TY  - BOOK
AU  - Vasconcellos,Colleen A.
TI  - Slavery, childhood, and abolition in Jamaica, 1788-1838
T2  - Early American places
SN  - 9780820348025
AV  - HT1096 .V37 2015
U1  - 306.3/62083097292 23
PY  - 2015///]
CY  - Athens
PB  - The University of Georgia Press
KW  - Enslaved children
KW  - Jamaica
KW  - History
KW  - 18th century
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Children, Black
KW  - Families, Black
KW  - Slavery
KW  - Plantation life
KW  - Antislavery movements
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Race relations
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 103-148) and index; "To so dark a destiny my lovely babe I've borne" : slavery and childhood in Jamaica -- "The child whom many fathers share, hath seldom known a father's care" : miscegenation and childhood in Jamaican slave society -- "Train up a child in the way he should go" : childhood and education in the Jamaican slave community -- "That iniquitous law" : the apprenticeship and emancipation of Jamaica's enslaved children
N2  - "This project examines childhood and slavery in Jamaica from 1750, when abolitionist sentiment began to take hold in England, to 1838, when slavery finally ended on the island. By focusing specifically on the changing nature of slave childhood in Jamaica, Vasconcellos examines how childhood and slavery influenced and changed each other throughout this period of study, with the abolitionist movement standing as the main catalyst for change. With each chapter focusing on a different aspect of the slave experience, this monograph explores a childhood that was defined by planter opinion and manipulation, but one that was increasingly affected by the complex processes of slavery, abolition, and eventually emancipation. In doing so, this study reveals a great deal about slave family and childhood from the inside, shining new light on the experiences of slave children and slave families in Jamaica"--Provided by publisher
ER  -