Caribbean Slave Revolts And The British Abolitionist Movement
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Caribbean Slave Revolts And The British Abolitionist Movement
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Author : Gelien Matthews
language : en
Publisher: LSU Press
Release Date : 2006
Caribbean Slave Revolts And The British Abolitionist Movement written by Gelien Matthews and has been published by LSU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with History categories.
"Focusing on slave revolts that took place in Barbados in 1816, in Demerara in 1823, and in Jamaica in 1831-32, Matthews identifies four key aspects in British abolitionist propaganda regarding Caribbean slavery: the denial that antislavery activism prompted slave revolts, the attempt to understand and recount slave uprisings from the slaves' perspectives, the portrayal of slave rebels as victims of armed suppressors and as agents of the antislavery movement, and the presentation of revolts as a rationale against the continuance of slavery. She makes use of previously overlooked publications of British abolitionists to prove that their language changed over time in response to slave uprisings.".
Who Abolished Slavery
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Author : Seymour Drescher
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2021-01-01
Who Abolished Slavery written by Seymour Drescher and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-01-01 with Social Science categories.
The past half-century has produced a mass of information regarding slave resistance, ranging from individual acts of disobedience to massive uprisings. Many of these acts of rebellion have been studied extensively, yet the ultimate goals of the insurgents remain open for discussion. Recently, several historians have suggested that slaves achieved their own freedom by resisting slavery, which counters the predominant argument that abolitionist pressure groups, parliamentarians, and the governmental and anti-governmental armies of the various slaveholding empires were the prime movers behind emancipation. Marques, one of the leading historians of slavery and abolition, argues that, in most cases, it is impossible to establish a direct relation between slaves’ uprisings and the emancipation laws that would be approved in the western countries. Following this presentation, his arguments are taken up by a dozen of the most outstanding historians in this field. In a concluding chapter, Marques responds briefly to their comments and evaluates the degree to which they challenge or enhance his view.
Der Beitrag Einer Frau Zur Abolition In England Im 18 Und 19 Jh Anhand Von Hannah More S The Sorrows Of Yamba Or The Negro Woman S Lamentation
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Author : Lisa Blech
language : de
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Release Date : 2011-09-30
Der Beitrag Einer Frau Zur Abolition In England Im 18 Und 19 Jh Anhand Von Hannah More S The Sorrows Of Yamba Or The Negro Woman S Lamentation written by Lisa Blech and has been published by GRIN Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-09-30 with History categories.
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2011 im Fachbereich Geschichte Europas - Mittelalter, Frühe Neuzeit, Note: 1,7, Freie Universität Berlin (Institut für Geschichts- und Kulturwissenschaften), Veranstaltung: Sklaverei in der Frühen Neuzeit, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: „Slavery is the reverse of liberty.“ - George Ramsay Die Sklaverei besteht seit unzähligen Zeiten in verschiedensten Formen. Sie hat sich morphologisch geändert, doch ist die Unterdrückung von Menschen bis zur heutigen Zeit in vielen Formen, so auch als Sklaverei durch vertragliche Bindung, erhalten geblieben. Im 18. und 19. Jahrhundert aber wurden in Großbritannien Siege gegen den Sklavenhandel und die Sklaverei durch die abolitionistische Bewegung errungen. Der Zweck dieser Hausarbeit liegt darin zu untersuchen, welchen Beitrag die Frauen zu dieser Abolition geleistet haben. Dieser Aspekt ist besonders interessant zu beleuchten, da die Frauen damals eine niedrigere Stellung in der Gesellschaft als Männer und somit historisch wenig bekannte Rollen einnahmen. Somit gilt für mich zu erforschen, welchen geschichtlichen Beitrag eine von ihnen geleistet hat. Dies werde ich anhand von Hannah More und ihrem Werk "The Sorrows of Yamba; or, The Negro Woman's Lamentation" darlegen. Dabei werde ich zuerst auf die abolitionistische Bewegung in England zu dieser Zeit eingehen, sowie auf deren Mitglieder. Ein besonderes Augenmerk werde ich dabei auf die Person Hannah More haben. Daraufhin setze ich mich in dieser Hausarbeit mit dem zu untersuchenden Text und dem dazugehörigen Zeitgeschehen am Ende des 18. Jahrhunderts auseinander. Im Folgenden werde ich schließlich reflektierend auf meine Fragestellung bezüglich des Beitrags der Frauen zur Abolition, besonders der Bedeutung des gewählten Textes von Hannah More, eingehen. Mit diesen Betrachtungen werde ich diese Arbeit abschließen.
