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Jubilee's Experiment
Dexter J. Gabriel
其他書名
The British West Indies and American Abolitionism
出版Cambridge University Press, 2023-04-06
主題History / GeneralHistory / World
ISBN11089822209781108982221
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=3fS1EAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋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.