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Revivals, antislavery, and Christian liberty -- Slavery and freedom in Jamaica -- Religion and the civilizing mission -- From spiritual liberty to sexual license -- Cultivating land, cultivating families -- Civilizing domesticity -- Revival, rebellions, and colonial subordinatio…
"The Oberlin College mission to Jamaica, begun in the 1830's, was an ambitious, and ultimately troubled, effort to use the example of emancipation in the British West Indies to advance the domestic agenda of American abolitionists. White Americans hoped to argue that American sl…
Gale L. Kenny is an ACLS New Faculty Fellow in the Religion Department at Barnard College.