A new world of labor: the development of plantation slavery in the British Atlantic

By 1650, Barbados had become the greatest wealth-producing area in the English-speaking world, the center of an exchange of people and goods between the British Isles, the Gold Coast of West Africa, and the the New World. Simon P. Newman argues that this exchange stimulated an entirely new system of...

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1. Verfasser: Newman, Simon P. 1960- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Philadelphia Univ. of Pennsylvania Press 2013
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Zusammenfassung:By 1650, Barbados had become the greatest wealth-producing area in the English-speaking world, the center of an exchange of people and goods between the British Isles, the Gold Coast of West Africa, and the the New World. Simon P. Newman argues that this exchange stimulated an entirely new system of bound labor
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (p. [309]-319) and index
Pt. I. SETTINGS: -- ch. 1. England -- ch. 2. The Gold Coast -- ch. 3. Barbados -- pt. II. BRITISH BOUND LABOR: -- ch. 4. "White Slaves": British labor in Early Barbados -- ch. 5. "A Company of White Negros" The Lives and Labor of British Workers on the Gold Coast -- pt. III. AFRICAN BOUND LABOR: -- ch. 6. "A Spirit of Liberty": Slave Labor in Gold Coast Castles and Forts -- ch. 7. "We Have No Power over Them"; People and Work on the Gold Coast -- pt. IV. PLANTATION SLAVERY: -- ch. 8. "The Harsh Tyranny of Our Masters": The Development of Racial Slavery and the Integrated Plantations of Barbados -- ch. 9. "Forced to Labour Beyond Their Natural Strength": Labor, Discipline, and Community on Eighteenth-Century Barbadian Plantations
Beschreibung:viii, 327 p. ill., maps 24 cm
ISBN:9780812245196
0812245199

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