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Slave society in the Danish West Indies : St. Thomas, St. John, and St. Croix / Neville A.T. Hall ; edited by B.W. Higman.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Johns Hopkins studies in Atlantic history and culturePublication details: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c1992.Description: xxiv, 287 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0801844738
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.3/62/09729722
LOC classification:
  • HT 1119 H178s 1992
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Contents:
Empire Without Dominion: The Danish West Indies, 1671-1848 -- The Doom of the Almighty: Slaveowning Ideology -- Part and Parcel of Property: Slaves and the Law in the 18th Century -- The Rural Milieu: Slavery on the Plantations -- The Urban Milieu: Slavery in Christiansted, Frederiksted and Charlotte Amalie -- An Oasis of Humanity: Independent Slave Activity -- Maritime Maroons: Grand Marronage -- An Intermediate Sort of Class: The Emergence and Growth of the Freedman Population -- The Rights and Privileges of Rational Creatures: The Freedman Petition of 1816 -- Strangers Within the Gate: Emigre Freedmen in the 19th Century -- Religion and Enlightenment: Education, Amelioration and the Road to Abolition -- The Victor Vanquished: Emancipation and Its Aftermath
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [265]-275) and index.

Empire Without Dominion: The Danish West Indies, 1671-1848 -- The Doom of the Almighty: Slaveowning Ideology -- Part and Parcel of Property: Slaves and the Law in the 18th Century -- The Rural Milieu: Slavery on the Plantations -- The Urban Milieu: Slavery in Christiansted, Frederiksted and Charlotte Amalie -- An Oasis of Humanity: Independent Slave Activity -- Maritime Maroons: Grand Marronage -- An Intermediate Sort of Class: The Emergence and Growth of the Freedman Population -- The Rights and Privileges of Rational Creatures: The Freedman Petition of 1816 -- Strangers Within the Gate: Emigre Freedmen in the 19th Century -- Religion and Enlightenment: Education, Amelioration and the Road to Abolition -- The Victor Vanquished: Emancipation and Its Aftermath

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