'Jubilee's Experiment is a marvellous study. Dexter Gabriel shows that the resistance of Black Caribbeans to the half-way measures of Britain's abolition of slavery had a profound impact upon the assumptions and demands of American abolitionists. This is Atlantic history at its best.' Edward Rugemer, author of The Problem of Emancipation: The Caribbean Roots of the American Civil War
Introduction; 1. The anxieties of emancipation; 2. Fears of British emancipation in America; 3. The benefits of free labor; 4. The problems of apprenticeship; 5. The experiment and its challenges; 6. Reform and the experiment; 7. African Americans and British emancipation; 8. A West Indian Jubilee in America; Epilogue.
