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Caribbean exchanges : slavery and the transformation of English society, 1640-1700 /
English colonial expansion in the Caribbean was more than a matter of migration and trade. It was also a source of social and cultural change within England. Finding evidence of cultural exchange between England and the Caribbean as early as the seventeenth century, Susan Dwyer Amussen uncovers the...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill :
The University of North Carolina Press,
[2007]
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| Colección: | HeinOnline. Slavery in America and the world: history, culture & law.
HeinOnline. UNC Press law publications. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | English colonial expansion in the Caribbean was more than a matter of migration and trade. It was also a source of social and cultural change within England. Finding evidence of cultural exchange between England and the Caribbean as early as the seventeenth century, Susan Dwyer Amussen uncovers the learned practice of slaveholding. As English colonists in the Caribbean quickly became large-scale slaveholders, they established new organizations of labor, new uses of authority, new laws, and new modes of violence, punishment, and repression in order to manage slaves. Concentrating on Barb. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiv, 302 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-292) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780807888834 0807888834 9781469605937 1469605937 |