In the Same Sea

View of Fort-de-France, Martinique, c. 1780 (François Denis Née); courtesy of: gallica.bnf.fr / BnF

View of habor, St. Barthelemy, early 1800s; courtesy of: www.sjohistoriska.se

Bum Boat, Barbados, late 19th century (Edwin Roper Loftus Stocqueler); courtesy of www.slaveryimages.org

View of the habor of Christiansted, St. Croix, 1815 (Henrik Gottfred Beenfeldt); courtesy of Danish National Archives

The Island of Barbados, c. 1694 (Isaac Sailmaker); courtesy of Yale Center for British Art

View of the British departure from Saint Christophe or St. Kitts and Nevis, c. 1782 (François Lescalet); courtesy of the John Carter Brown Library

IN THE SAME SEA

IN THE SAME SEA investigates the shared history of the Lesser Antilles from the 1650s to the 1850s. The team of IN THE SAME SEA explores how the islands of the Lesser Antilles were shaped by inter-island connections that transformed separate islands into a common world of slavery and freedom.

Living in fragile societies, marked by racial slavery, enslaved Africans, free people of colour, and Europeans depended on and gained vital resources from crossing the short sea routes to their neighbours in English, French, Dutch, Spanish, Danish, and Swedish colonies.

Funding

Island trade - Enslaved movement - Maintaining slavery - Island belonging - Fragile societies

Linen market, Dominica, c. 1780 (Agostino Brunias); courtesy of www.slaveryimages.org

Space - Scale - Entanglement - Friction

The pine apple, c. 1750 (Georg Dionysius Ehret); courtesy of the John Carter Brown Library

A chart of the Antilles, or, Charibbee, or, Caribs Islands, with the Virgin Isles, 1784 (Louis Delarochette et al), courtesy of Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division

Blog

Newspapers as Microcosms of Everyday Life for Elites in the Danish West Indies

ITSS PhD Fellow Gabriëlle La Croix writes about colonial newspapers, including the implications of a rebus, an epigram, and essays on death and marriage.

WORKING PAPER 7: Widows’ Interisland Inheritances in St. Eustatius and St. Barths, 1796-1819

In this working paper, IN THE SAME SEA Postdoc Felicia Fricke explores how Statian widows navigated interisland inheritances, looking at the impact of complex family structures and guardianship.

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News

ITSS Geodatabase in Progress!

Patrik Karlsson Nyed provides an insight into the development of a geodata platform for IN THE SAME SEA's database of over 7000 fugitives from slavery in the Lesser Antilles.

New Publication: Race, Slavery, and the Market

IN THE SAME SEA PI Gunvor Simonsen writes about the localization of Atlantic racism in Copenhagen in the eighteenth century and how racism shaped the lives of the Africans living in the city.

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Open house at IN THE SAME SEA

Open house: Get a first look at our maps and database of enslaved fugitives, and join us for Caribbean music and a taste of our famous rum punch!

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