Pathways From Slavery
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Author : Seymour Drescher
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2018-01-03
Pathways From Slavery written by Seymour Drescher and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-01-03 with History categories.
Seymour Drescher’s regular, deeply-thought and carefully nuanced arguments have periodically reshaped how we think of the subject of the history of slavery itself. He has discussed the impact of economic and cultural factors on human behaviour and has shown that historical evidence does not lead to easy answers. He has changed the way in which we now look at abolitionism and has destroyed the linear explanation of economic decline. This books gathers together some of Drescher’s key essays in the field.
West Indian Slavery And British Abolition 1783 1807
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Author : David Ryden
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2009-01-19
West Indian Slavery And British Abolition 1783 1807 written by David Ryden and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-01-19 with Business & Economics categories.
Ryden challenges conventional wisdom regarding the political and economic motivations behind the final decision to abolish the British slave trade in 1807. His research illustrates that a faltering sugar economy after 1799 tipped the scales in favour of the abolitionist argument and helped secure the passage of abolition.
The Problem Of Emancipation
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Author : Edward Bartlett Rugemer
language : en
Publisher: LSU Press
Release Date : 2009-08-01
The Problem Of Emancipation written by Edward Bartlett Rugemer and has been published by LSU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-08-01 with History categories.
"A most persuasive work that repositions the American debates over emancipation where they clearly belong, in a broader Anglo-Atlantic context." -- Reviews in History While many historians look to internal conflict alone to explain the onset of the American Civil War, in The Problem of Emancipation, Edward Bartlett Rugemer places the origins of the war in a transatlantic context. Addressing a huge gap in the historiography of the antebellum United States, he explores the impact of Britain's abolition of slavery in 1834 on the coming of the war and reveals the strong influence of Britain's old Atlantic empire on the United States' politics. He demonstrates how American slaveholders and abolitionists alike borrowed from the antislavery movement developing on the transatlantic stage to fashion contradictory portrayals of abolition that became central to the arguments for and against American slavery. Richly researched and skillfully argued, The Problem of Emancipation explores a long-neglected aspect of American slavery and the history of the Atlantic World and bridges a gap in our understanding of the American Civil War. "Most discussions about the roots of the American Civil War seldom stray beyond the nation's borders, but Rugemer makes a persuasive case for why that should change." -- Charleston (SC) Post and Courier "A tremendous contribution to the greatest issue and ongoing controversy in pre--twentieth-century American historiography: the causes of the American Civil War. I was quite unprepared for Rugemer's crucial discoveries as he studied the way dozens of southern and northern newspapers responded to the British West Indian slave insurrections, to the British act of emancipation, and to the consequences of this so-called Mighty Experiment. Few historians have shown such sophistication in analyzing the rapidly changing pre--Civil War media and the shifts in public opinion." -- David Brion Davis, author of Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World
White Fury
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Author : Christer Petley
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2018-09-26
White Fury written by Christer Petley and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-09-26 with History categories.
