Disputing Authorities: Re-writing the Caribbean, 1600-c.1720

An open discussion about its scope, structure and ideas.





Saturday 3 July 2010

Chapters - 22.04.10


Patriarchy
Filmer
King (Queen?) - any 'devolution' to viceroy/lieutenant?
Willoughby
Biblical patriarchs? (Willoughby?)
Parke - 1. sexual patriarchy with white women
2. attacks others' sexual-relations with black women
Patronage - governors
Codrington - does Codrington College count as patriarchy?
White attitudes towards Africans/Americans?
White master as father (literal/metaphorical)
Indenture (does it fit here?)
AmerIndians - general hostility towards them in the region mitigates against patriarchal
attitudes?
(do attitudes towards Africans change when there are signs of assertiveness?)
Primogeniture (why not?)
Territory
Mainland v Island
Process - first footing, survey, measurement etc.
Long lot
Relationship between land and water
river position
trade/ warehousing/ production/ settlement
coastal - shipping, piracy, defence
Parishes (and tribes?)
Slaves as real estate
Land settlement - on soldiers/ adventurers/ pirates/ rebels
(does it make any difference if land is settled on a supporter of the
regime or an opponent?)
Plat books and inventories
Maps, charts and the uncharted
Settlement or nomadism of AmerIndians
Slave 'settlements' - landlessness
Violence
War - with external powers
recruiting in Caribbean
Militia - who has guns? Handler debate
Army and navy stationed in the Caribbean
Slave rebellion
Indian wars
Arawak/carib - Oroonoko
Violence against slaves
branding, beating, coercion, rape
Punishment - capital and corporal
Assassination/ murder/ rebellion
does it make a difference who rebels?
Community
Separation of homeland from home
Family: families at home divided
new families in W.I.
cross-racial families
Plantation (plantation as community?)
Servants - domestic, indentured, agricultural
black/white
AmerIndian (debate about fixity or mobility of settlement - overlap with territory?)
Pirates alternative community?
Republics another alternative community?
So far, have not found a home for representation and faction.
Possible chapters on authority, representation, law, morality (?)