Agency of the enslaved : Jamaica and the culture of freedom in the Atlantic world / D.A. Dunkley.
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نصالناشر:Lanham : Lexington Books, [2013]تاريخ حقوق النشر: ©2013وصف:xiii, 223 pages ; 24 cmنوع المحتوى:- text
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Slave freedom: an introduction -- Those "perverse" slaves -- Questioning running away -- Instructing the enslaved -- Enslaved and in school -- The Anglican mandate -- Colonization of the church -- Slave laws and amelioration -- Amelioration, war, and individual freedom -- Conclusion.
In Agency of the Enslaved: Jamaica and the Culture of Freedom in the Atlantic World, D.A. Dunkley challenges the notion that enslavement fostered the culture of freedom in the former colonies of Western Europe in the Americas. Dunkley explores the importance of the agency displayed by enslaved people and argues that this formed the real basis of the culture of freedom in the Atlantic societies. These struggles were not for freedom, but for the acknowledgment of the freedom that enslaved people knew was already theirs. This view inspired their attempts to undermine the slave system that the Bri.
