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Caribbean Slave Revolts and the British Abolitionist Movement

In this illuminating study, Gelien Matthews demonstrates how slave rebellions in the British West Indies influenced the tactics of abolitionists in England and how the rhetoric and actions of the abolitionists emboldened slaves. Moving between the world of the British Parliament and the realm of Car...

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Autor principal: Matthews, Gelien
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baton Rouge : LSU Press, 2006.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Cover; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction; 2. Agitating the Question; 3. The Other Side of Slave Revolts; 4. Loaded with Deadly Evidence; 5. Apocalyptic Warning; 6. Conclusion; Bibliography. 
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