The Caribbean in the Age of Revolution. In The Age of Revolutions in Global Context, c. 1760-1840. ed. David Armitage, Sanjay Subramanyam, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. pp. 83-100, 240-246, 279-280. (original) (raw)

Freedom and Oppression of Slaves in the Eighteenth-Century Caribbean

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2019. A Caribbean Affair: The Liberalisation of the Slave Trade in the Spanish Caribbean, 1784-1791

Culture & History Digital Journal 8(1) June , 2019

The liberalisation of the slave trade in the Spanish Caribbean ended with a series of political measures which aimed to revitalise the practice of slavery in the region. After granting a series of monopoly contracts (asientos) to merchant houses based in other western European nations to supply slaves to Spanish America, the Spanish monarchy decided to liberalise import mechanisms. These reforms turned Cuba, especially Havana, into the most important slave trade hub within the Spanish Caribbean. Havana was connected with both Atlantic and inter-colonial trade networks, while other authorised ports imported slaves from other Caribbean territories; Spanish, British, Dutch, Danish and American traders all participated in this trade, and slave trafficking became the most profitable form of commerce in the region during this period.

The Caribbean Rises: Slave Rebellions, Colonialism, And Navy

University College Dublin, 2022

In this article, I will analyze the network of imperial relations that formed in the Caribbean, with an emphasis on Jamaica as a microcosm of these colonial relations. As we will draw a picture, that shows the intersection of several forms of organized violence; enslavement; naval military; rebellions; Imperial army. In this article, we reveal the meanings of hegemony and colonization of the Caribbean islands. How was this achieved? What are the tools for that? What processes took place during this period? We will try to follow two historical paths, to answer these questions; I will engage with the path of the colonial process and the path of resistance, Diptee (2010) argues that the slaves were not aware of the colonization process, and by that, he means that the process of transporting them to the islands was not clear from the outset that it came as part of settlement and plantation projects, and extract their labor value, for sake capital accumulation. He amplifies that some of the slaves, started to realize the process on the coast before they took off, for others, it was during the Atlantic crossing, and for others, it was on the other side of the Atlantic. Siân Williams (2016) gives in-depth look at the British colonists' society in the Caribbean; A very rich society was formed on these islands, perhaps the richest in the empire, dependent on the slave trade, sugar, and so on. I am going to explore how these intertwined paths of enslavement, colonialism, and capital accumulation, led to a series of violent revolutions in the Caribbean from the eighteenth century until the beginning of the nineteenth century. My focus will be on Jamaica (1831-1832), it was the last rebellion from the Caribbean trilogy Barbados in 1816; Demerara in 1823. In these rebellions, we could imagine what kind of oppression was taking place and to what extent we could grasp the violence of colonialism and slavery in those periods.