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2. Caribbean slave revolts and the British abolitionist movement
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Matthews,Gelien (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 2012
- Published:
- Baton Rouge: Louisianna State University Press
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 197 p., Focusing on slave revolts that took place in Barbados in 1816, in Demerara in 1823, and in Jamaica in 1831--32, 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.
3. Racism, the Military, and Abolitionism in the Late Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-Century Caribbean
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Robertson,Claire (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2013-04
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Military History
- Journal Title Details:
- 77(2) : 433-461
- Notes:
- Suggests that racism was a strategic military liability in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century wars between Britain and France in the Caribbean. The French Revolution provoked slave uprisings on many of the Caribbean islands. Both the British and French underestimated the black rebels' capabilities and routinely executed black prisoners of war rather than ransoming or imprisoning them. These tendencies made Caribbean campaigns longer and bloodier than they might otherwise have been.
4. Ship of Death : a Voyage That Changed the Atlantic World
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Smith,Billy G. (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 2013
- Published:
- New Haven: Yale University Press
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 306 p., Uncovers the long-forgotten story of the Hankey, a small British ship that circled the Atlantic in 1792 and 1793. From its altruistic beginnings to its disastrous end, describes the ship's fateful impact upon people from West Africa to Philadelphia, Haiti to London. It began with a group of high-minded British colonists who planned to establish a colony free of slavery in West Africa. With the colony failing, the ship set sail for the Caribbean and then North America, carrying, as it turned out, mosquitoes infected with yellow fever. The resulting pandemic as the Hankey traveled from one port to the next was catastrophic.
5. Slavery, empathy, and pornography
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Wood,Marcus (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 2002
- Published:
- Oxford New York: Oxford University Press
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 467 p, Includes bibliographical references ( [428]-456) and index.
6. The Mighty Experiment: Free Labor vs. Slavery in British Emancipation
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Drescher,Seymour (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 2002
- Published:
- New York, NY: Oxford University Press
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- Product Description By the mid-eighteenth century, the transatlantic slave trade was considered to be a necessary and stabilizing factor in the capitalist economies of Europe and the expanding Americas. Britain was the most influential power in this system which seemed to have the potential for unbounded growth. In 1833, the British empire became the first to liberate its slaves and then to become a driving force toward global emancipation. There has been endless debate over the reasons behind this decision. This has been portrayed on the one hand as a rational disinvestment in a foundering overseas system, and on the other as the most expensive per capita expenditure for colonial reform in modern history. In this work, Seymour Drescher argues that the plan to end British slavery, rather than being a timely escape from a failing system, was, on the contrary, the crucial element in the greatest humanitarian achievement of all time. The Mighty Experiment explores how politicians, colonial bureaucrats, pamphleteers, and scholars taking anti-slavery positions validated their claims through rational scientific arguments going beyond moral and polemical rhetoric, and how the infiltration of the social sciences into this political debate was designed to minimize agitation on both sides and provide common ground. Those at the inception of the social sciences, such as Adam Smith and Thomas Malthus, helped to develop these tools to create an argument that touched on issues of demography, racism, and political economy. By the time British emancipation became legislation, it was being treated as a massive social experiment, whose designs, many thought, had the potential to change the world. This study outlines the relationship of economic growth to moral issues in regard to slavery, and will appeal to scholars of British history, nineteenth century imperial history, the history of slavery, and those interested in the history of human rights.;
7. Women and the abolition campaign in the African Atlantic
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Shepherd,Verene A. (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- June, 2008
- Published:
- Kingston, Jamaica
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title Details:
- 42 (1): 131-153
- Notes:
- The passing of the British Abolition Act in 1807 owed much to the activism of women, enslaved and free, who employed diverse strategies to agitate for the ending of what was arguably the greatest crime against humanity. Reflects on women's role in Caribbean development and the struggles they faced in the process.