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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Dunn, Richard S. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2014.
Subjects:
Plantation life > Jamaica > History.
Plantation life > Virginia > History.
Enslaved persons > Jamaica > Social conditions.
Enslaved persons > Virginia > Social conditions.
Enslaved persons > Health and hygiene > Jamaica.
Enslaved persons > Health and hygiene > Virginia.
Vie dans les plantations > Jamaïque > Histoire.
Vie dans les plantations > Virginie > Histoire.
Esclaves > Santé et hygiène > Jamaïque.
Esclaves > Santé et hygiène > Virginie.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
Plantation life
Enslaved persons > Health and hygiene
Enslaved persons > Social conditions
Sklaverei
Plantage
Mesopotamia (Jamaica : Plantation)
Mount Airy (King William County, Va.)
Jamaica
Jamaica > Mesopotamia (Plantation)
Virginia
Virginia > Mount Airy (King William County)
Jamaika
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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