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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| 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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Table of Contents:
- 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