Dexter J. Gabriel (Storrs University of Connecticut)

Jubilee's Experiment

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Produktbeschreibung

A thorough examination of the debates over abolition and African American citizenship in the emancipated British Caribbean colonies from the 1830s through the 1860s. An important intervention, Jubilee's Experiment will interest scholars of transatlantic slavery and abolition.

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Produktdetails

• Slaveries since Emancipation
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 388
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. April 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 674g
• ISBN-13: 9781108845502
• ISBN-10: 1108845509
• Artikelnr.: 66222190

Autorenporträt

Dexter J. Gabriel is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Conneticut, Storrs. His research interests include the history of slavery, resistance, emancipation, and transnational freedom movements in the Black Atlantic, as well as interdisciplinary approaches to slavery within popular film, culture, and media.

Inhaltsangabe

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.