The sugar planter Simon Taylor, who claimed ownership of over 2,248 enslaved people in Jamaica at the point of his death in 1813, was one of the wealthiest slaveholders ever to have lived in the British empire. Slavery was central to the eighteenth-century empire. Between the seventeenth and the nineteenth centuries, hundreds of thousands of enslaved people were brought from Africa to the Caribbean to toil and die within the brutal slave regime of the region, most of them destined for a life of labour on large sugar plantations. Their forced labour provided the basis for the immense fortunes of plantation owners like Taylor; it also produced wealth that poured into Britain. However, a tumultuous period that saw the American, French, and Haitian Revolutions, as well as the rise of the abolitionist movement, witnessed new attacks on slavery and challenged the power of a once-confident slaveholder elite. In White Fury, Christer Petley uses Taylor's rich and expressive letters to allow us an intimate glimpse into the aspirations and frustrations of a wealthy and powerful British slaveholder during the Age of Revolution. The letters provide a fascinating insight into the merciless machinery and unpredictable hazards of the Jamaican plantation world; into the ambitions of planters who used the great wealth they extracted from Jamaica to join the ranks of the British elite; and into the impact of wars, revolutions, and fierce political struggles that led, eventually, to the reform of the exploitative slave system that Taylor had helped build . . . and which he defended right up until the last weak scratches of his pen.
Abolitionists And Slave Resistance
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Author : Judith Edwards
language : en
Publisher: Enslow Publishing
Release Date : 2004
Abolitionists And Slave Resistance written by Judith Edwards and has been published by Enslow Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
Men and women, both black and white, fought against and resisted slavery. Slaves rebelled or sometimes ran away from their plantations. Abolitionists battled to win victories in Congress and help slaves escape. The actions of both slaves and abolitionists helped lead to the Civil War and to the end of slavery. Book jacket.
Negro Comrades Of The Crown
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Author : Gerald Horne
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 2013-07-26
Negro Comrades Of The Crown written by Gerald Horne and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-07-26 with History categories.
"Highly recommended." —Choice “Meticulously researched . . . will provoke thought and discussion on the relationship between the peculiar institution and diplomacy in this important and growing field of study.” —H-Net “In this brilliant, stunning book, Horne shows us how the issue of slavery still intrudes upon our national discussions."—Ishmael Reed, John D. MacArthur Fellow Throughout the history of the early republic, many African Americans viewed Britain, an early advocate of abolitionism and emancipator of its own slaves, as a powerful ally in their resistance to slavery in the Americas. This allegiance was far-reaching, from the Caribbean to outposts in North America to Canada. In turn, the British welcomed and actively recruited both fugitive and free African Americans, arming them and employing them in military engagements throughout the Atlantic World, as the British sought to maintain a foothold in the Americas following the Revolution. In this path-breaking book, Horne rewrites the history of slave resistance by placing it for the first time in the context of military and diplomatic wrangling between Britain and the United States. Painstakingly researched and full of revelations, Negro Comrades of the Crown is among the first book-length studies to highlight the Atlantic origins of the Civil War. Gerald Horne is Moores Professor of History and African-American Studies at the University of Houston. His books include The Deepest South: The United States, Brazil, and the African Slave Trade and Race War!: White Supremacy and the Japanese Attack on the British Empire (both available from NYU Press).
Revolutionary Emancipation
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Author : Claudius K. Fergus
language : en
Publisher: LSU Press
Release Date : 2013-06-10
Revolutionary Emancipation written by Claudius K. Fergus and has been published by LSU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-06-10 with Social Science categories.
Skillfully weaving an African worldview into the conventional historiography of British abolitionism, Claudius K. Fergus presents new insights into one of the most intriguing and momentous episodes of Atlantic history. In Revolutionary Emancipation, Fergus argues that the 1760 rebellion in Jamaica, Tacky's War -- the largest and most destructive rebellion of enslaved peoples in the Americas prior to the Haitian Revolution -- provided the rationale for abolition and reform of the colonial system. Fergus shows that following Tacky's War, British colonies in the West Indies sought political preservation under state-regulated amelioration of slavery. He further contends that abolitionists' successes -- from partial to general prohibition of the slave trade -- hinged more on the economic benefits of creolizing slave labor and the costs of preserving the colonies from destructive emancipation rebellions than on a conviction of justice and humanity for Africans. In the end, Fergus maintains, slaves' commitment to revolutionary emancipation kept colonial focus on reforming the slave system. His study carefully dissects new evidence and reinterprets previously held beliefs, offering historians the most compelling arguments for African agency in abolitionism.