ACLS Humanities E-Book: The problem of freedom: race, labor, and politics in Jamaica and Britain, 1832-1938

The problem of freedom: race, labor, and politics in Jamaica and Britain, 1832-1938

Holt, Thomas C. (Thomas Cleveland), 1942-

Year: c1992.

Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press.

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table of contents

Frontmatter

Tables, Figures, and Plates

Preface

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Prologue

Part One The Mighty Experiment

1 The Meaning of Freedom

2 An Apprenticeship for Ex-Slaves

3 An Apprenticeship for Former Masters

Part Two The Free Labor Economy

4 The Planters: Managing a Free Labor Economy

5 Peasants and Workers: Building a Free Society

Part Three The Political Economy of Freedom

6 Liberal Democratic Society in Theory and Practice

7 Politics and Power in a "Plural Society"

8 "A War of the Races"

Part Four The Road from Morant Bay

9 Political Economy and Race: Peasants in the Age of Empire

10 The Making of the Jamaican Working Class

Epilogue "Better Must Come": The Problem of Freedom in the Twentieth Century

Appendix 1 Sources for and Analysis of Data on Landholding and Migration

Appendix 2 Sources for and Analysis of Data on the Jamaica Assembly

Notes

Works Cited

Index

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Title:

The problem of freedom : race, labor, and politics in Jamaica and Britain, 1832-1938 Thomas C. Holt.

Author:

Holt, Thomas C. (Thomas Cleveland), 1942-

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The problem of freedom : race, labor, and politics in Jamaica and Britain, 1832-1938 Thomas C. Holt.
Holt, Thomas C. (Thomas Cleveland), 1942-
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, c1992.

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Subject Headings:

• Plantations -- Jamaica -- History
• Peasantry -- Jamaica -- History
• Indigenous peoples -- Jamaica -- History
• Capitalism -- Jamaica -- History
• Slavery -- Jamaica -- History
• Jamaica -- Race relations -- History
• Jamaica -- Politics and government -- To 1962
• Great Britain -- Colonies -- History

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