The Political Languages of Emancipation in the British Caribbean and the U.S. SouthUniv of North Carolina Press, 2002 - 238 pages This 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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... responses and adjustments of those who had formerly been masters and slaves remain relatively undevel- oped as subjects for cross - cultural historical study . " 1 In the time since these assertions were made more than two decades ago ...
... responses and adjustments of those who had formerly been masters and slaves remain relatively undevel- oped as subjects for cross - cultural historical study . " 1 In the time since these assertions were made more than two decades ago ...
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... response to the issue of the appren- ticeship of children , appeared illogical to the former slaveholders as well as to some of their allies . At the same time , the former slaves remained concerned about economic issues , as they ...
... response to the issue of the appren- ticeship of children , appeared illogical to the former slaveholders as well as to some of their allies . At the same time , the former slaves remained concerned about economic issues , as they ...
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... response within a paradigm - system , " but also as " a historical event , a moment in a process of transformation of that system and of the interacting worlds which both system and act help to constitute and are constituted by . " 17 ...
... response within a paradigm - system , " but also as " a historical event , a moment in a process of transformation of that system and of the interacting worlds which both system and act help to constitute and are constituted by . " 17 ...
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... responses to their social and political situations through the lens of resistance , it is being asserted that they acted as both transmit- ters of the dominant political languages as well as creators of new forms of these ideas . 25 The ...
... responses to their social and political situations through the lens of resistance , it is being asserted that they acted as both transmit- ters of the dominant political languages as well as creators of new forms of these ideas . 25 The ...
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... responses to these in the slave societies of the Americas . The analysis here remains fully aware of significant differences and thus is not intended to mini- mize how widely the system of slavery could vary from region to region . Yet ...
... responses to these in the slave societies of the Americas . The analysis here remains fully aware of significant differences and thus is not intended to mini- mize how widely the system of slavery could vary from region to region . Yet ...
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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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...