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020			_a9781032479262
028			_aInternational Book Distributors _bFlat No.-17, Prakash Apartment, 4405/2, Ansari Road, Daryaganj, New Delhi _c121998 _d20/09/2025
082			_a972.9 LEW
100			_aLewis, Andrew.
245			_aBritish West Indian Newspapers and the Abolition of Slavery _c/Andrew Lewis.
260			_a, New York _b: Routledge _c, 2024.
300			_axvi, 370p. _c: 24cm.
365			_b12094
520			_aThis book is the first overall survey of the British West Indian press in the early nineteenth century―a critical period in the history of the region. Based on extensive and ground-breaking archival research, this volume provides an in-depth history of early nineteenth-century British West Indian newspapers and potted biographies of the journalists who produced them. The author examines the economics underpinning newspapers, and a political spectrum, unique to the West Indian press, is also posited. Towards one end sat a small group of ‘liberal’ newspapers that outraged white colonists by arguing for civil and political rights to be extended to so-called free coloureds and for the abolition of slavery; scattered at various points towards the other end of the spectrum were newspapers still best collectively described as the ‘planter press’―the traditional term used in the literature. Starting from this basic conceptual framework, the volume shows how the press landscape in the British Caribbean at this time was more volatile and complex than has been previously thought.
650			_aAbolition of Slavery
650			_aBritish West Indian Newspapers
650			_aHistory
700			_aAndrew Lewis
942			_cBOOK
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