The Problem of Freedom: Race, Labor, and Politics in Jamaica and Britain, 1832-1938

Abstract

A spirited and absorbing history of emancipation, oppression, and rebellion in the British empire.--C. Vann Woodward. Holt greatly extends and deepens our understanding of the emancipation experience when, for just over a century, the people of Jamaica struggled to achieve their own vision of freedom and autonomy against powerful conservative forces.--David Barry Gaspar.