Unsilencing Slavery (eBook)

Telling Truths About Rose Hall Plantation, Jamaica

Celia E. Naylor (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2022
274 Seiten
University of Georgia Press (Verlag)
978-0-8203-6213-7 (ISBN)

Infos

Popular references to the Rose Hall Great House in Jamaica often focus on the legend of the "e;White Witch of Rose Hall."e; Over one hundred thousand people visit this plantation every year, many hoping to catch a glimpse of Annie Palmers ghost. After experiencing this tour with her daughter in 2013 and leaving Jamaica haunted by the silences of the tour, Celia E. Naylor resolved to write a history of Rose Hall about those people who actually had a right to haunt this place of terror and traumathe enslaved. Naylor deftly guides us through a strikingly different Rose Hall. She introduces readers to the silences of the archives and unearths the names and experiences of the enslaved at Rose Hall in the decades immediately before the abolition of slavery in Jamaica. She then offers a careful reading of Herbert G. de Lissers 1929 novel, The White Witch of Rosehallwhich gave rise to the myth of the "e;White Witch"e;and a critical analysis of the current tours at Rose Hall Great House. Naylors interdisciplinary examination engages different modes of history making, history telling, and truth telling to excavate the lives of enslaved people, highlighting enslaved women as they navigated the violences of the Jamaican slavocracy and plantationscape. Moving beyond the legend, she examines iterations of the afterlives of slavery in the ongoing construction of slavery museums, memorializations, and movements for Black lives and the enduring case for Black humanity. Alongside her book, she has created a website as another way for readers to explore the truths of Rose Hall.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 30.8.2022
• Reihe/Serie: Gender and Slavery Ser.
• Reihe/Serie: Gender and Slavery Ser.
• Zusatzinfo: 21 b&w images
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Makrosoziologie
• Schlagworte: Afterlives of Slavery • Annie Palmer • Annie Patterson • Caribbean slavery • enslaved people • Gender • Ghost Houses • great houses • Herbert G. de Lisser • Historical Fiction Slavery • Historical Memory • historical novels • john palmer • John Rose Palmer • Montego Bay • plantation tours • Public History • Rosa Palmer • slavery in the Caribbean • Tourism • White Witch of Rose Hall
• ISBN-10: 0-8203-6213-1 / 0820362131
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8203-6213-7 / 9780820362137