Contentious Liberties - American Abolitionists in Post-Emancipation Jamaica, 1834-1866

Informationen zum Autor GALE L. KENNY is an ACLS New Faculty Fellow in the Religion Department at Barnard College. Klappentext Examines the differing ideas of freedom held by white evangelical abolitionists and freed people in Jamaica, and explores the consequences of their encounter for both American and Jamaican history. The book makes creative use of available sources to unpack assumptions on both sides of this American-Jamaican interaction. Zusammenfassung Kenny’s illuminating study examines the differing ideas of freedom held by white evangelical abolitionists and freed people in Jamaica and explores the consequences of their encounter for both American and Jamaican history. He shows how liberated slaves were able to resist the imposition of white mores and to redefine the terms of the encounter.

Product details

• Authors: Gale Kenny, Gale L Kenny, Gale L. Kenny, KENNY GALE L
• Assisted by: Richard Newman (Editor), Patrick Rael (Editor), Manisha Sinha (Editor)
• Publisher: The University of Georgia Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.11.2011
• EAN: 9780820340456
• ISBN: 978-0-8203-4045-6
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: Race in the Atlantic World, 17; Race in the Atlantic World, 17
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous