A tale of two plantations : slave life and labor in Jamaica and Virginia
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Published
Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2014.
ISBN
9780674735361, 0674735366
Physical Desc
x, 540 pages ; 25 cm
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Belmont Beech St. - Adult | 306.362 DUN | Storage |
Framingham State - Main | HT 1099 M48 D86 2014 | On Shelf |
Medford - Adult | 306.362 Dunn | On Shelf |
Newton - Adult | 306.362 D92T 2014 | On Shelf |
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Published
Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2014.
Format
Book
Language
English
ISBN
9780674735361, 0674735366
Notes
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 463-524) and index.
Description
"This book reconstructs the individual lives and collective experiences of some 2,000 slaves on two plantations--Mesopotamia sugar estate in western Jamaica and Mount Airy Plantation in tidewater Virginia--during the final three generations of slavery in Jamaica and the USA. It also compares Mesopotamia with Mount Airy to demonstrate the differences between slave life in the British West Indies and slave life in the Antebellum US South. The chief difference was demographic. Mesopotamia had a continually shrinking slave population, with many more deaths than births, which was standard throughout the British Caribbean. Mount Airy had a continually expanding slave population, with many more births than deaths, which was standard throughout the Old South. At Mesopotamia the slaveholders imported their laborers from Africa, worked them to death and replaced them with new Africans, so that family life was perpetually stunted. At Mount Airy, where the slaves were all American-born, the slaveholders sold their surplus people or moved them to distant work sites, so that families were routinely broken up. On both plantations numerous individual slaves are observed in action, a mix of leaders and followers, rebels and conformists. A principal theme is slave motherhood and intergenerational family formation; another is the impact of field labor upon health and longevity. The Mesopotamia people engaged with Moravian missionaries and responded to two major Jamaican slave rebellions, while 218 of the Mount Airy people migrated to Alabama as cotton hands. The book concludes with emancipation in Jamaica and the USA. Never before have two slave communities from differing regions in America been portrayed over a long time period in such full detail"--,Provided by publisher.
Subjects
LC Subjects
Enslaved persons -- Health and hygiene -- Jamaica.
Enslaved persons -- Health and hygiene -- Virginia.
Enslaved persons -- Jamaica -- Social conditions.
Enslaved persons -- Virginia -- Social conditions.
Mesopotamia (Jamaica : Plantation)
Mount Airy (King William County, Va.)
Plantation life -- Jamaica -- History.
Plantation life -- Virginia -- History.
Enslaved persons -- Health and hygiene -- Virginia.
Enslaved persons -- Jamaica -- Social conditions.
Enslaved persons -- Virginia -- Social conditions.
Mesopotamia (Jamaica : Plantation)
Mount Airy (King William County, Va.)
Plantation life -- Jamaica -- History.
Plantation life -- Virginia -- History.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Dunn, R. S. (2014). A tale of two plantations: slave life and labor in Jamaica and Virginia . Harvard University Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Dunn, Richard S.. 2014. A Tale of Two Plantations: Slave Life and Labor in Jamaica and Virginia. Harvard University Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Dunn, Richard S.. A Tale of Two Plantations: Slave Life and Labor in Jamaica and Virginia Harvard University Press, 2014.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Dunn, Richard S.. A Tale of Two Plantations: Slave Life and Labor in Jamaica and Virginia Harvard University Press, 2014.
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