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7 - African Americans and British Emancipation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 March 2023

Dexter J. Gabriel
Affiliation:
University of Connecticut, Storrs
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This chapter examines free African Americans’ perceptions of the emancipated British West Indies. As I argue, beyond many of the concerns of their white abolitionist allies, free African Americans considered the experiment’s implications for their own future prospects of liberty, racial equality, and citizenship rights in the United States. In their autonomous newspapers, speeches, and print publications, they touted the success of the emancipated British West Indies as evidence against notions of black inferiority and as a model for participatory citizenship. But this narrative was complicated by a short-lived but provocative West Indian Emigration Scheme of the late 1830s, stimulating heated debates in the black press that reveal the limits of transnational identity.

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Jubilee's Experiment
The British West Indies and American Abolitionism
, pp. 238 - 281
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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