| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 348 pages) : illustrations, map |
| Series |
Slaveries since emancipation |
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Slaveries since emancipation.
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| Contents |
Cover -- Half-title -- Series information -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Jubilee, Experiment, and Empire -- A Trans-Atlantic Antislavery -- Troubling Freedom -- Recovering Voices of an Anglo-Atlantic Antislavery -- Presenting Jubilee's Experiment -- 1 The Anxieties of Emancipation -- After Abolition -- The Hydra of Rebellion -- Gradualism and Amelioration -- Immediatism in Metropole and Colony -- Fears of Emancipation -- Conclusion -- Judy Cam -- 2 Fears of British Emancipation in America |
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Moral Contagion and the Transformation of American Abolitionism -- A Matter of Great Interest -- Garrison and the ACS in England -- British Emancipation, Race, and Amalgamation -- New York and Riot -- Conclusion -- Robert Purvis -- 3 The Benefits of Free Labor -- Antislavery, Abolition, and Free Labor -- Monitoring the Experiment -- Debating Free Labor Experiments in America -- Free Labor's Detractors -- A Moral Case for Free Labor -- Gathering Facts -- Conclusion -- Gibraltar Estate, Jamaica, 1834 -- 4 The Problems of Apprenticeship -- The Problems of Apprenticeship |
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The Many Burdens of Women Apprentices -- Discontents -- The Problems of Apprenticeship in America -- Kimball and Thome in the West Indies -- The End of Apprenticeship -- Conclusion -- The Laborers of St. George Parish -- 5 The Experiment and Its Challenges -- The Challenges of Free Labor -- A Fractured Antislavery -- The Experiment and Texas Annexation -- The Experiment and American Crisis -- Conclusion -- The True Doctrine -- 6 Reform and the Experiment -- Reform and British Antislavery -- Educational and Religious Reformation -- Education and the Civilizing Mission |
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Restructuring the Black Family -- Reforming Black Womanhood -- Reform and American Abolitionism -- The Triumph of Freedom and Reform -- Kimball and Thome and Moral Reform -- The Oberlin Mission -- Conclusion -- Nancy Gardner Prince -- 7 African Americans and British Emancipation -- The British West Indies in the Early Black Press -- Moral Uplift and British Emancipation -- Moral Reform, Slavery, and the West Indies -- A Free-Colored People -- The Problem of Emigration -- Debating West Indian Emigration -- An Expedition for Freedom -- British Emancipation and Black Political Agitation |
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The Fugitive Slave Act and West Indian Emigration -- Conclusion -- J. W. C. Pennington and the Jamaica Hamic Association -- 8 A West Indian Jubilee in America -- Memorializing Freedom in the British West Indies -- The People's Jubilee -- Masking Jubilee -- Freedom Days -- Days of Thanksgiving -- August First in Public -- Marches and Processions -- August First in Oratory -- August First and the Politics of Slavery -- Conclusion -- William J. Wilson, New Jersey -- Epilogue -- American Jubilee, American Experiment -- The Experiment's Discontents -- Trinidad, 1881 -- Index |
| Summary |
"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"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 12, 2023) |
| Subject |
Antislavery movements -- West Indies, British -- History
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Antislavery movements -- United States -- History
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Abolitionists -- West Indies, British -- History
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Abolitionists -- United States.
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Abolitionists
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Antislavery movements
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United States
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West Indies -- British West Indies
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2022053453 |
| ISBN |
9781108979894 |
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1108979890 |
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1108983863 |
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9781108983860 |
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