The Problem of Freedom

Race, Labor, and Politics in Jamaica and Britain, 1832-1938
Erscheinungsjahr 1991
ISBN: 978-0-8018-4291-7
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press

Buch, Englisch, 552 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 889 g

The Jamaican slave revolt of 1831-32 precipitated the abolition of slavery throughout the British colonial empire. A century later, the labor rebellion of 1938 marked the beginning of that empire's end. Each event embraced a particular form of emancipation: at issue in the first revolt was the freedom of the individual slave; at issue in the second was the freedom of the society itself. The century that separated these watersheds in British colonial history was one of extraordinary transformations in British ideology, in economic and social policy, and in the lives of Jamaican freed people and tehir descendants. In The Problem of Freedom, Thomas C. Holt offers an intriguing analysis of this period, exploring the meaning and reality of freedom in the context of slave emancipation in Jamaica—the largest West indian colony of the nineteenth century's major world power.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Holt, Thomas C.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte

Über Autor(innen)

Holt, Thomas C.
Thomas C. Holt is the James Westfall Thompson Professor of American History at the University of Chicago. He is the author of Black over White: Negro Political Leadership in South Carolina during Reconstruction.