notebooks containing censuses of the parish undertaken in 1911 and 1940–1941. Resting on these four sources, the study offers a partial history of St Joseph, with rich, colourful details expected of local history, and framed within the context of Trinidad and Tobago's history.
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versity of Wisconsin Press’ Harvey Goldberg series for understanding and teaching history, which also includes volumes on American Slavery and the Cold War. These books intend to provide teachers at the high school and college level with new ways to approach major historical themes in the classroom. Most of the chapters in this book start with a quick overview of the historical narrative, followed by major historiographical trends and, most importantly, practical ways to introduce historical events to students. The Age of Revolutions volume, its editors further emphasize, is meant to be “eclectic, fast-moving, and polyphonic in tone and style” (4). The style of the essay ranges from the scholarly to the informal, with some occasional asides directly addressed to the reader, as if one were having a conversation over coffee with a colleague over shared pedagogical challenges. “Eclectic” is an apropos descriptive. The opening chapter, by Peter McPhee, is a first-person account of the author’s career teaching the French Revolution in Australia. The closing chapter, by Stuart Salmon and Ben Marsh, covers internet sources that can be employed in the classroom. Most unusually, the print version of that chapter consists of a one-paragraph abstract followed by an invitation to read the actual chapter online (347). (The web address provided in the footnote is inaccurate; the article can be found instead at https://gold bergseries.files.wordpress.com/2017/08/marshrapportwebrev.pdf.) Many of the chapters cover fairly traditional topics like the philosophy of Jean-Jacques Rousseau (Mark C. Carnes) and Thomas Paine (Edward Larkin), Napoleon’s use of nationalism to bolster his political rise (Alan Forrest), the Terror (David Andress), and the Boston Stamp Act Riots (Colin Nicolson), along with slightly more obscure topics like the United States of Belgium (Jane Judge). Despite the editors’ professed goal to be inclusive, the North Atlantic receives the lion’s share of attenBen Marsh and Mike Rapport, eds. Understanding and Teaching the Age of Revolutions. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2017, 352 pp.
{"title":"Understanding and Teaching the Age of Revolutions ed. by Ben Marsh and Mike Rapport (review)","authors":"P. Girard","doi":"10.1353/jch.2018.0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jch.2018.0004","url":null,"abstract":"versity of Wisconsin Press’ Harvey Goldberg series for understanding and teaching history, which also includes volumes on American Slavery and the Cold War. These books intend to provide teachers at the high school and college level with new ways to approach major historical themes in the classroom. Most of the chapters in this book start with a quick overview of the historical narrative, followed by major historiographical trends and, most importantly, practical ways to introduce historical events to students. The Age of Revolutions volume, its editors further emphasize, is meant to be “eclectic, fast-moving, and polyphonic in tone and style” (4). The style of the essay ranges from the scholarly to the informal, with some occasional asides directly addressed to the reader, as if one were having a conversation over coffee with a colleague over shared pedagogical challenges. “Eclectic” is an apropos descriptive. The opening chapter, by Peter McPhee, is a first-person account of the author’s career teaching the French Revolution in Australia. The closing chapter, by Stuart Salmon and Ben Marsh, covers internet sources that can be employed in the classroom. Most unusually, the print version of that chapter consists of a one-paragraph abstract followed by an invitation to read the actual chapter online (347). (The web address provided in the footnote is inaccurate; the article can be found instead at https://gold bergseries.files.wordpress.com/2017/08/marshrapportwebrev.pdf.) Many of the chapters cover fairly traditional topics like the philosophy of Jean-Jacques Rousseau (Mark C. Carnes) and Thomas Paine (Edward Larkin), Napoleon’s use of nationalism to bolster his political rise (Alan Forrest), the Terror (David Andress), and the Boston Stamp Act Riots (Colin Nicolson), along with slightly more obscure topics like the United States of Belgium (Jane Judge). Despite the editors’ professed goal to be inclusive, the North Atlantic receives the lion’s share of attenBen Marsh and Mike Rapport, eds. Understanding and Teaching the Age of Revolutions. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2017, 352 pp.","PeriodicalId":83090,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Caribbean history","volume":"9 1","pages":"108 - 110"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84788496","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:At a time when Enlightenment ideology, European travel narratives and memoirs influenced racial discourses about African women and their daughters in the Americas, Mederic Elié Moreau de Saint-Méry, writing in 1796, composed the essay "Danse". This paper translates and explores the prominent writer's voyeuristic observations of the detailed preparations, festive gatherings and stylized body movements of free(d) and enslaved women on the island of Saint Domingue. Deconstructing Saint-Méry's biased gaze, I argue that intimacy needs to be redefined considering the everyday lives of women of colour, especially in the port cities of Cap Français and Port-au-Prince, before the stirrings of revolution.
