Author: James Armstrong ThomePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antigua
Languages : en
Pages : 502
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Emancipation in the West Indies
Author: James Armstrong ThomePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antigua
Languages : en
Pages : 502
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Emancipation in the West Indies
Author: Franklin Benjamin SanbornPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Enslaved persons
Languages : en
Pages : 28
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Emancipation in the West Indies; a six months' tour in Antigua, Barbadoes, and Jamaica, in 1837
Author: James A. THOME (and KIMBALL (J. Horace))Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 506
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The Emancipation of the Negroes in the British West Indies
Author: Ralph Waldo EmersonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Enslaved persons
Languages : en
Pages : 36
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Emancipation of the West Indies. A Six Months' Tour in Antigua, Barbadoes, and Jamaica, in the Year 1837
Author: James A. ThomePublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385604664
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1838.
A Pre-emancipation History of the West Indies
Author: Isaac DookhanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
The aim of this book is to produce a text of sufficient depth for examination purposes, which at the same time caters for the understanding of students and promotes an adequate grasp of the subject.
Revolutionary Emancipation
Author: Claudius K. FergusPublisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 080714990X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Skillfully weaving an African worldview into the conventional historiography of British abolitionism, Claudius K. Fergus presents new insights into one of the most intriguing and momentous episodes of Atlantic history. In Revolutionary Emancipation, Fergus argues that the 1760 rebellion in Jamaica, Tacky's War -- the largest and most destructive rebellion of enslaved peoples in the Americas prior to the Haitian Revolution -- provided the rationale for abolition and reform of the colonial system. Fergus shows that following Tacky's War, British colonies in the West Indies sought political preservation under state-regulated amelioration of slavery. He further contends that abolitionists' successes -- from partial to general prohibition of the slave trade -- hinged more on the economic benefits of creolizing slave labor and the costs of preserving the colonies from destructive emancipation rebellions than on a conviction of justice and humanity for Africans. In the end, Fergus maintains, slaves' commitment to revolutionary emancipation kept colonial focus on reforming the slave system. His study carefully dissects new evidence and reinterprets previously held beliefs, offering historians the most compelling arguments for African agency in abolitionism.
The West Indies Before and Since Slave Emancipation
Author: John DavyPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136258493
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 573
Book Description
John Davy (1790-1868) was an English doctor and brother of the chemist Sir Humphrey Davy. After graduating from Edinburgh University, in 1814 Davy became Inspector General of Army Hospitals, and he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1834. In his capacity as Inspector General, he spent 1845-1848 living in Barbados and visiting other Caribbean Islands. This volume, first published in 1854, describes the society and culture of Barbados and other islands, including Trinidad, Tobago and St Lucia. Based on Davy's notes and observations made while stationed on the island, the book describes in vivid detail the disparities in education, quality of life and behaviour between the freed slaves, indentured servants and plantation owners of Barbados and other islands. Davy's sympathetic account provides valuable first-hand descriptions of the social conditions and tensions which existed after the Emancipation Act of 1834.
A Colony of Citizens
Author: Laurent DuboisPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 0807839027
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 467
Book Description
The idea of universal rights is often understood as the product of Europe, but as Laurent Dubois demonstrates, it was profoundly shaped by the struggle over slavery and citizenship in the French Caribbean. Dubois examines this Caribbean revolution by focusing on Guadeloupe, where, in the early 1790s, insurgents on the island fought for equality and freedom and formed alliances with besieged Republicans. In 1794, slavery was abolished throughout the French Empire, ushering in a new colonial order in which all people, regardless of race, were entitled to the same rights. But French administrators on the island combined emancipation with new forms of coercion and racial exclusion, even as newly freed slaves struggled for a fuller freedom. In 1802, the experiment in emancipation was reversed and slavery was brutally reestablished, though rebels in Saint-Domingue avoided the same fate by defeating the French and creating an independent Haiti. The political culture of republicanism, Dubois argues, was transformed through this transcultural and transatlantic struggle for liberty and citizenship. The slaves-turned-citizens of the French Caribbean expanded the political possibilities of the Enlightenment by giving new and radical content to the idea of universal rights.
Emancipation in the West Indies
Author: James Armstrong ThomePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antigua
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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