A New World of Labor : : The Development of Plantation Slavery in the British Atlantic /

A New World of Labor : : The Development of Plantation Slavery in the British Atlantic / / Simon P. Newman.

The small and remote island of Barbados seems an unlikely location for the epochal change in labor that overwhelmed it and much of British America in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. However, by 1650 it had become the greatest wealth-producing area in the English-speaking world, the center...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn Press eBook Package American History
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Newman, Simon P.,
Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2013]
©2013
Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
Series:The Early Modern Americas
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Physical Description:1 online resource (336 p.) :; 15 illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • PART I. Settings
  • Chapter 1. England
  • Chapter 2. The Gold Coast
  • Chapter 3. Barbados
  • PART II. British Bound Labor
  • Chapter 4. ''White Slaves''
  • Chapter 5. ''A Company of White Negroes''
  • PART III. African Bound Labor
  • Chapter 6. ''A Spirit of Liberty''
  • Chapter 7. ''We Have No Power over Them''
  • PART IV. Plantation Slavery
  • Chapter 8. ''The Harsh Tyranny of Our Masters''
  • Chapter 9. ''Forced to Labour Beyond Their Natural Strength''
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments

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