Jamaica in the Age of Revolution / / Trevor Burnard.
A renowned historian offers novel perspectives on slavery and abolition in eighteenth-century JamaicaBetween the start of the Seven Years' War in 1756 and the onset of the French Revolution in 1789, Jamaica was the richest and most important colony in British America. White Jamaican slaveowners...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2020] ©2020 |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (400 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. Planter Politics and the Fear of Slave Revolt
- Chapter 2. Edward Long’s Vision of Jamaica and the Virtues of a Planned Society
- Chapter 3. A Brutal System: Managing Enslaved People in Jamaica
- Chapter 4. Tacky’s Revolt and Its Legacies
- Chapter 5. The Ambiguous Place of Free People in Jamaica
- Chapter 6. The Somerset Decision and the Birth of Proslavery Arguments in the British West Indies
- Chapter 7. The Zong, Jamaican Commerce, and the American Revolution
- Chapter 8. Loyalism and Rebellion in Plantation Societies
- Chapter 9. Slavery and Industrialization: The “New History of Capitalism” and Williams Redux
- Epilogue: Jamaica and the State in the Age of the American Revolution, 1760–88
- Notes
- Index
- Acknowledgements