The children of Africa in the colonies : free people of color in Barbados in the age of emancipation /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Newton, Melanie J., 1974-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2008]
Series:Antislavery, abolition, and the Atlantic world.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Defining freedom in the interstices of slave society
  • Race and politics in an age of insurrection
  • Racial segregation and public life during the amelioration era
  • New publics : Afro-Barbadian oppositional politics
  • Discipline and (dis)order : apprenticeship and the meaning of freedom
  • Men of property, character, and education : the Afro-Barbadian bourgeois public sphere
  • Between Africa and the empire : diasporic consciousness in postemancipation society
  • The emigration debate and postemancipation politics
  • Hard times and African dreams.