Caribbean Studies Seminar | Laboring Neighbors: Afro-Asian Ecologies in the Colonial Caribbean
Online : 09 december 2025, 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm GMT (UK time).
Speaker: Catie Peters (Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture).
As a braided history of people of Asian and African descent in the nineteenth-century Caribbean, Laboring Neighbors tells the story of abolition and indenture through the ecologies where indentured Asian migrants and Afro-descendant residents lived, formed kin and met in the interstices where colonial authority broke down. In this chapter (the third in my book manuscript), I center on post-emancipation Guyana by establishing Black sociopolitical strategies, including land purchase and collectivity (also known as the village movement). That indentured South Asian and Chinese men and women arrived as neighbors to self-governing Black landowners underscores that emancipation on the ground diverged significantly from imperial discourses of crisis, conflict, and ruin. […
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