The children of Africa in the colonies : free people of color in Barbados in the age of emancipation / Melanie J. Newton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Newton, Melanie J., 1974-

Series:

Antislavery, abolition, and the Atlantic world.

Antislavery, abolition, and the Atlantic world

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Free Black people--Barbados--History--19th century.

Free Black people.

Enslaved persons--Emancipation--Social aspects--Barbados.

Enslaved persons.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (337 p.)

Place of Publication:

Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

When a small group of free men of color gathered in 1838 to celebrate the end of apprenticeship in Barbados, they spoke of emancipation as the moment of freedom for all colored people, not just the former slaves. The fact that many of these men had owned slaves themselves gives a hollow ring to their lofty pronouncements. Yet in The Children of Africa in the Colonies, Melanie J. Newton demonstrates that simply dismissing these men as hypocrites ignores the complexity of their relationship to slavery. Exploring the role of free blacks in Barbados from 1790 to 1860, Newton argues that the emanci

Contents:

Defining freedom in the interstices of slave society

Race and politics in an age of insurrection

Racial segregation and public life during the amelioration era

New publics : Afro-Barbadian oppositional politics

Discipline and (dis)order : apprenticeship and the meaning of freedom

Men of property, character, and education : the Afro-Barbadian bourgeois public sphere

Between Africa and the empire : diasporic consciousness in postemancipation society

The emigration debate and postemancipation politics

Hard times and African dreams.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [291]-308) and index.

ISBN:

0-8071-3426-0

OCLC:

250590887