Poisoned Relations: Healing, Power, and Contested Knowledge in the Atlantic World by Berry, Chelsea
Poisoned Relations: Healing, Power, and Contested Knowledge in the Atlantic World by Berry, Chelsea

Poisoned Relations: Healing, Power, and Contested Knowledge in the Atlantic World

By the time of the opening of the Atlantic world in the fifteenth century, Europeans and Atlantic...
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Poisoned Relations: Healing, Power, and Contested Knowledge in the Atlantic World by Berry, Chelsea

Poisoned Relations: Healing, Power, and Contested Knowledge in the Atlantic World

CHF 95.34
Poisoned Relations: Healing, Power, and Contested Knowledge in the Atlantic World by Berry, Chelsea

Poisoned Relations: Healing, Power, and Contested Knowledge in the Atlantic World

CHF 95.34
Author: Chelsea Berry
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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By the time of the opening of the Atlantic world in the fifteenth century, Europeans and Atlantic Africans had developed significantly different cultural idioms for and understandings of poison. Europeans considered poison a gendered "weapon of the weak" while Africans viewed it as an abuse by the powerful. Though distinct, both idioms centered on fraught power relationships. When translated to the slave societies of the Americas, these understandings sometimes clashed in conflicting interpretations of alleged poisoning events.

In Poisoned Relations, Chelsea Berry illuminates the competing understandings of poison and power in the Atlantic World. Poison was connected to central concerns of life: to the well-being in this world for oneself and one's relatives; to the morality and use of power; and to the fraught relationships that bound people together. The social and relational nature of ideas about poison meant that the power struggles that emerged in poison cases, while unfolding in the extreme context of slavery, were not solely between enslavers and the enslaved--they also involved social conflict within enslaved communities.

Poisoned Relations examines more than five hundred investigations and trials in four colonial contexts--British Virginia, French Martinique, Portuguese Bahia, and the Dutch Guianas--bringing a groundbreaking application of historical linguistics to bear on the study of the African diaspora in the Americas. Illuminating competing understandings of poison and power in this way, Berry opens new avenues of evidence through which to navigate the violence of colonial archival silences.

Author: Chelsea Berry
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 09/17/2024
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.26lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.75d
ISBN: 9781512826494

About the Author
Chelsea Berry is Upper School History Teacher in the Department of History and Social Sciences at Holton-Arms School.
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