'From revolution to rebellion' : changing approaches to resistance by persons of African descent in Bermuda, 1700-1834
This study proposes to examine three strategies of resistance undertaken by âNegroesâ and âMulattos/Colouredsâ 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 âcustoms of the countryâ: 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 âGold Coastâ 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 âNegroesâ and free âColouredsâ will be focused on when examining the development of nineteenth-century radicalism.
Maxwell, Clarence Vincent Henry
HT Communities. Classes. Races
'From revolution to rebellion' : changing approaches to resistance by persons of African descent in Bermuda, 1700-1834. This study proposes to examine three strategies of resistance undertaken by âNegroesâ and âMulattos/Colouredsâ 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 âcustoms of the countryâ: 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 âGold Coastâ 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 âNegroesâ and free âColouredsâ will be focused on when examining the development of nineteenth-century radicalism.
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