Slavery, childhood, and abolition in Jamaica, 1788-1838

Slavery, childhood, and abolition in Jamaica, 1788-1838 /

"This project examines childhood and slavery in Jamaica from 1750, when abolitionist sentiment began to take hold in England, to 1838, when slavery finally ended on the island. By focusing specifically on the changing nature of slave childhood in Jamaica, Vasconcellos examines how childhood and...

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Main Author: Vasconcellos, Colleen A., 1973- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Athens : The University of Georgia Press, 2015.
Series:Early American places.
Subjects:
Plantation life > Jamaica > History.
Slavery > Jamaica > History.
Families, Black > Jamaica > History.
Children, Black > Jamaica > History.
Enslaved children > Jamaica > Social conditions.
Enslaved children > Jamaica > History > 19th century.
Enslaved children > Jamaica > History > 18th century.
Antislavery movements > Great Britain > History.
Antislavery movements > Jamaica > History.
Jamaica > Race relations.
Online Access: Full text (Emmanuel users only)
Table of Contents:
  • "To so dark a destiny my lovely babe I've borne" : slavery and childhood in Jamaica
  • "The child whom many fathers share, hath seldom known a father's care" : miscegenation and childhood in Jamaican slave society
  • "Train up a child in the way he should go" : childhood and education in the Jamaican slave community
  • "That iniquitous law" : the apprenticeship and emancipation of Jamaica's enslaved children.

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