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Maxwell, Clarence Vincent Henry (1998) 'From revolution to rebellion' : changing approaches to resistance by persons of African descent in Bermuda, 1700-1834. PhD thesis, University of Warwick.
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Abstract
This study proposes to examine three strategies of resistance undertaken by ‘Negroes’ and ‘Mulattos/Coloureds’ of African descent in Bermuda, between 1700 and 1834. The first concerns the politics surrounding the poisoning episodes of 1726 to 1731; the second, the rise and fall of revolutionary resistance from 1761 to 1764; and the third, the politics of what will be identified as nineteenth-century radical resistance. Overall, it will chart what has been heretofore implied in the literature on Bermudian history as a change in resistance to the ‘customs of the country’: a change from an era of violent and revolutionary methods and goals to an era dominated by non-violent and non-revolutionary- radical- approaches. Contexts for these changes will also be provided. Three classes of people will emerge as fundamentally connected to each of these strategies. Persons of a ‘Gold Coast’ heritage will be argued as mainly connected with the introduction of poisoning technology. The enslaved merchant-sailor will be associated with the development of a revolutionary conspiracy. Free ‘Negroes’ and free ‘Coloureds’ will be focused on when examining the development of nineteenth-century radicalism.
| Item Type: | Thesis or Dissertation (PhD) | ||||
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| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HT Communities. Classes. Races | ||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Blacks -- Bermuda Islands -- History, Africans -- Bermuda Islands -- History, Bermuda Islands -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century, Bermuda Islands -- Social conditions -- History | ||||
| Official Date: | October 1998 | ||||
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| Institution: | University of Warwick | ||||
| Theses Department: | Centre for Caribbean Studies | ||||
| Thesis Type: | PhD | ||||
| Publication Status: | Unpublished | ||||
| Supervisor(s)/Advisor: | Heuman, Gad J. | ||||
| Sponsors: | Bermuda Historical Society | ||||
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| Extent: | xx, 435 leaves : illustrations, charts | ||||
| Language: | eng |
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