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Author Rugemer, Edward Bartlett, 1971-

Title The problem of emancipation : the Caribbean roots of the American Civil War / Edward Bartlett Rugemer.

Publication Info. Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2008]
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 Moore Stacks  E453 .R84 2008    Available  ---
Description xvi, 342 pages : maps ; 24 cm.
Series Antislavery, abolition, and the Atlantic world
Antislavery, abolition, and the Atlantic world.
Summary Explores the impact of Caribbean slave revolts and Britain's abolition of slavery in 1834 on slaves, slave holders, and abolitionists in the antebellum United States.
Contents Pt I. The lessons of abolitionism. The nineteenth-century Anglo-Atlantic world ; Abolitionists and insurrections ; Conflicting impressions ; The rebellions of 1831 -- Pt. II. The lessons of abolition. The conversion of William Ellery Channing ; The fears of Robert Monroe Harrison ; Rethinking liberty ; British abolition and the coming of the Civil War -- Epilogue: The Morant Bay Rebellion and radical reconstruction.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-328) and index.
Subject Enslaved persons -- Emancipation -- United States.
Enslaved persons -- Emancipation.
United States.
Enslaved persons -- Emancipation -- West Indies.
West Indies.
Enslaved persons -- Emancipation -- British colonies.
Enslaved persons -- Emancipation -- French colonies.
Antislavery movements -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Antislavery movements.
History.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Antislavery movements -- West Indies -- History -- 19th century.
Slavery -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Slavery -- Political aspects.
Slavery -- Political aspects -- West Indies -- History -- 19th century.
Slavery.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Causes.
United States -- Relations -- West Indies.
Relations.
West Indies -- Relations -- United States.
ISBN 9780807133385 cloth alkaline paper
0807133388 cloth alkaline paper

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