Master–Horse–Slave: Mobility, Race and Power in the British West Indies, c.1780–1838

Lambert, David

doi:10.1080/0144039x.2015.1025487

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“…The racial significance of the ridden horse, positioned above and alongside the slave, has been confirmed in more recent work (Lambert 2015(Lambert , 2018. From this perspective, the horse is not merely the most aristocratic of animals, but a fundamental adjunct of authority, whether we are talking of brute force or hegemonic power, and whatever combination of class, caste, or race is concerned.…”

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Black Protest and the Man on Horseback: Race, Animality, and Equestrian Counter-Conduct

Howell

Taves

2021

GeoHumanities

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This paper explores the history and political significance of black horsemen and horsewomen, using the appearance of mounted protesters at the 2020 Black Lives Matter rallies in the US to consider the role of the horse as both an adjunct of authority, in symbol and in material power, and as a partner in forms of protest and resistance. This paper begins with the brute power of the horse, and through its military and policing duties, its role supporting state authority. But we underline the racial framing of "the man on horseback," using this figure not merely as a metaphor for military authority but as a representation of racialized power and as an adjunct to racial regimes. The significance of this figure is explored through the history of black horse riders and the "threat" that the image of the black rider poses to majority white culture. We examine the political value of placing black horse riders in the position of authority long claimed by white men and celebrated in public statuary and in art. The final section considers the black horsewoman, however, warning against disconnecting the martial model of masculinity from gender privileges as well as racial ones. The paper uses the example of black horsewomanship to argue for a better understanding of the partnership between human and nonhuman. In the performative politics of assembly that we call "political dressage" we suggest a distinctively more-than-human variety of "counter-conduct."

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Section: The Man On Horsebackmentioning

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Black Protest and the Man on Horseback: Race, Animality, and Equestrian Counter-Conduct

Howell

Taves

2021

GeoHumanities

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“…55 The horse features in accounts of enslaved experience across temporalities as both an agent of oppression and a partner in work. 56 In the act of slave-taking, the horse granted the raider height, speed, and a capacity for more-than-human violent force. 57 A letter sent in 812 from Pope Leo III to Charlemagne depicts attacks by a cohort of fifty Moorish ships on the islands of Ponza and Ischia.…”

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Human–animal entanglements in the early medieval European slave trade: re‐reading the Raffelstetten customs regulations

Christensen

2024

Early Medieval Europe

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Frankish customs regulations recorded in the tenth‐century ‘Inquest on the tolls of Raffelstetten’ have long formed a cornerstone of traditional arguments about slavery's role in the early medieval European economic revival. This paper experiments with the application of a more‐than‐human lens to the Raffelstetten record and other evidence to generate new insights into the intimate experience of enslavement and the interspecies networks of relations that shaped the slave trade and slave markets in early medieval Europe. Human and animal entanglements, as revealed in the Raffelstetten record, determined how enslaved people experienced capture, transport, and sale.

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“…Riding enabled Bird Bishop to increase her bodily capacity, demonstrating relations of dependence that go beyond mere transport; they blur the boundaries between the bodies of horse and rider. Her journeys must therefore be understood as a form of hybrid human‐animal mobility (Lambert 2015).…”

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Disability and gender in the history of geographical exploration: Understanding Isabella Bird Bishop as a disabled geographer

Armston‐Sheret

2024

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Studying the life and travels of the Victorian explorer Isabella Bird Bishop offers important insights into the history of disabled people within the discipline of geography. Bird Bishop is an important figure within geography's disciplinary history, as one of the first women admitted to the Royal Geographical Society in 1892. She also had a long‐standing spinal condition that intermingled with psychological symptoms. In studying how her disability (and contemporary understandings of her body) shaped her travels, this paper shows how disability interacted with Bird Bishop's racial and gender identity in shaping where and how she travelled and how she wrote about her experiences. By drawing attention to the role that disability played in justifying her travels and the positive effect travel had on her health, this paper highlights her generally positive experiences of geographical travel as a disabled person.

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Master–Horse–Slave: Mobility, Race and Power in the British West Indies, c.1780–1838

Cited by 10 publications

References 13 publications

Black Protest and the Man on Horseback: Race, Animality, and Equestrian Counter-Conduct

Black Protest and the Man on Horseback: Race, Animality, and Equestrian Counter-Conduct

Human–animal entanglements in the early medieval European slave trade: re‐reading the Raffelstetten customs regulations

Disability and gender in the history of geographical exploration: Understanding Isabella Bird Bishop as a disabled geographer

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