White Creole Culture, Politics and Identity during the Age of Abolition (Cambridge Studies in Historical Geography, Series Number 38) - Softcover

Lambert, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 052117239X ISBN 13: 9780521172394

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2010

Synopsis

David Lambert explores the political and cultural articulation of white creole identity in the British Caribbean colony of Barbados during the age of abolitionism (c.1780-1833), the period in which the British antislavery movement emerged, first to attack the slave trade and then the institution of chattel slavery itself. Supporters of slavery in Barbados and beyond responded with their own campaigning, resulting in a series of debates and moments of controversy, both localised and transatlantic in significance. They exposed tensions between Britain and its West Indian colonies, and raised questions about whether white slaveholders could be classed as fully 'British' and if slavery was compatible with 'English' conceptions of liberty and morality. David Lambert considers what it meant to be a white colonial subject in a place viewed as a vital and loyal part of the empire but subject to increasing metropolitan attack because of the existence of slavery.

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Book Description

This book considers what it meant to be a white Briton in the West Indian colony of Barbados during the age of abolitionism. David Lambert offers a unique perspective into the consequences of these tumultuous times for a colony once renowned as the most loyal in the British Empire.

About the Author

David Lambert is Lecturer in Human Geography at Royal Holloway, University of London. This is his first book.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 052117239X
• ISBN 13: 9780521172394
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 258