The Political Languages of Emancipation in the British Caribbean and the U.S. SouthThis comparative study examines the emancipation process in the British Caribbean, particularly Jamaica, during the 1830s and in the United States, particularly South Carolina, during the 1860s. Analyzing the intellectual and ideological foundations of po |
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Contents
The Song That Antislavery Sung Abolition and the Great Transformation | 23 |
A Steady and Certain Command of Labour Political Languages in the Immediate Postemancipation AngloAmericas | 41 |
This Work of Civilization The Secular Evangelical Mission of the Special Magistrates and the Freedmens Bureau Officials | 67 |
The Vexed Question of Original Unity The Political Language of Race and the Politics of Emancipation | 101 |
Delusions of a False Canaan On Morant Bay Redemption and the Incomplete Victory of Emancipation | 131 |
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abolition abolitionists According agents American argued asserted assistant attempted basis became become belief Blacks British British West Indies Caribbean central Civil claimed Colonial commissioner conception concern consequence constituted contended context continued contracts cultural defined economic effect emancipation emerged emphasis employed ex-slaves existed fact force former slaves Freedmen's Bureau freedom given Glenelg Governor House human idea immigration important industrial insisted institution intellectual interests island issue Jamaica John July Klan labor land letter March means moral nature needed negro noted occurred Office original passed persons perspective plantations planters political languages population position postslavery problem question race reason Reconstruction relations remained represented respect response result seemed served situation slavery Sligo Smith social society South Carolina special magistrates suggested tion U.S. South understanding United wages West White
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Page 13 - My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it ; and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that.
Page 3 - For this much all men know: despite compromise, war, and struggle, the Negro is not free. In the backwoods of the Gulf States, for miles and miles, he may not leave the plantation of his birth; in well-nigh the whole rural South the black farmers are peons, bound by law and custom to an economic slavery, from which the only escape is death or the penitentiary. In the most cultured sections and cities of the South the Negroes are a segregated servile caste, with restricted rights and privileges. Before...
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| Title | The Political Languages of Emancipation in the British Caribbean and the U.S. South The Political Languages of Emancipation in the British Caribbean and the U.S. South, Demetrius Lynn Eudell |
| Author | Demetrius Lynn Eudell |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Univ of North Carolina Press, 2002 |
| ISBN | 0807853453, 9780807853450 |
| Length | 238 pages |
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