Jubilee's Experiment

The British West Indies and American Abolitionism

AvDexter J. Gabriel

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

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Dexter J. Gabriel's Jubilee's Experiment is a thorough examination of how the emancipated British Caribbean colonies entered into the debates over abolition and African American citizenship in the US from the 1830s through the 1860s. It analyzes this public discourse, created by black and white abolitionists, and African Americans more generally in antebellum America, as both propaganda and rhetoric. Simultaneously, Gabriel interweaves the lived experiences of former slaves in the West Indies - their daily acts of resistance and struggles for greater freedoms - to further augment but complicate this debate. An important and timely intervention, Jubilee's Experiment argues that the measured success of former slaves in the West Indies became a crucial focal point in the struggle against slavery in antebellum North America.

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Utgivningsdatum:2023-04-06
Mått:152 x 235 x 27 mm
Vikt:640 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Slaveries since Emancipation
Antal sidor:364
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9781108845502

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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.

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'Dexter Gabriel masterfully transports readers into an abolitionist landscape where people of African descent agitated for Black liberation and resisted white control. Jubilee's Experiment brilliantly uncovers how the project of emancipation was a human enterprise with profound implications propelled by individual actors and actions as much as by ideological debates.' Michael Dickinson, author of Almost Dead: Slavery and Social Rebirth in the Black Urban Atlantic

Innehållsförteckning

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.