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British Studies November 21, 2018

Almost Home

Maroons between Slavery and Freedom in Jamaica, Nova Scotia, and Sierra Leone

Ruma Chopra

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After being exiled from their native Jamaica in 1795, the Trelawney Town Maroons endured in Nova Scotia and then in Sierra Leone. In Almost Home: Maroons between Slavery and Freedom …
British Studies November 2, 2018

Black Tudors

The Untold Story

Miranda Kaufmann

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A black porter publicly whips a white Englishman in the hall of a Gloucestershire manor house. A Moroccan woman is baptized in a London church. Henry VIII dispatches a Mauritanian …
British Studies October 24, 2018

Reformation Without End

Religion, Politics and the Past in Post-Revolutionary England

Robert G. Ingram

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Robert G. Ingram's Reformation Without End: Religion, Politics and the Past in Post-Revolutionary England (Manchester University Press, 2018) radically reinterprets the English Reformation. Subjects in eighteenth-century England didn't know they …
British Studies April 20, 2018

The Mulatta Concubine

Terror, Intimacy, Freedom, and Desire in the Black Transatlantic

Lisa Ze Winters

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Popular and academic representations of the free mulatta concubine repeatedly depict women of mixed black African and white racial descent as defined by their sexual attachment to white men, and …
British Studies April 17, 2018

Schooling Diaspora

Women, Education, and the Overseas Chinese in British Malaya and Singapore, 1850s to 1960s

Karen Teoh

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In Schooling Diaspora: Women, Education, and the Overseas Chinese in British Malaya and Singapore, 1850s to 1960s (Oxford University Press, 2018), Karen Teoh relates the history of English and Chinese …
British Studies March 1, 2018

Squadron

Ending the African Slave Trade

John Broich

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Despite the British being early abolitionists, a significant slave trade remained in the western Indian Ocean through the mid-1800s, even after the cessation of most imperial slave trading activities in …
British Studies February 8, 2018

Contested Bodies

Pregnancy, Child-Rearing, and Slavery in Jamaica

Sasha Turner

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Sasha Turner's Contested Bodies: Pregnancy, Child-Rearing, and Slavery in Jamaica (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017) reveals enslaved women's contrasting ideas about maternity and raising children in plantation-era Jamaica. Turner argues …
British Studies January 19, 2018

Becoming Centaur

Eighteenth-Century Masculinity and English Horsemanship

Monica Mattfeld

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Monica Mattfeld's Becoming Centaur: Eighteenth-Century Masculinity and English Horsemanship (Penn State University Press, 2017) explores the complex relationship between men and their horses, and reflects upon how these interactions defined …