Contentious Liberties: American Abolitionists in Post-Emancipation Jamaica, 1834-1866

by Gale L. Kenny

Book Overview

The Oberlin College mission to Jamaica, begun in the 1830s, was an ambitious, and ultimately troubled, effort to use the example of emancipation in the British West Indies to advance the domestic agenda of American abolitionists. White Americans hoped to argue that American slaves, once freed, could be absorbed productively into the society that had previously enslaved them, but their "civilizing mission" did not go as anticipated. Gale L. Kenny's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820340456
• ISBN13: 9780820340456
• Release Date: December 2011
• Publisher: University of Georgia Press
• Length: 212 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"