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Title Authorities' responses to violence against enslaved Africans: comparisons between eighteenth-century Curaçao and Berbice
Full text https://www.lnsv.nl/basiton; https://hdl.handle.net/1887/139178
Date 2020
Author(s) Rose, A.S.
Abstract This article takes a close look at a small selection of court cases from the Dutch colonies Berbice (in present-day Guyana) and Curaçao in the eighteenth century, to examine under what circumstances and in what ways colonial authorities chose to intervene in violence committed against enslaved people. This serves to gain insight into broader attitudes towards violence against enslaved people, many instances of which remain obscured in colonial archives because they were normalized, formally sanctioned, or simply not prioritized by colonial institutions such as the criminal court. In comparing Curaçao and Berbice, special attention is given to the specific historical developments and social geography of each colony, which shaped colonial administrators' concerns and therefore attitudes to violence: when did authorities decide to intervene, and how did their considerations vary depending on time and place? - Cities, Migration and Global Interdependence
Subject(s) Curaçao; Berbice; Slavery; Violence; Criminal justice; Legal practice
Language en
Type of publication Article / Letter to editor; info:eu-repo/semantics/article; Text
Format application/pdf
Source Basiton: Working Papers on Slavery and its Afterlives
Rights https://hdl.handle.net/1887/license:3
Identifier lucris-id:352714880
Repository Leiden - University of Leiden
Added to C-A: 2023-02-13;09:02:59