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DESCRIPTION:“I am the only woman!”: The Racial Dimensions of Patriarchy and
  the Silence Around White Women in James Hakewill’s A Picturesque Tour of 
 the Island of Jamaica… (1825)\nRoom W-220\, Arts Building\, 853 Sherbooke 
 Street West\nIn 1820 the English architect\, author\, and artist James Hak
 ewill travelled to Jamaica\, Britain’s richest colony\, where he produced 
 his book A Picturesque Tour of the Island of Jamaica… (1825). Mainly compr
 ised of the plantation landscapes of the wealthy white slave owners with w
 hom he sojourned\, his images were a demonstration of the supposedly natur
 al bounty of the colony. Created within the tumultuous years between the a
 bolition of the slave trade (1807) and full abolition (1834)\, Hakewill’s 
 twenty-one prints represented black men\, women\, and children as well as 
 white males of various classes\, and by implication ethnicities. The missi
 ng person of Hakewill’s prints is the white woman. In comparison to Joseph
  Kidd’s Illustrations of Jamaica… (1838-40) in which eleven of the fifty l
 ithographs represented white females\, in Hakewill’s Picturesque Tour… onl
 y two of the twenty-one aquatints depicted individual white women: Kingsto
 n and Port Royal\, from Windsor Farm and Rose Hall\, St. James. But Hakewi
 ll’s silence around white women was not necessarily the result of the actu
 al racial demography of the island. Drawing from the experiences of Eliza 
 Chadwick Roberts and Lady Maria Nugent\, two white female visitors to Jama
 ica\, this paper will argue that similar to white men (like Hakewill)\, wh
 ite women also participated in the aestheticization of sugar cane plantati
 ons for imperialist ends. I will also endeavour to examine the specificity
  of white female experience\, as it was differentiated within the colonial
  context of Jamaican slavery\, from that of black and mixed race women. Fu
 rthermore\, in failing to fully represent white European and Creole women 
 in the varied dimensions of their complex lives in Jamaica\, and by specif
 ically refusing to represent them in the company of black slaves\, Hakewil
 l also delivered the false impression that white women lacked direct assoc
 iation with (or ownership of) enslaved Africans. This paper will explore t
 he ideological work of white female self-representation and black female m
 is-representation within the structures of British politeness\, which serv
 ed to exclude the latter from the status of woman.\n
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LOCATION:Room W-220\, Arts Building\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 0G5\, 853 ru
 e Sherbrooke Ouest
SUMMARY:Silence! AHCS Emerging Scholars Conference | Opening Lecture with P
 rof. Nelson
URL:https://www.mcgill.ca/ahcs/channels/event/silence-ahcs-emerging-scholar
 s-conference-opening-lecture-prof-nelson-246808
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