Contentious liberties [electronic resource] : American abolitionists in post-emancipation Jamaica, 1834-1866 / Gale L. Kenny.
2010
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Contentious liberties [electronic resource] : American abolitionists in post-emancipation Jamaica, 1834-1866 / Gale L. Kenny.
Published
Athens : University of Georgia Press, [2010]
Copyright
©2010
Description
1 online resource (xi, 257 pages).
Series statement
Race in the Atlantic world, 1700-1900
Review
"The Oberlin College mission to Jamaica, begun in the 1830's, 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 illuminating study examines the differing ideas of freedom held by white evangelical abolitionists and freed people in Jamaica and explores the consequences of their encounter for both American and Jamaican history." "Kenny finds that white Americans͠who went to Jamaica intending to assist with the transition from slavery to Christian practice and solid citizenship͠were frustrated by liberated blacks' unwillingness to conform to Victorian norms of gender, family, and religion. In tracing the history of the thirty-year mission, Kenny makes creative use of available sources to unpack assumptions on both sides of this American-Jamaican interaction, showing how liberated slaves in many cases were able not just to resist the imposition of white mores but to redefine the terms of the encounter."--BOOK JACKET.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Revivals, antislavery, and Christian liberty
Slavery and freedom in Jamaica
Religion and the civilizing mission
From spiritual liberty to sexual license
Cultivating land, cultivating families
Civilizing domesticity
Revival, rebellions, and colonial subordination.
Slavery and freedom in Jamaica
Religion and the civilizing mission
From spiritual liberty to sexual license
Cultivating land, cultivating families
Civilizing domesticity
Revival, rebellions, and colonial subordination.
Reproduction
Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2022. EPUB file. ([ACLS Humanities E-Book])
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Series
Race in the Atlantic world, 1700-1900 (Series)
ACLS Humanities E-Book (Series)
ACLS Humanities E-Book (Series)
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