Slave Law and the Politics of Resistance in the Early Atlantic World / / Edward B. Rugemer.
Edward Rugemer’s comparative history, spanning 200 years, reveals the political dynamic between slaves’ resistance and slaveholders’ power in two prosperous slave economies: Jamaica and South Carolina. This struggle led to the abolition of slavery through a law of British Parliament in one case and...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2018] ©2018 |
Year of Publication: | 2018 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (340 p.) |
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Other title: | Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Maps -- Prologue. At The Heart Of Slavery -- Chapter 1: England’s First Slave Society, Barbados -- Chapter 2: Animate Capital -- Chapter 3: The Domestication of Slavery in South Carolina -- Chapter 4: The Militarization of Slavery in Jamaica -- Chapter 5: The Transformation of Slavery’s Politics -- Chapter 6: The Slaveholders Retrench -- Chapter 7: The Political Significance of Slave Resistance -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Notes on the Maps -- Index |
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Summary: | Edward Rugemer’s comparative history, spanning 200 years, reveals the political dynamic between slaves’ resistance and slaveholders’ power in two prosperous slave economies: Jamaica and South Carolina. 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. |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9780674916241 9783110606621 |
DOI: | 10.4159/9780674916241 |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | Edward B. Rugemer. |