LEADER 03731oam 22007214a 450 001 996248206903316 005 20231211185552.0 010 $a0-8071-4685-4 010 $a0-8071-3463-5 024 7 $a2027/heb07807 035 $a(CKB)1000000000706132 035 $a(EBL)483285 035 $a(OCoLC)299043420 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000227910 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11174897 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000227910 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10285528 035 $a(PQKB)11392877 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC483285 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse21691 035 $a(dli)HEB07807 035 $a(MiU)KOHA0000000000000000002837 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000706132 100 $a20080408d2008 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurmnummmmuuuu 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe problem of emancipation $ethe Caribbean roots of the American Civil War /$fEdward Bartlett Rugemer 210 1$aBaton Rouge :$cLouisiana State University Press,$d[2008] 215 $a1 online resource (xvi, 342 pages) $cmaps 225 1 $aAntislavery, abolition, and the Atlantic world 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-8071-3559-3 311 0 $a0-8071-3338-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 303-328) and index. 327 $aContents; 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 330 $a"A most persuasive work that repositions the American debates over emancipation where they clearly belong, in a broader Anglo-Atlantic context."-Reviews in History While many historians look to internal conflict alone to explain the onset of the American Civil War, in The Problem of Emancipation, Edward Bartlett Rugemer places the origins of the war in a transatlantic context. Addressing a huge gap in the historiography of the antebellum United States, he explores the impact of Britain's abolition of slavery in 1834 on the coming of the war and reveals the strong influence of Britain's old Atla 410 0$aAntislavery, abolition, and the Atlantic world. 606 $aSlavery$xPolitical aspects$zWest Indies$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aSlavery$xPolitical aspects$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aAntislavery movements$zWest Indies$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aAntislavery movements$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aEnslaved persons$xEmancipation$zWest Indies 606 $aEnslaved persons$xEmancipation$zUnited States 607 $aWest Indies$xRelations$zUnited States 607 $aUnited States$xRelations$zWest Indies 607 $aUnited States$xHistory$yCivil War, 1861-1865$xCauses 615 0$aSlavery$xPolitical aspects$xHistory 615 0$aSlavery$xPolitical aspects$xHistory 615 0$aAntislavery movements$xHistory 615 0$aAntislavery movements$xHistory 615 0$aEnslaved persons$xEmancipation 615 0$aEnslaved persons$xEmancipation 676 $a973.7/114 700 $aRugemer$b Edward Bartlett$f1971-$01020851 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a996248206903316 996 $aThe Problem of Emancipation$92416366 997 $aUNISA