Everyday life in the early English Caribbean : : Irish, Africans, and the construction of difference / / Jenny Shaw.
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| Place / Publishing House: | Athens : : University of Georgia Press,, [2013] 2013 |
| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Early American places
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (280 pages) :; illustrations, maps. |
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Table of Contents:
- "An heathen brutish, and an uncertaine and dangerous kind of people" : figuring difference in the early English Atlantic
- "An exact account of the number of persons upon the island" : enumeration, improvement, and control
- "To live in perpetuall noise and hurry" : creating communities on Caribbean plantations
- "Doing their prayers and worshipping god in their hearts" : ritual, practice, and keeping the faith
- "Endeavouring to raise mutinie and sedition" : the challenge to English
- Domination
- "As quietly and happily as the English subjects" : property, prosperity, and the power of emulation.