Jubilee''s Experiment - The British West Indies and American Abolitionism

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.

List of contents

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.

About the author

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.

Product details

• Authors: Dexter J Gabriel, Dexter J. Gabriel, Dexter J. (University of Connecticut Gabriel
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.05.2023
• EAN: 9781108845502
• ISBN: 978-1-108-84550-2
• No. of pages: 388
• Series: Slaveries since Emancipation
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; European History, HISTORY / General, Caribbean islands, General & world history, c 1500 onwards to present day, Colonialism and imperialism, History of the Americas, Slavery and abolition of slavery, Relating to African American / Black American people, Relating to people of the African diasporas / heritage