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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Burnard, Trevor, 1960-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2004.
Temas:
Thistlewood, Thomas, > 1721-1786.
Thistlewood, Thomas, > 1721-1786
Thistlewood, Thomas, > (1721-1786)
Thistlewood, Thomas.
1700-1799
Slaveholders > Jamaica > Biography.
Plantation owners > Jamaica > Biography.
Plantation life > Jamaica > History > 18th century.
Enslaved persons > Jamaica > Social conditions > 18th century.
Propriétaires d'esclaves > Jamaïque > Biographies.
Propriétaires de plantations > Jamaïque > Biographies.
Vie dans les plantations > Jamaïque > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Esclaves > Jamaïque > Conditions sociales > 18e siècle.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Slavery.
HISTORY > Caribbean & West Indies > General.
Plantation life
Plantation owners
Race relations
Slaveholders
Enslaved persons > Social conditions
Sklaverei
Slavernij.
Plantage-economie.
Dagboeken.
Jamaica > Race relations.
Jamaïque > Relations raciales.
Jamaica
Jamaika
Electronic books.
collective biographies.
Biographies
History
Biographies.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The Gray Zone: An Introduction to Thomas Thistlewood and His Diaries
  • Mastery and Competency: Thistlewood Earns a Living
  • Cowskin Heroes: Thistlewood, Slavery, and White Egalitarianism
  • In the Scientific Manner: Thistlewood and the Practical Enlightenment in a Slavery Regime
  • Weapons of the Strong and Responses of the Weak: Thistlewood's War with His Slaves
  • Cooperation and Contestation, Intimacy and Distance: Thistlewood and His Male Slaves
  • Adaptation, Accommodation, and Resistance: Thistlewood's Slave Women and Their Responses to Enslavement
  • The Life and Times of Thomas Thistlewood, Esquire--Gardener and Slave Owner.

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