Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Maps
- List of Tables
- Preface
- List of Abbreviations
- Map 1 Major trade routes of the British Atlantic
- 1 Introduction: Remembering and Forgetting
- 2 Halls and Vassalls
- 3 Rise of the Lascelles
- 4 Lascelles and Maxwell
- 5 The Gedney Clarkes
- 6 Merchants and Planters
- 7 A Labyrinth of Debt
- 8 Managing a West India Interest
- 9 The Enslaved Population
- 10 Between Black and White
- 11 Epilogue
- Archival Sources
- Index
10 - Between Black and White
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 July 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Maps
- List of Tables
- Preface
- List of Abbreviations
- Map 1 Major trade routes of the British Atlantic
- 1 Introduction: Remembering and Forgetting
- 2 Halls and Vassalls
- 3 Rise of the Lascelles
- 4 Lascelles and Maxwell
- 5 The Gedney Clarkes
- 6 Merchants and Planters
- 7 A Labyrinth of Debt
- 8 Managing a West India Interest
- 9 The Enslaved Population
- 10 Between Black and White
- 11 Epilogue
- Archival Sources
- Index
Summary
The Braffo, Head Caboceiro, or Negroe Chief, values himself upon his English Name, which is John Corrente.
Intercultural relations and the identities they fashioned profoundly influenced the development of Creole society in the West Indies. In the case of the Lascelles archive, however, few documents survive describing interracial relationships in detail. The sources that remain are dominated by two types of interaction: instances of resistance by the enslaved and sexual relationships between slave women and white attorneys or overseers. Despite the undoubted importance of these two themes, it is evident that the social life of the plantation consisted of far more than resistance and interracial sex. Very little information, for example, exists describing such basic activities as the pattern of daily work allocations on the Lascelles' estates, or the methods used to discipline plantation labourers. Insights into slave culture (such as songs, dances, and courtship rituals) are similarly almost entirely absent from the historical record. In consequence of these and other omissions, the scope of the conclusions that can be drawn in this chapter are limited. Nevertheless, despite its limitations, the material is of considerable interest.
Resistance and Cooperation
Resistance by the enslaved probably formed an endemic feature of chattel slavery during the two centuries the institution endured in the British West Indies. Rebellion, running away, and acts of passive disobedience were three ways in which the enslaved challenged their condition; each type of resistance occurred on estates owned by the Lascelles or their associates.
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- Slavery, Family, and Gentry Capitalism in the British AtlanticThe World of the Lascelles, 1648–1834, pp. 317 - 350Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2006