Vagrancy and Poverty in the Post-Emancipation Anglophone Caribbean, 1834-1900

解放后英语加勒比地区的流浪和贫困，1834 年至 1900 年

• 批准号: 1644365
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Newcastle University
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2015 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-1644365
• 关键词: Vagrancy; Poverty; Post; Emancipation; Anglophone

This collaborative PhD project will investigate the development of vagrancy law and poor relief in the Anglophone Caribbean in the years after the endThe abolition of slavery in the British Empire coincided exactly with England's adoption of the Poor Law Amendment Act (1834), and followed soon after the substantial revision to English Vagrancy law through the Vagrancy Act of 1824. These developments have deep connections as part of a shift towards liberal ideas of the self-sustaining individual within a free market but have not been researched in relation to one another. This project will bring the two fields together by examining the development of and implementation of legislation relating to vagrancy and poor relief in the post-emancipation Caribbean colonies (1834-c. 1900).The creation of new legal forms of rule was at the heart of the change from slavery to free labour, as it was envisaged by the British government. Laws passed across the Caribbean region in the wake of emancipation included Vagrancy Acts, Poor Laws, and laws that regulated the use of urban space such as Jamaica's Towns and Communities Act, first passed in 1843, and still in force today. This legislation was passed at the same time as law in Britain rapidly developed, through the Vagrancy Act of 1824, the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834, and related legislation. However, the Caribbean legislation in this period has been relatively little studied, and its relationship to British legislation has hardly been considered at all. This Doctoral Award will allow the successful candidate to undertake significant research in the period during which the critical elements of today's Caribbean states were established.The research will address important empirical and analytic questions. Empirically, by collating and comparing legislation in the core areas of vagrancy, poor law, and control of public space in the larger British Caribbean colonies (Jamaica, Trinidad [Trinidad and Tobago after 1889], Barbados, and British Guiana); and investigating the implementation of this legislation in two of these colonies chosen as case studies. Analytically, the focus will be on identifying the political and cultural significance of the legislation, the extent to which its implementation and responses to its implementation shaped identities, and its similarities and differences to equivalent legislation in Britain. How much did the Caribbean's colonial and racialized status and its history of slavery affect political and legal understandings of poverty and vagrancy? How did legislation and its implementation develop in relation to other areas of change such as the rise of new economic activities, and the shift in many colonies from legislative to Crown colonies? To what extent did legislation follow British policy, and how far did it respond to local conditions and concerns?

这个合作的博士项目将调查流浪法的发展和贫困救济在英语加勒比地区的几年后，结束了大英帝国废除奴隶制正好与英国通过的《济贫法修正案》（1834年），并遵循后不久，通过1824年的《流浪法》对英国流浪法进行了重大修订。这些发展有着深刻的联系，是向自由市场内自我维持的个人的自由思想转变的一部分，但还没有研究过彼此之间的关系。本项目将通过审查解放后加勒比殖民地（1834-c）有关流浪和救济穷人的立法的发展和执行情况，将这两个领域结合起来。1900).正如英国政府所设想的那样，新的法律的统治形式的建立是从奴隶制向自由劳动力转变的核心。加勒比地区在解放后通过的法律包括流浪法、济贫法和管理城市空间使用的法律，如牙买加的城镇和社区法，该法于1843年首次通过，至今仍然有效。这项立法是在英国法律迅速发展的同时通过的，通过了1824年的流浪法，1834年的济贫法修正案以及相关立法。然而，对这一时期加勒比立法的研究相对较少，几乎没有考虑过它与英国立法的关系。该博士学位将允许成功的候选人在当今加勒比国家的关键要素建立期间进行重大研究。研究将解决重要的经验和分析问题。从经验上讲，通过整理和比较流浪，穷人的法律，并在较大的英属加勒比殖民地（牙买加，特立尼达[1889年后的特立尼达和托巴哥]，巴巴多斯和英属圭亚那）的公共空间控制的核心领域的立法;并调查在这些殖民地中的两个选择作为案例研究的立法的实施情况。分析，重点将是确定立法的政治和文化意义，在何种程度上其实施和响应其实施塑造的身份，其相似性和差异，在英国同等立法。加勒比的殖民和种族化地位及其奴隶制历史在多大程度上影响了对贫穷和流浪的政治和法律的理解？立法及其实施如何发展与其他领域的变化，如新的经济活动的兴起，以及许多殖民地从立法殖民地转变为皇家殖民地？立法在多大程度上遵循了英国的政策，在多大程度上回应了当地的条件和关切？