"A spirited and absorbing history of emancipation, oppression, and rebellion in the British empire."--C. Vann Woodward. "Holt greatly extends and deepens our understanding of the emancipation experience when, for just over a century, the people of Jamaica struggled to achieve their own vision of freedom and autonomy against powerful conservative forces."--David Barry Gaspar.
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A spirited and absorbing history of emancipation, oppression, and rebellion in the British empire.
(C. Vann Woodward )Holt greatly extends and deepens our understanding of the emancipation experience when, for just over a century, the people of Jamaica struggled to achieve their own vision of freedom and autonomy against powerful conservative forces.
(David Barry Gaspar )A landmark study.
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"A spirited and absorbing history of emancipation, oppression, and rebellion in the British empire." -- C. Vann Woodward
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This review is from: The Problem of Freedom: Race, Labor, and Politics in Jamaica and Britain, 1832-1938 (Johns Hopkins Studies in Atlantic History and Culture) (Paperback)
Holt studies Jamaica,from the emanicpation of the slaves to the labor problems faced by ex-slaves in the 1930s. But the narrow focus is misleading - really Holt writes about "the problem of freedom:" the tast of socializing ex-slaves into becoming productive laborers - the problem of convincing freedpeople that it's in their best interest to labor for tiny wages, for the profit of the wealthy. Another major focus is the inherent contradictions of classical liberalism - economic freedom does and always has required brutal and blatent inequalities in the political and social spheres.Certainly not everyone will agree with Holt, but his argumentation and analysis are impeccable. If you believe that self-determination and free enterprise are practically the same thing - or if you think that capitalism and democracy are one and the same - you must read Holt's book.
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This review is from: The Problem of Freedom: Race, Labor, and Politics in Jamaica and Britain, 1832-1938 (Johns Hopkins Studies in Atlantic History and Culture) (Paperback)
An excellent book, well researched in most parts and drawing on memory of information gleaned broadly but from lost sources for the rest (which the author admits in his introductory remarks), presenting a black history of a dark era of human history.
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colored legislators, average agreement score, planter faction, peasant freeholds, postemancipation era, former slave colonies, field labor force, beneficent despotism, count bunch, slave maintenance, jobbing gangs, special magistrates, small settlers, interior parishes, slave compensation, crown colony system, freed people, racially mixed society, estate labor, peasant freeholders, provision crops, free labor economy, sugar parishes, fruit trade, peasant proprietorship Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Colonial Office, West Indian, United Fruit, West Indies, Morant Bay, Jamaica Assembly, Henry Taylor, Executive Committee, Earl Grey, Lord Holland, Richard Hill, Stony Gut, Abolition Act, United States, Worthy Park, Governor Sligo, James Stephen, Lord Seaford, John Russell, Charles Grey, Edward Stanley, Montego Bay, World War, Great Britain, Henry George New!
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colored legislators, average agreement score, planter faction, peasant freeholds, postemancipation era, former slave colonies, field labor force, beneficent despotism, count bunch, slave maintenance, jobbing gangs, special magistrates, small settlers, interior parishes, slave compensation, crown colony system, freed people, racially mixed society, estate labor, peasant freeholders, provision crops, free labor economy, sugar parishes, fruit trade, peasant proprietorship Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Colonial Office, West Indian, United Fruit, West Indies, Morant Bay, Jamaica Assembly, Henry Taylor, Executive Committee, Earl Grey, Lord Holland, Richard Hill, Stony Gut, Abolition Act, United States, Worthy Park, Governor Sligo, James Stephen, Lord Seaford, John Russell, Charles Grey, Edward Stanley, Montego Bay, World War, Great Britain, Henry George New!
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- Searching for the Invisible Man: Slaves and Plantation Life in Jamaica by Michael Craton on 6 pages
- British Slave Emancipation: The Sugar Colonies and the Great Experiment, 1830-1865 (Clarendon Paperbacks) by William A. Green on 6 pages
- From Plots to Plantations by Satchell on 6 pages
- Slave Population and Economy in Jamaica 1807-1834 by B. W. Higman on 5 pages
- Past and Present by Thomas Carlyle on 4 pages
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- The Mighty Experiment: Free Labor versus Slavery in British Emancipation by Seymour Drescher on 6 pages
- Beyond Slavery: Explorations of Race, Labor, and Citizenship in Postemancipation Societies by Frederick Cooper on 5 pages
- The Political Languages of Emancipation in the British Caribbean and the U.S. South by Demetrius L. Eudell in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America (Race and American Culture) by Saidiya V. Hartman in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- The Company They Kept: Migrants and the Politics of Gender in Caribbean Costa Rica, 1870-1960 by Lara Putnam in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
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