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The problem of emancipation : the Caribbean roots of the American Civil War / Edward Bartlett Rugemer.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rugemer, Edward Bartlett, 1971-
- Series:
- Antislavery, abolition, and the Atlantic world.
- Antislavery, abolition, and the Atlantic world
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Enslaved persons--Emancipation--United States.
- Enslaved persons.
- Enslaved persons--Emancipation--West Indies.
- Antislavery movements--United States--History--19th century.
- Antislavery movements.
- Antislavery movements--West Indies--History--19th century.
- Slavery--Political aspects--United States--History--19th century.
- Slavery.
- Slavery--Political aspects--West Indies--History--19th century.
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Causes.
- United States.
- United States--Relations--West Indies.
- West Indies--Relations--United States.
- West Indies.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xvi, 342 pages) : maps
- Place of Publication:
- Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, c2008.
- Summary:
- "A most persuasive work that repositions the American debates over emancipation where they clearly belong, in a broader Anglo-Atlantic context."-Reviews in History While many historians look to internal conflict alone to explain the onset of the American Civil War, in The Problem of Emancipation, Edward Bartlett Rugemer places the origins of the war in a transatlantic context. Addressing a huge gap in the historiography of the antebellum United States, he explores the impact of Britain's abolition of slavery in 1834 on the coming of the war and reveals the strong influence of Britain's old Atla
- Contents:
- Contents; Maps; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part 1. The Lessons of Abolitionism; 1. The Nineteenth- Century Anglo- Atlantic World; 2. Abolitionists and Insurrections; 3. Conflicting Impressions; 4. The Rebellions of 1831; Part II. The Lessons of Abolition; 5. The Conversion of William Ellery Channing; 6. The Fears of Robert Monroe Harrison; 7. Rethinking Liberty; 8. British Abolition and the Coming of the Civil War; Epilogue: The Morant Bay Rebellion and Radical Reconstruction; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 303-328) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780807146859
- 0807146854
- 9780807134634
- 0807134635
- OCLC:
- 299043420
- Publisher Number:
- 2027/heb07807 hdl
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