Odijie, Michael Ehis;
(2023)
Emancipation in the Gold Coast: The Abolitionist Views of James Hutton Brew.
Slavery & Abolition
, 44
(1)
pp. 109-130.
10.1080/0144039X.2022.2095905.
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Abstract
This article deals with the abolitionist views of James Hutton Brew who argued against the British emancipation model in the Gold Coast. Brew was the proprietor and editor of the Gold Coast Times and discussed the British abolition process in its editorial pages. These articles revealed his thinking on abolition. Brew not only opposed the emancipation process set out by the British, which he felt was contradictory and disconnected from the Gold Coast context, but also argued for an alternative model that involved paying compensation to slave owners and creating a program to accommodate freed slaves. The British Governor portrayed some of the arguments of African abolitionists like Brew as those of slave owners trying to retain their positions. In discussing the ideas of James Hutton Brew, this article contributes to the literature on the historiography of slavery and abolition in Africa.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Emancipation in the Gold Coast: The Abolitionist Views of James Hutton Brew |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1080/0144039X.2022.2095905 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0144039x.2022.2095905 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2023 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. |
| Keywords: | Arts & Humanities, History, Abolition, slavery, Gold Coast, Ghana, James Brew, emancipation, SLAVERY |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Dept of History |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10188411 |
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