The Problem of Freedom

by Thomas C. Holt

Published 1 November 1991
"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.