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 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- England
- The Gold Coast
- Barbados
- ''White Slaves'' : British Labor in Early Barbados
- ''A Company of White Negroes'' : The Lives and Labor of British Workers on the Gold Coast
- ''A Spirit of Liberty'' : Slave Labor in Gold Coast Castles and Forts
- "We Have No Power over Them'' : People and Work on the Gold Coast
- ''The Harsh Tyranny of Our Masters'' :The Development of Racial Slavery and Integrated Plantations of Barbados
- ''Forced to Labour Beyond Their Natural Strength'' : Labor, Discipline, and Community on Eighteenth-Century Barbadian Plantations
- Conclusion.