摘要:在启蒙思想、欧洲旅行叙事和回忆录对美洲非洲妇女及其女儿的种族话语产生影响的时代，Mederic eli Moreau de saint - msamry于1796年创作了一篇散文《舞蹈》。本文翻译并探讨了这位著名作家对圣多明各岛上自由妇女和被奴役妇女的详细准备、节日聚会和程式化身体动作的偷窥观察。解构saint - msamry的偏见，我认为，考虑到有色人种女性的日常生活，尤其是在革命爆发前的港口城市佛朗哥(Cap franais)和太子港(port -au- prince)，亲密关系需要重新定义。
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{"title":"Victorian Jamaica ed. by Tim Barringer and Wayne Modest (review)","authors":"B. Higman","doi":"10.1353/JCH.2018.0015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/JCH.2018.0015","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":83090,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Caribbean history","volume":"1 1","pages":"228 - 230"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82042326","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:The central subject matter of this article is the Homes for Indian girls that female Canadian Presbyterian missionaries to colonial Trinidad established in the period from 1890 to 1912. The major argument is that through these Homes, the missionaries contributed to the westernization of a small group of Indians in Trinidad while reinforcing, to a lesser extent, some aspects of Indian cultural practices. The study is located within the broader history of Indian indentured labour in the Caribbean which unfolded from about 1838 to 1917. Thus, while the geographical parameters are centred on Trinidad, through its six sub-themes the study gives some attention to Indian indentured experiences in the wider Caribbean. This article widens and deepens the discussion by interrogating the past experiences of Indians not in Presbyterian churches and schools but in a small number of Homes, which female Presbyterian missionaries established in no other colony but Trinidad. Its focus, consequently, is to determine the ways by which the Presbyterian Homes for Indian girls in Trinidad promoted the girls’ westernization while alienating them from their traditional culture in the period from 1890 to 1912.
{"title":"Presbyterian Homes for Indian Girls in Trinidad, 1890–1912: Continuity and Change","authors":"Gelien Matthews","doi":"10.1353/JCH.2018.0009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/JCH.2018.0009","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The central subject matter of this article is the Homes for Indian girls that female Canadian Presbyterian missionaries to colonial Trinidad established in the period from 1890 to 1912. The major argument is that through these Homes, the missionaries contributed to the westernization of a small group of Indians in Trinidad while reinforcing, to a lesser extent, some aspects of Indian cultural practices. The study is located within the broader history of Indian indentured labour in the Caribbean which unfolded from about 1838 to 1917. Thus, while the geographical parameters are centred on Trinidad, through its six sub-themes the study gives some attention to Indian indentured experiences in the wider Caribbean. This article widens and deepens the discussion by interrogating the past experiences of Indians not in Presbyterian churches and schools but in a small number of Homes, which female Presbyterian missionaries established in no other colony but Trinidad. Its focus, consequently, is to determine the ways by which the Presbyterian Homes for Indian girls in Trinidad promoted the girls’ westernization while alienating them from their traditional culture in the period from 1890 to 1912.","PeriodicalId":83090,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Caribbean history","volume":"126 1","pages":"158 - 174"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90962150","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Medicalizing Blackness: Making Racial Difference in the Atlantic World 1780–1840 by Rana A. Hogarth (review)","authors":"T. Inniss","doi":"10.1353/JCH.2018.0013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/JCH.2018.0013","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":83090,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Caribbean history","volume":"24 1","pages":"221 - 223"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90563556","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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