Caribbean Slave Revolts and the British Abolitionist Movement

Dados Bibliográficos

ID19969029
AutoresGelien Matthews (autor correspondente)
Ano2006
Páginas216
Data de publicação2006-06-15
Open AccessNão
TipoBOOK
PeriódicoCaribbean slave revolts and the British abolitionist movement (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditoraLouisiana State University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
OpenAlexW1597242248
Open LibraryOL3407838M
ISBN9780807131312
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas28

"In this study, Gelien Matthews demonstrates how slave rebellions in the British West Indies influenced the tactics of abolitionists in England and how the rhetoric and actions of the abolitionists emboldened slaves. Moving between the world of the British Parliament and the realm of Caribbean plantations, Matthews reveals a transatlantic dialectic of antislavery agitation and slave insurrection that eventually influenced the dismantling of slavery in British-held territories." "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." "Historians previously have examined the economic, religious, and political bases for slavery's abolishment in the Caribbean, but Matthews here emphasizes the agency of slaves in the march toward freedom. Her work is an analytical tool in the interpretation of abolition in North America, uncovering the important connections between rebellious slaves on one side of the Atlantic and abolitionists on the other side."--Jacket

Aesthetics · Ancient history · Art · Geography · Political science · Caribbean history, culture, and politics · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · History · 1816 - 1832 · Antislavery movements · Barbados · Bussa · Caribbean area · Demerara · emancipation · Enslaved insurrections · Great britain · Jamaica · Quamina · Sam Sharpe · Slave insurrections · Slave rebellions · Slavery · Thomas Clarkson · Thomas Fowell Buxton · William Wilberforce