‘The Sharer of My Joys and Sorrows’
Alison Blyth, Missionary Labours and Female Perspectives on Slavery in Nineteenth-Century Jamaica
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23478295 |
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| Authors | John Mcaleer (0009-0008-6971-7997, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Pages | 199-221 |
| Publication date | 2008-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Empires of Religion (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan UK (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1057/9780230228726_10 |
| OpenAlex | W1035726889 |
| ISBN | 9780230228726 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 9 |
During the eighteenth century, Britain became the leading slave- trading country in the world, and her American and Caribbean colonies relied on slave labour for their economic prosperity. However, towards the end of the century, opposition to the slave trade grew, based on a combination of religious conviction, humanitarian concern, economic self-interest and strategic political manoeuvring. In 1807, Britain introduced an empire-wide ban on the slave trade. However, slavery continued in British colonies and only ended after the House of Commons passed an Emancipation Act in 1833, which nominally ‘freed’ some 750,000 slaves throughout the British Empire on 1 August 1834. Even then, full emancipation was only achieved in 1838, following the collapse of the ‘apprenticeship’ system of unpaid labour that had been instituted to bridge the transition from slave to free labour. 1 These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
Ancient history · Apprenticeship · Archaeology · British Empire · Conviction · Economic history · Emancipation · Empire · House of Commons · Opposition (politics) · Political science · Politics · Prosperity · Caribbean history, culture, and politics · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Cuban History and Society · History · Law
| Highly cited | No |
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