British hypocrisy charges played a role in Wheatley’s emancipation

Evidence

As the American Revolution budded, British commentators slammed the hypocrisy of Bostonians’ boasts of Wheatley’s ingenuity while keeping her enslaved. The poet was quickly freed. — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 255

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Slave rebellion in Jamaica forced British abolition from above; Slave rebellion, not moral reform, forced British emancipation — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 2078; Jefferson’s Summary View blamed England for American slavery to deflect hypocrisy — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning: The…, 259 (+1 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Slave rebellion in Jamaica forced British abolition from above; Slave rebellion, not moral reform, forced British emancipation — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 2078; Jefferson’s Summary View blamed England for American slavery to deflect hypocrisy — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning: The…, 259 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Slave rebellion, not moral reform, forced British emancipation #complicates (0.74) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 2078
• Slave rebellion in Jamaica forced British abolition from above #complicates (0.72)
• Formal emancipation was a hegemonic trick perpetuating new slavery forms #complicates (0.71) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 818