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Mastery, tyranny, and desire : Thomas Thistlewood and his slaves in the Anglo-Jamaican world /
"Eighteenth-century Jamaica, Britain's largest and most valuable slave-owning colony, relied on a brutal system of slave management to maintain its tenuous social order. Trevor Burnard provides insight into Jamaica's vibrant but harsh African and European cultures with the first compr...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
2004.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "Eighteenth-century Jamaica, Britain's largest and most valuable slave-owning colony, relied on a brutal system of slave management to maintain its tenuous social order. Trevor Burnard provides insight into Jamaica's vibrant but harsh African and European cultures with the first comprehensive examination of the extraordinary diaries of plantation owner Thomas Thistlewood." "In Burnard's hands, Thistlewood's diary reveals a great deal not only about the man and his slaves but also about the structure and enforcement of power, changing understandings of human rights and freedom, and connections among social class, race, and gender, as well as sex and sexuality, in the plantation system."--Jacket |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xii, 320 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-312) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780807898741 0807898740 9781469605029 1469605023 0807855251 9780807855256 |