Title: Caribbean slave revolts and the British abolitionist movement
Description: This book critically analyses the extent to which a dialectic existed between enslaved revolutionaries in the Caribbean colonies and white aboltionists in Britain. The latter commented on the self liberating activties of the former creating a discourse which contributed significantly to abolition of slavery in the British West Indies.
Subjects: Antislavery movements, History, Enslaved insurrections, Slavery, Emancipation, Slave insurrections, Slavery, caribbean area, Slavery, history, Slave rebellions, Antislavery movements, great britain
Places: Barbados, Demerara, Jamaica, Great Britain
People: William Wilberforce, Thomas Clarkson, Thomas Fowell Buxton, Bussa, Quamina, Sam Sharpe
Time periods: 1816 - 1832