Introduction; 1. The anxieties of emancipation; 2. Fears of British emancipation in America; 3. The benefits of free labor; 4. The problems of apprenticeship; 5. The experiment and its challenges; 6. Reform and the experiment; 7. African Americans and British emancipation; 8. A West Indian Jubilee in America; Epilogue.
Measuring the success of emancipation in the British West Indies became crucial in the struggle against slavery in antebellum America.
Dexter J. Gabriel is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Conneticut, Storrs. His research interests include the history of slavery, resistance, emancipation, and transnational freedom movements in the Black Atlantic, as well as interdisciplinary approaches to slavery within popular film, culture, and media.
'Dexter Gabriel masterfully transports readers into an abolitionist
landscape where people of African descent agitated for Black
liberation and resisted white control. Jubilee's Experiment
brilliantly uncovers how the project of emancipation was a human
enterprise with profound implications propelled by individual
actors and actions as much as by ideological debates.' Michael
Dickinson, author of Almost Dead: Slavery and Social Rebirth in the
Black Urban Atlantic
'Jubilee's Experiment offers a compelling portrait of the progress
up to and after emancipation in the West Indies and its effects on
abolitionism in the United States. Dexter Gabriel thoughtfully
mines the complexities of the debate in both places, while
highlighting emancipated Black people's struggles to build new
lives in white dominated worlds.' Natasha J. Lightfoot, author of
Troubling Freedom: Antigua and the Aftermath of British
Emancipation
'Jubilee's Experiment probes the multi-layered problems, debates,
and processes of freedom in the British Caribbean through the
experiences and voices of freed people. It shows the manner in
which the 'experiment of freedom' transverses the Atlantic and
enters the debates of freedom in the antebellum United States.
Beautifully researched, this book contributes significantly to
Atlantic history.' Katrina Thompson Moore, author of Ring Shout,
Wheel About: The Racial Politics of Music and Dance in North
American Slavery
'With impressive spatial scope and original methodological
approaches, Dexter Gabriel reframes the narrative of Anglo-Atlantic
antislavery beyond connections between metropoles and makes a
compelling case for the pivotal nature of these debates during this
incendiary transatlantic moment. All students of British colonial
abolition, debates over slavery in the US, and post-emancipation
societies should read.' Jeffrey Kerr-Ritchie, author of Rites of
August First: Emancipation Day in the Black Atlantic World
'Jubilee's Experiment is a marvellous study. Dexter Gabriel shows
that the resistance of Black Caribbeans to the half-way measures of
Britain's abolition of slavery had a profound impact upon the
assumptions and demands of American abolitionists. This is Atlantic
history at its best.' Edward Rugemer, author of The Problem of
Emancipation: The Caribbean Roots of the American Civil War
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