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The institution of slavery has always depended on enforcing the boundaries between slaveholders and the enslaved. As historical geographer Miles Ogborn reveals in The Freedom of Speech, across the Anglo-Caribbean world the fundamental distinction between freedom and bondage relied upon the violent policing of the spoken word. Offering a compelling new lens on transatlantic slavery, this book gathers rich historical data from Barbados, Jamaica, and Britain to delve into the complex relationships between voice, slavery, and empire. From the most quotidian encounters to formal rules of what counted as evidence in court, the battleground of slavery lay in who could speak and under what conditions. But, as Ogborn shows through keen attention to both the traces of talk and the silences in the archives, if enslavement as a legal status could be made by words, it could be unmade by them as well. A deft interrogation of the duality of domination, The Freedom of Speech offers a rich interpretation of oral cultures that both supported and constantly threatened to undermine the slave system.

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The Freedom of Speech
The Freedom of Speech
Talk and Slavery in the Anglo-Caribbean World
Miles Ogborn
The University of Chicago Press
CHICAGO & LONDON
The University of Chicago Press, Chicago 60637
The University of Chicago Press, Ltd., London
2019 by The University of Chicago
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission, except in the case of brief quotations in critical articles and reviews. For more information, contact the University of Chicago Press, 1427 E. 60th St., Chicago, IL 60637.
Published 2019
Printed in the United States of America
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ISBN-13: 978-0-226-65592-5 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 978-0-226-65768-4 (paper)
ISBN-13: 978-0-226-65771-4 (e-book)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.7208/chicago/9780226657714.001.0001
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Ogborn, Miles, author.
Title: The freedom of speech : talk and slavery in the Anglo-Caribbean world / Miles Ogborn.
Description: Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2019. | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2019008630 | ISBN 9780226655925 (cloth : alk. paper) | ISBN 9780226657684 (pbk. : alk. paper) | ISBN 9780226657714 (e-book)
Subjects: LCSH: SlavesJamaicaSocial conditions. | SlavesBarbados Social conditions. | Oral communicationJamaica. | Oral communicationBarbados. | SlaveryJamaicaHistory. | SlaveryBarbadosHistory.
Classification: LCC HT1096 .O34 2019 | DDC 306.3/62097292dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019008630
Picture 2This paper meets the requirements of ANSI/NISO Z39.481992 (Permanence of Paper).
To Jane, Catherine, and Eve
Contents
BA
Barbados Archives
BL
British Library
BL Add. MS
British Library Additional Manuscripts
BLOU
Bodleian Library, Oxford University
BLYU
Beinecke Library, Yale University
BMHS
Barbados Museum and Historical Society
HCC
The History Civil and Commercial of the British Colonies of the West Indies, 3rd ed., vol. 2 (London, 1801), Bryan Edwards
HJ
The History of Jamaica (London, 1774), [Edward Long]
JAJ
Journals of the Assembly of Jamaica
JPTPR
Judicial Proceedings relative to the Trial and Punishment of Rebels, or alleged Rebels, in the Island of Jamaica, since the 1st of January 1823, in Papers Relating to the Manumission, Government and Population of the Slaves in the West-Indies, 18221824, House of Commons, British Parliamentary Papers, 1825 (66) xxv: 37132
LCP
Library Company of Philadelphia
LDS
London Debating Societies, 17761799, vol. 30, ed. Donna Andrew (London: London Record Society, 1994)
LPL
Lambeth Palace Library, London
LSF
Library of the Society of Friends, London
LT
Lucas Transcripts, Barbados Public Library
LTST (1789)
Report of the Lords of the Committee of Council Appointed for the Consideration of all Matters Relating to Trade and Foreign Plantations... Concerning the Present State of the Trade to Africa, and Particularly the Trade in Slaves (London, 1789)
NLJ
National Library of Jamaica
ODNB
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
SEAST
Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade
SLNSW Banks Papers
State Library of New South Wales, Papers of Sir Joseph Banks
SPG
Society for the Propagation of the Gospel
TNA
The National Archives, Kew
USPG
United Society for the Propagation of the Gospel
WMMS
Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society Archive, School of Oriental and African Studies, London
With One Little Blast of Their Mouths: Speech, Humanity, and Slavery
He suffered and died just for what he had said.
The second account is from the mid-eighteenth-century Jamaican plantation overseer Thomas Thistlewood, whose diaries of his life in the Caribbean What prompted Thistlewood to recall this threat, and its challenge to his word as a white man and the power he thought that conferred, was a more violent recent confrontation where what he said had often come to naught.
Several days before, Thistlewood had gone for an evening walk. At sunset, by a small morass, he encountered Congo Sam, who had escaped from the plantation almost a month previously. They foughtSam with a blunt bill for cutting canes and Thistlewood with a pimento stickand they spoke. As Thistlewood recorded it:
What y e most shewd his intention when I kept him off from me with my Stick Saying, you Villain runaway, away with you, &c. he answered in the Negro manner, I will kill you, I will kill you now, and Came upon me with greater Vigour. I Calld out, Murder, and help ffor Gods Sake, very loud, but no assistance came, so I had no prospect but to loose my Liffe, till I threw myself at him and fortunately seized hold of y e blade of y e Bill.
Holding either end of the weapon, they went as far as the watch-hut, but Sam would go no further. They both appealed to others for help. Thistlewood recorded that Bella and Abigail, two enslaved women from Egypt plantation, were there but would not assist me, and that Sam spoke to them in his language and I was much afraid of them. After a tense standoff, Sam suddenly released the bill and threw himself into the river. Thistlewood followed, attacking Sam with the bill. Finally, trapped in Thistlewoods embrace, Sam was forced to stand waist deep in the water, while, as his captor recorded, 5 Negro men, and 3 Women, Strangers, went over y e bridge and would by no means assist me, neither for Threats nor Promises: One Saying he was Sick, the others yt they were in a hurry. After ten minutes, London, also from Egypt, did do as Thistlewood said. However, Sam escaped once more into the bush, having slipped the knots London had
This incident led Thistlewood not only to remember Quashies threat out in the field but also to record that he had reason to believe yt many off y e Negroes, as Quashe, Ambo, Phibbah, &c. knew yt Sam had an intent to Murder me, when we should meet, by what I heard them Speak one day in y e Cook room, when I was in y e back Piaza reading. He also had his doubts about London, suspecting that he had no good intent, when in y e Bush with Sam, iff he had not heard Company Coming with me. In turn, Thistlewood reported everything to Mr. Dorrill. Sam was taken before the magistrates and sent to jail to await trial, and Abigail and Bella had to suffer the torment of a hundred lashes each, later running away to protest their treatment. Yet, when the case came to court at Savanna-la-mar, Thistlewood recorded that London told me he would not go and give evidence. Sam was not, it seems, convicted of attempted murder.
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