Abstract
Taking up two Romantic-era colonial texts about Jamaica—Benjamin Moseley's Treatise on Sugar and the anonymous novel Marly—this essay considers the forest in relation to racial ecologies of the Caribbean. Beginning with the entwined history of deforestation and the sugar plantation in the fifteenth century, it reads the forest as a non-place aiding forms of resistance and escape from slavery, sheltering different modes of earthly inhabitation, and gesturing toward alternative conceptions of form and matter. The essay concludes with the forest as a conceptual and material site from which to constellate subsistence movements and ecological resistance across time and space.
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