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A Tale of Two Plantations : Slave Life and Labor in Jamaica and Virginia /
Forty years ago, after publication of his pathbreaking book Sugar and Slaves, Richard Dunn began an intensive investigation of two thousand slaves living on two plantations, one in North America and one in the Caribbean. Digging deeply into the archives, he has reconstructed the individual lives and...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, MA :
Harvard University Press,
[2014]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Appendixes
- Prologue
- 1. Mesopotamia versus Mount Airy: The Demographic Contrast
- 2. Sarah Affir and Her Mesopotamia Family
- 3. Winney Grimshaw and Her Mount Airy Family
- 4. "Dreadful Idlers" in the Mesopotamia Cane Fields
- 5. "Doing Their Duty" at Mount Airy
- 6. The Moravian Christian Community at Mesopotamia
- 7. The Exodus from Mount Airy to Alabama
- 8. Mesopotamia versus Mount Airy: The Social Contrast
- 9. Emancipation
- Appendixes
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Index