Dutchman ghosts and the history mystery: ritual, colonizer, and colonized interpretations of the 1763 Berbice slave rebellion
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https://doi.org/10.5007/2175-8034.2020v22n1p187Abstract
In colonial orders the most impoverished and least powerful subordinates had fewopportunities to store their images of the past in forms traditionally used by historians. In this essay I explore historical interpretations of the 1763 Berbice slave rebellion presented In three rituals, the majority of whose participants are impoverished residents of rural Guyanese communities. I contrast the issues addressed in these images withthose addressed in accountsofthe rebellionpresented in colonialand post-colonialaccounts written by the colonizersand the colonized.The focus of my description and analysis is the relation between historical accounts and the social identities of those who produce them.
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