This book is the first overall survey of the British West Indian press in the early nineteenth century—a critical period in the history of the region. Based o

The Problem of Emancipation explores a long-neglected aspect of American slavery and the history of the Atlantic World, bridging a gap in our understanding of t

"This book is the first overall survey of the British West Indian press in the early nineteenth century-a critical period in the history of the region. Based on

In this illuminating study, Gelien Matthews demonstrates how slave rebellions in the British West Indies influenced the tactics of abolitionists in England and