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This project explores enslaved avenues towards literacy and their utilization of literacy skills in resistance efforts through the Eurocentric structures within the plantation societies of Barbados and Jamaica during the late eighteenth and into the early nineteenth century. This work offers a greater understanding of enslaved literacy and illiteracy, literate enslaved navigation of their enslavement and resistance, and British colonial laws’ complicated relationship with enslaved education. Furthermore, it adds a new perspective on the enslaveds’ relationship with literacy to existing historiography on Black literacy education in the British Caribbean by reframing the existing conversation on enslaved education and obedience through the white colonial lens. Instead, it puts forward the connections between enslaved literacy education, anti-colonial knowledge, enslaved resistance, and large-scale revolt at the forefront of the historical conversation on enslaved resistance.

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Title:
Forgery for Freedom: Enslaved Literacy and Resistance in the British Caribbean
Creator:
North, Haley Dawn
Date Created:
2023
Degree Awarded:
Master of Arts
Subjects:
History
Geographical Focus:
Barbados Jamaica
Supporting Materials:
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Description:
This project explores enslaved avenues towards literacy and their utilization of literacy skills in resistance efforts through the Eurocentric structures within the plantation societies of Barbados and Jamaica during the late eighteenth and into the early nineteenth century. This work offers a greater understanding of enslaved literacy and illiteracy, literate enslaved navigation of their enslavement and resistance, and British colonial laws’ complicated relationship with enslaved education. Furthermore, it adds a new perspective on the enslaveds’ relationship with literacy to existing historiography on Black literacy education in the British Caribbean by reframing the existing conversation on enslaved education and obedience through the white colonial lens. Instead, it puts forward the connections between enslaved literacy education, anti-colonial knowledge, enslaved resistance, and large-scale revolt at the forefront of the historical conversation on enslaved resistance.
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Preferred Citation:
North, Haley Dawn. Forgery for Freedom: Enslaved Literacy and Resistance in the British Caribbean. 2023. Carleton University, Master of Arts.
Reference Link:
https://cuhistory.github.io/grads/items/hist_350.html
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Copyright the author, all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated.
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