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A new world of labor : the development of plantation slavery in the British Atlantic /
This book connects developments in seventeenth-century Britain with the British experience of slavery on the West African coast and with the initial development of African chattel slavery in Barbados, which played a foundational role in defining how plantation slavery developed throughout British Am...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
[2013]
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| Edición: | First edition. |
| Colección: | Early modern Americas.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | This book connects developments in seventeenth-century Britain with the British experience of slavery on the West African coast and with the initial development of African chattel slavery in Barbados, which played a foundational role in defining how plantation slavery developed throughout British America. The small and remote island of Barbados seems an unlikely location for the epochal change in labor that overwhelmed it and much of British America in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. However, by 1650, it had become the greatest wealth-producing area in the English-speaking world, the center of an exchange of people and goods between the British Isles, the Gold Coast of West Africa, and the New World. By the early seventeenth century, more than half a million enslaved men, women, and children had been transported to the island. In this book, the author argues that this exchange stimulated an entirely new system of bound labor. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (viii, 327 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-319) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780812208313 0812208315 0812223624 9780812223620 |