Author: James RamsayPublisher:
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Category : Black people
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
An Essay on the Treatment and Conversion of African Slaves in the British Sugar Colonies
Author: James RamsayPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Black people
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Bibliotheca Americana Nova
Author: Bibliotheca Americana Nova
Author: O. RichBibliotheca Americana Nova
Author: Obadiah RichPublisher:
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
Jamaica in the Age of Revolution
Author: Trevor BurnardPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 081225192X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
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 slaveowners presided over a highly productive economic system, a precursor to the modern factory in its management of labor, its harvesting of resources, and its scale of capital investment and ouput. Planters, supported by a dynamic merchant class in Kingston, created a plantation system in which short-term profit maximization was the main aim. Their slave system worked because the planters who ran it were extremely powerful. In Jamaica in the Age of Revolution, Trevor Burnard analyzes the men and women who gained so much from the labor of enslaved people in Jamaica to expose the ways in which power was wielded in a period when the powerful were unconstrained by custom, law, or, for the most part, public approbation or disapproval. Burnard finds that the unremitting war by the powerful against the poor and powerless, evident in the day-to-day struggles slaves had with masters, is a crucial context for grasping what enslaved people had to endure. Examining such events as Tacky's Rebellion of 1760 (the largest slave revolt in the Caribbean before the Haitian Revolution), the Somerset decision of 1772, and the murder case of the Zong in 1783 in an Atlantic context, Burnard reveals Jamiaca to be a brutally effective and exploitative society that was highly adaptable to new economic and political circumstances, even when placed under great stress, as during the American Revolution. Jamaica in the Age of Revolution demonstrates the importance of Jamaican planters and merchants to British imperial thinking at a time when slavery was unchallenged.
Beyond Slavery and Abolition
Author: Ryan HanleyPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108475655
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
Shows how black writers helped to build modern Britain by looking beyond the questions of slavery and abolition.
Equiano, the African
Author: Vincent CarrettaPublisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 9780820325712
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
Tells the story of the former slave who was the English-speaking world's most renowned person of African descent in the 1700s and is considered the founding father of both the African and the African American literary traditions.
White Creole Culture, Politics and Identity During the Age of Abolition
Author: David LambertPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521841313
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
This book explores the articulation of white creole identity in Barbados during the age of abolitionism.
Examination of the Rev. Mr. Harris's Scriptural Researches on the Licitness of the Slave Trade
Author: James RamsayPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Slave trade
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Bibliotheca Americana
Author: Alfred Russell SmithPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description