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Empire, enslavement, and freedom in the Caribbean

Title: Empire, enslavement, and freedom in the Caribbean / Michael Craton.
Author: Craton, Michael.
Publication: Kingston, Jamaica : Ian Randle Publishers ; Princeton, NJ : Markus Wiener Publishers, 1997.

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Description

xxiv, 520 pages : illustrations, maps; 23 cm

Summary

The author describes and explains the origins of West Indian slave plantations, plantocracies, and the relationship between plantocrats and Amerindians. He then examines the African background of Caribbean slavery, depicts slave lives and behavior, and discusses modern perceptions of slavery and slave societies.

Subject

Genre/Form

History
Aufsatzsammlung

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 457-511) and index.

Contents

Preface -- Introduction -- Acknowledgements -- pt. 1 Colonisation and Imperialism -- 1 The Historical Roots of the Plantation Model (starting p. 1) -- 2 The West Indies and North America (starting p. 33) -- 3 The Planters' World in the British West Indies (starting p. 51) -- 4 Property and Propriety: Land Tenure and Slave Property in the creation of a British West Indian Plantocracy, 1612-1740 (starting p. 68) -- 5 Caribbean Vice Admiralty Courts and British Imperialism (starting p. 104) -- 6 Planters, British Imperial Policy and the Black Caribs of St Vincent (starting p. 117) -- pt. 2 Slave Trade, Slavery and Slave Society -- 7 The African background of American Slavery (starting p. 135) -- 8 Slavery and Slave Society in the British Caribbean (starting p. 149) -- 9 Jamaican Slavery (starting p. 161) -- 10 The Rope and the Cutlass: Slave Resistance in Plantation America (starting p. 185) -- 11 Hobbesian or Panglossian? The two extremes of Slave Conditions in the British West Indies, 1783-1834 (starting p. 203) -- 12 Changing Patterns of Slave Family in the British West Indies (starting p. 233) -- pt. 3 Transformations and Continuities -- 13 Slave Culture, Resistance and Emancipation in the British West Indies (starting p. 263) -- 14 Proto-Peasant Revolts? The late Slave Rebellions in the British West Indies, 1816-32 (starting p. 282) -- 15 What and Who, to Whom and What: The significance of Slave Resistance in Capitalism and Slavery (starting p. 306) -- 16 Continuity not Change: Late Slavery and Post-Emancipation Resistance in the British West Indies (starting p. 324) -- 17 Changing Sugar Technology and the Labour Nexus: The Search for a Unified Field Theory (starting p. 348) -- 18 Reshuffling the Pack: The Transition from Slavery to other Forms of Labour in the British Caribbean, 1780-1890 (starting p. 356) -- 19 Transition to Free Wage Labour in the British Caribbean, 1780-1890 (starting p. 414) -- 20 A Recipe for the Perfect Calalu: Island and Regional Identity in the West Indies (starting p. 439) -- Notes (starting p. 457) -- Index (starting p. 513)

ISBN

1558761586
9781558761582
9768123079
9789768123077
9768123087
9789768123084
0852557418
9780852557419
0852557426
9780852557426
1558761594
9781558761599

LCCN

97012391

OCLC

ocm36647908
36647908
SCSB-8945850

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library