Tim Watson challenges the idea that Caribbean colonies in the
nineteenth century were outposts of empire easily relegated to the
realm of tropical romance while the real story took place in
Britain. Analyzing pamphlets, newspapers, estate papers, trial
transcripts, and missionary correspondence, this book recovers
stories of ordinary West Indians, enslaved and free, as they made
places for themselves in the empire and the Atlantic world, from
the time of sugar tycoon Simon Taylor to the perspective of Samuel
Ringgold Ward, African American eyewitness to the 1865 Morant Bay
rebellion. With readings of Maria Edgeworth and George Eliot, the
book argues that the Caribbean occupied a prominent place in the
development of English realism. However, Watson shows too that we
must sometimes turn to imperial romance - which made protagonists
of rebels and religious leaders, as in Hamel, the Obeah Man (1827)
- to understand the realities of Caribbean cultural life.
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