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Conclusion

Wedderburn’s Last Word – Abolition with Pigs, Pumpkins, and Yams

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 January 2025

Katey Castellano
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James Madison University, Virginia
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Wedderburn’s final pamphlet, Address to the Lord Brougham and Vaux, contributed to the early nineteenth-century political “war of representation” about whether Black people in the West Indies would be willing to work for wages after emancipation. Although seeming to reiterate the proslavery claim that enslaved people in the West Indies had better living conditions than European wage laborers, Wedderburn’s vision of dwelling on the land outlined a nuanced, speculative decolonial future. The Conclusion finally argues that narratives of the Romantic revolutionary age should include Black abolitionist geographies, a revolution cultivated on common land with pigs, pumpkins, and yams.

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Robert Wedderburn, Abolition, and the Commons
Romanticism's Black Geographies
, pp. 135 - 139
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2025

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  • Conclusion
  • Katey Castellano, James Madison University, Virginia
  • Book: Robert Wedderburn, Abolition, and the Commons
  • Online publication: 09 January 2025
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009523875.008
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  • Conclusion
  • Katey Castellano, James Madison University, Virginia
  • Book: Robert Wedderburn, Abolition, and the Commons
  • Online publication: 09 January 2025
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009523875.008
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  • Conclusion
  • Katey Castellano, James Madison University, Virginia
  • Book: Robert Wedderburn, Abolition, and the Commons
  • Online publication: 09 January 2025
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009523875.008
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