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Caribbean Slave Revolts and the British Abolitionist Movement

Gelien Matthews, Caribbean Slave Revolts and the British Abolitionist Movement. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2006 (xii + 197 pages).

Gelien Matthews brilliantly examined the impact of slave revolts in the British West Indies on the abolition movement. There is a focus on the slave uprisings in the colonies of Barbados (1816), Demerara (1823) and Jamaica (1831-1832). The author discerned that the abolitionists were acutely aware of the complementary role of slave revolts in strengthening their antislavery efforts.

The historiography on slavery could be separated into 2 schools of thought. The first arguing that economic factors including the unprofitability of slavery led ...

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