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Jamaica in 1850 : or, The Effects of Sixteen Years of Freedom on a Slave Colony. 1850年のジャマイカ－奴隷植民地の自由の十六年の効果
・ISBN 978-0-252-07327-4 paper US$ 28.00
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| 著者・編者 | Bigelow, John, |
|---|---|
| 出版社 | (U. Illinois Pr., US) |
| 出版年月 | 2006 |
| ページ数 | 256 pp. |
| 言語 | ENG |
| ニュース番号 | ＜530-1508＞ |
解説
A reporter's firsthand portrait of formerly enslaved Jamaicans in the years after emancipation
John Bigelow's Jamaica in 1850 provided an important document in the antislavery movement in the United States and Great Britain. Jamaica's economy had collapsed after the 1838 emancipation. American supporters of enslavement used the Jamaican example to argue that abolition at home would unleash economic and social chaos. Bigelow's vivid eyewitness reporting undermined that widely held view by proving Jamaica's problems originated in the incompetence of absentee white planters and an obsolete colonial system. As Bigelow showed, many once-enslaved Jamaicans had in fact become successful small-scale landowners in the twelve years after emancipation while the large plantations languished.