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A tale of two plantations : slave life and labor in Jamaica and Virginia /

"This book reconstructs the individual lives and collective experiences of some 2,000 slaves on two plantations--Mesopotamia sugar estate in western Jamaica and Mount Airy Plantation in tidewater Virginia--during the final three generations of slavery in Jamaica and the USA. It also compares Me...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Dunn, Richard S. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2014.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Prologue
  • Mesopotamia versus Mount Airy : the demographic contrast
  • Sarah Affir and her Mesopotamia family
  • Winney Grimshaw and her Mount Airy family
  • "Dreadful idlers" in the Mesopotamia cane fields
  • "Doing their duty" at Mount Airy
  • The Moravian Christian community at Mesopotamia
  • The exodus from Mount Airy to Alabama
  • Mesopotamia versus Mount Airy : the social contrast
  • Emancipation.