And The Women Shall Lead Them: Antigua's 1858 Uprising
In 1858, an Antiguan man had a dispute with a Barbudan man. The events which unfold will involve rioting and an attack on Barbudan business on the island of Antigua. Still, the most remembered thing from the riot was how a group of oppressed black women in Antigua organised & took up arms to expressed their hatred for the society, proceeding Emancipation, that they were force to live in.
Additional Knowledge
BOOKS
A Small Place by Jamaica Kincaid
Troubling Freedom: Antigua and the Aftermath of British Emancipation by Natasha Lightfoot
The History of Antigua: The Unsuspected Isle by Brian Dyde
Wicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World by Jessica Marie Johnson
FICTIONAL BOOKS
The Book of Night Women by Marlon James
The Confessions of Frannie Langton by Sara Collins
These Ghosts Are Family by Maisy Card
ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS
Their Coats Were Tied Up Like Men’: Women Rebels in Antigua’s 1858 Uprising,” Slavery & Abolition by Natasha Lightfoot