Caribbean Slave Revolts and the British Abolitionist Movement

by Gelien Matthews

Book Overview

In this illuminating study, Gelien Matthews demonstrates how slave rebellions in the British West Indies influenced the tactics of abolitionists in England and how the rhetoric and actions of the abolitionists emboldened slaves. Moving between the world of the British Parliament and the realm of Caribbean plantations, Matthews reveals a transatlantic dialectic of antislavery agitation and slave insurrection that eventually influenced the dismantling...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807150088
• ISBN13: 9780807150085
• Release Date: January 2013
• Publisher: LSU Press
• Length: 212 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"