Slave law and the politics of resistance in the early Atlantic world /

The success of the English colony of Barbados in the seventeenth century, with its lucrative sugar plantations and enslaved African labor, spawned the slave societies of Jamaica in the western Caribbean and South Carolina on the American mainland. These became the most prosperous slave economies in...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Rugemer, Edward Bartlett, 1971- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2018.
Temas:
Slavery > Great Britain > Law and legislation > Colonies.
Slavery > Law and legislation > United States.
Slave rebellions > Jamaica.
Slave rebellions > South Carolina.
Slavery > Barbados.
Révoltes d'esclaves > Jamaïque.
Révoltes d'esclaves > Caroline du Sud.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Slavery.
LAW > Constitutional.
LAW > Public.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
Slave rebellions
Slavery
Slavery > Law and legislation
Barbados
Great Britain
Jamaica
South Carolina
United States
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Prologue: At the heart of slavery
  • England's first slave society, Barbados
  • Animate capital
  • The domestication of slavery in South Carolina
  • The militarization of slavery in Jamaica
  • The transformation of slavery's politics
  • The slaveholders retrench
  • The political significance of slave resistance.

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