Opening book details…
Can I read Revolutionary Emancipation: Slavery and Abolitionism in the British West Indies (Antislavery, Abolition, and the Atlantic World) on EtoBox?
Revolutionary Emancipation: Slavery and Abolitionism in the British West Indies (Antislavery, Abolition, and the Atlantic World) by Claudius K. Fergus is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
What is Revolutionary Emancipation: Slavery and Abolitionism in the British West Indies (Antislavery, Abolition, and the Atlantic World) about?
Skillfully weaving an African worldview into the conventional historiography of British abolitionism, Claudius K. Fergus presents new insights into one of the most intriguing and momentous episodes of Atlantic history. In Revolutionary Emancipation, Fergus argues that the 1760 rebellion in Jamaica, Tacky's War -- the largest and most destructive rebellion of enslaved peoples in the Americas prior to the Haitian Revolution -- provided the rationale for abolition and reform of the colonial system.
Who reads Revolutionary Emancipation: Slavery and Abolitionism in the British West Indies (Antislavery, Abolition, and the Atlantic World)?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Claudius K. Fergus
- Publisher
- Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press
- Published
- 2013
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780807149898
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Science, Social Science, Sociology
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
Other editions & translations
More by Claudius K. Fergus
Browse all works by Claudius K. Fergus
Similar books
- Freedom's Seekers: Essays on Comparative Emancipation (Antislavery, Abolition, and the Atlantic World) — Jeffrey R. Kerr-Ritchie (2014)
- The Most Absolute Abolition: Runaways, Vigilance Committees, and the Rise of Revolutionary Abolitionism, 1835–1861 (Antislavery, Abolition, and the Atlantic World) — Jesse Olsavsky (2022)
- Jubilee's Experiment: The British West Indies and American Abolitionism (Slaveries since Emancipation) — Dexter J. Gabriel (2023)
- Abolition : A History of Slavery and Antislavery — Seymour Drescher (2009)
- The Problem of Emancipation: The Caribbean Roots of the American Civil War (Antislavery, Abolition, and the Atlantic World) — Edward Bartlett Rugemer (2009)
- Slavery, Abolition and Emancipation: The Emancipation Debate — Srinivas Aravamudan (1999)