In the decades following England’s 1655 conquest of Spanish
Jamaica, the western Caribbean became the site of overlapping and
competing claims—to land, maritime spaces, and people. English
Jamaica, located in the midst of Spanish American port towns and
shipping lanes, was central to numerous projects of varying
legality, aimed at acquiring Spanish American wealth. Those
projects were backdrop to a wide-ranging movement of people who
made their own claims to political membership in developing
colonial societies, and by extension, in Atlantic empires.
Boundaries of Belonging follows the stories of these
individuals—licensed traders, smugglers, freedom seekers,
religious refugees, pirates, and interlopers—who moved through
the contested spaces of the western Caribbean. Though some were
English and Spanish, many others were Sephardic, Tule, French,
Kalabari, Scottish, Dutch, or Brandenberg. They also included
creole people who identified themselves by their local place of
origin or residence--as Jamaican, Cuban, or Panamanian. As they
crossed into and out of rival imperial jurisdictions, many either
sought or rejected Spanish or English subjecthood, citing their
place of birth, their nation or ethnicity, their religion, their
loyalty, or their economic or military contributions to colony or
empire. Colonial and metropolitan officials weighed those claims as
they tried to impose sovereignty over diverse and mobile people in
a region of disputed and shifting jurisdictions. These contests
over who belonged in what empire and why, and over what protections
such belonging conferred, in turn helped to determine who would be
included within a developing law of nations.
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