Civilising Subjects

List of maps and illustrations
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Cast of Characters
Introduction
Prologue: The Making of an Imperial Man
Australia
New Zealand
St Vincent and Antigua
Jamaica
Part I - Colony and Metropole
Mapping Jamaica: The Pre-emancipation World in the Metropolitan Mind
1. The Missionary Dream 1820-1842
The Baptist Missionary Society and the missionary project
Missionaries and planters
The war of representation
The constitution of the new black subject
The free villages
2. Fault-lines in the Family of Man 1842-1845
Native agency and the Africa mission
The Baptist family
Brother Knibb
3. 'A Jamaica of the Mind' 1820-1854
Phillippo's Jamaica
'A place of gloomy darkness'
4. Missionary Men and Morant Bay 1859-1866
Anthony Trollope and Mr. Secretary Underhill
The trials of life
Morant Bay and after
Part II - Metropolis, Colony and Empire
Mapping the Midland Metropolis
5. The 'Friends of the Negro': Baptists and Abolitionists 1825-1842
The Baptists in Birmingham and the missionary public
Knowing 'the heathen'
Birmingham's 'Friends of the Negro'
The utopian years
6. The Limits of Friendship: Abolitionism in Decline 1842-1859
'A population intellectually at zero'
Carlyle's occasion
George Dawson and the politics of race and nationalism
Troubles for the missionary public
7. Town, Nation and Empire 1859-1867
New times
Morant Bay
Birmingham men
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index