Troubling Freedom: Antigua and the Aftermath of British Emancipation

Lightfoot's analysis of Antigua's history of slave emancipation joins a wide body of work examining African-descended people's efforts to make their visions of freedom real. Across the Americas, these freedom struggles were met by systematic efforts to deny freedpeople opportunities to control their own destinies and partake in the varied joys of free life. Antigua's black working men and women continued to fight for the right to property, housing, and to live as they saw fit, even resorting to strikes and uprisings to achieve those results. Troubling Freedom is an important contribution to our understandings of what freedom meant to ex-slaves throughout the Americas.

Well researched and written

Good book

I was born in and live in Antigua,, this book was very educational and many of Antiguan’s behaviors today we’re shaped by events surrounding Emancipation. Well written and researched, this is highly recommended as a read for that period.

Educational, Insightful and Reaffirming

Ms Lightfoot’s erudite scholarship shines from every page. Her thorough approach to the experience of Antiguan women adds a necessary 50% of history often left out of other narratives. This is eye opening. The result of her studies is a very readable account that looks under every stone. I truly recommend this book.

Very good resource book, well written and unbiased or opinionated, purely factual

Interesting insight on the aftermath of slavery in Antigua. Should be more books like this one.