After Slavery: Emancipation and Its Discontents

Howard Temperley

Psychology Press, 2000 - History - 310 pages

A collection of essays in which every contributor focuses upon some aspect of slave emancipation with the aim of assessing to what extent the outcome met with expectation. The hopes and disappointments that characterized the transition from slavery to freedom are depicted.

Bibliographic information

• Title: After Slavery: Emancipation and Its Discontents; Volume 21, Issue 2 of Slavery and abolition, ISSN 0144-039X; Volume 10 of Studies in slave and post-slave societies and cultures, ISSN 1462-1770
• Editor: Howard Temperley
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Psychology Press, 2000
• ISBN: 0714650226, 9780714650227
• Length: 310 pages
• Subjects: History / Africa / General; History / General; History / Latin America / South America; Political Science / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism; Social Science / Black Studies (Global); Social Science / Slavery