The children of Africa in the colonies: free people of color in Barbados in the age of emancipation
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Beteilige Person: Newton, Melanie J. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Baton Rouge Louisiana State University Press ©2008
Schriftenreihe:Antislavery, abolition, and the Atlantic world
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-308) and index
Defining freedom in the interstices of slave society -- Race and politics in an age of insurrection -- Racial segregation and public life during the amelioration era -- New publics : Afro-Barbadian oppositional politics -- Discipline and (dis)order : apprenticeship and the meaning of freedom -- Men of property, character, and education : the Afro-Barbadian bourgeois public sphere -- Between Africa and the empire : diasporic consciousness in postemancipation society -- The emigration debate and postemancipation politics -- Hard times and African dreams
How emancipation transformed social and political relations in Barbados. When a small group of free men of color gathered in 1838 to celebrate the end of apprenticeship in Barbados, they spoke of emancipation as the moment of freedom for all colored people, not just the former slaves. The fact that many of these men had owned slaves themselves gives a hollow ring to their lofty pronouncements. Yet in The Children of Africa in the Colonies, Melanie J. Newton demonstrates that simply dismissing these men as hypocrites ignores the complexity of their relationship to slavery. Exploring the role of
Umfang:1 Online-Ressource (xii, 322 pages)
ISBN:0807134260
9780807134269