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"A renowned historian offers novel perspectives on slavery and abolition in eighteenth-century Jamaica Between the start of the Seven Years' War in 1756 and the onset of the French Revolution in 1789, Jamaica was the richest and most important colony in British America. White Jamaican slav...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Burnard, Trevor G. (Trevor Graeme) (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Social conditions.
Slavery.
Revolutions.
Plantations.
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Economic history.
HISTORY / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)
Revolutions > Histoire > 18e siecle.
Plantations > Jamaïque > Histoire > 18e siecle.
Revolutions > History > 18th century.
Slavery > Jamaica > History > 18th century.
Plantations > Jamaica > History > 18th century.
United States.
Jamaica.
Jamaïque > Conditions economiques > 18e siecle.
Jamaïque > Conditions sociales > 18e siecle.
Jamaïque > Histoire > 18e siecle.
United States > History > Revolution, 1775-1783 > Influence.
Jamaica > Economic conditions > 18th century.
Jamaica > Social conditions > 18th century.
Jamaica > History > 18th century.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. Planter Politics and the Fear of Slave Revolt
  • Chapter 2. Edward Long's Vision of Jamaica and the Virtues of a Planned Society
  • Chapter 3. A Brutal System: Managing Enslaved People in Jamaica
  • Chapter 4. Tacky's Revolt and Its Legacies
  • Chapter 5. The Ambiguous Place of Free People in Jamaica
  • Chapter 6. The Somerset Decision and the Birth of Proslavery Arguments in the British West Indies
  • Chapter 7. The Zong, Jamaican Commerce, and the American Revolution
  • Chapter 8. Loyalism and Rebellion in Plantation Societies
  • Chapter 9. Slavery and Industrialization: The "New History of Capitalism" and Williams Redux
  • Epilogue: Jamaica and the State in the Age of the American Revolution, 1760-88.

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