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1 online resource (xi, 257 pages) |
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Race in the Atlantic world, 1700-1900 |
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Race in the Atlantic world, 1700-1900.
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ACLS Humanities E-Book.
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Revivals, antislavery, and Christian liberty -- Slavery and freedom in Jamaica -- Religion and the civilizing mission -- From spiritual liberty to sexual license -- Cultivating land, cultivating families -- Civilizing domesticity -- Revival, rebellions, and colonial subordination. |
| Summary |
"The Oberlin College mission to Jamaica, begun in the 1830's, was an ambitious, and ultimately troubled, effort to use the example of emancipation in the British West Indies to advance the domestic agenda of American abolitionists. White Americans hoped to argue that American slaves, once freed, could be absorbed productively into the society that had previously enslaved them, but their "civilizing mission" did not go as anticipated. Gale L. Kenny's illuminating study examines the differing ideas of freedom held by white evangelical abolitionists and freed people in Jamaica and explores the consequences of their encounter for both American and Jamaican history." "Kenny finds that white Americanswho went to Jamaica intending to assist with the transition from slavery to Christian practice and solid citizenshipwere frustrated by liberated blacks' unwillingness to conform to Victorian norms of gender, family, and religion. In tracing the history of the thirty-year mission, Kenny makes creative use of available sources to unpack assumptions on both sides of this American-Jamaican interaction, showing how liberated slaves in many cases were able not just to resist the imposition of white mores but to redefine the terms of the encounter."--BOOK JACKET. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2022. EPUB file. ([ACLS Humanities E-Book]) |
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All rights reserved. |
| Subject |
Antislavery movements -- Jamaica -- History -- 19th century.
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Antislavery movements -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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Abolitionists -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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Liberty -- History -- 19th century.
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Jamaica -- Social conditions.
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Electronic books.
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American Council of Learned Societies.
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ACLS Humanities E-Book. URL: http://www.humanitiesebook.org/ |
| ISBN |
0820333999 (hardcover ; alk. paper) |
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9780820333991 hardcover |
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9780820340456 paperback |
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heb40072 hdl |
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