ISBN:
9781108983860
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (364 pages)
Series Statement:
Slaveries since Emancipation Series
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
326.809729
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
Measuring the success of emancipation in the British West Indies became crucial in the struggle against slavery in antebellum America.
Abstract:
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 -- 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 -- 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 -- Restructuring the Black Family -- Reforming Black Womanhood -- Reform and American Abolitionism -- The Triumph of Freedom and Reform.
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