The children of Africa in the colonies
Subtitle: free people of color in Barbados in the age of emancipation
By: Melanie J. Newton.
Series: Antislavery, abolition, and the Atlantic World
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Baton Rouge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 322
ISBN-13: 9780807133262
Subjects: Free blacks -- Barbados -- History -- 19th century.; Slaves -- Emancipation -- Social aspects -- Barbados.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [291]-308) and index.
Table of contents: value: Defining freedom in the interstices of slave society; value: Race and politics in an age of insurrection; value: Racial segregation and public life during the amelioration era; value: New publics : Afro-Barbadian oppositional politics; value: Discipline and (dis)order : apprenticeship and the meaning of freedom; value: Men of property, character, and education : the Afro-Barbadian bourgeois public sphere; value: Between Africa and the empire : diasporic consciousness in postemancipation society; value: The emigration debate and postemancipation politics; value: Hard times and African dreams.