A Response to Enslavement: Playing Their Way to Virtue.

Responses to enslavement are automatically seen as struggles (heroic or otherwise), but in the case of the English Caribbean colonies, the claim was irately made by pro-planter factions, reacting to criticism, that the enslaved Africans were not struggling, they were happy and better off than the po...

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1. Verfasser: Roberts, Peter A.
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Kingston : University of the West Indies Press, 2018.
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Zusammenfassung:Responses to enslavement are automatically seen as struggles (heroic or otherwise), but in the case of the English Caribbean colonies, the claim was irately made by pro-planter factions, reacting to criticism, that the enslaved Africans were not struggling, they were happy and better off than the poor in England and the idea of hideous enslavement was a prejudiced distortion. Evidence presented was the universal singing, dancing and carousing of the enslaved.<
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Beschreibung:1 online resource (477 p.)
ISBN:9766406596
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