Archival Irruptions: Constructing Religion and Criminalizing Obeah in Eighteenth-Century Jamaica
Collection
Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem (TOME)Language
EnglishRésumé
Katharine Gerbner traces how British colonial authorities in mid-eighteenth-century Jamaica came to criminalize Obeah, a religious practice held by enslaved Africans.
Keywords
Caribbean; slavery; African Diaspora; Christianity, Moravian; missions; Jamaica; Afro-Moravian; Obeah; Afro-Caribbean; Thomas Thistlewood; George Caries; Christian Heinrich Rauch; Tacky’s RevoltISBN
9781478094364, 9781478029038, 9781478032403Publisher
Duke University PressPublisher website
http://www.dukeupress.edu/Publication date and place
Durham, North Carolina USA, 2025Grantor
Imprint
Duke University Press BooksSeries
Religious Cultures of African and African Diaspora People,Pages
237
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