And The Women Shall Lead Them: Antigua's 1858 Uprising

In 1858, an Antiguan man had a dispute with a Barbudan man. The events which unfold will involve rioting and an attack on Barbudan business on the island of Antigua. Still, the most remembered thing from the riot was how a group of oppressed black women in Antigua organised & took up arms to expressed their hatred for the society, proceeding Emancipation, that they were force to live in. 

Additional Knowledge

BOOKS

• A Small Place by Jamaica Kincaid

• Troubling Freedom: Antigua and the Aftermath of British Emancipation by Natasha Lightfoot

• The History of Antigua: The Unsuspected Isle by Brian Dyde 

• Wicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World by Jessica Marie Johnson

FICTIONAL BOOKS

• The Book of Night Women by Marlon James

• The Confessions of Frannie Langton by Sara Collins

• These Ghosts Are Family by Maisy Card

ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS

• Their Coats Were Tied Up Like Men’: Women Rebels in Antigua’s 1858 Uprising,” Slavery & Abolition by Natasha Lightfoot