The Problem of Freedom: Race, Labor, and Politics in Jamaica and Britain, 1832-1938

TitleThe Problem of Freedom: Race, Labor, and Politics in Jamaica and Britain, 1832-1938
Publication TypeBook
Year of Publication1992
AuthorsHolt, Thomas C.
Number of Pages517
PublisherJohns Hopkins University Press
CityBaltimore
Abstract

The Jamaican slave revolt of 1831-32 precipitated the abolition of slavery throughout the British colonial empire. A century later, the labor rebellion of 1938 marked the beginning of that empire's end. Each event embraced a particular form of emancipation: at issue in the first revolt was the freedom of the individual slave; at issue in the second was the freedom of the society itself. The century that separated these watersheds in British colonial history was one of extraordinary transformations in British ideology, in economic and social policy, and in the lives of Jamaican freed people and their descendants. In this volume, the author offers an analysis of this period, exploring the meaning and reality of freedom in the context of slave emancipation in Jamaica—the largest West Indian colony of the nineteenth century's major world power.

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