British Slave Emancipation

A study of the West Indies in the mid-nineteenth century this book draws together the experiences of more than a dozen different sugar colonies and forms them into a coherent historical account. The first part of the book examines the West Indies on the eve of emancipation in 1830-1865 a key passage in West Indian history. Green presents a clear general picture of the sugar colonies and places British governmental policy toward the region in the context of Victorian attitudes toward colonial questions.