2019
DOI: 10.1177/0921374019847575
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1865 and the Incomplete Caribbean Emancipation Project: Class Migration in Barbados in the Long Nineteenth century

Abstract: The year 1865 has served a temporal marker of freedom in both the USA and the Caribbean. For African Americans who sought various means to escape the travails of an American slave society, 1865 symbolized the possibilities for a future secured by legislation. By contrast, instead of optimism, 1865 in the British Caribbean signaled demise, failure, and gloomy prospects for the future of an already 30-year-old emancipation legislation passed by parliament. It thereby came to mark a point of renewed resistance. W… Show more

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