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Paperback Jamaica in 1850: Or, the Effects of Sixteen Years of Freedom on a Slave Colony Book
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ISBN: 0252073274

ISBN13: 9780252073274

Jamaica in 1850: Or, the Effects of Sixteen Years of Freedom on a Slave Colony

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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...

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