Voices of Liberty : Black Radical Revolution and Diplomatic Abolitionism in Britain's Atlantic World.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Eliot, Lewis.

Series:

Berkeley Series in British Studies

Berkeley Series in British Studies ; v.25

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Transatlantic slave trade.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (330 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, 2026.

Summary:

Voices of Liberty argues that Black revolutionaries' fight for freedom directly challenged the ideological architects of British imperialism, whose narratives of liberty endeavored to silence Black people by defining abolitionism as a white enterprise. The book privileges the voices of Black people who rejected both chattel bondage and colonial authority in their radical pursuit of emancipation. In recounting the context, progress, and consequences of enslaved rebellions across the West Indies, Latin America, and Africa in the nineteenth century, Lewis Eliot spotlights the human struggles at the intersection of abolitionist and imperialist ideologies in the Atlantic world.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

copyright

Dedication

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Recuperating a Radical History of Enslaved Emancipation

Part One: Black Radical Revolution

1. Barbados, 1816: The Spirits of the Haitian Revolution

2. Demerara, 1823: Between Missionaries and the Metropole

3. Jamaica, 1831-1832: Undermining Black Radical Revolution

Part Two. Diplomatic Abolitionism

4. Brazil, 1835: Appropriating Abolitionism

5. Cuba, 1839-1844: Abolitionist Intrusion

6. The African Littoral, 1840s-1880s: A Prelude to Colonialism

Conclusion: The Nursery of African Colonization

Archival Abbreviations

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

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ISBN:

0-520-42038-1

9780520420380

OCLC:

1583170843