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  • 3 - The Benefits of Free Labor

  • Dexter J. Gabriel, University of Connecticut, Storrs
  • Book:
    Jubilee's Experiment
    Published online:
    30 March 2023
    Print publication:
    06 April 2023, pp 85-124

  • Summary

    This chapter examines how free labor was adapted as a compelling argument in the antislavery Anglo-Atlantic. For English antislavery these strategies developed out of a need to show emancipation’s imperial commercial advantages, as parliamentary debates questioned whether former slaves would work upon emancipation. In the United States, free labor antislavery emerged from a burgeoning ideology that imbued labor with moral characteristics. Through the industriousness of black West Indians, abolitionists on either side of the Atlantic hoped to prove the moral rightness of emancipation, the capability of former slaves within democratic capitalism, and the benefits of free labor.