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Mapping a Slave Revolt

Brown, Vincent·2015·Social Text
DOI 10.1215/01642472-3315826
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Creative historical scholarship demonstrates that archives are not just the records bequeathed by earlier times. Archives also consist of the tools we use to explore the past, the vision that allows us to read its signs, and the design decisions that communicate our sense of history's possibilities. The online project Slave Revolt in Jamaica, 1760–1761, which interprets the spatial history of the greatest slave insurrection in the eighteenth-century British Empire, offers a telling example. The map suggests an argument about the strategies of the rebels and the tactics of counterinsurgency and about the importance of the landscape to the course of the uprising. No less important, the project highlights the difficulty of representing such events cartographically with available sources. Maintaining historians' traditional emphasis on primary sources, attention to change over time, historiographical awareness, and an overarching respect for evidence-based claims, scholars may admit more experimental forms of research and presentation without compromising the veracity of historical study. Yet such a shift will require a deeper exploration of the relation between aesthetic expression and knowledge.

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  1. Edwards, 1793, History of the West Indies
  2. HyperStudio . “Humanities + Digital: Visual Interpretations Conference 2010: Aesthetics, Methods, and Critiques of Information Visualization in the Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences.”Massachusetts Institute of Technology. hyperstudio.mit.edu/events/about/.
  3. Reynolds, 1972, “Tacky and the Great Slave Revolt of 1760.”, Jamaica Journal, 6, 5

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Authors
Brown, V.
Corresponding author
Brown, Vincent
Venue
Social Text
Publisher
Duke University Press
Published
2015-12-01
Volume
33
Issue
4
Pages
134-141
ISSN
  • 0164-2472 (ISSN-L)
  • 1527-1951
DOI
10.1215/01642472-3315826
OpenAlex
W2298295150
Cited by
35
References
23
Citations by year
2026: 3 · 2025: 3 · 2024: 3 · 2023: 3 · 2022: 1 · 2021: 3 · 2020: 7 · 2019: 5 · 2018: 4 · 2017: 3
FWCI
50.56
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • Social Text (publishedVersion)
  • HighWire Press Open Archive (submittedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Literature and Literary Theory › Digital Humanities and Scholarship
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History › Colonialism, slavery, and trade
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History › Philosophy, History, and Historiography
Keywords
slave revolts, Jamaica, spatial history, cartography, historical cartography, counterinsurgency, archives, eighteenth-century British Empire

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