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 /

This book connects developments in seventeenth-century Britain with the British experience of slavery on the West African coast and with the initial development of African chattel slavery in Barbados, which played a foundational role in defining how plantation slavery developed throughout British Am...

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Main Author: Newman, Simon P. (Simon Peter), 1960-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013
Edition:First edition.
Series:Early modern Americas.
Subjects:
British > Ghana > History.
Contract labor > Barbados > History.
Plantations > Barbados > History.
Slave labor > Ghana > History.
Contract labor > Ghana > History.
Contract labor > Great Britain > History.
Slave trade > Ghana > History.
Slave trade > Great Britain > History.
British > Barbados > History.
Slave labor > Barbados > History.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • England
  • The Gold Coast
  • Barbados
  • ''White Slaves'' : British Labor in Early Barbados
  • ''A Company of White Negroes'' : The Lives and Labor of British Workers on the Gold Coast
  • ''A Spirit of Liberty'' : Slave Labor in Gold Coast Castles and Forts
  • "We Have No Power over Them'' : People and Work on the Gold Coast
  • ''The Harsh Tyranny of Our Masters'' :The Development of Racial Slavery and Integrated Plantations of Barbados
  • ''Forced to Labour Beyond Their Natural Strength'' : Labor, Discipline, and Community on Eighteenth-Century Barbadian Plantations
  • Conclusion.

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