A Response to Enslavement : Playing Their Way to Virtue.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Roberts, Peter A.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Slavery--West Indies, British--History.

Slavery.

Play--West Indies, British--History.

Play.

Enslaved persons--West Indies, British--Social conditions.

Enslaved persons.

Enslaved persons--West Indies, British--Social life and customs.

Caribbean, English-speaking--West Indies, British.

Caribbean, English-speaking.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (477 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Kingston : University of the West Indies Press, 2018.

Summary:

Responses to enslavement are automatically seen as struggles (heroic or otherwise), but in the case of the English Caribbean colonies, the claim was irately made by pro-planter factions, reacting to criticism, that the enslaved Africans were not struggling, they were happy and better off than the poor in England and the idea of hideous enslavement was a prejudiced distortion. Evidence presented was the universal singing, dancing and carousing of the enslaved.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Framing the Relationship between Play, Happiness and Honour

2. Interpretations That Enhance and Diminish Play

3. Question of an Indigenous Template of Festivity

4. Whites Promoting Play in the Colonial Beehive

5. From Africa to the Caribbean: Singing and Dancing Marionettes

6. Playing in Life and Death

7. Dancing in the Street: Parties, Parades, Sets and Masquerades

8. "Dancing with Soul in It"

9. Singing to Survive and Jive

10. Various Faces of Virtue and Honour.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Other Format:

Print version: Roberts, Peter A. A Response to Enslavement

ISBN:

9789766406592

9766406596

OCLC:

1412622303