The problem of emancipation : the Caribbean roots of the American Civil War / / Edward Bartlett Rugemer
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| Autore: |
Rugemer Edward Bartlett <1971->
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| Titolo: |
The problem of emancipation : the Caribbean roots of the American Civil War / / Edward Bartlett Rugemer
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| Pubblicazione: | Baton Rouge : , : Louisiana State University Press, , [2008] |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (xvi, 342 pages) : maps |
| Disciplina: | 973.7/114 |
| Soggetto topico: | 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 | |
| Soggetto geografico: | West Indies Relations United States |
| United States Relations West Indies | |
| United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Causes | |
| 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The Problem of Emancipation |
| ISBN: | 0-8071-4685-4 |
| 0-8071-3463-5 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 996248206903316 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. di Salerno |
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Serie:
Antislavery, abolition, and the Atlantic world.