“Delightful a Fragrance”: Native American Olfactory Aesthetics within the Eighteenth-Century Anglo-American Botanical Community

Black Water Politics: Navigating Oral History, Memory, and Power Along the Rivers of the Guyanese Northwest

“…Aunty Rose, however, bluntly countered that she “didn't like” Black people—they were jumbies , evil spirits. She didn't trust them and thought “they smelled”—echoing the Amerindian racist repertoire of marking bodily difference from enslaved Africans and their descendants during the 18 th and early 19 th centuries (Kettler 2018; Tullet 2016). “Black people” didn't take care of their women and left babies all over the bush.…”

“…Between the 17 th and 19 th centuries, Dutch-supported "Carib" and Akawaio militias enslaved other Amerindian peoples and hunted escaped plantation slaves in these borderlands. Raiding led to further Amerindian dislocation and imperial conflict, and numerous fugitive peoples were killed, captured, and/or displaced (Arena 2017;Kars 2020;Hoonhout 2020;Thompson 1976Thompson , 1987Whitaker 2016Whitaker , 2017Whitehead 1988Whitehead , 1990. It is hard to deny forms of sociability forged in these century-long processes did not influence the patterns of ethno-racial antagonisms and solidarities that still inform social relations today.…”