| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 106.5

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Book Review

Comparative/World

Frederick Cooper, Thomas C. Holt, and Rebecca J. Scott. Beyond Slavery: Explorations of Race, Labor, and Citizenship in Postemancipation Societies. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 2000. Pp. xii, 198. Cloth $34.95, paper $15.95.

The elegant essays in this volume explore the social and political changes that took place in colonial African and New World societies after slave emancipation. The authors approach their geographically separate case studies in different ways, but, as their joint introduction argues, all three essays are concerned with the theory and practice of citizenship, race, and labor in a historical context of liberal ideology and evolving capitalism. 1

The shortest of the three, by Thomas C. Holt, looks at how British ideals of creating a new, egalitarian society in postemancipation Jamaica led to a sort of Reconstruction experiment. As in the American South, however, liberal ideals of political and social equality collided with white planters' desires to control black labor and their growing fears, deeply tainted by racism, that the black majority would gain political power to the detriment of cultural and economic progress. The experiment ended in 1866, when Britain aborted the political struggle by rescinding self-government in Jamaica. . . .

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