03731oam 22007214a 450 99624820690331620231211185552.00-8071-4685-40-8071-3463-52027/heb07807(CKB)1000000000706132(EBL)483285(OCoLC)299043420(SSID)ssj0000227910(PQKBManifestationID)11174897(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000227910(PQKBWorkID)10285528(PQKB)11392877(MiAaPQ)EBC483285(MdBmJHUP)muse21691(dli)HEB07807(MiU)KOHA0000000000000000002837(EXLCZ)99100000000070613220080408d2008 uy 0engurmnummmmuuuutxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe problem of emancipation the Caribbean roots of the American Civil War /Edward Bartlett RugemerBaton Rouge :Louisiana State University Press,[2008]1 online resource (xvi, 342 pages) mapsAntislavery, abolition, and the Atlantic worldDescription based upon print version of record.0-8071-3559-3 0-8071-3338-8 Includes bibliographical references (p. 303-328) and index.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"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 AtlaAntislavery, abolition, and the Atlantic world.SlaveryPolitical aspectsWest IndiesHistory19th centurySlaveryPolitical aspectsUnited StatesHistory19th centuryAntislavery movementsWest IndiesHistory19th centuryAntislavery movementsUnited StatesHistory19th centuryEnslaved personsEmancipationWest IndiesEnslaved personsEmancipationUnited StatesWest IndiesRelationsUnited StatesUnited StatesRelationsWest IndiesUnited StatesHistoryCivil War, 1861-1865CausesSlaveryPolitical aspectsHistorySlaveryPolitical aspectsHistoryAntislavery movementsHistoryAntislavery movementsHistoryEnslaved personsEmancipationEnslaved personsEmancipation973.7/114Rugemer Edward Bartlett1971-1020851MdBmJHUPMdBmJHUPBOOK996248206903316The Problem of Emancipation2416366UNISA