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The children of Africa in the colonies : free people of color in Barbados in the age of emancipation
- Title
- The children of Africa in the colonies : free people of color in Barbados in the age of emancipation / Melanie J. Newton.
- Author
- Newton, Melanie J., 1974-
- Publication
- Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, c2008.
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Details
- Description
- xii, 322 p. : map; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- Antislavery, abolition, and the Atlantic world
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [291]-308) and index.
- 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.
- Call Number
- JHE 08-397
- ISBN
- 9780807133262 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0807133264 (cloth : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2007042882
- OCLC
- 177819589
- Author
- Newton, Melanie J., 1974-
- Title
- The children of Africa in the colonies : free people of color in Barbados in the age of emancipation / Melanie J. Newton.
- Imprint
- Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, c2008.
- Series
- Antislavery, abolition, and the Atlantic world
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [291]-308) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JHE 08-397