{"id":1507,"date":"2023-04-07T16:07:13","date_gmt":"2023-04-07T15:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cls-uk.org.uk\/?p=1507"},"modified":"2023-05-08T18:33:45","modified_gmt":"2023-05-08T17:33:45","slug":"retrospective-notes-on-the-1823-demerara-slave-rebellion-200-years-after","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cls-uk.org.uk\/?p=1507","title":{"rendered":"Retrospective notes on the 1823 Demerara slave rebellion: 200 years after"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BPn30niMku0?start=4\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Speaker: <strong>Nigel Westmaas<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>The Demerara rebellion of 1823 was an uprising involving more than 10,000 enslaved people that took place in the colony of Demerara-Essequibo (modern day Guyana)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Guyanese researcher and public scholar <strong>Nigel Westmaas<\/strong> is Associate Professor in the Department of Africana Studies at Hamilton College, New York. He has published articles in journals and newspapers including \u201cResisting Orthodoxy: Notes on the Origins and Ideology of the Working People\u2019s Alliance\u201d in <em>Small Axe<\/em> journal; a chapter titled &#8220;An Organic Activist: Eusi Kwayana, Guyana and global Pan-Africanism&#8221; in the text <em>Black Power in the Caribbean<\/em> (University Press of Florida, 2014). In 2021 he published chapters in two books, <em>The Red and The Black: The Russian Revolution and The Black Atlantic<\/em> (edited by David Featherstone &amp; Christian Hogsberg, Manchester University Press) and in <em>The Fire that Time<\/em> (edited by Ronald Cummings and Nalini Mohabir, Black Rose books). His long-term book project, <em>A Political Glossary of Guyana<\/em> (Edwin Mellen Press) was published in 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Nigel Westmaas The Demerara rebellion of 1823 was an uprising involving more than 10,000 enslaved people that took place in the colony of Demerara-Essequibo (modern day Guyana) Guyanese researcher&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meetings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cls-uk.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cls-uk.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cls-uk.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cls-uk.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cls-uk.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1507"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cls-uk.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1524,"href":"https:\/\/cls-uk.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1507\/revisions\/1524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cls-uk.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cls-uk.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cls-uk.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}