This comparative study examines the emancipation process in the British Caribbean, particularly Jamaica, during the 1830s and in the United States, particularly South Carolina, during the 1860s. Analyzing the intellectual and ideological foundations of postslavery Anglo-America, Demetrius Eudell explores how former slaves, former slaveholders, and their societies' central governments understood and discussed slavery, emancipation, and the transition between the two.
Eudell investigates the public policies--which addressed issues of labor control, access to land, and the general...
This comparative study examines the emancipation process in the British Caribbean, particularly Jamaica, during the 1830s and in the United States, pa...
