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Jubilee's experiment, the British West Indies and American abolitionism, Dexter J. Gabriel, University of Connecticut

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Jubilee's experiment, the British West Indies and American abolitionism, Dexter J. Gabriel, University of Connecticut

Language

eng

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Jubilee's experiment

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

1356800606

Responsibility statement

Dexter J. Gabriel, University of Connecticut

Series statement

Slaveries since emancipationCambridge Social Sciences eBooks

Sub title

the British West Indies and American abolitionism

Summary

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.--, Provided by publisher

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