Personnes de couleur libres et Masterless Caribbean dans la Caraïbe révolutionnaire (fin XVIIIe siècle-début XIXe siècle)
Julius S. Scott was the first to study a Masterless Caribbean composed of deserters, runaway slaves, privateers, pirates and other bandits who circulated and communicated with one another in the Caribbean. Mostly composed of Afro-descendants, the Masterless Caribbean is opposed to the Caribbean of t...
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2020
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| Zusammenfassung: | Julius S. Scott was the first to study a Masterless Caribbean composed of deserters, runaway slaves, privateers, pirates and other bandits who circulated and communicated with one another in the Caribbean. Mostly composed of Afro-descendants, the Masterless Caribbean is opposed to the Caribbean of the (mostly white) planters and captains, who exerted almost unlimited authority over their slaves and sailors. The fuzzy and shifting contours of this world and, certainly, the appeal of such a concept, have favored its use without, however, specifying its content. For some authors, any individual of African descent circulating in the Caribbean until the 1830s is now described as having belonged to the Masterless Caribbean. By focusing on the study of free people of color engaged in the shady activities associated with the Masterless Caribbean during the “age of revolutions”, this article aims at highlighting the profound social differences–which were perfectly perceived by their contemporaries–that are subsumed under a common “racial” origin, whilst underscoring the hierarchies and contradictions of the Masterless Caribbean. |
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