Jamaica in 1850: Or, the Effects of Sixteen Years of Freedom on a Slave Colony

by John Bigelow and Faustin Soulouque

Book Overview

A reporter's firsthand portrait of formerly enslaved Jamaicans in the years after emancipation

John Bigelow's Jamaica in 1850 provided an important document in the antislavery movement in the United States and Great Britain. Jamaica's economy had collapsed after the 1838 emancipation. American supporters of enslavement used the Jamaican example to argue that abolition at home would unleash economic and social chaos. Bigelow's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252073274
• ISBN13: 9780252073274
• Release Date: June 2006
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.5" x 8.3"