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9%OFFJohn Bigelow - Jamaica in 1850: or, The Effects of Sixteen Years of Freedom on a Slave Colony - 9780252073274 - V9780252073274
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Jamaica in 1850: or, The Effects of Sixteen Years of Freedom on a Slave Colony

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Description for Jamaica in 1850: or, The Effects of Sixteen Years of Freedom on a Slave Colony paperback. Demonstrates that Jamaica's troubles were caused not by lazy blacks but by the incompetence of absentee white planters operating within an obsolete colonial system. This book also shows that although large plantations languished, many former slaves worked tirelessly and became successful small-scale landowners. Num Pages: 256 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 1H; 1KJWJ; HBJK; HBLL; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 142 x 209 x 17. Weight in Grams: 360.

A reporter's firsthand portrait of formerly enslaved Jamaicans in the years after emancipation

John Bigelow’s Jamaica in 1850 provided an important document in the antislavery movement in the United States and Great Britain. Jamaica’s economy had collapsed after the 1838 emancipation. American supporters of enslavement used the Jamaican example to argue that abolition at home would unleash economic and social chaos. Bigelow’s vivid eyewitness reporting undermined that widely held view by proving Jamaica’s problems originated in the incompetence of absentee white planters and an obsolete colonial system. As Bigelow showed, many once-enslaved Jamaicans had in fact become successful small-scale landowners ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252073274
SKU
V9780252073274
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-50

About John Bigelow
John Bigelow (1817-1911) was an editor at the New York Evening Post and an organizer of the Free-Soil party. Robert J. Scholnick is a professor of English and American studies at the College of William and Mary. He is the author of books including Edmund Clarence Stedman.

Reviews for Jamaica in 1850: or, The Effects of Sixteen Years of Freedom on a Slave Colony
"Very few books have the scope of Jamaica in 1850. . . . To support his conclusion that slavery had blinded the planters to the economic inefficiencies of the plantation system, Bigelow used graphic descriptions, sound economic arguments, and persuasive logic."
Journal of African American History "Jamaica in 1850 is easy to read, absorbing and most enlightening. . . . [and] ... Read more

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