The white minority and the emancipation process in Montserrat, 1807-32

Author focuses on the governing élites and argues that salient features of their behaviour and attitudes were responses to the emancipation process. They objected to the abolition of slavery and the divergence of the society they lived in from the ideals they envisioned. Concludes that the élite...

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Main Author: Riva Berleant-Schiller
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Brill 1996-07-01
Series:NWIG
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Online Access:http://www.kitlv-journals.nl/index.php/nwig/article/view/3448