British slave emancipation: the sugar colonies and the great experiment 1830-1865 / William A. Green.

"First issued in paperback 1991"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

West Indian Society ; The European Establishment ; Free People of Colour ; Slave Society -- The Plantation Economy -- Law and Government -- Emancipation -- The Apprenticeship -- Forming a Free Society -- Free Labour and the Plantation Economy -- The Impact of Free Trade ; The Crisis Yaers, 1846-1850 ; The Continuing Struggle, 1850-1865 -- Immigration ; Intial Efforts to Obtain Immigrant Labour ; African Immigration ; Indian Immigration ; The Portuguese ; Chinese Immigration -- Free Society: Progress and Pitfalls -- Religion and Education -- Colonial Politics and Constitutional Reform -- Morant Bay: The End of an Era.

"A study of the West Indies in the mid-nineteenth century, this book draws together the experiences of more than a dozen different sugar colonies and forms them into a coherent historical account. The first part of the book examines the West Indies on the eve of emancipation in 1830-1865, a key passage in West Indian history. Green presents a clear general picture of the sugar colonies, and places British governmental policy toward the region in the context of Victorian attitudes toward colonial questions."--Pub. desc.

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