Caribbean slave revolts and the British abolitionist movement

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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

People: William Wilberforce,  Thomas Clarkson,  Thomas Fowell Buxton,  Bussa,  Quamina,  Sam Sharpe

Places: Barbados,  Demerara,  Jamaica,  Great Britain

Times: 1816 - 1832