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Record Nr.

UNISA996248206903316

Autore

Rugemer Edward Bartlett <1971->

Titolo

The problem of emancipation : the Caribbean roots of the American Civil War / / Edward Bartlett Rugemer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Baton Rouge : , : Louisiana State University Press, , [2008]

ISBN

0-8071-4685-4

0-8071-3463-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xvi, 342 pages) : maps

Collana

Antislavery, abolition, and the Atlantic world

Disciplina

973.7/114

Soggetti

Slavery - Political aspects - West Indies - History - 19th century

Slavery - Political aspects - United States - History - 19th century

Antislavery movements - West Indies - History - 19th century

Antislavery movements - United States - History - 19th century

Enslaved persons - Emancipation - West Indies

Enslaved persons - Emancipation - United States

West Indies Relations United States

United States Relations West Indies

United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Causes

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 303-328) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Maps; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part 1. The Lessons of Abolitionism; 1. The Nineteenth- Century Anglo- Atlantic World; 2. Abolitionists and Insurrections; 3. Conflicting Impressions; 4. The Rebellions of 1831; Part II. The Lessons of Abolition; 5. The Conversion of William Ellery Channing; 6. The Fears of Robert Monroe Harrison; 7. Rethinking Liberty; 8. British Abolition and the Coming of the Civil War; Epilogue: The Morant Bay Rebellion and Radical Reconstruction; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

"A most persuasive work that repositions the American debates over emancipation where they clearly belong, in a broader Anglo-Atlantic context."-Reviews in History While many historians look to internal conflict alone to explain the onset of the American Civil War, in The Problem of Emancipation, Edward Bartlett Rugemer places the origins of



the war in a transatlantic context. Addressing a huge gap in the historiography of the antebellum United States, he explores the impact of Britain's abolition of slavery in 1834 on the coming of the war and reveals the strong influence of Britain's old Atla