The Children of Africa in the Colonies: Free People of Color in Barbados in the Age of Emancipation

Contents

CONTENTS Acknowledgments ix Abbreviations xiii Introduction 1 PART ONE slaves, subjects, and citizens: People of African Descent in Barbadian Slave Society 1. Defining Freedom in the Interstices of Slave Society 23 2. Race and Politics in an Age of Insurrection 57 3. Racial Segregation and Public Life during the Amelioration Era 87 4. New Publics: Afro-Barbadian Oppositional Politics 114 PART TWO ties of consanguinity, suffering, and wrong: Apprenticeship and Its Aftermath 5. Discipline and (Dis)Order: Apprenticeship and the Meaning of Freedom 141 6. Men of Property, Character, and Education: The Afro-Barbadian Bourgeois Public Sphere 174 7. Between Africa and the Empire: Diasporic Consciousness in Postemancipation Society 196 PART THREE the limits of freedom 8. The Emigration Debate and Postemancipation Politics 225 9. Hard Times and African Dreams 256 epilogue: The Living Past 283 Bibliography 291 Index 309 This page intentionally left blank ...