Caribbean slave revolts and the British abolitionist movement

By Gelien Matthews

Subjects: Slavery, caribbean area, Slavery, history, Enslaved insurrections, Slavery, Slave rebellions, Emancipation, Slave insurrections, Antislavery movements, History, Antislavery movements, great britain

Description: This book critically analyses the extent to which a dialectic existed between enslaved revolutionaries in the Caribbean colonies and white aboltionists in Britain. The latter commented on the self liberating activties of the former creating a discourse which contributed significantly to abolition of slavery in the British West Indies.