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

Thomas C. Holt
Johns Hopkins Studies in Atlantic History and Culture

$24.95 paperback
978-0-8018-4291-7 (18 ctn qty)
1991 552 pp.
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"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.

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"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."—David Barry Gaspar

"A landmark study."—Ira Berlin



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