The Intimacies of Four Continents
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The Intimacies of Four Continents

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The Intimacies of Four Continents

About this book

In this uniquely interdisciplinary work, Lisa Lowe examines the relationships between Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Americas in the late eighteenth- and early nineteenth- centuries, exploring the links between colonialism, slavery, imperial trades and Western liberalism. Reading across archives, canons, and continents, Lowe connects the liberal narrative of freedom overcoming slavery to the expansion of Anglo-American empire, observing that abstract promises of freedom often obscure their embeddedness within colonial conditions. Race and social difference, Lowe contends, are enduring remainders of colonial processes through which "the human" is universalized and "freed" by liberal forms, while the peoples who create the conditions of possibility for that freedom are assimilated or forgotten. Analyzing the archive of liberalism alongside the colonial state archives from which it has been separated, Lowe offers new methods for interpreting the past, examining events well documented in archives, and those matters absent, whether actively suppressed or merely deemed insignificant. Lowe invents a mode of reading intimately, which defies accepted national boundaries and disrupts given chronologies, complicating our conceptions of history, politics, economics, and culture, and ultimately, knowledge itself.

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22 
Chapter One
Sullivan 
laid 
the 
groundwork 
for 
the 
introduction 
of 
Chinese 
indentured 
laborers 
into 
the 
British 
West 
Indian 
island 
of 
Trinidad. 
He 
wrote:
e 
events 
which 
have 
recently 
happened 
at 
St. Domingo 
necessarily 
awakes 
all 
those 
apprehensions 
which 
the 
establishment 
of 
a 
Negro 
government 
in 
that 
land 
gave 
rise 
to 
some 
years 
ago, 
and 
render 
it 
in-
dispensable 
that 
every 
practicable 
measure 
of 
precaution 
should 
be 
adopted 
to 
guard 
the 
British 
possessions 
in 
the 
West 
Indies 
as 
well 
against 
. 
. 
. 
the 
danger 
of 
a 
spirit 
of 
insurrection 
being 
excited 
amongst 
the 
Negroes 
in 
our 
colonies.
. 
. 
. 
no 
measure 
would 
so 
effectually 
tend 
to 
provide 
a 
security 
against 
this 
danger, 
as 
that 
of 
introducing 
a 
free 
race 
of 
cultivators 
into 
1.2 
“Secret 
Memorandum 
from 
the 
British 
Colonial 
Office 
to 
the 
Chairman 
of 
the 
Court 
of 
Directors 
of 
the 
East 
India 
Company” 
(1803). 
Colonial 
Office 
Correspon-
dence, 
Great 
Britain 
National 
Archives, 
London.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Chapter 1. The Intimacies of Four Continents
  4. Chapter 2. Autobiography Out of Empire
  5. Chapter 3. A Fetishism of Colonial Commodities
  6. Chapter 4. The Ruses of Liberty
  7. Chapter 5. Freedoms Yet to Come
  8. Acknowledgments
  9. Notes
  10. References
  11. Index