Archival Irruptions: Constructing Religion and Criminalizing Obeah in Eighteenth-Century Jamaica
Katharine Gerbner traces how British colonial authorities in mid-eighteenth-century Jamaica came to criminalize Obeah, a religious practice held by enslaved Africans.
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| title | Archival Irruptions: Constructing Religion and Criminalizing Obeah in Eighteenth-Century Jamaica |
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| title_short | Archival Irruptions: Constructing Religion and Criminalizing Obeah in Eighteenth-Century Jamaica |
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| topic | Caribbean slavery African Diaspora Christianity, Moravian missions Jamaica Afro-Moravian Obeah Afro-Caribbean Thomas Thistlewood George Caries Christian Heinrich Rauch Tacky’s Revolt |
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