White Creole Culture, Politics and Identity during the Age of Abolition (Cambridge Studies in Historical Geography)

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David Lambert explores the political and cultural articulation of white creole identity within the British Caribbean colony of Barbados all the way through the age of abolitionism (c.1780-1833), the period through which the British antislavery movement emerged, first to attack the slave trade after which the institution of chattel slavery itself. Supporters of slavery in Barbados and beyond responded with their very own campaigning, resulting in a series of debates and moments of controversy, both localised and transatlantic in significance. They exposed tensions between Britain and its West Indian colonies, and raised questions about whether white slaveholders may well be classed as fully ‘British’ and if slavery was once compatible with ‘English’ conceptions of liberty and morality. David Lambert considers what it meant to be a white colonial subject in a place viewed as a very important and loyal a part of the empire but subject to increasing metropolitan attack as a result of the existence of slavery.

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