Surviving Slavery in the British Caribbean / / Randy M. Browne.
A history of the everyday struggles of slaves in the British colony of BerbiceAtlantic slave societies were notorious deathtraps. In Surviving Slavery in the British Caribbean, Randy M. Browne looks past the familiar numbers of life and death and into a human drama in which enslaved Africans and the...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn Press eBook Package 2017 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2020] ©2017 |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Early American Studies
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (288 p.) :; 11 illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. Slavery and Empire on the Wild Coast
- Chapter 2. Challenging the “Right of a Master to Punish”
- Chapter 3. The Slave Drivers’ World
- Chapter 4. Marital Discord and Domestic Struggles
- Chapter 5. Spiritual Power and the “Bad Business” of Obeah
- Chapter 6. The Moral Economy of Survival
- Epilogue
- Appendix. Abstract of Offenses Committed by Male and Female Plantation Slaves, January 1–May 14, 1830
- Notes
- Index
- Acknowledgments