Jubilee's Experiment

ISBN-13: 9781108845502 / Twarda / 2023

Storrs) Gabriel Dexter J. (University of Connecticut

Opis

Measuring the success of emancipation in the British West Indies became crucial in the struggle against slavery in antebellum America.

Recenzje

'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

Spis treści

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.