Author: JamaicaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
The Laws of Jamaica Passed in the Year ...
Author: JamaicaLaws and Acts of Jamaica Passed in the Year ...
Author: JamaicaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Session laws
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Slave Law and the Politics of Resistance in the Early Atlantic World
Author: Edward B. RugemerPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674982991
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
Winner of the Jerry H. Bentley Book Prize, World History Association The success of the English colony of Barbados in the seventeenth century, with its lucrative sugar plantations and enslaved African labor, spawned the slave societies of Jamaica in the western Caribbean and South Carolina on the American mainland. These became the most prosperous slave economies in the Anglo-American Atlantic, despite the rise of enlightened ideas of liberty and human dignity. Slave Law and the Politics of Resistance in the Early Atlantic World reveals the political dynamic between slave resistance and slaveholders’ power that marked the evolution of these societies. Edward Rugemer shows how this struggle led to the abolition of slavery through a law of British Parliament in one case and through violent civil war in the other. In both Jamaica and South Carolina, a draconian system of laws and enforcement allowed slave masters to maintain control over the people they enslaved, despite resistance and recurrent slave revolts. Brutal punishments, patrols, imprisonment, and state-sponsored slave catchers formed an almost impenetrable net of power. Yet slave resistance persisted, aided and abetted by rising abolitionist sentiment and activity in the Anglo-American world. In South Carolina, slaveholders exploited newly formed levers of federal power to deflect calls for abolition and to expand slavery in the young republic. In Jamaica, by contrast, whites fought a losing political battle against Caribbean rebels and British abolitionists who acted through Parliament. Rugemer’s comparative history spanning two hundred years of slave law and political resistance illuminates the evolution and ultimate collapse of slave societies in the Atlantic World.
Report of the Librarian of Congress for the Fiscal Year Ending June 30 ...
Author: Library of CongressNo Bond But the Law
Author: Diana PatonPublisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822333982
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
DIVThe author analyzes punishment as a way to explore the dynamic of state formation in a colonial society making the transition from slavery to freedom./div
Report of the Librarian of Congress and Report of the Superintendent of the Library Buildings and Grounds
Author: Library of CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Includes index and appendices.
A Collection of the Public General Statutes Passed in the ... Year of the Reign of ...
Author: Great BritainPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Session laws
Languages : en
Pages : 1356
Book Description
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Author: Great Britain