ABSTRACT
First published in 1987. With the exception of Barbara Bush's contribution, all the papers and commentaries contained in this volume were presented at a conference at Thwaite Hall, University of Hull, 26-29 July 1983. The conference was organised to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the abolition of slavery in the British Empire, and was attended by over eighty scholars from Britain, Western Europe, the USA and the Caribbean.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |24 pages
Introduction
part |86 pages
Slaves as Agents of Their Own Emancipation
chapter |28 pages
Towards Emancipation
Slave Women and Resistance to Coercive Labour Regimes in the British West Indian Colonies, 1790–1838
part |70 pages
Connections Between the British and Continental Abolitionist Movements
chapter |28 pages
Haiti and the Abolitionists
Opinion, Propaganda and International Politics in Britain and France, 1804–1838
part |93 pages
Caribbean Adjustments to Slave Emancipation
chapter |20 pages
Economic Change and Contract Labour in the British Caribbean
The End of Slavery and the Adjustment to Emancipation
chapter |22 pages
The Great Escape
The Migration of Female Indentured Servants from British India to Surinam 1873–1916
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