LEADER 04476nam 2200673 450 001 9910790686403321 005 20230803021727.0 010 $a0-8203-4662-4 010 $a0-8203-4634-9 035 $a(CKB)2550000001126089 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001001799 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11614265 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001001799 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10966575 035 $a(PQKB)10211440 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1441667 035 $a(OCoLC)864551346 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse32056 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1441667 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10775346 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL526729 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001126089 100 $a20130415h20132013 uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aEveryday life in the early English Caribbean $eIrish, Africans, and the construction of difference /$fJenny Shaw 210 1$aAthens :$cUniversity of Georgia Press,$d[2013] 210 4$dİ2013 215 $a1 online resource (280 pages) $cillustrations, maps 225 0$aEarly American places 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8203-4505-9 311 $a1-299-95478-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $a"An heathen brutish, and an uncertaine and dangerous kind of people" : figuring difference in the early English Atlantic -- "An exact account of the number of persons upon the island" : enumeration, improvement, and control -- "To live in perpetuall noise and hurry" : creating communities on Caribbean plantations -- "Doing their prayers and worshipping god in their hearts" : ritual, practice, and keeping the faith -- "Endeavouring to raise mutinie and sedition" : the challenge to English -- Domination -- "As quietly and happily as the English subjects" : property, prosperity, and the power of emulation. 330 $aSet along both the physical and social margins of the British Empire in the second half of the seventeenth century, Everyday Life in the Early English Caribbean explores the construction of difference through the everyday life of colonial subjects. Jenny Shaw examines how marginalized colonial subjects--Irish and Africans--contributed to these processes. By emphasizing their everyday experiences Shaw makes clear that each group persisted in its own cultural practices; Irish and Africans also worked within--and challenged--the limits of the colonial regime. Shaw's research demonstrates the extent to which hierarchies were in flux in the early modern Caribbean, allowing even an outcast servant to rise to the position of island planter, and underscores the fallacy that racial categories of black and white were the sole arbiters of difference in the early English Caribbean. The everyday lives of Irish and Africans are obscured by sources constructed by elites. Through her research, Jenny Shaw overcomes the constraints such sources impose by pushing methodological boundaries to fill in the gaps, silences, and absences that dominate the historical record. By examining legal statutes, census material, plantation records, travel narratives, depositions, interrogations, and official colonial correspondence, as much for what they omit as for what they include, Everyday Life in the Early English Caribbean uncovers perspectives that would otherwise remain obscured. This book encourages readers to rethink the boundaries of historical research and writing and to think more expansively about questions of race and difference in English slave societies. 410 0$aEarly American places. 606 $aIrish$zWest Indies, British$xHistory$y17th century 606 $aIrish$zWest Indies, British$xEthnic identity 606 $aCatholics$zWest Indies, British$xHistory$y17th century 606 $aSlavery$zWest Indies, British$xHistory$y17th century 607 $aWest Indies, British$xHistory$y17th century 607 $aWest Indies, British$xEthnic relations$xHistory$y17th century 615 0$aIrish$xHistory 615 0$aIrish$xEthnic identity. 615 0$aCatholics$xHistory 615 0$aSlavery$xHistory 676 $a972.9/03 700 $aShaw$b Jenny$f1977-$01473007 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910790686403321 996 $aEveryday life in the early English Caribbean$93686038 997 $aUNINA