Book contents
- Robert Wedderburn, Abolition, and the Commons
- Cambridge Studies in Romanticism
- Robert Wedderburn, Abolition, and the Commons
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Against Private Property
- Chapter 2 From Plantation to Prison
- Chapter 3 Black Women’s Abolitionist Geographies in The Horrors of Slavery and The History of Mary Prince
- Chapter 4 Provisions and Pigs
- Chapter 5 Maroon Settlements as Abolitionist Commons
- Chapter 6 Emancipation as the Enclosure of “Waste Fertility”
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Cambridge Studies In Romanticism
Conclusion
Wedderburn’s Last Word – Abolition with Pigs, Pumpkins, and Yams
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 09 January 2025
- Robert Wedderburn, Abolition, and the Commons
- Cambridge Studies in Romanticism
- Robert Wedderburn, Abolition, and the Commons
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Against Private Property
- Chapter 2 From Plantation to Prison
- Chapter 3 Black Women’s Abolitionist Geographies in The Horrors of Slavery and The History of Mary Prince
- Chapter 4 Provisions and Pigs
- Chapter 5 Maroon Settlements as Abolitionist Commons
- Chapter 6 Emancipation as the Enclosure of “Waste Fertility”
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Cambridge Studies In Romanticism
Summary
Wedderburn’s final pamphlet, Address to the Lord Brougham and Vaux, contributed to the early nineteenth-century political “war of representation” about whether Black people in the West Indies would be willing to work for wages after emancipation. Although seeming to reiterate the proslavery claim that enslaved people in the West Indies had better living conditions than European wage laborers, Wedderburn’s vision of dwelling on the land outlined a nuanced, speculative decolonial future. The Conclusion finally argues that narratives of the Romantic revolutionary age should include Black abolitionist geographies, a revolution cultivated on common land with pigs, pumpkins, and yams.
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- Robert Wedderburn, Abolition, and the CommonsRomanticism's Black Geographies, pp. 135 - 139Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2025